Is he really adequate? I’ve seen him do some decent acting, but there’s something about his performances where he’s trying to be naturalistic, but it always feels like he’s actively trying to call my attention to the fact he’s acting. Shia Labeuf used to do something similar, albeit with a less pugilistically-inclined…

It’s a hard road when you’ve got a punchable face fetish. You can only hope to meet someone like Teller, who acts as if his fetish truly is getting punched in the face.

I’m pretty much guaranteed to see this now, but it’s not just you. Miles Teller is the thing the waiter tells you is a rare and wonderful delicacy that you quietly shunt to the edge of your plate, and hope you can ignore while enjoying the rest of your meal. 

Did HIMYM actually coin/popularize rapey? Because the period when I remember people overusing it to death has some strong overlap to back when that show was on the air. In any case, the top of the slippery slope almost always contains an example or two that seem to justify that usage, and make it instructive. Then,…

Yeah. I also wouldn’t be surprised if they did SFX tests and a canonical presentation of Kamala’s powers either looked bad or it was too expensive to make it look good. Mr. Fantastic’s powers have looked bad in previous FF movies, and when they did Apocalypse in the X-Men movies, they carefully stayed away from the…

Yes, those are all bad movies, although I do have a certain affection for Tiny Toons Bull Durham (Summer Catch), but she’s the best thing in each of them. Heck, in Stealth she’s able to convince an audience that someone would get all hot and bothered over Josh Lucas when Jamie Foxx is RIGHT THERE. (Heck, Lucas is the…

Why would RDJ get upset? It’s pretty much guaranteed that if he ever wants back in the MCU, they’ll be happy to have him. Meanwhile Cruise has been working nonstop between the two M:I movies he’s got in production and promoting Top Gun 2, with at least one injury and one bout of Covid thrown in. It’s most likely the…

The all-time worst case of this was a few years back, when calling things “rapey” was popular. Rape is a real and serious thing. Watering down the term so that you can misuse it for effect is a seriously bad idea.

I’m guessing the point is that there shouldn’t be a “generic term of grooming” that conflates adults trying to manipulate children into sexual relationships, with adults feeling manipulated by other adults. It’s amazing how so many people of different political persuasions have decided to co-opt this important concept…

In the 1970s, with a five-movie best picture field, the #1 movie got nominated for best picture 7 times (including all the blockbusters you mentioned), and 9 of 10 pictures that won best picture also finished in the top 10 in box office. Three of the winners were also the top picture at the box office. In the past 22…

Wow. Garcia now looks like his face was made from a composite of Kevin Kline and Alan Arkin.

You should be cautious.

Does anyone doubt this is going to make money? I actually don’t even doubt that it’s going to be good. Cameron’s Cameron, and the dude knows how to tell a story. The only thing I doubt is the idea that end the end of it, I’ll be any more eager to revisit Pandora and the Navi than I was after the first movie, much less…

I know I’ve seen other movies with him in them, but whenever I try to recall his face, it’s “No, I think that’s Jai Courtney,” or “No, that’s a non-Chris Hemsworth.” I don’t know if it’s that doing an American accent flattens his affect so much that he doesn’t register as an actor, or the fact that Hollywood threw so…

Hey, now! It totally makes sense that Harry Bosch’s legacy is...more Harry Bosch.

I think Remember, with Christopher Plummer as a Nazi hunter with dementia, did something similar a few years ago.

So you’re saying...there’s a chance?

Nice farewell speech, bro! Bye!

I’m sorry, are you an expert on venue security?

Do you need a hankie? That’s a lot of crying.