“The new games have stripped Lara Croft of everything that made her a superhero, and gave her relatable characteristics that, in turn, cranked the dial backward on her iconic journey to the top”
There ought to be something put on a surface near every writer - misery isn’t equivalent to meaning. It’s just such a lazy…

I get it, I sort of feel the same way, but I think the sincerity of the characters earns it. They are desperately trying to save each other in that scene

Gothel’s realism reminds me of why Antman and Wasp is the only Marvel film I would want to own - it’s easy in genre films to push the envelope about making things bigger, louder and more outrageous, but not so easy to capture the humanity. Gothel is a monster who is desperate to survive and that for me parallels with…

My issue with Frozen is that it just seems to consist of people running away until problems solve themselves. Tangled is guided by Rapunzel’s dreams and moving towards something. They both get a bit Deus Ex Machina at the end, but Tangled’s feels earned and powerful even if it doesn’t quite make sense. Frozen’s just…

Kids who are born blonde can often go dark in later life, and the parents are both brunette. It does make sense

“Flynn’s idea to cut off all Rapunzel’s hair with his last ounce of strength was such a holy shit, shoot-the-hostage move that I was stunned”
It’s an amazing scene, and it speaks to why I love Tangled while being somewhat indifferent to most Disney films - the two improve each other, and are trying to save each other, …

That’s where I’m at - as messed up as Ruth was, you want her to find some peace either with being a wrestler, or finally getting her break in acting, and I’d like to know what happens with most of the other characters. Where they left season 3 was a terrific set up for the final season, but utterly useless as a series…

I’ve always been a huge fan of his performance in Awakenings, and it was only more impressive when I saw a 60 Minutes interview featuring both him and Oliver Sacks, the person who the character was based on. He had a tremendous warmth and vulnerability in a really reserved role

Also, it dovetails nicely with Dolores in her black dress (so back to the black hat/white hat thing)

No benefit apart from keeping his rifle skills honed. He was using them as targets, as being worth less than paint on a wall. It wasn’t pointless theatre trying to establish dominance over people they were already convinced they were superior to. That’s the distinction with the puerile chess scene.
Cartoon nazis…

It wasn’t arbitrary, that’s the point. It was calculated. They worked people to death, they forced a group to work as forgers in Sachsenhausen, they exploited any opportunity but with a function in mind, even just terrorising other victims in to submission. Cartoonish bull like presented in the show rings false…

It’s remarkably entitled. It has the same awful pretentiousness of the people who tried to defend David Peace’s book “the Damned United”, which was highly questionable in terms of accuracy

I’m curious how the scenes in the park will matter this season, but if they get more scenes with Rinko Kikuchi and Thandie Newton, I don’t know if I’ll care if they aren’t important. They were so good together last season

Did it really “pioneer” motion capture technology? It had been used in computer games since the mid-90s. It was the first film to adopt it, but describing it as pioneering the technology feels like it gives the film too much credit, though it did help to expand the technique in to movie making. The language feels…

This episode made me hope that AEW only gives Kia very limited dates. She absolutely knocked it out of the park, and I’d hate for her to leave GLOW if it’s renewed. Even more though, I want her to get a lot more acting work as she has shown terrific range - from subtle expressions, to great timing for broad comedy. I…

I did wonder if Bash’s line about his wife’s singing lesson was a perception that Bobby was offering Rhonda singing lessons as a way to get to Bash. It seemed that after the magician, everyone wanted a piece of Bash’s funding, so I didn’t view it solely as punching down, as it came from a (somewhat) justified place of…

I’d love to know if many other players are given contrived banned periods instead of the normal being banned for x competitive games. It seems extremely questionable for a ban in a competitive tournament to only affect a few friendlies. Some might even call it corrupt...

What really gets me about this is there is a line in the book and the movie that says something like “What in important in life is that which we share”. It’s really affecting knowing it was written by someone who was dying alone, and it seems like the right way to celebrate McCandless is to take pleasure in friends…

I’m trying to remember - does the last season of Friday Night Lights have the episode where Matt buries his father? That episode was the best TV episode of any show I’ve ever seen. Such raw, brutal honesty

There was something just horribly lazy, cheap and utterly stupid in having an astronaut mutinee to take a massive gamble on the first disagreement. You’re right, built up to properly you could make for a mutiny storyline. Having it happen here was for dramatic effect, but the way it played out just doesn’t work