Spider-Verse is great, almost like it’s from a different company that didn’t make Venom or the Amazing Spider-Movies.

They’ll either buy Sony or wait for Sony to shit the bed with two or three Spider-Man movies in a row and roll back up and offer to buy the Spider-Man IP for dirt cheap.

They’ve had the template for how to make a good superhero movie for years. They just aren’t willing to commit to it.

Yeah, core Sims has no draw for me. But a wizarding life simulator? They might have got me with this one. (To be fair, the previous beach/island and Indiana Jones-style expansions almost did it, too.)

That is some terrible parenting. I don’t even let my kids necessarily have the last word on fast food when we’re on a road trip.

I still can’t get over George Lucas, of all people, being worried that the original Star Wars movies weren’t appealing enough to kids and wanting to have a kid surrogate to theoretically engage them with the first prequel.

I hope this remains true to the original Dark Crystal by opening with 10 minutes of narration over watching a gelfling fish.

Besides Christopher Nolan, is there a filmmaker who causes more cultural mass hysteria with their releases than Quentin Tarantino?

It’s a podcast from the Ringer, which isn’t mentioned in the above write-up. After Tarantino, it’ll shift back to being about other filmmakers.

Also, if you’re really concerned about the planet’s health, maybe stop using dry cleaning altogether.

The Washington Post has really gone downhill since they switched to Kinja.

The list is probably longer than you give it credit for. Off the top of my head:

1) Corporate exploitation of space
2) Earth remains humanity’s primary home
3) For the most part, technology has an unlovely, industrial, brutalist feel
4) Alien beings have been encountered, but intelligent contemporaries or superiors to…

Yes, I tell my kids that it is. Unemployment, even at the height of the Great Recession, was substantially lower for those with a bachelor’s degree or better than those without. (Obviously, results vary by field.)

Salaries are significantly higher.

And, as I tell my kids, college gives you options. Maybe you don’t want…

Honestly, I’d love to see Disney give the Alien franchise the Star Wars treatment. Whatever else you think of the sequel trilogy, it’s very clear that Disney sat down before filming The Force Awakens and talked about what makes Star Wars great, and then remixed all of those elements.

Given that everything after Aliens…

It’s OK to use FaceTime in public to comfort a crying child.

That’s it. That’s the one exception.

As gross as Burger King tacos may be, I take issue with the notion that Mexico City tacos are our exemplar. Mexico is large. It contains taco multitudes, including deep fried tacos much closer to what Jack in the Box and Burger King are doing, in their own debased way.

Weird. A thin-skinned billionaire who won’t listen to any criticism or brook any push-back has come up with a stupid idea that doesn’t even work right. No one could have seen that coming.

(And, on a related note, root for the Las Vegas Monorail in this battle. It makes the Strip a much more pleasant experience and…

These guys must be baffled when they watch Die Hard and see Bruce Willis getting increasingly beaten down.

“WHERE WAS THIS GUY’S AGENT?”

She betrayed all the other fictional characters.

My weighted blanket is sweaty as hell in the summer, even with the A/C on, but $249 is yikes.

My weighted blanket is sweaty as hell in the summer, even with the A/C on, but $249 is yikes.