My wife and I had a date night on Friday and wanted to see a movie. Since we knew we were seeing Endgame on Sunday with our daughter, we tried to find anything else but it was surprisingly slim pickings: pretty clear this was being given a wide berth. We wound up just drunkenly going to a bookstore after dinner, LOOK…

So is this film ground zero of the thankfully now defunct craze of turning unrelated self-help books into ensemble movies? Capped off by What to Expect When You’re Expecting? 

This is a great callout scene and something that might get lost if you don’t watch Ragnarok and IW in close proximity to each other. Plus, as others have said, it’s a jarring, crushing jumpcut to the post-credits scene in Ragnarok to this: they’re already lost. In the opening five minutes you completely undo…

“So was I.” and “He killed my Mom.”

Even the fight BvS is based on—The Dark Knight Returns—specifically builds off of the characters’ decades of shared history. They know each other: they call each other Clark and Bruce in their fight. They’ve fought side by side together, they were friends. But they both also knew this was a long time coming. BvS is…

Yeah. Max was annoying, yes, but only insofar as teenagers often are. Frankie goes out of her way to fuck with Sam and I just can’t take it. 

I got hooked on watching Hot Ones (I could watch the Terry Crews ep forever), then my 6 year old son happened to be in the room for one and got hooked on them too. Except of course that 90% of them have bad language or worse, so we had to stop watching them. Problem is, if I try to watch one without him, he can hear…

Miller is one of the few people in Trump’s circle who has advocated from the beginning to let Trump be Trump. Miller probably knows exactly what to say to appeal to Trump’s gaping, black hole force id. If you think back to 2017 in particular, when Trump was surrounded by people at least nominally trying to keep him in…

That’s a great callout; I always love that scene. Like they specifically show that Cap may not seem much compared to a thunder god, a metal man, or a hulk, but he’s an incredible, rallying leader. They get so many character beats exactly right in the first Avengers and it’s so fun watching them bounce off each other.

Going back and rewatching the first Captain America movie after everything that came since really elevated it in my eyes. Not that I was ever down on it, but they just do such a great job establishing his character and his motives that it’s able to buoy him going forwards. Just as Captain America steadily grew to be…

I didn’t say that’s what struck me most: I said it was a great detail. In fact, it illustrates in a shorthand way the untold collateral damage Cersei did: she didn’t just blow up a sept full of fanatics and her opponents. She was willing to lay waste to her own city to do it and hurt or kill scores of innocents in the…

GREEN FIRE CAN’T MELT STEEL BE--oh wait, it can? 

One of the great little details of the Sept exploding sequence is a shot of an unrelated part of King’s Landing, and some poor schmuck is going along minding his own business when the Sept’s tower bell, thrown by the explosion, bounces into frame and turns him into paste. 

When I think about (and half-assedly defend) the first Thor movie, this is exactly the scene I’m thinking of. Getting Thor out of Asgard is almost always better for the movie and this is when it hits its stride. 

We had a long-haired orange cat previously and a vet told us she was a Maine Coon but I have since had my doubts, just based on the size aspect of them. Maybe a mix. I will say that she was incredibly sweet and affectionate EXCEPT when she went to the vets, so much so that the last two made us tranq her before taking…

The last couple times Arran showed up on the show, I honestly felt sorry for him. He has no idea how to function without boobs--er, his mom. Seeing Littlefinger “take him under his wing” was like seeing a cat with a baby mouse. Sansa could probably manipulate him into being a better person. 

Tom this column has been a great read and I’m really excited that we’re getting a new one in the weeks to come. Thanks for doing these, great job!

Yeah we finally completed our MCU runthrough with my daughter so she can catch Endgame with me on the big screen. She’d only heard it was “sad” and so was already reluctant about it. After the snap, it was a steadily increasing cascades of “No!” “Nooo!” and finally “NNNNOOOOOOOOO!” (for you know who). Then that…

There was a D&D module to that effect: CM2, Death’s Ride. It’s pretty obscure though, and don’t think it leeched into pop culture at large. 

The segment Oliver aired of McMahon smacking that reporter’s papers mid-interview, during a tough question. What the absolute fuck? Interview over, footage aired far and wide, charges pressed. Fuck that. Why didn’t that happen?