Stan Lee: December 28, 1922—November 12, 2018 (Image via signed head shot)

Stan Lee, the man behind Marvel, and who co-created most of the superheroes you've ever heard of from Spider-Man to Black Panther and beyond, has died. Full obit here.

Choice Stan Lee quote from 1968: 

Stan Lee in 1968: "Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today ... The only way to destroy them, is to expose them — to reveal from the insidious evil they really are." #stanlee #ripstanlee pic.twitter.com/0kHInvBn8I

— Boy Culture Blog (@mattrett) November 12, 2018

How do you spell disbelief? (Images via Amazon Studies)

I'm becoming disenchanted.

I have a soft spot for the horror genre, but increasingly, it feels as if horror films that horror fans praise as brilliant are really just unapologetically of the genre; they're not necessariIy good films overall.

Case in point: Suspiria, which has generated enthusiasm among the crowd that had previously been wary of Luca Guadagnino remaking the 1977 Dario Argento classic. Yes, it's a serious entry in the genre, yes it is exquisitely well-shot and is taken as seriously as death by its talented cast, but it's also maddeningly dry, pretentious, nonsensical and relentlessly nihlistic. Like the far more over-praised Hereditary, it's claustrophobic claptrap. Unlike Hereditary, it's also embarrassingly self-indulgent filmmaking that proves the impossible — that too much of Tilda Swinton can be a bad thing.

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In the context of a terrific, in-depth Daily Beast Q&A about his life and career by Tim Teeman, Michael C. Hall opens up about playing gay characters, responding this way when asked if he himself has ever had any gay experiences:

I think there’s a spectrum. I am on it. I’m heterosexual. But if there was a percentage, I would say I was not all the way heterosexual. I think playing the emcee required me to fling a bunch of doors wide open because that character I imagined as pansexual. Yeah, like I made out with Michael Stuhlbarg every night doing [Cabaret]. I think I have always leaned into any fluidity in terms of my sexuality.

But pressed on the issue, he clarified:

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