When the first trailer for this hit I was curious and got Sandcastle and OH MY GOD it was depressing and frequently disturbing...and I thought, no way they’ve made *this* into a film. Who would it satisfy?

This time, he’s found inspiration in an actual comic: the French graphic novel Sandcastle, from which he borrows a basic plot outline but not a stylistic strategy.

I mean, it’s kind of impressive, but he was wearing neoprene booties. It’s not like it punched through insulated, steel-toed work boots.

I’ve actually always liked that joke, but the version I heard was phrased a little differently, and didn’t sound quite as brutal. I posted it a Clapton article here a while back, and...there was some blowback.

What’s the difference between a bag of cocaine and Clapton’s 4-year-old son? He never let a bag of coke fall off a high-rise balcony.

There’s actually two ideas here that I think would’ve been worth focusing on as a movie unto themselves: [SPOILERS Ahead]

Timothy Olyphant's take maybe 

Malcom D. Lee, I know Chuck Jones. When I was 14 I ran into him in a stairwell and stammered as he nodded graciously for a while before making his escape. And you, sir, are no Chuck Jones.

For anyone who has never seen the 30 for 30 episode about Space Jam.

HE’S LIKE THE ANTI-A. A. DOWD!

“This is objectively the worst piece of media in human history. B minus.”

You must have really liked that vampire one.

Not that’s a deep cut reference.

Isn’t is more like he’d be the Living Tribunal? That way he could inform the entire MCU realities what they can and can’t do.

look again at the letters, that is not the Stark tower per se. It also gives us a hint of the “big bad”

Kinja Ernie’s out of the office but if you leave a message I’m sure if you leave a message, he’ll get back to just as SOON as he can.

Yeah, but as long as the AVClub keeps paying him to write this garbage, I think we’re stuck with him.

Are we pretending he won’t be in [redacted] first?

A fun fact I like to point out because not many people probably know this is Bruce Campbell was originally supposed to play John Winchester. Or at least the John when the boys were all grown up. Jeffery Dean Morgan was only supposed to play him in the flashbacks. But scheduling conflicts kept Bruce from accepting the…

I don’t know why I looked it up, but Martin Short’s Late Night anecdote was probably from February 25, 1999 (Season 6), and the model-turned-actress was Sarah O’Hare (now Murdoch) who has exactly 2 acting credits on IMDB but moved on to be a TV presenter in Australia.