Disseminating hyperbolic stories about people passing out during horror movies or posting “doctors” by the auditorium for distressed audiences is an age-old hype technique. And judging by the ages and tweet history of some of these “fans…” this is just another iteration of the same thing.

Pop culture references aren’t the be-all end-all of a film’s quality, sure, but they’re a very good measure of what has staying power within the broader culture. When movies stick with audiences, they don’t just sell toys; they get quoted and referenced, and if they stick with mass audiences they do so in ways that…

Ah yes Asia, that small continent with zero ethnic diversity at all. 

Stars in a Victor Salva movie.

are you trying to assemble a passel of things that make me sick?

I don’t think there was any intentional manipulation of the child. I mean, Nathan seemed genuinely upset about the effect the shoot had on Remy. I imagine that, if you’re an actor or anyone in Nathan’s position in Hollywood, you’re so used to the idea of child actors that you don’t really think twice about the effect…

I can say with 100 percent certainty that he won’t be mad at Amazon regardless of how the show plays out.

OK, so this “take an interview from GQ/Vulture/Esquire/etc. and break it out into 4 different Newswire articles” is new right? I mean just about every media puts up an article about another outlet’s original coverage...but I don’t remember this place going back to the same well quite so often.

Damn, you must be a real asshole.

This is so nice to make fun of someone with a disability

Sending all the “Please don’t suck” prayers I can to this production

what the fuck is ‘Netflix’s 2022 Geeked Week’?

“Netflix Woefully Presents,”
This should precede everything of theirs.

Amanda Knox really changed my opinion on this. I don’t actually think it’s possible to make a show like this in an ethical way when people involved in the real story are still alive, and so are close relatives of the dead.

Yeah, as a comics geek and big fan of Oswalt, as a comedian and a person, MODOK was kind of a letdown, so I’m not sorry about it being cancelled.

I’d be happy to see Lynch return to direct God Emperor.  Cronenberg would be a good choice too.

And I’d argue that downer is key to Dune (the book; while Dune 1 has made some gestures towards “being space messiah is bad mkay?”, we’re yet to see if Dune 2 will round out that arc); I think the events of Messiah are the themes/subtext of Dune made text.

This is what you moved from Chicago to LA for, right?

DeSantis’ name was mentioned in 50 states yesterday and today. Mission accomplished. This will be thrown out because the State doesn’t have the authority to dissolve a special district. There are dozens and dozens of special districts (water control, mosquito control, Everglades, etc.) and DeSantis thought he could…

Why is this a slideshow?