I can’t speak for multiplexes, but arthouses doing live performances/repertory screenings can still draw a good crowd.
Hell, best theatrical experience I’ve had this year was going to a repertory screening of Stop Making Sense that played to an almost packed house.
It didn’t matter that it was filmed, the audience was…

‘and perceived oppression’ -- I suppose now’s a bad time to point out this applies equally, if not more so, to people who are made at comics companies ‘forcing their agenda’ on us, huh?

Amazon already has one foot in the door for that thanks to their owning Comixology.

Now reminded of a year or so back when an old fan letter to Marvel from the Claremont X-Men years that was bitching about the diversity back then.
I don’t know if the guy meant it to sound that way or not, but it came across as...pretty Goddamn racist (wanting Storm and Banshee to ‘go back where they came from’ and…

Interestingly, what started drawing me onto the digital side for some things WAS that there were certain titles I couldn’t get any other way (...well, okay, I theoretically COULD hunt down the old paper volumes of Cyborg 009, but knowing how obscene some prices on out of print manga can get vs that 4.99 a pop price on…

One BIG example that comes to mind - Black Panther and Captain Marvel both getting pushed back in line because Disney and Sony were able to strike up a deal for Spider-Man rights.

Suddenly the vaunted master plan saw two properties told to step aside so we could get a third Peter Parker.

(Also, I will go to my grave…

I’ve said it elsewhere, but I’ll repeat it here -
‘Darth Vader’ is a name Lucas had kicking around for a long time before the SW we know took shape. You can see the name in the old drafts from back when the main character was named ‘Starkiller’, where Vader was simply a general in the Empire.
A look at the interviews…

I see two issues with this argument:
1) As much as I have issues with him as a filmmaker - Colin Trevorrow DID manage to look at what Johnson set up and still constructed a solid story and script from it (one that people apparently seem to find more satisfying than what Abrams gave us, at that)
2) Abrams was an…

You would be right there. Interviews with Lucas at the time paired with some of the earlier drafts of the script really tip the hand that the Vader reveal came later.

Not only did he not have it planned out then, he hadn’t even worked out the full game plan when he was filming Empire.

Han’s open fate and “There is another” were narrative insurance policies Lucas put in place in case Ford or Hamill decided they weren’t gonna come back for another round (if there was a similar…

The more I dwell on it, TLC is much in the same camp for me as, fittingly, Return of the Jedi - there’s definitely some issues I have with the movie overall (Marcus’s turn into comic relief clashes with the ‘adventurer who aged out’ we were presented in Raiders, Elsa is a kind of redundant character whose only real…

Give or take for spending some time studying the rock wall in case he needed to touch up the paint on that damn invisible bridge.

The fact Scott and Drew picked this to be the ‘opening’ music for 80's All Over is just one on the long list of reasons I love that podcast and am sad it didn’t get to complete its run.

As much as I got a morbid kick out of watching it, yeah.
I am kind of unsettled by how much of the base is fine with Joe Exotic (and Doc Antle while I’m at it...the two of them are both pretty skeevy.)

Don’t forget the fun of when the comments load, but they’re broken as Hell, requiring ANOTHER refresh!

Any good that might have come from that was immediately cancelled out by the fact it was bankrolled by Peter Thiel to satisfy his personal vendetta against the site.

Gawker weren’t saints by any stretch, but that takedown was dirty as fuck.

Additionally, I’m concerned how a dramatized version might wind up whitewashing some of this.

I mean, the people behind the doc already admitted to downplaying some of Joe’s more...questionable aspects just getting us to this point, and frankly, even with the doc making him out to be a genuinely fucked up person with a…

On the one hand, I do genuinely like this read on things just in terms of how people have built on it and have found some catharsis from it.
On the other, given the general level of writing from Lucas, I can’t help but feel like this is giving a bit too much credit and speaks more for the death of the author read on…

So far I have yet to be steered particularly wrong by any of their recommends (and even some of their didn’t quite recommend, but still had some good to say for, such as Eureka)
Some others I thank them for getting to me to check out - Used Cars, Mephisto, Burden of Dreams, The Long Good Friday, Amadeus, The Killing…

His debut in the Holiday Special doesn’t really do much for his mystique.
It’s basically