I genuinely loved Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water, but don't think they should have been included in Best Picture. So if films can be recognized for "Best" because they're pop culture and financial marvels and little else and because EVERYONE saw it, I don't see why a genuinely great performance…

I unironically love Zack Ward in everything I see him in. I mean no disrespect when I say he’s my favorite C-list actor, because he tends to have only small roles in larger projects or big roles in terrible projects, but whatever it is, he makes it better. He’s very briefly, like, the roommate(?) in The Curse of…

I actually quite enjoyed Don’t Worry Darling. I wasn’t a fan of the twist, but I thought the rest was pretty good, and the cinematography was terrific.

No mention at all that this is based off a novel by Paul Tremblay, who also wrote A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil’s Rock?

The only similarity between Cabin in the Woods and The Cabin At the End of the World (the book title) is that a sacrifice is needed to avert the apocalypse, and even then it’s a number of people fitting specific tropey roles vs one random family member, and it’s freeing/awakening the old gods vs a potential undefined…

You don’t need to see Knives Out to watch, understand, and enjoy Glass Onion. I do recommend Knives Out as also a good film.

There are a few villains, actually. Arlo and Bo Crowder were both more than one season, and I’m pretty sure Theo Tonin, Dickie Bennett, and Wynn Duffy all survived to the very end.

I actually LOVE Man of Steel in a way I’ve never appreciated Superman before, but yeah, that’s probably my only complaint, and it is a loud one.

Calling it average IS charitable.

This is a remarkably reductive take. I actually actively dislike Superman, but he’s been a pillar of American Mythology for almost 90 years and is, for many, a symbol of hope and optimism. But even then, if Superman isn’t the project you want to see, it’s one of a number of projects that will collectively form Gunn…

I also liked Thor 2 as a dark fantasy film, especially with the Loki/Thor interactions and the gravity of Freya’s murder.

I think she meant this more as a response to the vocal minority upset about “pandering” MCU projects that are skewed to younger crowds (Ms Marvel) or have female leads, or are more comedic (Thor: Love and Thunder). That the projects, even if they include something that doesn’t necessarily appeal to us or that we think…

I found this to be an interesting take as well. There are some stone-cold classics that I personally found to be overrated (despite a terrific performance by Gloria Swanson, I could do without Sunset Boulevard), but Dial M For Murder, Shane, On the Waterfront, 12 Angry Men? As you said, the darker, more ethically…

I think the first ASM is genuinely great, and I loved the original comic-accurate look of the Lizard, as well as the sheer size and brutality of him. But man, Garfield got absolutely boned. With Sony so desperate to have their own version of the MCU that they bloated ASM 2 until the carcass burst, and having to turn…

Phase Four is actually highly analagous to Phase One. People seem to forget 1. How disconnected the original set of films (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Iron Man 2, Captain America: The First Avenger) were outside of post-credits sequences, until they were all jammed together in the Avengers. People also forget…

Yeah, I liked the film, but the book was miserable to read. Same with All the Pretty Horses, which has better structure but... I feel like I enjoy Cormac McCarthy’s stories, just not the way he tells them to me.

I’ve read a number of McCarthy’s books and tend to enjoy them, despite (and to some degree, because of) their bleakness, even if I think his particular prose style is awful. No Country For Old Men is the film that put both McCarthy on my radar, and Javier Bardem.

I seem to be stuck in the gray’s on AV Club, but I was part of the 12 person QA testing team for Gotham City Impostors. I don’t know if it stayed in, because I never played it after I left WB, but at one point a developer had included a goatse reference just outside the play area on the ACE Chemical level. Always…

Christmas isn’t... Catholic only lol. Over 2 billion people celebrate Christmas, and while the rest of the Guardians aren’t Earthlings, Star-Lord sure isn’t Jewish (Moon Knight, Kitty Pryde, Ben Grimm) or Muslim (Kamala Khan, whose whole show was about being Pakistani and Muslim in America). I guess there’s an…

Spiral wasn’t a prequel. Also, if they’re listing this next movie as Saw X, then Spiral, as subtitled “From the Book of Saw”, is considered the ninth Saw movie. Which is perfectly fine, because it namedropped Kramer, and it involved traps and a last-act twist.