[Darth Vader when he strikes Obi-Wan down and he disappears leaving only his robes behind] Damn that’s… that’s not what happened to all those kids

I'd say "spoiler alert" but I kinda think we all saw this one coming

When I profiled Karl Urban, I was kind of surprised to hear him deny that, contrary to what Chris Pine told me, he wasn't actually a big Trekkie. The only role he remembers taking because was legitimately a big fan of the IP was... Judge Dredd. Hell yeah. time.com/article/2026...

It would be really easy to make the case that Karl Urban is secretly the most important person in genre pop culture right now. But when I made that case to him, his reaction surprised me. My profile of Éomer/Bones/Skurge/Billy Butcher/Johnny Cage/etc, for TIME. time.com/article/2026...

hell hell hell hell hell hell hell if you're a parent who declines shots for your kid I pray that fate is kinder to your child than you are; if you're someone responsible for no longer recommending the shot I hope you spend the rest of your life atoning for harm www.propublica.org/article/more...

Wrote about how The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a remarkably real depiction of journalism's struggles... right up until the very end when it embraces a fairy tale. www.cjr.org/analysis/dev...

Something of an irony that most of the journalists praising The Devil Wears Prada 2 for its frank depictions of the trouble journalism is facing are the lucky journalists who haven’t been unceremoniously canned and still have a staff job where they can talk about how hard it is out there

In the past two months we've gotten a movie about sharks in a flood and a movie about sharks in a plane crash. Last year we had a sharks in WWII, sharks in a river, and a shark serial killer. What conceptual lengths do new shark movies have to swim to to outdo Jaws? www.avclub.com/inventory-gi...

Do you ever just stop and think about how Emilia Pérez got 13 Oscar nominations and probably would've won a bunch more than it ended up winning? How... why...?

I feel like it doesn't help that the main promo for this movie makes it look like Michael is smirking. Like he knows he's gotten away with it.

whenever somebody posts a link in the groupchat that has already been posted or discussed, everybody responds with a sarcastic "great post" and it's devastating. Highly recommend adopting this for your own group chats.

There's very good, rational and well-reasoned criticism of The Pitt season 2 out there. None of it is in posts.

Interviewed the director of Exit 8 www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

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A really good April Fools prank would be for a brand to post a bunch of official seeming statements on April 2nd where they are just totally eating shit and apologizing for an unspecified, highly offensive prank they attempted the previous day (which never happened).

The Super Mario Galaxy has problems (namely seeing how Spider-Man 3 tried to adapt way too many plots in one sequel and saying "hold my mushroom") but the great news is that there are (basically) no licensed pop song needle drops! time.com/article/2026...

Reflexive hatred of journalists and journalism as a whole is one of those right wing behaviors that doesn't get treated as such because the institution of journalism is in really bad shape, for reasons not actually journalist's fault. I am not a journalist so you cant get mad at me for saying this

Has a reboot or remake of something where the original had an iconic, beloved score but the new one has all-new music ever worked? Thinking about The Rings of Power not having Howard Shore's LotR score. Feels like that's gonna be a problem (among many) for Harry Potter

It's helpful that the Harry Potter franchise is doing what Kanye West did, in the sense that they stopped making any new art that was in any way good right about the same time that the artist became impossible to support.

Phone less convenient in every way and furthermore it is for babies. You always see babies poking away at phones and tablets. A baby is never on the computer

It's finally here! www.vulture.com/article/best...

This Oscars telecast is going, uh, well

I used to use Grammarly for proofreading all the time. Then they started adding AI suggestions that were worse than what I'd intentionally written and they were frequently incorrect to boot. I deleted the plug-in. Seems like they've gotten even worse!

A difference between the Academy and me is that when I was writing up my own theoretical 2026 Oscar nominations just for fun, I nominated '28 Years Later' a dozen times

Having “a normal one”

This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

haven't noticed this before on Letterboxd. Makes sense I guess!

I wish Canada had won (the war of 1812)

Had a lovely conversation with Egg, a great kid. Read it on @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/dext...

Anyway, I don't know why the Bluesky folks are so mad all the time. There was just a viral post (on this site!) about how the number of newspaper jobs has dropped from 360,000 in 2007 to about 80,000 today. You guys are winning!

It's wild how much Bluesky fundamentally hates journalism. Like, yes journalism right now has plenty of issues. (Ask any journalist about it! We love to bitch about journalism!) But on here the entire premise of "reporting" is reviled by people who think they're doing 'Spotlight' whenever they post.

Please believe me when I say I went into the idea of an English-language, English-set remake of the iconic Japanese folk horror movie ‘Onibaba’ with an open heart. Alas! My review of ‘The Dreadful’ for @avclub.com www.avclub.com/the-dreadful...

it’s okay if you order food every night and think you’re saving money because you don’t know how to cook. I just think you’re a little stupid, is all 💙

real ones know how much The Quick and the Dead slaps www.vulture.com/article/best...

Keep Honking! I'm Liking Sinners And One Battle After Another The Exact Right Amount

Anyway, F1 is a much better movie than Frankenstein

Confused about ‘F1’ getting a Best Picture nomination? Some of the first films ever made included watching a horse go vroom and a train go vroom. It’s only right that the Academy should honor a movie about watching a car go vroom.

“Soda Pop” robbed

Another year, another round of layoffs at Vox Media. In solidarity with our laid-off colleagues, here is our full statement:

Grok put the whale in a bikini

[pointing at screen] that's the voice of Bluey and Bingo’s aunt

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Avatar: Fire and Ash was shockingly horny! Good!! www.avclub.com/avatar-fire-...

That was a very upsetting and revealing by 60 Minutes segment that I wouldn’t have watched had it just aired normally on 60 Minutes. Great job, Bari Weiss

Golden Globes to Dailymotion

Maybe one day there will be a CGI deer in a movie that looks good. Today is not that day : (

it's fucked up that Netflix owns Yakko, Wakko and Dot's house now

Across historical fiction, gender-swapped anime, and the confines of Grand Theft Auto, Hamlet allowed the year's films to process their grief. www.avclub.com/art-therapy-...