All of the Warner Bros Executive Producers are certainly not dorks, nerds, geeks or dweebs and were never picked on in high school by jocks, preps, sportos and burnouts, so they have no reason to pretend that comic book movies should actually be fun when they can really be incredibly serious, macho, dark and…

The weird one is that the Beatles all routinely called Ringo “Ritchie” to his face (and in George’s case, in song) and he was seemingly fine with that. When my mom was twelve, she moved to Detroit with her family and, upon starting a new school, changed her name from something completely mundane to something much more…

First year ever that I haven’t seen a single nominated film or performance. Not even streaming. It’s a shame that my panic comfort watching favorites weren’t nominated. Surely Aubrey Plaza deserves a best supporting actress nom for Happiest Season? And Norm Spencer, voice of Cyclops on the 90's X-Men Cartoon, deserves…

Yeah Amy Adams is pretty much always good in anything so it’s no surprise she’s made the most of her role in the Snyder movies. And Keri Russel I think was the front runner back when JJ Abrams was first circling the project, and she would have been a great left-of-field choice that would have rocked the part. Zooey…

The only problem is that we left Curse of the Black Pearl with Will and Elizabeth heading off for couples pirate adventure, and that’s what we wanted to see in the sequel, and instead it’s rain-soaked, and ominous, and a cancelled wedding. Even though the tone lightened up as it went along, that just wasn’t a good…

Shoulda been Zooey Deschanel.

My Revenge of the Sith story: my gf at the time was not a fan of sci-fi in general or Star Wars in particular. But she was interested in the ‘history of cinema’, so I had taken her to see the special edition re-releases, and she at least appreciated Empire. I was privately concerned about the changes Lucas made, but I…

Would have been great following the Aidy Wino birthday sketch.

Baby you got a stew goin’

I mean, she’s not Lana Del Ray, that one is a huge pile of nothing that people inexplicably seem to think is brilliant. Bridgers is like a slightly more accessible St. Vincent with the sharp art rock edges filed down. In 41 year old terms, Bridgers is the Jewel to St. Vincent’s Tori Amos, but at least she’s not Del…

Way back in the olden days of a “Cool News” website, one of the first pieces of talkbackism that I shared was my sincere belief that New Line was making a huge mistake by not doing a standalone Hobbit movie first to gauge interest before plowing ahead with a heavy high-fantasy trilogy. My exact words were “Fellowship…

I don’t know if anybody watched them but the GoT DVD/Blu-Rays had a bunch of “History of Westeros” animated segments. Initially they were narrated by the actors over “Ken Burns Style” floating stills, so Jaime would narrate the history of the Mad King or something. Eventually they moved to limited animation then full…

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Have you heard the Shins’ cover of Wonderful Christmastime? They truly saved the song from itself.

Strangely, while rewatching Solo on TBS or whatever recently, I was struck by how ... almost good... it was. Alden Ehrenreich was actually better than I remembered. He’s not Ford, but he’s his own easygoing screwup. You could almost see how he could become the Han of the movies. The main problem was that each section…

Absolutely criminal that not a single song from J.D. McPherson’s phenomenal “Socks” was included. Retro-50's R&B / Rockabilly holiday songs, but with very clever lyrics. The whole album is great, but my favorites are:

I love that this show has become very much like Kung Fu, with episodic tales of a warrior going from place to place, righting wrongs, but dang did this episode need more. Even at a full 45 minutes it feels a bit slight. Ahsoka is such a dynamic character she needed more to do, give a better sense of how she’s changed…

Redux isn’t helped by the additions, it just makes the movie longer and slower paced, but maybe he’s learned some lessons since, because the Cotton Club “Encore” is much better than the original film. With more musical numbers and a greater weight given to Gregory Hines’ story and a few scenes trimmed to make the gangs…

Yeah Apocalypse did such a bad job with Angel, Storm and Psylocke, and Jean and Scott are even less interesting than they were in the first film. I’d put this one above Apocalypse and Last Stand, about equal with Days of Future Past, slightly below First Class, way way below X-Men and X-2, Logan, and the Deadpools.

There is actually a scene like this in the movie, and it’s not bad. It’s not canon, because Dani & Rhane are supposed to be “just platonic” soul mates in the book, and Rhane in particular is generally boy-crazy in the comics, with crushes on Sam, then Doug, then Rictor, then some Asgardian Wolf Prince dude (because…