Adrian Manuel

Be funny if gamers got this whole tariff situation sorted

Or that’s it for them. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen etc. are canonically these roles so they’ll never do anything new with the main X-Men lineup and it’ll just be the B-tier mutants here on out 🤔

Does Marvel realize the more they bring back the Fox X-Men the harder they’re making it to actually recast those roles

Funny how so many fanboys cheered on the Disney-Fox merger thinking Marvel will finally do justice to the X-Men franchise and all the studio has done since is reheat Fox’s nachos

Like y’all put forth John Boyega but don’t follow thru on the star promise of him holding a lightsaber, or you hire Nia DaCosta only to blame her for your own MCU ambitions. Or you court Rachel Zegler and do both: give up on her and blame solely her. Clown ass corporation

Fucking aggravating that Disney blames the talent they hired instead of, idk, taking accountability for their own oversized budgets and billion-dollar expectations and overworking VFX artists and gunning for our nostalgia that the Marvel, Star Wars, and live-action remake shit feels soulless now

The call is coming from inside the mouse house

Variety piece is insane. Goes to great lengths to paint Rachel Zegler as unhinged for daring to speak about Israel-Palestine. Didn’t Gal Gadot do the same thing the same week she got her fucking Hollywood star?????

No bigger whiplash this week than Variety reporting on Hamdan Ballal’s release followed by publishing a hit piece on Rachel Zegler

reading the news

Felt similarly mid about Okja and it has since grown on me substantially with each viewing. Prob need another go at Mick and I’ll come around

kinda mixed on Mickey 17

The need to takedown every single Best Picture winner been exhausting since EEAAO. You don’t gotta like it but pretending the Parasites and Anoras have to stand up to moral scrutiny is ridiculous

Had The Brutalist and Anora on my ballot so I ain’t mad about the win

Episode 2 basically all I’ve wanted out of street-level Marvel. No big bad, no end of the world threat, just a flesh and blood hero beating up bad guys in one night. That hallway fight hits like crack

Rewatching Daredevil season 1. Shit is like The Wire of Marvel television bruh why Disney had to fuck this up

'The Exorcist' Meets 'Blade Runner': Looking Back At 'Constantine' 20 Years Later The 2005 film adaptation of 'Constantine' is a glorious take on horror noir. Adrian Manuel explains on Dread Central.

Before the Warrens there was Keanu Reeves as a hard-drinking, chain-smoking exorcist for hire. I wrote about Constantine’s 20th anniversary for @dreadcentral.bsky.social

Good thing about Captain America 4 is that it’s far from the worst thing I saw this weekend. Dog doodoo honor goes to the NBA all-star game like what the fuck was that

In its defense Deadpool & Wolverine last year took me to the edge. Captain America 4 was a nudge and I’m out. If y’all can’t have stunt performers throwing down or can’t flip actual cars anymore then don’t bother with an action-packed finale

Post-Endgame the MCU movies have really tested my tolerance for the “big CGI finale.” Think I’m done after Brave New World

Mowing the lawn on Presidents Day as it was written

a 40-minute feature no less!

Fantastic Four trailer makes it impossible to look at Thunderbolts. Or any Brave New World tv spots 😬

Kiyoshi Kurosawa saying this is so funny. My man you made the scariest movie I saw last year

Kinda got what I wanted out of the MCU in the run from Iron Man to Endgame. Was ok with never watching a superhero movie again, but goddamn that F4 trailer sparked joy again. I’m still in the game baby

All in on Fantastic Four nobody show me those AI posters

These two gonna have a banner movie & tv year huh

Astonishing how the ‘60s setting (a mostly pre-MCU timeline) frees this up to just be a Fantastic Four movie, and not MCU entry #37 that nods to 10-12 things that happened before

Genuinely surprised by how good Fantastic Four looks. Haven’t been this psyched for a Marvel movie in some time