Joel Cunningham's discussions

I should watch that again! I’ve see The Dark Knight 3 times or so but Begins and Rises only once each Read more

Highly recommend OlliOlli World; once you get going you will enter a zen state Read more

For now anyway! Eventually we will be moving off of the Kinja commenting/CMS system but we hope you’ll join us. Read more

We got sold! https://www.axios.com/2023/03/13/lifehacker-sale-go-ziff-davis (It’s a good thing.) Read more

That is correct, though getting it wrong doesn’t feel too bad when it comes to this show’s conception of history. (Which I know nothing about beyond reading Wikipedia, TBH.) Read more

Not usually no—it will just show up there on the day it is released. Read more

The Lego Batman Movie makes The Super Mario Bros. Movie look like garbage too. It’s way funnier, cleverer in conceit, and more entertaining—I’d have been thrilled with a Lego Batman level movie. Heck, I’d have been happy if it was as engaging as Sing on a character level. 

And to reiterate, I thought what we got was fin… Read more

This is mostly how I felt after seeing it, but then I saw Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which is 300x more fun and creative and I wished they’d bothered to make it a little more than exactly as bland and by-the-numbers as it could be.

I don’t think having made a slightly better movie in terms of plot and character… Read more

I’m not offended by kids movies being purely for kids, but I don’t think that needs to be an excuse either. Shaun the Sheep is delightful nonsense for a kid or an adult.

That said, I’m still looking forward to taking my kid to see Mario and I am sure I have sat through far worse. Read more

Part of the reason for the inflated budgets of all streaming properties is that residuals and ancillary profits basically aren’t a thing, so they get rolled in to the budgets. But the nice thing about residuals (for the studios) was that they didn’t have to pay out for flops. Read more

Ooooh I like that idea. My weak forearms can only support the weight of a Switch for so long Read more

The entire staff moved with Lifehacker over to ZD, and no one has plans to go anywhere. Read more

I gasped audibly when I realized who it was Read more

I wish I could say the typo was mine, but I copied the list from HBO Read more

Sounds like Big Bidet got to you already Read more

Don’t pretend like this isn’t capitalism’s fault Read more

Cool, sorry! You would not be the first person on the internet to ask a question in the comments that was clearly addressed by the article being commented on. My mistake. Read more

As Beth noted above: Read more

OMG  Read more

Oh you noticed Read more