Before getting to the important Is This Something? links, some Disney Disaster news.

South Park lampooned Disney's Lucasfilm unit for having a single creative impulse: "Put a chick in it! And make her gay! And make it laaaaame!"

LucasFilm was very angry about that.

And Disney, a rumor has it, was alarmed by the episode because it scored a direct hit on the M-She-U: The rumor goes that the lesbian-coded Captain Marvel was expressly outed as gay, but the South Park episode embarrassed Disney so much that they re-edited the film to delete the confirmation that Captain Marvel is a gay.

Tessa Thompson, a LGBTQ annoying leftwinger Stronk Woman of Color, plays a race-bent female character named "Valkyrie," an Asgardian, who is now black, of course. Because Thompson says she's bisexual, of course she had to also announce that the character she plays is bisexual or lesbian as well, declaring that Valkerie is a king, not a queen, but that she'll have to find her own (female) queen.

"I think first of all as king, as new king, she needs to find her queen. That'll be her first order of business. She has some ideas. Keep you posted."

What ideas? Well what about Captain Marvel with her super-lesbian haircut?

So Valkyrie showed up for a cameo in The Marvels -- "Put another chick in it! Make her gay!" -- and, according to a scooper with a good track record of tips fed to him by Marvel insiders, had a moment with Captain Marvel referring to having previously been lovers. "We work better as friends," Captain Muffle says, implying, of course, that they had previously been more than friends.

This is in a movie otherwise written for six-year-olds.

I believe that. Disney caters harrrrrd to a tiny niche audience of Twitter perverts and sad middle-aged women who write slash pornography about cartoon characters. They changed Rise of Skywalker to feature a brief, ambiguous kiss between Rey and Kylo Ren because the "Reylos" -- sad women who flick their beans to Star Wars tv shows -- demanded confirmation of their fan-fiction romance between the two.

For some reason, Disney thinks this tiny audience of twenty or thirty thousand people (at most!) needs to be at the very center of their marketing plans.

Which brings me to the next Disney Disaster, opening today: The barely-disguised anti-Trump, pro-antifa propaganda cartoon for very young children, Wish.

As I mentioned before, Film Threat's Allan Ng calls it "the worst Disney animation I have ever seen."

After Film Threat posted its review of the movie, Chris Gore said he got lots of emails from employees at Disney's animated film studio, complaining that the talent of the studio had been greatly degraded by the hiring of unqualified diversity hires whose idea of storytelling is basically Twitter-level political activism.

So on to the Is This Something? material:
Godzilla Minus One, set shortly after World War II and offering a new "first appearance" of Gojira, is getting very good reviews. Alachai Queen raves and Film Threat calls it the best Godzilla movie ever made. They all seem to agree that the human story in the movie is very good.

Another movie coming out soon is the Angel Studios production The Shift. It's confirmed that "The Benefactor" is the devil. The story is a sci-fi retelling of the Book of Job. Greg Owens gave it a good review but added this caution: The movie doesn't signal well enough that the beginning is supposed to be confusing not just for the main character but for the audience. If you don't realize the movie intends you to be confused, you'll feel like you've missed something. But you haven't; the movie just didn't signal its intention well enough. He advises to just accept that you're going to be confused in the early-going and everything will make sense sometime in the second act.

Tom Collins at Midnight's Edge was a little frustrated because the movie wears it Christianity on its sleeve, and he thinks that if had just trusted more in subtext than explicit reference, the film could have been a breakout hit with mainstream viewers not even realizing they were watching a the Book of Job in sci-fi trappings.

By the way, the actor playing "The Benefactor" in that movie was cancelled for a few years by Hollywood for refusing to do a sex scene.

Opening today on the Daily Wire: Lady Ballers, a comedy about men playing women in basketball by pretending to be "trans." Which is itself mostly pretend, anyway.

Rita Pahini notes that the left is (as usual) having conniptions about the movie, but points out that Dylan Mulvaney mocks women in his own gender LARPing. A scene from the movie showing a man pretending to be a woman is taken directly from Dylan Mulvaney's "365 Days of Girlhood."

So here's a movie I'd definitely like to see. It's pretty much a Cafe in movie form.

Here's one that will spark some dissent. On one hand, Hollywood's attacking the Man-O-Verse, and so you know going in this is going to be stupid.

On the other hand, many, many thrillers make hay out of a Current Thing, hyperbolizing it, exaggerating it to the breaking point, and then sticking a murder plot into it, and it sometimes works.

(Remember when George Bush was president and Low-Information Voters heard for the first time that Skull and Bones is an organization that exists in the world and within a couple of years we had like three different teen thrillers based on Skull and Bones?)

Didn't they just make a movie about the toxic parts of highly-masculine warrior culture called The Art of Self-Defense? And didn't that movie also star Jesse Eisenberg as a humiliated, emasculated nerd looking to gain strength and self-respect, but who gets taken in by an intense but charismatic psychopath building an empire on the dead bodies of his followers?

Yeah they just did make that movie. (It was pretty decent.)

All thrillers have the exact same plot. They just differ according to what Current Thing is causing psychological sress to a certain critical mass of the population (say, around 10% of all moviegoers) and can be profitably exploited by adding a couple of murders to it. And I like a lot of them.

Daisy Ridley got pretty screwed by agreeing to be in Kaffeine Kennedy's trashfire Star Wars movies. She's barely in anything now. Hopefully she's good in this and can escape the stench of Lucasfilm.

Not sure about this family-of-pro-wrestlers movie The Iron Claw. The trailer only hints at the dark nature of the story -- five of the six brothers died young, and most of them died by their own hands.

I predict this movie about the GameStop Stonk play will piss me off. Seth Rogen's in it, for starters.

This looks kind of funny. But it's on Peacock, so it might as well be playing on Neptune.