“Some really good films explore the problem with too much ambition and conclude “unchecked ambition is bad” with iconic male characters. Bud Fox and Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. And loads more.”

I get the impression it’s largely media tie-ins, revivals, and “jukebox” shows that just throw a bunch of some musician’s hits together with a tissue of plot.

Why does Porter have bat wings.

Right wing / “first responder conservative” plant.

I suspect some fuckery is going on here. Her Republican opponent was a cop. Her new “Democratic” opponent is a fire fighter union president, which means they’re basically a cop.

Kidman’s dress legit looks like a joke at her expense.

Ah. Tom Swift, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys were created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a business that churned out formulaic “extruded book-like product” written by contract writers.

Yep, Tom Swift is from 1910. It’s from the era of the Wizard of Oz books, but without a technicolor musical repping the IP for 80 years and keeping it in the public consciousness.

Obviously she was confused by memories of the video game Contra.

It’ll never be not-weird that American rednecks adopted Taliban facial hair after 9/11.

His non-Marvel work is very samey.

STUDIO EXEC: “R. J... It’s time. You know what to do.”

I... don’t really see how the problem is the foot chase part?

I think the space Laura Linney occupied in casting directors’ brains was usurped by Amy Adams.

Hell, I’m 50 and I’m pretty sure I’ve never been on a 747.

I kind of feel like Amy Adams took up the Laura Linney shaped hole in the market?

This seems like a cycle lane made by someone who imagines it being used by small children with training wheels on their bike, or possibly riding a Big Wheel.

H.P. Lovinstuf

The one where Oscar finds out about a little girl prostitute and he shoots her pimp and other assorted no-good persons on Sesame Street?

Fancy wipes is communist.