I don’t know. On principle, not letting the psychotic internet fan base of someone you dated 20 years ago dictate your career decisions seems healthy. 

Hell, Return of the King won all 11 awards it was nominated for, tying another blockbuster- Titanic- for the most statuettes ever awarded. And speaking of Titanic, THAT film holds the record for the most nominations at 14.

Running the risk of being pilloried by my own people (ie, the woke scolds and cancel culture spoilsports of the Internet at large): Barbie wasn’t actually all that great, and it doesn’t really deserve most of the acclaim that it’s received. It was relatively progressive for a children’s movie/toy commercial/nostalgia…

Why intentionally offend a segment of your audience when there’s no need to?

you’re a dumb fuck troll, fuck off you don’t give a shit and this is all the attention I’m going to give your dumb ass

I know I’m in the minority, but I think the Barbie movie is overrated and don’t get the hype with “I’m Just Ken.” Greta Gerwig is a wildly talented writer, but the Barbie script was uneven; the Will Farrell stuff was unnecessary and the content for America Ferrera’s character felt bumpy. It’s a cute movie that had the…

Except that’s NOT what happened. Kimmel didn’t say the list was a conspiracy. He said Rodgers saying the news about ALIENS was  being planted to DISTRACT from the list was a CTE-induced conspiracy. Which it is. Rodgers was butt-hurt and decided the alpha male way to deal with it was to make pedophile insinuations with…

You seem smart.

Despite all the coverage of Swift, everywhere, it’s really not fair to call it overexposure. From the Wall Street Journal last month:

I don’t think Planned Parenthood has the time or expertise to weigh on Global Political issues. Nonprofits need a singularity of purpose to fund raise and to maintain an actual knowledge base. Not everyone who supports abortion is going to share the same view on the Israel Palestine conflict. Not everyone supporting…

Very happy to see Past Lives in the top slot. And not to see Oppenheimer there. This year there has been a lot of formulaic filmmaking, which is why Maestro and Rustin and other Netflix engineered stuff isn’t making the short lists they were engineered to make. I felt that way about Oppenheimer, and May December, and a…

The context is “Taylor Swift”. What else do you need?
Nothing else matters (Taylor’s Version).

Dying? The AV Club is thriving!

That’s a bad faith reading of my comment if all you got was the proven-until-innocent tried and true contrarian argument. He by all means is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But I’m not a court of law, nor do I claim to be.

“It’s blood... Son of a BITCH” is my personal favorite. Really, the whole parade sequence in the trailer really captures the weirdo energy of an 80s independent slasher.

Cabin Fever is at least decent.

The greatest trick capitalism ever pulled was making people think they were morally righteous for buying a particular product from a giant corporation.

If you don’t need to see Ms. Marvel / Wandavision / Secret Invasion then call it Captain Marvel 2, not The Marvels. The title (and the marketing) implies the homework, not the critics.

The panedmic changed movie-going habits that were already changing. People aren’t just going to go to whatever the big new movie is each weekend like they used to. The studios had a pretty solid 3-decade run where they were able to effectively open anything in summer or Thanksgiving-to-Christmas season and make money…

There simply hasn’t been a substantial hook in anything after Endgame. I don’t care how much of a fan of any one character or actor you are, the stories presented since Endgame have not made you sit up and go, wow, I can’t want for one more of these.