I have been down on the post-Endgame movies in general, and so I should feel vindicated by all these think pieces that align with my thinking, but all I can think is it’s just exhausting. Until the box office revenues take a meaningful dip (as in, they start actually losing money, rather than just only being minor…

In the many, many places of the world where there are lots of Chinese people and not a lot of Jews, yes. “Big Nose” for white people is far from an unknown pejorative. Should someone have flagged the credit? Also definitely (leaving aside the possible Jewish connection, seems like pejorative terms for characters is a…

Given that it’s a prequel to Rogue One and still is deeply connected to Episode IV (in plot relevance, if not characters and theme), I’m not sure Andor really counts as breaking away from the small universe syndrome the franchise has been saddled with literally since its start.

I don’t think it’s actually possible to make a faithful-to-facts film about Bronte; there’s simply too little known about her, and the arc of her life is too short. While I get the frustrations the author of the Slate piece has, the best possible scenario for a film like this is “well it jives with the known facts and…

I dunno. I feel like a roster of coming attractions makes actual sense as a slideshow versus clickbait listicles. On the other hand, the fact that a video will keep playing when I change slides infuriates me.

One thing I think retro-futuristic shows like this have over those ones (with the possible exception of Stranger Things since that one wears its 80s media nostalgia on its sleeve) is they own the fact that they’re built on the myth rather than the reality more explicitly. Mad Men flirted with the idea of being a story…

Yeah, even if it’s well done, we’ve seen these will-they/won’t-they relationships before, and a “slow burn” doesn’t feel considered so much as necessary to milk it for as long as possible, to avoid the Moonlighting curse.

He’s the poster child of when you’re an ass, no one (understandably) gives you any leeway about any story that suggests you’re an ass. (The Falklands Argentina thing, for example: it was clearly not an intentional slight, but considering they had a habit of making jokes around national stereotypes before, it…

I’m not really sure this is “beating a dead horse” considering it’s the Academy president talking at an Oscars luncheon about the organization’s response, and how this impacts the Oscars going forward. Seems like that’s exactly where it would be still relevant to bring up. Beyond that, I’m sure Will Smith would like…

Yeah the idea that America as a whole is so upset with police procedurals that the genre is dying isn’t really born out by the ratings. If someone thinks that’s true, they might need to leave their corner of the internet for a bit and take a wider look.

While they can speak to similar issues of representation, I’m not sure Azaria voicing Apu (and the question of whether voice actors need to match, loosely or precisely, the ethnicity or background of their characters) actually relates much to changing the backgrounds or traits of a live action character (you could be…

Isn’t that how it always goes? Some of it is surely “I knew he was a serial killer the whole time”-style reframing of events/benefit of hindsight, of course, but these stories always break after someone has managed to alienate and piss off a critical number of people so that a) there’s multiple someones who’s willing…

I expect we’ll get some of the more startling graphic violence at the end when they want the big climactic points to hit harder. As you say, in Naughty Dog games even the wisecracking heroes are unstoppable murder machines due to gameplay loops, and at some point I think it would be desensitizing as well. I think The…

Ironically, I think Spaceballs has aged better than a lot of Brooks’ stuff, just because the cultural relevance of Star Wars as a target for spoofing still works (and to Ebert’s review, Space Balls has endured, while the SNL and Mad Magazine parodies, at least by my reckoning, have mostly been lost to history.) Young…

Yep. A comment thread on years of SNL reviews here is they often have a great premise that they either don’t do enough with, or just cannot fill the time they are alotted, and “Wing Pit” manages to escalate perfectly and not overstay its welcome (I think while funny throughout, the “Mario Kart” sketch wasn’t as…

It’s kind of bizarre he’s never just realized that his bag is not realistic dialogue and found a partner he can work with. The guy remains an excellent director with a keen eye, even in his worst films—but he just doesn’t seem to understand how normal people talk half the time.

Even if the episode is the greatest thing since sliced bread, calling something a watershed moment when it hasn’t even been out a month is some seriously weird attempt to write history before history exists.

The third Transformers movie craned the camera up to shoot people from below apparently just so you could see the skyscrapers that most definitely don’t exist in DC. Dunno why they bothered even shooting on the Mall for the little they did, considering it’s dark and in the film for all of three minutes and everything…

I mean, nitpicks are nitpicks, so they shouldn’t seriously detract from your enjoyment of a story, but it’s also something that shows a lack of care and effort in realistic settings, and if that piece of media is trying to draw on that setting for color, it stands out. Like Only Murders In the Building had people…

Ugh, you reminded me of the changes to Watchmen. I always thought the comic “come together to stop the squids” ending was goofy as hell, but I don’t think “actually the US’ superpowered weapon that they used to cow us into submission has gone rogue” made any more sense in terms of fostering world cooperation and peace.…