He's had a rough go of it in recent years, but I still fucking love this guy. One of the last great filmmakers who's at least trying to stay on his toes.

Nobody at or around the age of 30 needs to google Ben Reilly. God, that shit went on forever.

Yeah, but he has to deal with Tom Holland being in his head, constantly telling him everything he does is wrong and evil.

Cosmic.

"I'm barely old enough to remember when you guys were good!" - Barack Obama

To be fair, Gene Simmons can't play bass, either.

This is making every 12 year old boy who's too grown up for Marvel movies very happy.

Hey, he can't get tied up, ball gagged, and branded in every movie now.

I think gore works, but I also think horror filmmakers think more gore is more scary, when it's probably just the opposite. More gore is more fantastical.

I think the Exorcist is similar to the Fly in that it's ultimately body horror—watching some kind of decay happening to you in ways that you can neither fully understand nor control. Except in the Exorcist, it's a mother watching it happen to her child, which adds a layer of parental guilt.

*the clomping sound of several people hitting themselves in the face with boards*

He's after our pork, alcohol, and white women! Let's get him!

Oh, you can theoreticize anything. And from a theoretical standpoint, some of the most banal and formulaic music from the classical period is still clinging to the academic repertoire like so many dingleberries.

Not necessarily, but Superman's position as an extra-terrestrial refugee has been touched on many times.

Marlon Brando. Crystals. Work it out.

Agreed. Morrison was clearly having a ball writing him.

I'm fired, etc.

A Seinfeld-esque Avengers needs to happen.

The AV Club

Yeah, I remember him saying something about how the problem wasn't that Pryor was like that all the time, but that you never knew when he was going to be like that. It sounds horrible.