One of the weirdest and most persistent misconceptions about working as a critic is that it’s somehow especially satisfying or helpful or profitable (which, lol) to affect an opinion you don’t believe “for clicks” (no one pays by the click). All you can really do is try to communicate something about what you’ve…

YEAH you did

I personally love the references to Tracy Bond in later movies, motivated or not. I love how they had the effect of nudging the viewer to remember that OHMSS existed, when it seemed to be completely disappearing from memory. “Oh yeah, James Bond was married”. I’ve watched the reputation of OHMSS grow and grow over the…

Tortoise Media, which as I write this is the only source for this story, is a far right podcast strongly tied to Boris Johnson, and best known for screaming about trans people. Neil Gaiman has been hugely critical of Johnson ever since he came onto the public scene, and is currently doing multiple projects with strong…

Thank you Sony!

Idiots: Madame Web is a bad movie.

My world of flops was probably THE series that I most missed. Very pleased to have it back and, yeah, Madame Web seems the perfect relaunch. 

It’s Rabin! Now bring back Sean O’Neil, Tasha Robinson, and Zodiac Motherfucker!

Without going too far into details, the climax does deliver the catharsis needed, especially in terms of anxiety, and I definitely got a bit choked up. But yeah, nothing kicks you in the emotional nutsack like Bing Bong.

I don’t know how people claim Toy Story 2 was better than 3 without immediately imploding from the very obvious wrongness of the statement

It's effectively represented by Joy, Anxiety, and Embarrassment.

If not one review of this movie is titled “Atlas? Shrug.” I swear I’ll need to become some movie website’s logline editor.

As a kid and now far in to adulthood, I have been entranced by Marvel Comics and the modern mythology they encompass. Star Wars was great but it still doesn’t have the breadth of stories and characters that Marvel has. It probably never will.

There have been 10 MCU movies since the TV shows started. Of those, only two reference the TV shows in any meaningful way (I’m excluding “Quantumania” since it explains everything you need to know about Kang within its own narrative, and that Kang is really a different being from “He Who Remains”). There have been 11…

For as entertaining as those baddies in Fury Road are, I think it’s really impressive how compelling the film manages to make its central heroes and their relationships. I wanted to get to know all of them as much as possible, and that’s really rare for this kind of movie. Their little make-shift family unit is so genu…

Make ‘im SQUEEEEEEAL!!!

I really didn’t think I’d ever think this but... has AV Club actually gotten markedly better, very quickly, since the sale? Like, actual music reviews and more interesting columns/articles? Kinda feels like, I don’t know, the people working there kind of give a shit, even if some of the writing makes me feel a million…

That’s great if you score a pharaoh who knows a game that inexplicably rules your world and every aspect of it. I’m not sure I’m willing to risk getting my skin flayed off erotically by fetish demons if the alternative is to merge with Parchee-Ra, Master of Parcheesi

In the same vein of non-horror cursed objects. Just avoid any old board game/retro video game you find hidden in the old house you are visiting.

Dude, they were fucking cameos... It’s not like when Jon Favreau wrote and starred in Chef, a movie where he gets to be/have been in relationships with both Scarlett Johansson AND Sofia Vergara