To be fair, there was nothing retroactive about the culture war around Ghostbusters. Incel chuds had been sending the stars death/rape threats and saying the movie was no good for months before it was released. When the movie came out, and the general critical reaction to the movie was “Meh...” there was still a…

“There’s something very important we need to do as soon as possible.”

Ehrenreich had an all-time thankless job, because looks aside, Ford is a really unique actor, and I don’t know anyone from Ehrenreich’s generation who’d be able to capture the lanky, at-ease-within-his-skin essence that Ford brings to Han Solo. Which is a shame, because Glover is pitch-perfect as Lando, even though he…

Solo cost at least 50% more than Fallout or Ant Man and the Wasp. According to Google, the budget wound up north of $275 million. Worldwide box office, Fallout stays at #8 for the year, but Solo drops to 24th, under the Mama Mia sequel. So yeah, huge failure.

If you never got it, it’s not because Ragnarok didn’t underline the point enough times. Immediately after taking his eye, Hela taunts him with “Now you remind me of Dad.” Then that’s followed by Thor actually getting a vision of Odin, who starts with “Even when you had two eyes you only saw half the picture,” reminding…

I’m with you halfway, here. Thor going back to “I need a weapon” after a major point of Ragnarok was “Are you, Thor, the God of Hammers?” is a definite and undeniable backslide. Now, in real life people backslide, but it kinda felt like IW’s writers saw a bullet list of Ragnarok’s plot points and were like “Loses…

It’s more that her career is full of such “candid takes.” The Arquette documentary built up this narrative that she was the victim of sexism and ageism, but the fact is that during her prime she burned bridges like she was Sherman marching through Georgia, badmouthing her directors, costars, even her agents. There’s a…

Honestly, I want the Lion King entry because it boggles the mind how that movie made so much money, and I think that will be an interesting discussion. I guess we should’ve seen this coming when Tom avoided any real discussion of the animated Lion King in the Forrest Gump edition of this column.

To be fair, most of the consequences that really stick come out of Endgame, not IW—it’s only in Endgame that you learn the heroes don’t just find a way to undo the events of IW through time travel, and so there is this real period of time where the people who were snapped out of existence are just gone. It’s in…

I thought it was a pretty good misdirection. I forget if it was part of the promos or just film news, but I knew on opening day that Vader was in the movie. After the Mustafar scene, I relaxed, thinking that James Earl Jones croaking a horrible one-liner and choking out Krennic was the full Vader cameo. If we didn’t…

Not just that, he’s following through on the solution he came up with before he had infinite power. When he was just a marauder killing off half the people on the planets he conquered, doubling the resources wasn’t an option. Using the gauntlet to increase resources would mean he was wrong to cull all those other…

In the event The Infinity Gauntlet, killing half of all life in the universe was Death’s idea. To Thanos it was more a pretext to get Death to fall in love with him.

Hemsworth is amazing in the side quest (for my money the best acting I’ve seen from him, better even than him dunking to Waititi’s alley-oops in Ragnarok), and it scratches an itch that Marvel fans have to see established characters who have no real business hanging out together interact with each other. On paper,…

Thanos: We’re on to Knowhere.

Also, it’s worth noting that Labor Day is as late as it can be this year (Sept. 6) and between that and Rosh Hashanah, a lot of kids aren’t starting their schoolyear until an entire week later. 

“Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

Yeah, there was even the detail where the equivalent of a woman giving a guy her number was Thurman giving Hawke a few strands of her hair so that he could get them tested. It’s a cold world, but one that makes a lot of sense and often seems prescient.

A few years ago, Rosanna Arquette made a documentary called “Searching for Debra Winger” about how Winger had gone from one of Hollywood’s biggest stars to not working much at all, with Arquette’s conclusion (and all the discussion at the time) being that it was because of sexism and Hollywood’s treatment of actresses…

In what world is Disney’s CEO throwing their tentpole release under the bus and basically writing off its theatrical run “uncontroversial?” The “interesting experiment” is that the release window is short enough that you might as well have released it directly to Disney Plus. It’s basically the same level gaffe that…

Liu’s tweet is basically a daily affirmation. It’s telling that a lot of people who accuse him of misunderstanding Chapek’s comments basically misread Barsanti’s instigation into a relatively anodyne tweet.