You can’t keep them from using a name.  Trademark covers the use of it in titles and the like.  So DC hasn’t had a “Captain Marvel” book, but until pretty recently he was always referred to as Captain Marvel.

When I read the headline I thought Nathan Filion would be the person in question.  In the final seasons of Castle, things were so bad between him and Stana Katic that they didn’t even want to do scenes together.  I always assumed that Fillion had harassed her.

You also have Mel Gibson.  He built the height of his career around a series of movies where he would just get the shit kicked out of him before rallying to win the day. 

It’s a much smaller universe than the MCU, and, for good or bad, they kind of back doored into being a shared universe.  So they don’t seem as interested as Kevin Feige is in having this autocratic shared vision across all the films. 

Hopefully they keep all the goofy Kirby names like Lashina, Stompa, and Bernadeath.

Film isn’t necessarily a good reflection of what was actually happening. Divorce rates really did spike in the late 60s and 70s, due in part to more liberalized divorce laws in many states. And the people blaming “women’s lib” sort of had a point. Feminism made women feel more free to get out of unhappy marriages…

It’s probably a bad sign when your film makes Animal House look “woke”.

Birth of a Nation was super controversial even at the time.  Although it made a ton of money, there were also boycotts and widespread press attention to it’s racism.  The controversy prompted DW Griffith to make Intolerance, a film arguing against prejudice of various kinds. 

The “it was a different time” excuse doesn’t really fly because they were getting pushback at the time.  In the article they talk about protests from a real sorrority on the campus where they filmed over things like the spy camera scene. 

I thought about it more with Brett Kavanaugh.  Although the alleged assault on Ford occurred before this movie came out, he was a teenager in precisely this period and the kind of behavior which he allegedly exhibited, drunkenly accosting a girl at a party, seems to fit right in with the kind of stuff which these…

Not surprising.  Too Old To Die Young was atrocious, and Romanoffs, which I didn’t see, got weak reviews and was a super goofy premise (and not in a good way)

The rape scene and the panty-raid/spy camera shit are the most obviously offensive stuff, but the sexism in it is much more basic.  The women really only exist in this as prizes to be won by the men.  Even if they rewrote the Robert Carradine scene with the cheerleader to be more consensual she’s still just there to…

No way on Tony Stark.  At least not classic comics Tony (as opposed to some of the alt versions).  I guess the logic is that he’s a weapons manufacturer?  But what else about him makes people think he’d vote Trump?  He’s a college educated urban elite who mostly makes California his home.  I suppose Tony could be one…

Almost twenty years on it’s hard to remember what a shock this was for people.  At the time it felt to a lot of Americans like the greatest tragedy in world history.  In the MCU 3,000 dead is basically just Ultron getting loose again.

So now the highest grossing movie ever is made by the same guys who did You, Me, and Dupree.

Actually, Clinton was the one who was interested in that. Her campaign chief Jon Podesta has long been interested in UFOs and she promised that if she was elected she would declassify as much of the government’s infromation about aliens as she could.

Beyond isn’t directed by Abrams, it’s done by Justin Lin, who does the Fast and Furious movies.

Why would anyone be excited about this? Tarantino has a very specific creative vision and that vision is definitely not Star Trek. Do we want Kirk dropping “the n word”, Spock machine gunning a room full of Klingons, or Uhura going on 15 minute disquistion about vintage blaxploitation films?

I don’t watch Stranger Things, but that image of that girl lying on the floor of what looks like a public bathroom is deeply gross.

Yeah.  This kind of shit really struck me during the 2008 election when Republicans began making a big deal of the idea that Obama wasn’t born in the US.  There was absolutely no evidence for that, other than that his father was an immigrant, but they pumped that shit relentlessly.  Meanwhile, no one ever brought this…