Incidentally, Kim Sherwood’s new 007 novel, Double Or Nothing, has a woman as 003, and Ana de Armas’ Paloma was a scene-stealer in No Time to Die. There’s no reason a woman, Jodie Comer or otherwise, couldn’t lead a spy film as a different 00 agent.

I’ve only played VII, VIII, IX, X, and XV, so my sample pool is a little limited, but I’ve loved them all so far, and mostly in the ways they differentiate themselves from each other. I know Kotaku came off a little on-the-fence about how lore-heavy FFXVI seems to be, but I’m honestly thrilled for that. It was one of…

There’s a High Republic show coming out soon, I’m pretty sure, and The Acolyte is set around that time or earlier, too. There’s a ton of High Republic comics and books set 200 years before A New Hope, and even more set 100-150 years before that. So... I mean, it’s being done.

I came to say the same thing about French Dispatch. I liked the segment with Lea Seydoux, and the pieces set in the actual newspaper office, but the rest felt so try-hard and weird that I found it off-putting. I’m about 50-50 on Anderson’s work. I’ll give everything he does a watch, but I only find myself enjoying…

I know at launch some people had unplayable versions of the game, and that sucks. My own PS4 version had some clipping issues and some crashing issues, but the clipping helped me out of some hairy combat situations and the auto-save feature kept me from losing more than a couple minutes of game time, so I didn’t have…

I was always more of a Joe fan than a Transformers fan, and I really liked Snake-Eyes, so I was bummed that, like you said, it came and went. Seeing as how this film follows Bumblebee, which I also really liked, I'm hoping maybe they'll work in Snake-Eyes' follow-up, too.

Yeah, you should. It’s on the same level as Temple of Doom, with a great villain in Cate Blanchett (and really, swapping out Nazis for evil Communists was refreshing), some great set pieces, and one of the most horrifying on-screen deaths of all time. The ridiculous moments aren’t really any more ridiculous than the…

Al Ewing is one of the most creatively rich and imaginative writers in comics right now. I’d certainly put him up there with Hickman, Fraction, Gillen, Vaughan. The Hulk is one of my top 5 favorite heroes, so to have one of the most consistently good horror stories in comics be Hulk related, and lore-conscious as…

I enjoyed this a lot more on the 2nd viewing, because I think the themes came through a lot more clearly once I was familiar enough with the story beats to take the time to appreciate them. I still loathe the opening sequence with the Guardians of the Galaxy, but I chalk up the... more egregious moments as…

I’ve liked all the PotC films, including the last, and I like Jack Sparrow. That said, the last film's story and cliffhanger makes me think if it WERE going to be a continuation, virtually every other character but Sparrow and Barbossa would be the smarter choice to carry it.

That’s a real shame. I thought Luca’s story was a little threadbare, but it was beautifully earnest and was absolutely gorgeous. Turning Red was terrific; it clearly wasn’t made for my demographic, but I still found it endearing and I think it’s important for young women, as well as immigrant/POC/second gen children…

I agree with you that it’s a bad idea from the ground up, but also I re-read a lot of the early ASM issues (basically #1-155 or so, as part of an extended read-through of the whole shebang), and, uhhhh, I love Gwen Stacy, but she was often kind of awful as a person. So was Peter, in fact, but in terms of people being…

The dual-Cap books have their moments, but I agree that they’ve kind of lost their way and spiraled out into a mess. I also don’t like the seemingly shoehorned motivation for Bucky to not just go anti-hero but mostly villain again.

You’re correct, and I don’t fault him for them. I just think it’s amazing that what I consider to be one of--if not the best--runs also has two of the worst story arcs packed into it. But JMS has won me over many, many times over (I also love Supreme Power, his work on Thor, Rising Stars, and Midnight Nation), so I’m…

Captain America: One More Day.

I think, honestly, that Tara Reid’s career got derailed because of her botched plastic surgery. Even despite her partying, she was an incredibly attractive young woman that was in some big-time raunchy comedies (American Pie, Van Wilder), but when she got work done and it turned out horrible, it was all anyone could…

I’m fine with this. Unlike most people (apparently), I still enjoy movies with The Rock. I like him as Hobbes, and I loved Hobbes and Shaw. In Fast X, Deckard Shaw leaves to “go take care of business” after his brief reunion/fight/team-up with Han. There’s no telling precisely when Dante’s call to Hobbes takes place,…

My personal favorite Spider-Man film is Spider-Man: Homecoming, but I recently rewatched both Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, and I think both of those are probably technically better films.

I disagree. In a comic filled with white characters, and with Spider-Man’s best friends and allies being predominantly white characters, if you’re going to pull in a random newer character that has incredibly little relevant ties to Peter Parker just to kill them off, doing it to Kamala Khan for the second time in 4…

Man, if you haven’t seen 1994's No Escape (on Prime today) with Ray Liotta, Ernie Hudson, and Lance Henriksen, that’s a fun, dumb movie.