Great interview, but no review? The link just goes to a “powered by IMDb” profile of the film.

I’m not sure he was dissing Marvel; he just said it wasn’t to his taste and avoided actually criticizing the work. It’s one thing to go after Scorcese for his opinion, but another entirely to go after a director for incomplete deference to the pop-culture monolith.

I have complicated,hard-to-nail-down opinions on NuWho. I can see the DNA of the original show in there, but it is definitely a different beast. Despite my nostalgia for original run Who, I will readily acknowledge it had many flaws (one-note cardboard characters, plodding pace, cheap effects), so it’s not necessarily…

I’m not sure how this gets classified as a Newswire article, but it’s a good read nonetheless.

If any follow-up that can make an even bigger Oscar splash than Avatar: The Way Of Water, it’s Wakanda Forever—and we mean a literal splash, as the underwater civilization Talocan will feature prominently in the film.

Was he the one who savgely panned Birdman? While it’s beautifullay shot/composed and I’ve always found Keaton to be an underrated actor, I wholeheatedly agreed with that pan.  I am going to be cautiously optimistic about this one, but I’m not sure what this filmmaker needs is *more* pretension.

I never watched Transformers and I really enjoyed G.I. Joe as a child, so I’m going to agree with you on that point. A lot of credit probably should go to Larry Hama, who built the backstory and made these simple characters engaging in the comic series.

I’m generally fine with self check-out, except for my local CVS, which often has very few workers on shift at any one time (no more than 1 or 2 up-front that I can see). There are only two self-checkout stations and I’ve never seen anyone actually watching them, though I assume it’s a camera-feed to someone in back.…

Imagine if the AV Club had actually sent critics to these festivals to actually witness--and perhaps participate in--these standing ovations.  Wouldn’t that be wild?  You could make soooo many slideshows out of that coverage!

Bader probably does a better Silver-Age Batman, but I tend to agree with you otherwise.  

Slow day over at the Takeout, huh?

I’ve nearly gotten to the end of Elden Ring, but the final boss is giving me a lot of grief. I can finish his first phase pretty handily as long as someone else is holding aggro. Unfortunately, the only ash spirit that I’ve found that is tanky enough to actually survive into the second phase—Black Knife Tiche—is not…

Same here. I really think someone needs to tell Columbia Pictures that the original movie really was just lightening in a bottle, an unreplicable success.

My favorite adaptation of the Suicide Squad remains “Task Force X”, the episode from the Justice League cartoon.  It’s just a lean, quickly-paced, lower-stakes (well, lower than either film version, anyway) supervillain heist that wraps up in a half-hour.  I wish they would’ve spun off a show from that episode.

It’s too bad she avoided that, just to swerve right back into it with WW84.

Show this guy enough examples of powerful female characters, flood our screens with them until they become commonplace, and surely he and his ilk will eventually get tired of voicing the same narrow-minded opinion.

My minor addition to the discourse: Birdman is, IMHO, pretentious garbage. This really doesn’t take anything away from whatever argument Inarritu is making, but I just want it in the record.

Not quite yet, but I’m so damn close.  I’m pretty proud of the fact that I stomped the Godskin Duo after a few tries; granted, I may have set the difficulty slider lower on that fight by inviting both Behrnal and the Great Shield Bros (maybe my favorite ash spirit in the game) along.

I try my best to ignore the shittier side of the internet, but I looked into the void (Googled her name and scrolled down a bit) and found a shitty, strained Urban Dictionary entry for her name. The grasping thesis of the entry, in a nutshell: Pop-culture bloggers are pointless because we need more doctors and…

Am I the only one who thinks that Matthew Macfayden bears a strong resemblance to Armie Hammer?  If he has the time, there are going to be a lot of suddenly available lead roles for him now.