Sadly, 1984 wasn’t really the middle of the AIDS crisis. I mean, there wasn’t even a blood test for HIV widely available at that time, so people largely considered the disease something that “only” affected gay men and IV drug users a the time. The big shift with AIDS breaking into the public consciousness as a…

I’m sorry it didn’t work for you, and I don’t completely disagree with your final sentence. I just hate the construction of “if you take out the part that so many people liked, it really sucks” since that’s true of all films. And, like it or not, I don’t think that anyone can seriously claim that the nostalgia of No…

Not to mention, The Suicide Squad was still in production and Birds of Prey hadn’t yet been released when Harley Quinn made its debut in November 2019. If anything, the Harley Quinn series was put out to soften the ground for BoP and TSS.

Yes, if you cut out the entire movie, there isn’t much left of the film. Complaining about the nostalgia in No Way Home is like complaining about the silliness in The Suicide Squad. It’s the movie they decided to make.

I liked TSS, but I think it pointed out how the constraints Marvel put on him actually did Gunn some favors. The borderline excessive “our ‘heroes’ gleefully murder people” montages from Guardians 1 and 2 are allowed to keep going and going and going in TSS, often to the point of monotony. A lot of the jokes are…

I wonder if there was an emphasis on the “filmmaker” part of that, and maybe what he really means is sticking with things from established directors that will get a theatrical release. The combination of the tax loophole (which I think only applies for a limited time after mergers) and the streaming strategy…

Captain Marvel wasn’t a very good movie, but it’s ridiculous the extent to which people have tried to put the weight of that directly on Larson, rather than the directors and writers associated with that film. It’s not Larson’s fault that her solo movie was more interested in ticking off a checklist of “feminist”…

Still the best Anakin. That guy, you could believe there’s a coins-flip chance that he winds up the galaxy’s greatest hero or its worst villain.

Ironically, Kanye getting into stupid beefs with people was one of the late regent’s few remaining joys in her later years. Her staff arranged weekly “Ye Briefings” where the Queen could page through illustrated dossiers of the various people Kanye had grudges against, and their most recent tweets and instagram…

I usually don’t like the idea that in TV men and women can’t just be platonic friends who work together, but it does make sense to give this version’s Al a larger emotional stake in these adventures.

The standing ovations have always been a thing. The obsessively measuring how long each standing O is seems a bit newer, but maybe it was something the European press used to do that Americans just caught on to. It all sounds a bit like bullshit, like Frank Dux telling everyone he had the record for “fastest kick” at…

Yeah, I think Tritium’s take is giving him too much credit. The only things to be said in his defense are 1) if you see the video, it’s pretty obvious that Downey’s exhausted from a junket day (toward the end, he’s just kinda babbling about what he plans to do with his evening after he’s done with all the interviews)…

The title’s lack of punctuation?

Back in the days before spoilers warnings were a thing, my favorite newspaper’s main reviewer, Jack Mathews, used to do this as his ultimate mark of contempt for a movie. Always annoyed the daylights out of me, just for how incredibly petty it was.

It’s like someone learned all they know about people getting straight A’s from a couple of lines in the movie Say Anything...

Do we know what the disappointing twist is all the reviews keep mentioning? I think I’m fine having this one spoiled...

That’s the face when you smell that the milk is sour...and you’ve already poured it on your cereal.

What a coincidence! Maybe that’s why she cast him in the first place.

I don’t know that it’s a matter of competence, so much as voice. A lot of the reviews around here now seem to be written by freelancers, like Ms. Laffly (I’m guessing that’s why Todd is the one commenting here, apparently for the first time in his account’s history) who don’t write here with the frequency or…

You can bet that if an actor who played Spider Man or Thor or Hulk died, they wouldnt kill the character, theyd recast.