I prefer to imagine that it’s Ross that doesn’t have any friends.

Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.

“Vengeance Doesn’t Skip Leg Day”

It’s funny that you mention Only God Forgives, since I was getting a Drive vibe from the trailer. That may just be a more optimistic way of saying the same thing.

I think it helps if the replacement actor is more likeable than the person they’re replacing, as Cheadle was.

I can think of nothing that would make a Jenna Ortega show popular that would not also apply to a Fred Armisen show.

One reason this is an article is because a significant group is very invested in the idea that The Marvels has been treated unfairly.

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Maybe, though I’d suspect that high-income domestic violence victims are more likely to report domestic violence to police than low-income victims. So it could be the case that a disproportionate number of richer people perpetrators have their crimes reported and prosecuted, even if they get the benefit of better…

Intimate partner violence rates were highest in the poorest neighborhoods (13.8 per 1,000 women in the lowest income quartile, followed by 12.1, 8.2, and 5.0 in the respective higher income quartiles)

I mean, there was a black Loki in the void in Loki. Hell, make the new Kang a reptile.

Yeah, Wonder-Man feels like one of those projects greenlit in the Shang-Chi era, where Disney clearly thought they could just throw any hero on screen and bank a billion dollars, as long as there was a Marvel logo in the trailers.

I think it’s hard to have Kingpin go against Marvel’s more cosmic-level heroes.  Kingpin versus Spider-Man or Daredevil is fun, but I don’t think you can plausibly say that Kingpin is a threat to Thor.

First of all, I’m not sure they are considered successes. But both Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon were greenlit with the primary goal of driving people to subscribe to Apple TV. Unlike Disney+, Apple doesn’t have a clear “brand” of what kind of TV it is offering, and both movies seem designed to establish a…

I’m sure the added competition from Aquaman 2 will have some effect, but I don’t know how much the audiences for the movies will overlap. Wonka seems well positioned to take advantage of Christmas, where for many viewers it becomes less important what you are dying to see, and more important what grandma, your teenage…

This article answers the question it asked —why is Wonka considered a box office success compared to The Marvels — really easily. Wonka is considered a box office success because it’s likely to make a lot of money, whereas The Marvels costs a lot more, so it will lose a lot of money.

I understood it. I thought it was dumb.

Based on this commenting history, I suspect he’s mad that Kate McKinnon dated Bari Weiss in college.  And yes, McKinnon’s 39 now, so that was a long time ago.

It’s good to hear that, if you were in charge, Michael Che would have been protected from . . . a joke he wrote.  I agree with you that there’s just too much humor in this world, and we should instead make sure to determine (with percentages, no less) whether jokes have “bigoted intent” before we laugh at them.

The fact that she was struggling not to laugh is the thing that makes you think she might be a real person, which adds to the discomfort.  If she was super stern and serious, you’d know she was an actress, since there’s no reason why a real person who was easily offended would agree to appear in the bit.  It’s way…