I’d say with a lot of confidence that few people knew anything about the Marvel characters until Robert Downey Jr. got involved. He was the big star with the proven track record of making enjoyable films that got non-comic book people interested in the movie.

Honestly, I think you’ve nailed it with these points, especially the devaluing of the cinema experience. That’s not helped by the fact that all I ever seem to hear is people complaining about how crappy most cinema chains are these days. (I think that may be primarily an American thing; here in Australia they’re…

“taint”!

Next on Lifetime, Eight Maids A-Milking, Volume 12.

Seeing a movie sex scene and worrying “that the people involved—as in, the characters—may not have consented to being watched” is so stupid it’s almost impossible to believe. The character doesn’t exist. They don’t consent to anything — not to saying dialogue or crossing the street or getting fake-shot in the face.…

You know, Lifetime turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I didn’t even notice.

I recently logged back into X/Twitter after a couple of years and I was depressed at just how many of the folks I theoretically still respected were clinging on. Guys—the emperor really, seriously, definitively, demonstrably has no clothes. Twitter always encouraged a certain type of deluded solipsism—look at us!…

I tried to come up with a better joke than that, but no can do.

Pah, back in the good old days he would have gotten his real nipples pierced. Kids these days don’t know the meaning of sacrifice. Grumble, grumble.

Oops! My mistake. Also, username checks out. 

No, Julian Glover.

What a mean spirited headline and article that is just about an actor talking about something he likes. 

I like how this article takes the genuine passion and enthusiasm of a darling actor and twists it all into disdain and dismissal of Star Wars. Good job. Keep being snarky assholes.

Andre’s in his Godspeed You! Black Emperor phase.

Yeah, what cunt decided that?

The Seinfeld season of Curb was the most masterful way to simultaneously do and NOT do a reunion at the same time.  They’d be foolish to try to do anything else with “Seinfeld” - not that I think they’re actually considering that at all. 

yeah, I’ll eventually see it. Probably in the theater on $5 day. It’s too hard to pass up when my movie theater is right across the street.

We just got back from seeing it. It was fun! I actually wished it had been a few minutes longer; there were a couple of spots where they rushed from one thing to another and it could have used a breathing room. (By longer I mean by, like, two or three minutes.)

There are plenty of promotional videos recorded before the strikes began for both Barbie and Oppenheimer. You can easily find them on YouTube. Both premieres were attended by the cast, with the premiere for Oppenheimer getting free buzz because the cast walked off the red carpet. I don’t think the SAG strike was the…

And I’ve seen the trailer with Ms. Marvel freaking out over the tentacle cat before basically every movie I’ve seen in the past six months. And I’m not even talking about superhero movies. I saw it even before Killers of the Flower Moon for God’s sake.