In 2005, Marvel, on the verge of going out of business

Peyton Reed, who Marvel drafted to do the Ant-Man movies, worked on a FF film back in the early 00s, before getting replaced after Down with Love didn’t do particularly well. Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp already lean into the “family of heroes” vibe, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Marvel Studios gives him another…

Marvel Studios recently stated that Loki in the movie was acting under the influence of the Mind Stone, which feels like a retcon, but at the same time I think it works, mainly because Loki in this movie is really out of character compared to how he was in Thor or in any of his subsequent appearances. There’s zero…

For all the talk about Marvel’s long-term planning (and quite a lot of that is justified, to be clear), it’s quite obvious that they didn’t settle on what Thanos’ motivation was until they actually started making Infinity War, because all of his prior appearances beginning with The Avengers suggest different…

Katherine Arden’s The Winter of the Witch, due out this week, is my most-anticipated new read of the month. The first two books in the trilogy were some of my favourite new fantasy writing in recent years; beautiful prose, love the Russian medieval setting.

Lord Grantham no doubt hard at work urging Neville Chamberlain to appease Hitler.

whatever the period this show is set in is.

Sorry to hear (read, I guess) that you aren’t enjoying the show as much, but good to acknowledge when something isn’t fulfilling you.

That library is really desperate to attract readers.

But in the book, Rorschach is basically a force for evil. He’s got his own code, and he’s good at what he does, but he’s also a murderous right-wing zealot who puts the entire human race at risk because he can’t stand to take an L.

Yes, plenty. It just depends on how much story you have to tell.

95 ain’t bad at all, and they were mostly happy years, though obviously there was some tragedy mixed in there. And he lived to see his creations rule the world.

Elizabeth Warren used her 1.6 percent Native ancestry to get not one but two different jobs.

Much of this episode felt like, if not a series finale, at least the penultimate or antepenultimate episode of a series, but obviously that isn’t the case.

The idea of using the Fantastic Beasts book as the basis for some retro-Indiana Jones adventures seemed like a pretty decent premise for a series, to me, so I really don’t get why they decided to use it for what is basically a rehash of the conflict of the original series.

Yeah, it’s not like 1980s music, etc. vanished as soon as 1990 rolled around.

One of the show’s best episodes.

Bale didn’t want to do more Batman movies.

It was in production before that, being the point.  It was not developed as a commentary on Occupy.

DKR: “Whoa, these Occupy people mad about economic inequality will inevitably lead to a city run by sadistic and capricious supervillains, so we’d better let a sociopathic rich guy save us all!”