Commentary on comics, games, books, and their occasional intersection with politics and other serious business.
Harvest - August 1st
Okay, it's being released on Mubi--which sounds like the name you'd make up to ridicule the proliferate, third-rate streaming services which aren't Paramount+--but is real. And it looks faaascinating.
And it's on a third-rate streaming service that isn't Paramount+.
We are still pretending I'm not making these in August after biffing June and July.
Bando Stone & The New World - July 19th
Not just because of Donald Glover, but because it's a fun premise. I don't know if "actor kinda plays themselves as a fish out of water in a world gone mad" is a genre, but if it is, I like that genre.
"It" is pretending I'm not writing this in August and haven't already seen Superman (2025)
Superman - June 11th
Lil' Jon Williams. A lot of James Gunn. It's weird and it's not ashamed of it. How do we incorporate the Krypto and the geopolitics angle and the Justice Gang?
Well.
They incorporated it well.
I'm Beginning to See the Light (May 2nd)
This is a romance by the way, but not with the lighthouse lens. Might have been more interesting because it's a romance with a lady and I couldn't care less if the isolated man in his darkest hour who reaches out to other isolated men in their darkest hour puts his dick in a lady.
Also, I have to laugh that Yahtzee's man who "takes one too many lingering looks at his sexy wife and smacks straight into a truck" is the literal plot for this movie.
Maybe it's because I'm making this two-thirds of the way through April instead of in March like I was supposed to, but there are so many interesting trailers this month. Enough to do a bit of a theme.
A Nice Indian Boy (April 4th)
Really? "Dopinder"?
Whoof. That franchise really charmed it's way across some lines.
I'm writing this one halfway through April, so it's gonna be quick and messy.
A Working Man
What happens when you feed Taken, $500,000, a batman villain, and the word "Jason Statham script" into an AI?So, clearly, I love movies. I also love cheezy, broad music. It's what I am.
So what about the meme where folks set the ending scene/credits of a movie to Linkin Park's What I've Done?
That is what we're doing today.
#10
Honestly, the ending of Revenge of the Sith does not go hard enough. Yes, you have to hand it to George Lucas. Yes, the prequel trilogy was prescient, raising the twin specters of modern fascism and the sequel trilogy becoming relevant.
That doesn't entitle it to What I've Done.
