You are mis-interpreting my comment. I don’t use cream or bacon (and definitely not peas) but they are not uncommon inclusions but do typically cause all the authenticity police, who you seem very much to be part of, to lose their shit. Adding or using those, although unnecessary, doesn’t fundamentally change the dish…

I’m so tired of Sacred Recipes. What is it with people just looking for reasons to get upset? I don’t eat pork, so I make carbonara with smoked sundried tomatoes (rehydrated and finely diced). It’s simple and delicious and the smoked tomatoes add a porky flavor. If you give one single shit that I call it carbonara -…

This is nothing I don’t know. Looking at Hogwarts Mysteries in the context of highest grossing mobile apps may not be favourable but in the context of the games it is way up there. Films have done worse relatively but not exactly badly . The books and their audio equivalents are underperforming in some regions but…

I think you overstate how much social appeal has really been lost. The truth is that the majority of consumers are either ignorant of, or just do not care, about the kinds of issues that many Kotaku readers (myself included) care about. For those that do denounce Rowling’s comments? You’ll find a fair few there too,…

Spoiler: The game will sell really well because it’s a AAA Harry Potter game.

What are we going to do about all these actors, dressing up and pretending to be people they’re not? And other people film it???

No insult or insensitivity intended, but I had a couple of thoughts after seeing the film and this seems to be a proper place to express them.

Yeah but the question is, did she want to make a dance movie starring Maddie (who seems to be her recurring muse/thinly veiled stand-in for some aspect of herself) or did she want to tell a story about autism? I’m putting all of my money on the former. Ziegler was almost certainly going to be the star of Sia’s first…

Would Sia have ever cast anyone but Ziegler? I have to think the movie was written with her in mind from the beginning and no one else would be considered. I also have to wonder if she really wanted to tell a story about autism or just saw it as a way to quickly define the character and get to the dance.

Maybe come back and try that one again?

So Savile is a better case than Epstein because he was never charged for his horrifying crimes? What?

Ew, jesus. Gross.

You’re really claiming that “Europe” has had no cases like Epstein?  Because that is... wildly inaccurate.  Jimmy Savile springs to mind.

Ew, Woody Allen’s PR team has arrived. They’re so gross.

Ah, the incel take.

I can never watch the throne room scene where Kylo tells Rey “you’re nothing, you come from nowhere” without my hair standing on end. Partly it’s the execution and partly the sheer audacity of that revelation, that Johnson was brave enough to attempt this twist in a franchise known for its genealogical surprises.

There was the lightsaber battle where Kylo and Rei mop up the floor with all of Snokes’ guards; there was Luke Force Projection keeping Kylo and the Entire Fucking First Order occupied while the remnants of the New Republic made their escape (and Mark Hamill’s offhanded contempt for all of it was perfect); Holdo’s…

Regardless of how you feel about it breaking the universe or not, Holdo’s Sacrifice is absolutely the most memorable visual in any Star Wars movie, and if it’s not quite the WOW factor of “I am your father,” for an entire generation of people born too late for that to be the defining moment in cinema for them, I’d…

I’ve said it before and it’s been said by others but The Prequels were a good story told terribly and The Sequels on the whole (I quite liked The Last Jedi.) were a bad story told really well.

No, they’re not (meaning the people are not right, because neither are plotholes).