That trailer is so good and understands that Superman is fundamentally about hope. Watching that trailer you’d have no idea that the movie climaxes with Superman snapping someone’s neck.

The “problem” with Superman isn’t his attitude or inherent goodness, or else Chris Evan’s Captain America wouldn’t elicit applause from audiences when he appeared on the screen in Infinity War... it’s that the people responsible for curating Superman have the problem: they are tangibly insecure and awkward, even…

The only thing African about Black Panther is its visual design; other than that, it’s probably the most ‘Murrican of all the Marvel films. Seriously. It’s one big Stars & Stripes fantasy.

Oof, great point about doing Representation Right. Definitely not something that European fantasy classics thought about, and let’s be real, no one is gonna look at GoT and assume it’s meant to be representative of people from medieval England, whereas people are 100% gonna assume this is meant to represent the…

I wouldn’t presume to speak for all Latin Americans, let alone everybody who has been in this position, of course. I did see African critiques of Wakanda pan-Africanism and some thoughtful articles engaging with it as specifically African-American fantasy. But there were probably people who disagreed with that.…

I’ve seen them all...and he has a point

A headline that really says, “We fired all our copyeditors.”

I remember coming across a Twitter thread from an actual Medieval historian who debunked this idea that child marriages amongst European nobility were commonly consummated while the bride was still a girl (which includes early-mid teens). It did happen, but only in “emergencies” (which, still very gross) to maintain…

Fuck Dancer in the Dark. Fuck it’s ugly misery porn, fuck it’s randomly edited musical sequences, fuck it’s entire point of view, fuck everything about it except maybe one or two of the Bjork songs.

I think you could say the Genie’s pop culture references are in the tradition of Bugs Bunny’s rapid fire allusions in the 40s. I think we tend to forget Warner Bros cartoons had a fair amount of pop culture humour, perhaps because most of us probably didn’t recognise the references on our first viewings

“Scott shot actual stunt pilots doing incredible things, and one of those pilots, the cameraman Art Scholl, crashed and died during filming.”

Neither is factually incorrect because that’s not how language works. Neither common pronunciation of “caramel” is the “correct” one, same goes for GIF. All the “evidence” supporting one pronunciation over the other is meaningless: creator intent doesn’t matter because all living languages evolve, what the letters…

Hard g:

I know all things Louie are in exile right now but he was great in the episode where he played Louie’s neighbor and his sister was having a medical emergency. 

Absolutely nothing that Obi-Wan does in Star Wars makes a lick of sense if Lucas had the plot of Empire Strikes Back already written out in detail, doubly so if you posit that Return of the Jedi was already plotted, and if you stipulate that the prequels were prewritten at that point it reaches the level of insanity:…

Tony Burton as Creed’s trainer (and later sort of Rocky’s) never got a lot to do, but he was SO good with what they gave him. Just utterly believable and watchable.

Holy shit, Bird Box came out in 2019. This year has gone on forever

Emilia severely cutting back on the nude scenes (and really, all of the GT leads) once she had power proves your point.  For the most part these actors do these nude scenes because they feel like they have to.  It’s an unwanted part of the job.

Oh, nice.

I’m no fitness guru, but I’m thinking the Nanjiani in the photo is not the current day-to-day fit Nanjiani he is now, that’s the dehydrated-for-days, just-worked-out-so-veins-are-popping fit Nanjiani. It’s enough to be jealous over, but people should know nobody really looks like that day-to-day.