Yes, let’s take these two specific examples that involve relevant, compelling details and lump them in with everything else regardless of whether or not they fit the template of some predetermined damning critique.

I love Bob’s Burgers, truly, but the amount of female characters being voiced by men (Linda, Tina, Marshmallow, etc) has always bothered me a bit, and the Silverman sisters voicing the Pesto twins doesn’t really make up for that.

Still looking forward to this. Of all of my favorite comics growing up, the New Mutants is the one title for which I think a horror angle works perfectly, and this is just pitch-perfect casting. I have high hopes.

Yeah, the RLM guys actually used Van Damme and Schwarzenegger as their points of comparison. I substituted in Seagal for Schwarzenegger because Beatrice used Seagal and Van Damme as her examples in the opening paragraph.

I saw the smaller version of the header image on the front page, and I thought the figure looked familiar but I had no idea who it was. As I clicked on it I was like, “Wait, is that Cynthia Rothrock?” Which was even more unusual for me, since I have never seen any of her films or even knew who she was before the RLM…

You can watch it for free here (for now--I vaguely recall some talk about it being on nbc’s site for a limited time):

This reminds me of the concluding chapter of the documentary The American Nightmare, in which directors of some of the most influential horror films try to explain the importance and function of horror, and they arrive at very similar conclusion to this one. Wes Craven, in particular, calls horror films “boot camps…

John Carpenter is an avid gamer, too (and they’re roughly the same age). Imagine both of them playing, say, Mario Kart side by side on the samr sofa, with a little shop talk about directing thrown in.

Miller has said exactly that—he considered casting Theron in the prequel and using de-aging technology to mitigate the difference, but after watching The Irishman he felt that the technology just isn’t there yet; he found the appearance of the younger versions of De Niro et al. to be somewhat distracting.

George R.R. Martin hopes The Winds Of Winter (and the coronavirus) will be done by next year

Back in 2010, yep. O’Neal did the honors:

How do you highlight a Janey-come-lately watermelon-guarding cat Internet sensation and not give at least a nod to the OG watermelon-guarding cat Internet sensation?

Loved Martha Marcy May Marlene. Love Carrie Coon. Love Jude Law. Sign me up.

Elmo has been cloned many times over. He’s a Soviet super soldier sleeper agent:

The pushback comes largely from folks focusing on the first part of his first tweet, where he asserts that “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy,” which was an inartful way of saying (as he clarifies elsewhere) that for race relations to truly improve, we need to have a dialogue that…

According the FAQ on The State’s official site:

I’m looking forward to finally seeing The New Mutants... one of my favorite titles when I was a kid, and the original team would fit right in with the mood and imagery of a horror story. I’m not even a fan of most of the X-Men films, but The New Mutants looks promising.

I was just thinking about how much she looks like her mom in that thumbnail for the video above. Throw a big blonde 80's wig on her and the smile and eyes do the rest.

Karma police nicked him later:

I miss John Candy.