Joss Whedon has stepped down from scripting duties on a proposed BATGIRL movie, saying he just couldn’t come up with a story. I suspect he had some other reasons, some of which speak well of him and some of which don’t, but that’s a boring subject. (So is whether there should be a Batgirl movie, […]
Originally published on Facebook (in slightly different form) 9 May 2015. You know, there’s a great – devastating, but great – story from the early days of the AIDS epidemic, culminating when the nurse-narrator hugs a patient in the last stages of the disease. He bursts into tears. “Oh, thank you, thank you,” he weeps. […]
For the life of me, I will never ever understand the whiny male bitches who get upset at female protagonists in action movies. And I’m not speaking from the point of view of ideology. I’m speaking as a lover of stories, a guy who both produces and consumes them. When Laurie Strode proved the one […]