Yeah, it’s a glaring omission from Estevez’s statement. If he’s vaccinated, why not say so? I’d love to take him at his word—maybe the story of his own Covid experience made him forget to say “Of course I’m vaccinated, and I’d rather the production have more safety protocols, not fewer.” But as it stands, it looks…

I’m fairly certain none of his own money is going into the movies. A lot of stars negotiate producer credits for themselves to have some creative control, but they’re seldom actually arranging financing, much less funding big budget productions out of the star’s pocket.

From a different one of your comments I see where you’re coming from, and I disagree. Not about Snape being a lousy teacher or a lousy person to Harry and other people associated with his childhood bully—some small part of Snape being an abusive, unfair teacher is justified by him maintaining his cover as a wizard Nazi…

A lot of people bag on her acting, but I don’t see that she had much to work with. The movies cut out a lot of Ginny’s material from the books, and it’s not like she was incredibly well-developed in the books to begin with. The one scene Wright gets to sell that there’s a connection between Ginny and Harry, the…

Wasn’t arguing he was a good teacher. If you went to school and the teacher spent all his time engaging in weird, unexplainable feuds with students and former classmates who are faculty members, that dude should be fired. At best, he’s like one of those college professors who can write a brilliant textbook but has no…

If you just found out your best friend was framed for murder and treason by your next-best friend, and the next-best friend you mourned is still alive and nearby, you might forget to take your pills, too.

Yeah, I think the book’s explanation (which I could’ve sworn was repeated in the movie) is that Quirrel was a do-gooder out there trying to make his mark as a defense against the dark arts guy by being the one to single-handedly capture Voldy, and he just bit off a whole lot more than he could chew.

No, it’s handwaved away as “He regretted his actions, turned spy, and dedicated the rest of his life to fighting the return of wizard fascism.” If you think about how many of the guys who built rockets for the Nazis went on to build the rockets that landed humanity on the moon, it’s not that far-fetched.

I understand what you’re saying—and I’m sure that’s the way Rowling intended the story to read—but I think you should consider that in the aftermath of the Dark Lord being defeated by a mostly-teen army, there was probably a lot of hooking up, and with the Room of Requirement destroyed, probably not a single condom in…

Rowling’s announcement that Neville and Luna married people other than each other might have been something that happened in the interim between Deathly Hallows the book and Deathly Hallows 2 the movie (I think she wrote up who everyone in the books married pretty early in the post-books Pottermore period, when the…

There’s a lot of “Eternals is bad but I can’t put any blame on Zhao” stuff from critics right now.

...and now you’re projecting. Maybe you should talk to your therapist about this.

“That bullet through the mobster’s head? Perfectly symmetrical!”

It would’ve been more honest if they’d just dumped pig’s blood on her the moment she reached the altar at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

I never claimed it was scientific research, just that even that small anecdote (and my point about AVC) was much more evidence than you provided (which is none, three comments in!).

“Princess of Wales powers--activate!”

You can just hear the Queen Piper Laurie-ing at her “If you divorce Charles, they’re all going to laugh at you!”

I think thing of me for, eventually —> ?!?

I’m sorry your self image is so incredibly fragile. I really barely nudged it and it seems to have come apart. I was just pointing out that the AV Club doesn’t spend a week writing about things to which the public is completely indifferent.

The way I heard it he shot the sheriff.