Darren Mooney (@Darren

Darren Mooney

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Darren Mooney

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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
May 26
Bonus episode of “The Backdrop” this week, looking at “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” We look at the emptiness of the film, Jon Favreau’s post-human playhouse, and how this is the purest expression of the modern multimedia franchise age. WATCH: youtu.be/IlJ4UrpXJ9U?si…
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Jul 23, 2023
It's insane (and great) that Best Supporting Actor could legitimately come down to this.
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Aug 14, 2025
I believe it was Ethan Hawke who said that Washington effectively told him, “You don’t want to be the person who is validated by receiving an award, you want to be the guy who validates the award by receiving it.”
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Aug 13, 2025
Denzel Washington says he doesn’t do movies for Oscars & doesn’t care about them. “Man gives the award. God gives the reward… On my last day, Oscars aren’t going to do me a bit of good” (Source: @JakesTakes)
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Jul 23, 2025
The important thing to remember is that Warners put “Barbie” on the same weekend as “Oppenheimer” in the hopes that it would crush Nolan’s film at the box office, to “punish” Nolan for daring to leave them. Warners built “Barbie” as a spite house, like a jilted lover.
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Oct 24, 2025
Imagine if a bunch of kids in a classroom ceased existing. Imagine it happened several times a week. Imagine it happened like this for decades. And nobody did anything to stop it, but left those communities to deal with the fallout. Thank goodness this is an alternate reality!
Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc
@JasonKPargin
Oct 22, 2025
I love how horror movies have to take place in an alternate universe where media doesn't exist. Like if 17 children magically vanished from a small town that wouldn't have the *town* in an uproar, Fox News would be doing 24/7 coverage, the streets would be choked with podcasters.
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Jun 20, 2024
Honestly, thrilled to see a showrunner standing up for a cast member targetted by harassment.
Variety
@Variety
Jun 18, 2024
"The trolls really can eat a bag of d---s and f--- off to the sun." #TheBoys showrunner Eric Kripke backs up his previous message addressing trolls who attacked Erin Moriarty. bit.ly/4c60spd
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Jul 15, 2025
There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from “new things based on old things” (“Star Wars”) to “new takes on old things” (Tim Burton’s “Batman”) to “new versions of old things that look just like the old things.”
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Jul 15, 2025
First look at Nick Frost as Hagrid in the ‘HARRY POTTER’ TV series.
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Jul 20, 2025
The best DC stuff - the truly iconic stuff, from “Watchmen” to “Dark Knight Returns” to “All-Star Superman” - handily clears the best Marvel stuff because it realises that continuity is far less important than actually telling a good, proper story.
Blaze Binges
@BlazeBinges
Jul 19, 2025
Okay, give me your DC hot take
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Aug 23, 2025
It will always be so funny that one of the things that tanked the MCU was the decision to retcon a billion-dollar movie to make “comics accurate” Bush-era Islamophobic propaganda.
Cosmic Marvel
@cosmic_marvel
Aug 22, 2025
The story of the Skrulls will reportedly continue in the #MCU’s next saga. (via thecosmiccircus.com/alex-perez-aug…)
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Feb 8, 2025
Ignoring the individual quality of those shows, the fact that HBO has largely been repurposed into an IP factory (“The Penguin”, “Dune: Prophecy”, “House of the Dragon”, “True Detective: Night Country”) while Apple has to build its own shows is a huge part of this.
wendell sandico
@wendellsandico
Feb 8, 2025
Apple TV kinda took HBO’s nachos
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Jul 25, 2024
The direct market killed mainstream American superhero comics, both economically and culturally. When they stopped being things that kids could - and would want - to pick up with their pocket money at the corner store, they were doomed.
Comic Book Addicts
@comicbookaddt
Jul 21, 2024
#stores #comicbooks Do you think Comic Books Are Dying Out? comicbookaddicts.com
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
May 31, 2024
It’s insane that this was the opening of a family-friendly Disney franchise film that grossed nearly a billion dollars. Good for Gore Verbinski.
tyler ☠︎︎
@kingofbrethren
May 30, 2024
what a way to open a movie
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Jul 6, 2025
Just on this, before “Psycho” it was fairly common for people to just “show up” to movies. You’d arrive halfway through a film, watch the second half and then stay for the first half of the next showing. “Psycho” really codified “be in your seat by start time.”
danny ★
@husbandu
Jul 4, 2025
that shit was serious to alfred
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Darren Mooney
@Darren_Mooney
Mar 27, 2025
Rewatching “Lincoln” for the first time in a decade, and… wow.
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