Wow, I literally never realized that Tom had the prostitute murdered till now. I always thought the Senator did it in a drunken haze. In hindsight, it makes more sense that they manipulated him into it, since it’d be a little too easy if the antagonist whose help they needed just happened to murder a hooker in a…

Cavill was a terrific Superman. Wasn’t his fault his movies sucked.

I’ve always liked the fact that Enzo was a poker-faced guy who absolutely looked the part of a steely mob enforcer, and nobody would’ve known he wasn’t if they didn’t see him light a cigarette with trembling hands.

I feel like that’s only one of the motives why men sexually assault women. As in my earlier comment, there’s also the kind of man who see women not as human beings but as objects to satisfy their lust. Whether they are humiliated by his power over them or not, makes as much difference to him as whether they consent to…

His lack of immediate sympathy towards Bonasera also reads to me like a studied display of power. As if he’s inured to sob stories of loved ones assaulted, raped or murdered, because people come to him with those stories every day.

You sound like you’re being willfully obtuse. I never said Alfred was wrong about the Joker - he is precisely right. Yet there’s nothing in what Alfred said about him that precludes him being able to carry out intricate, elaborate plans. And if he lies about his plans, that’s entirely consistent with what Alfred said.

These were kinda disappointing, honestly. They don’t feel like they were written by the show’s writers, the jokes feel so much more forced. And it undercuts Shawn’s villainy if it turns out he took a laborious brainstorming session to come up with the “pick 4 people to specifically undermine the original 4" idea.

Vito responding to Bonasera’s heartbreaking story by making himself look like the aggrieved party (“What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?”) has always read to me as a baller-ass power move.

How did you hear that and think “clearly, men who just like to watch the world burn could never carry out perfectly competent plans to ensure the world burns”?

There are guys who see an attractive woman and think, “She’s hot, but if I wanted to sleep with an attractive woman, I’ll just go to where there are plenty who want to sleep with me, e.g. a Hollywood party where I am feted as a celebrity.”

One of the many things I rejected about Nolan’s movies was the manifest absurdity of a Joker who didn’t plan except of course he was always carrying out perfectly competent plans.

So what exactly is this an act of? Because Holland could have very well just shrugged and accepted an equally fat paycheck to star in Sony’s MCU-free Spider-Man franchise.

Agreed. I know people think the ‘80s references on this show are annoying, but I think the Duffers did it lot more subtly and enjoyably than Jon Kasdan did on Solo. Kasdan’s tweets reveal that he’s the guy who peppered that movie with references to stuff like Teras Kasi and Oseon, which are simultaneously meaningless…

Personally I think commenters who think they feel a need to call out the site’s writers for “tediously woke pissiness” are a whole lot more annoying than anything the site has published. AVC has always been a progressive-leaning site, long before the GMG/Univision buyout. Why the hell do you keep coming back and…

This is where I once again plug the Malay word “dengki,” because I’m Malaysian and it would fill me with patriotic pride if a word in my native language enters the English lexicon, but also because its definition is both unique and, I think, very useful: an irrational feeling of resentment at other people’s…

Eager to see how you’re going to defend this as not racism.

Barbie represents everything that is wrong with modern society

Aaahhhh! A digitally de-aged Fred Armisen!

Not a label that is exclusively used by the right-leaning, maybe?

To be fair, those gorillas aren’t very good at marketing, dunno why anyone would use them for that.