Pierre Chanliau
@pierrechanliau.bsky.social
Freelance Writer for The Direct.
#NowWatching WEAPONS (2025) Dir. Zach Cregger
a shadow of a person running down a dark street
Alt: Gif of a child running down a dark street.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#NowWatching WEAPONS (2025) Dir. Zach Cregger
Wow, I actually think I liked #FantasticFour more than SUPERMAN.
Great and authentic retro sci-fi setting, staggering scale, believable chemistry, and genuine tension.
Everyone was adapted amazingly well, but I do feel like Ben got the short end of the stick.
Great and authentic retro sci-fi setting, staggering scale, believable chemistry, and genuine tension.
Everyone was adapted amazingly well, but I do feel like Ben got the short end of the stick.
#NowWatching: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (2025) dir. Matt Shakman
July 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Wow, I actually think I liked #FantasticFour more than SUPERMAN.
Great and authentic retro sci-fi setting, staggering scale, believable chemistry, and genuine tension.
Everyone was adapted amazingly well, but I do feel like Ben got the short end of the stick.
Great and authentic retro sci-fi setting, staggering scale, believable chemistry, and genuine tension.
Everyone was adapted amazingly well, but I do feel like Ben got the short end of the stick.
#NowWatching: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (2025) dir. Matt Shakman
July 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#NowWatching: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (2025) dir. Matt Shakman
Very much enjoyed #Superman despite its understandable flaws (rapid pacing, tonal shifts, comedy), while others I heard felt slightly exaggerated.
But I think I'm the kind of person that can forgive a lot if I love the characters and the cast enough.
Good, fun start to the DCU.
But I think I'm the kind of person that can forgive a lot if I love the characters and the cast enough.
Good, fun start to the DCU.
July 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Very much enjoyed #Superman despite its understandable flaws (rapid pacing, tonal shifts, comedy), while others I heard felt slightly exaggerated.
But I think I'm the kind of person that can forgive a lot if I love the characters and the cast enough.
Good, fun start to the DCU.
But I think I'm the kind of person that can forgive a lot if I love the characters and the cast enough.
Good, fun start to the DCU.
#NowWatching SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn
July 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#NowWatching SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn
I still don't understand why making a good JURASSIC PARK sequel is so hard.
July 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I still don't understand why making a good JURASSIC PARK sequel is so hard.
Poorly paced, thin characters, reheated set pieces, and underutilized dino-muties make JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH another dud of a sequel.
But, hey, it was better than DOMINION, so it at least passed that ant hill of a hurdle.
But, hey, it was better than DOMINION, so it at least passed that ant hill of a hurdle.
#NowWatching JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH (2025) Dir. Gareth Edwards
a poster for jurassic world shows a dinosaur and the sun
Alt: GIF of Jurassic World Rebirth logo
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July 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Poorly paced, thin characters, reheated set pieces, and underutilized dino-muties make JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH another dud of a sequel.
But, hey, it was better than DOMINION, so it at least passed that ant hill of a hurdle.
But, hey, it was better than DOMINION, so it at least passed that ant hill of a hurdle.
#NowWatching JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH (2025) Dir. Gareth Edwards
a poster for jurassic world shows a dinosaur and the sun
Alt: GIF of Jurassic World Rebirth logo
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July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
#NowWatching JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH (2025) Dir. Gareth Edwards
I love how Kamala Khan is inexplicably in her classic Ms. Marvel costume at the beginning of GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1, despite falling into the bushes still wearing that terrible X-Men outfit in GIANT SIZE X-MEN.
I'm incredibly thankful, but the abrupt change is still *very* funny.
I'm incredibly thankful, but the abrupt change is still *very* funny.
June 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I love how Kamala Khan is inexplicably in her classic Ms. Marvel costume at the beginning of GIANT-SIZE DARK PHOENIX SAGA #1, despite falling into the bushes still wearing that terrible X-Men outfit in GIANT SIZE X-MEN.
I'm incredibly thankful, but the abrupt change is still *very* funny.
I'm incredibly thankful, but the abrupt change is still *very* funny.
I enjoyed BALLERINA fine enough, but the second half felt like a completely different movie (in a good way.)
Great action doesn't completely make up for what has to be the sloppiest script in the franchise.
Great action doesn't completely make up for what has to be the sloppiest script in the franchise.
June 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I enjoyed BALLERINA fine enough, but the second half felt like a completely different movie (in a good way.)
Great action doesn't completely make up for what has to be the sloppiest script in the franchise.
Great action doesn't completely make up for what has to be the sloppiest script in the franchise.
#NowWatching: BALLERINA (2025) Dir. Len Wiseman
a blurry picture of a woman in a dark room with blue and pink lights
Alt: Gif of titular Ballerina assassin walking through neon lit crowd.
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June 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#NowWatching: BALLERINA (2025) Dir. Len Wiseman
I love how, in PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, the first two titular hunters let their prey hash out their revenge quests, but then the third one is just, "Fish in a barrel, babbbby!"
a poster for predator killer of killers shows a close up of a monster
Alt: Animated gif of Predator turning his head around.
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June 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I love how, in PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, the first two titular hunters let their prey hash out their revenge quests, but then the third one is just, "Fish in a barrel, babbbby!"
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I've never been big into fighting games, but anything to play as Kamala again (and probably Carol, too.)
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I've never been big into fighting games, but anything to play as Kamala again (and probably Carol, too.)
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I need to post a distraction. Kamala!
June 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I need to post a distraction. Kamala!
A delightful anthology with great kills, action, and some endearing characters.
The Viking story had to be my favorite.
Putting the Predator into different time periods and genres has always been the way to go for the franchise, and hopefully, that continues into live action.
The Viking story had to be my favorite.
Putting the Predator into different time periods and genres has always been the way to go for the franchise, and hopefully, that continues into live action.
#NowWatching: PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS Dir. Dan Trachtenberg
a poster for predator killer of killers shows a black background
Alt: Animated gif of the Predator: Killer of Killers logo fading into view.
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June 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A delightful anthology with great kills, action, and some endearing characters.
The Viking story had to be my favorite.
Putting the Predator into different time periods and genres has always been the way to go for the franchise, and hopefully, that continues into live action.
The Viking story had to be my favorite.
Putting the Predator into different time periods and genres has always been the way to go for the franchise, and hopefully, that continues into live action.
#NowWatching: PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS Dir. Dan Trachtenberg
a poster for predator killer of killers shows a black background
Alt: Animated gif of the Predator: Killer of Killers logo fading into view.
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June 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
#NowWatching: PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS Dir. Dan Trachtenberg
It's really so frustrating how the #LiloAndStitch remake is far more immature, patronizing, and shallow than the original.
The pacing also ranged from blinding fast (they could *not* wait to get the expensive CGI scenes over with) to unbearably sluggish.
The pacing also ranged from blinding fast (they could *not* wait to get the expensive CGI scenes over with) to unbearably sluggish.
#NowWatching: LILO & STITCH (2025) dir. Dean Fleischer Camp
May 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It's really so frustrating how the #LiloAndStitch remake is far more immature, patronizing, and shallow than the original.
The pacing also ranged from blinding fast (they could *not* wait to get the expensive CGI scenes over with) to unbearably sluggish.
The pacing also ranged from blinding fast (they could *not* wait to get the expensive CGI scenes over with) to unbearably sluggish.
#NowWatching: LILO & STITCH (2025) dir. Dean Fleischer Camp
May 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#NowWatching: LILO & STITCH (2025) dir. Dean Fleischer Camp
Absolutely *loved* this reference to Francisco Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son" in writer @gerryduggan.bsky.social and artist Danny Kim's WEST COAST AVENGERS issue #7.
May 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Absolutely *loved* this reference to Francisco Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son" in writer @gerryduggan.bsky.social and artist Danny Kim's WEST COAST AVENGERS issue #7.
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Pretty solid.
Wished it did a little more with Taskmaster and Yelena's connection, the #Thunderbolts name gag felt tacked on, and Ghost was underwritten.
Otherwise, fun team-up movie that managed to tug at my heart a bit in the final act.
Wished it did a little more with Taskmaster and Yelena's connection, the #Thunderbolts name gag felt tacked on, and Ghost was underwritten.
Otherwise, fun team-up movie that managed to tug at my heart a bit in the final act.
May 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Pretty solid.
Wished it did a little more with Taskmaster and Yelena's connection, the #Thunderbolts name gag felt tacked on, and Ghost was underwritten.
Otherwise, fun team-up movie that managed to tug at my heart a bit in the final act.
Wished it did a little more with Taskmaster and Yelena's connection, the #Thunderbolts name gag felt tacked on, and Ghost was underwritten.
Otherwise, fun team-up movie that managed to tug at my heart a bit in the final act.
#NowWatching: THUNDERBOLTS (2025) dir. Jake Schreier
a group of people standing in an elevator with the name kepler on the bottom left
Alt: A gif of elevator doors opening revealing the Thunderbolts.
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May 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#NowWatching: THUNDERBOLTS (2025) dir. Jake Schreier
What I'm looking forward to most in the next episode of #Invincible is when Conquest stops Mark from surrendering or trying to negotiate.
Feel like it's an underrated part of the fight, and I can just imagine Morgan killing the delivery of, "I'm having the time of my life!"
Feel like it's an underrated part of the fight, and I can just imagine Morgan killing the delivery of, "I'm having the time of my life!"
March 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
What I'm looking forward to most in the next episode of #Invincible is when Conquest stops Mark from surrendering or trying to negotiate.
Feel like it's an underrated part of the fight, and I can just imagine Morgan killing the delivery of, "I'm having the time of my life!"
Feel like it's an underrated part of the fight, and I can just imagine Morgan killing the delivery of, "I'm having the time of my life!"