Ugh. 7 million is a terrible opening by pre-pandemic standards, even for a lesser entry in the X-Men franchise, but I was really hoping this would tank so badly that studios would rethink the whole “only in theaters” plan. Or for a VOD offering (I don’t suppose we have any numbers on Mulan?) to do so well that it…

I can’t disagree that it works thematically, but, to me, it had the unfortunate side-effect of draining a lot of the tension and dread from the scene. YMMV, of course. IIRC, they used the James Baldwin in the first episode over some linking travel scenes.  Imagine if they had used the same clip over the tense “making…

That pivotal scene in last week’s Lovecraft Country bothers me just a bit. It’s not bad or incomprehensible; one can intuit everything that is happening in that scene with some genre-savviness. It is still a trade-off of some narrative cohesion for a heaping dash of style. I have a feeling they just really wanted to…

Terrible news.  Someone dying this young will always feel like great potential cut short, though I will say he did some truly great work in the short time he had.  That he accomplished much of it will battling a disease that saps your energy and health is even more impressive.

I can never decide if this Blue Live Matter nonsense is simply a cover for racist opinions or if people have just lost the ability to hold two not-necessarily complementary thoughts in our head at the same time:  that we are justifiably fed up with the police and that we don’t wish harm to anyone, even the police. …

Smash Mouth concert goes viral

How could you say so?  They LOVE America’s Funniest Home Videos!

Huh...interesting. I’m putting this on my list of books to read. It’s about time Lost Girls had a companion in the “books I will never ever leave out for guests to accidentally discover” club.

I tried this in several different iterations (with vanilla ice cream, with espresson ice cream, by itself), but I just couldn’t get past the overwhelming “vanilla extract” flavor:

The AV Club: Look at all this stuff you could watch!

This particular Red Hulk has a one-hour time-limit on his Hulk powers, for reasons related both to his health and wanting to keep him on a short leash.  So I guess it’s helpful to have a backup.

Of all the new movies that might be perfect for a drive-in movie staging, a sleazy exploitation flick, even with Russell Crowe, seems like a perfect fit.  It seems like the kind of movie that some shady distributor would have in the trunk of his car as he took it from town to town.

Umm...is this a recap disguised as...or mistagged...a Newswire item?!? In any case, I really enjoyed tonight’s episode. I will say I’m not sure putting the titular Gil Scott-Heron performance over the climactic moment might confuse some people, but ultimately, it kinda worked for me in the end, acting as a tonal…

Geoffrey Wright as Commisioner Gordon, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, and Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot? I didn’t really have any misgivings to begin with, but you quashed them all regardless.

Look at Italian Tom Jones go!

Oh, it counts.  Pop culture is not one amorphous mass that we all agree upon.

Did anyone go out to see a movie this weekend?

They take a lot of ideas from the Morrison run, but they strip out a lot of the pretension (Morrison loves his purple prose) and go their own way with it. The addition of Cyborg to the team is entirely novel to the TV series, though. S2 is out here in the US, both on the DC Universe (whose days are surely numbered)…

I can’t really say whether I want to commend the game on its reveal of the actual baddie--what a subversion of normal RPG tropes--or damn the game for its cheap twist ending.  And, IIRC, they did the same damn thing in P5?