Technically, it’s only a zombie if it comes from the Zombie region of France. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling revenant.

Ironically, I think Johnson is pretty fun in Jumanji, largely because his character is a scrawny teenage boy suddenly inside The Rock’s body.

Ironically, I remember thinking that Johnson would have been well-cast as Captain Marvel/Shazam, rather than Black Adam. He can be very goofy and entertaining when he allows…

I remember thinking, when they announced a sequel, that it would be a tough act to follow without Armas. But having just finished watching, I like how the sequel gives Blanc another ally of sorts. Now I could see a series of these, in which every movie gives him a new temporary Watson to pal around with, ideally with…

I’m not really a fan of Shia LaBeouf, but he was hardly the problem in his movie. He did a fine job in a movie that asked him to swing on vines with cartoon monkeys and fence with a cartoon Russian.

Good alfredo requires good ingredients. Sure, you can just get the same old, store-bought pasta and open up a can of pre-made alfredo sauce, but it’s not the same as fresh ingredients. The result will taste generally like alfredo should, but it will be missing something. It will be a little bland and forgettable, no…

Yeah, haters. If a sequel retroactively gives the first movie slightly more depth 13 years later, then all of your accurate criticisms of the original were just short-term thinking. You morons. You absolute dumb bastards.

True. But dignity was never really their strong suit.

Schwarzenegger shouldn’t be in any further Terminator movies.

One of many reasons why sequels after T2 weren’t worth watching is that each movie revolves around the T-800 model 101. A robot designed for infiltration and assassination, specifically, that for some reason always looks and sounds like the same Austrian…

I feel like there’s a binary narrative hanging around the first movie (which I’ve only seen pieces of). People seem to want to reconcile its massive popularity at the time, and financial success, with its lack of impact on the zeitgeist. So either they want to write think pieces about how it DID have a huge impact,…

There are Christians who don’t go around talking about their faith all the damn time. They’re likely taking their cues from the words of a little-known messianic Jew who said things like “when you pray, don’t do it in public for attention like the hypocrites do.” It’s a shame his teachings didn’t catch on with more…

I don’t disagree with you. It’s weird, and probably bad for us all in several ways. I’d love for Disney to have more competition and own less of pop culture. But there’s also been a huge shift in how entertainment works. Now movies are competing with video games, cable television, YouTube and streaming services.…

Also “what if thing did the opposite of what we think thing would/should do.”

Monsters are scared of kids, race car leans to slow down, dinosaur has pet boy, rat loves fine cuisine, robot is a romantic, and now fire and water mix.

I think repeatedly asking auteur filmmakers about Marvel specifically isn’t a useful conversation. Largely because a lot of Marvel’s movies are actually pretty good (for a certain definition of good - whether or not they’re quote-unquote “cinema” is another boring and unproductive debate).

I think instead the…

Here’s a question: do we need to analyze Phase 4 as if it’s a cohesive piece of storytelling? Is it helpful to do so? The idea of phases is largely just an MCU marketing tool, not necessarily a storytelling one.

I still feel like people are buying into the idea that each phase is a meticulously organized and…

I think Moon Knight managed to largely squander the promise of the first episode. They should have looked to the FX series Legion on how to do a superhero(ish) story about a man who doesn’t know what to believe and can’t even trust his own mind.

I remember Johnson campaigning for ages to be Black Adam, but I kinda wish they’d cast him as Captain Marvel/Shazam. He’s got tons of charisma and certainly isn’t above being goofy - why not let him play a teenage boy in a superhero’s body?

As it is, like Shazam, if this pops up on some streaming service I’m already…

Agree. She’s the best part of the worst Nolan Batman movie, and Get Smart is underrated.

Want to see Hathaway give another amazing performance? Watch Rachel Getting Married. 

I remember a lot of out-of-proportion annoyance specifically to Hathaway’s Oscar acceptance speech after Les Mis, which began with “it [her dream] came true.” Because God forbid an actor who performed “I Dreamed A Dream” to great acclaim be, like, excited and a perhaps even a tad cringe-y when receiving the industry’s…

Yeah, even though the comics writers can get very fuzzy with their own terms, “mutant” in Marvel refers to people that have the hereditary X-gene. That can manifest cool powers (control weather) or awful deformities (feathers and a beak), or both (eye beams that you can’t ever turn off) but it’s all stuff that mutants…

I’d go to bat for WandaVision’s finale being pretty good. The two big showdowns were solved via a trick and a philosophical debate, with a largely bittersweet ending that suggests trauma isn’t something you can wrap up in a miniseries worth of episodes.

Of course, I think the Doctor Strange movie ruined a lot of what…