I guess it makes sense that Miller would want to give a role to one of Australia’s native sons.

I love how Iron Man 3 handled Mandarin. Both the initial presentation of the character and the undercutting reveal were one of the most clever ways by which they could update and play around with Marvel’s history of racism by ignorance. I certainly enjoyed Shang Chi’s more straight-forward presentation of the 10 Rings…

I haven’t listened to the whole (brief) album yet, but I’ve been listening to Days Like These on the regular. The tension between the melodic , flowing rumination and aggressive distortion just trips my trigger every damn time.

See, this is the kind of thing that gets me excited for a character I’m otherwise not all that engaged with. I love the all-out Adventure Time weirdness of the various residents of Atlantis. Make it big and weird.

I’d go a step further and just say that’s why any attempts to keep bringing the Muppets back fail. I love them dearly, but the sensibility is of a time and a place and brought to life by the performers. I don’t think -even if Oz were at the helm- that can be recaptured today. Better to let it go and let a new group of…

I’m glad you feel the same way. Nobody likes admitting to having trouble comprehending a book.

I greatly enjoy Marlon James’ writing and was excited for Black Leopard, Red Wolf, but I have to admit I had a difficult time with it. I found the stream of consciousness prose style to be slippery and I never managed to get a firm grasp on the book. I loved all the themes it discussed and the setting as well, but it…

It’s a weird combination of things. Both that it doesn’t feel like they’re confident in letting the character stand on his own, and also the shift from as you say, street level underdog to super well-connected science hero.

Looking forward to the thrilling conclusion of the surrogate father figure trilogy of Spider-Man films.

Digitally remasterd to exclude the scene where the cartoon shoe gets The Dip.

Well I, for one, subscribe to OnlyFans for the articles.

I’m definitely more interested in this now that they’re showing off more of the grand cosmic weirdness of the movie. It has more of a 70's cosmic sci-fi vibe than Jack Kirby clutter vibe, but that’s okay. The Deviants still just look like cgi sludge.

I know this kind of thing shouldn’t still bother me, but it does. Nothing in the preview explicitly showed it would be an adventure movie. And sure I went in thinking there would be a buckle swashed here and there, but it didn’t take long for me to figure out, “Oh, this isn’t that kind of movie” and set my…

Sure. But again, that has nothing to do with whether a movie is good or not. What Disney’s bottom line is, and whatever interesting cinema may grow like a wobbly flower from a crack in the concrete slab of corporate obligation are two completely separate things.

I will never take an argument less seriously than that of an adult human using toy sales as the marker of decent cinema.

It’s an extra hundred if you want me to save you.

Buddy, they don’t even let me fuck the Wookiee.

You want the Star Wars experience? For fifty bucks, I’ll take you to a shitty bar where a fucked-up looking blowhard and his belligerent, incomprehensible friend push you around because of your Dorothy Hamill haircut.

Nothing happened to Palpatine after Return of the Jedi. He died in the second Death Star and was never heard from again. What a shame. What a shame.

Even as numbed as I’ve sadly become to the rampant shit-headery that infects business, video games, and video game business, this is literally jaw dropping. As degrading as anything I can think of in a professional environment.