I don’t read these quotes as Kevin Feige standing in the wings with a gun.

They read to me like a guy who understands the value of discipline and cutting what doesn’t work, not deluding himself that every bit that seemed fun at some point is worth including.

“Kill your darlings,” and all of that.

Return of the King: 74 different endings in the theatrical version, but even in the extended version, they couldn’t give us a version with Sharkey and the Shire, which arguably was the whole point of the story.

I prefer the extended versions, but honestly, that’s just for the lembas bread scene in Two Towers, which…

Yeah, this seems like a situation where Fiege’s strong hand will be pretty welcome.

George, we talked about this: No talking about the fucking book unless it’s to announce the publication date. Go get the genital cuff.

You are going to go far in politics!

That it’s at an “all-time high?” No, that’s not how words work.

I am not arguing that times aren’t great -- I’m one of those folks who’s watched his wages effectively go backwards for years -- but her assertion was simply wrong.

Because there are many people who go to CostCo and just get the hot dog meal.

Will Ferrell: 54 years old
Reese Witherspoon: 46 years old

She’s practically robbing the cradle, in Hollywood terms.

Every “news” outlet has a slant for sale because it brings readers back.

The announcement of the game was greeted on Twitter by the worst people actually hoping it’d lean into the most regressive politics possible.

I sure hope this multi-millionaire can recover from the oppression of having young people saying his dated opinions and beliefs are bullshit.

Well, he can appear in any MCU show set in a state where Matt has passed the bar.

Is it an Echo show in the sense that Book of Boba Fett was a Boba Fett show? Because I think most everyone would be more excited if it was really a stealth half-season of Daredevil.

it was pointed out by said fans that Lucas reading ‘The Talisman’ by Stephen King & Peter Straub could be a foreshadowing of him going to the Upside Down to find Max

The fact that fans like him is all the more reason he’s likely to die. Killing Jonathan won’t have anything like the reaction of killing off Steve (whose wonderful hair remains intact, even to the end).

Yeah, the pandemic greatly leveled up my cooking and cocktail games.

inflation and food prices are at an all-time high

I just stayed in a hotel two weeks ago and didn’t think the fridge was working at all when I first checked in — the inside felt like room temperature. Hoping I was just imagining it, I put the unfinished half of a bottle of soda in there that night. The next morning it was nice and cool.

Now I know it was a “fridge.”…

I cannot imagine even Kevin Smith thinking that he was ever going to be a peer to Wes Anderson.

This is a guy who made his name with a film that featured someone accidentally having sex with a corpse in a convenience store bathroom. His sensibilities were never going to get him accolades from the New Yorker or the…

I think Chrissy’s death had sufficient weight. It saddened most of the audience, from what I can tell, motivated one of the Hawkins threats for this season and clearly weighed on Eddie.

That said, I echo Brown’s call for mass bloodshed. You want to see some tears and some stakes? Kill Winona Ryder’s character early…