Okay putting Deadpool ahead of Black Panther is me just wanting to round it nicely at three, but real talk BP is basically a pretty run of the mill MCU film with a little bit of wokeness sprinkled on top that’s been repeatedly shilled and astroturfed so much you’d think it was the single most important black cultural…

I’m not sure you took away the right lesson out of Three Billboards.

Black Panther wasn’t even in the top three best superhero films this year.

(Into The Spider-Verse, Infinity War, Deadpool 2. Don’t @ me.)

People ragged on last year’s Oscars for the sake of being contrarian, but holy shit almost every nomination in almost every single category would have left me reasonably satisfied were it to win.

It was a high-profile ostensibly cool “gurl powerrr” SNL remake of a cult film most traditionally associated with nerd culture, that chose to cast its villain as a violent entitled loser neckbeard - despite the fact that, on the whole, Neil Casey’s everyman schlubbiness as far more in line with the Ghostbusters…

“Normally journalists would point out how very filled with politics all the other British writers of the school of eighty-something were, and that Sandman wasn’t. And why is that? And I would hesitantly suggest that I thought that Sandman might have been a bit more political than they thought, and they would say…

It suggests the 2016 film was somehow against the fans

Even then Chris Hemsworth’s character is only really funny because people at the time weren’t expecting beefcake Chris Hemsworth to be capable of being really funny.

It’s a specific move that you can pull off exactly once before it just becomes common knowledge.

If Kevin was played by Channing Tatum, whom we already…

Don’t get me wrong, I like the film, but to suggest anything about it is genuinely Oscar worthy would be to do so solely because “online sex workers” has been a massive social justice hot topic over the past few years and you like the subject matter.

Cam is a cute little film, especially when you actively compare and contrast it with the Lynch and Cronenberg films it’s clearly inspired by, but you’re really letting the fact it appeals to your woke sensibilities cloud your judgement.

From my experience of whenever “toxic masculinity” gets brought, I have yet to ever see someone being able to bring up a concrete example of “positive masculinity” that wasn’t a) very vague, b) blatantly self-serving or c) not found to be immediately contradicted by another feminist source out there.

This is what fanservice looks like.

The jury is still out on the ending Enterprise/Pike/Spock stuff, but I think Discovery has for the most part been pretty good about not self-indulgently and superfluousy abusing TOS nostalgia. Most of it is shit, but they can hardly be accused of playing it safe.

The Mirror Universe…

Something something obligatory comment about AVC claiming they would no longer cover Kanye.

This is a fucking moronic claim.

Fury Road, Three Billboards, Shape Of Water, Colossal, Arrival, Wonder Woman, Ladybird, Room, I Tonya, Annihilation. And that’s off the top of my head and for strictly female-led films.

I don’t think the paid shill or Disney bonus theory is quite right, but I do think Disney products are just far safer and homogenized.

They have the odd flop like any other studio, other times they get it extremely right, but for the most part it’s just their quality control process that ensures a certain degree of…

Is this really the “hypocrisy fallacy”, though?

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Hot take: A Quiet Place is just a shit Don’t Breathe.

“This season had 4 episodes that had over 8 million viewers...”

Yeah, the first four. The remainder of the season was more of the usual 6.0-7.5.

Look I’m not massively interested in having us two cherrypick statistics, I’ll admit they’re good ratings, better than S8 overall and the best in years. I’m just not convinced…

usual assholes trying to spin the show getting some of the biggest ratings in its history as somehow meaning it’s dying