'LATE' HATE: Even Hollywood is sick of Colbert's endless pity party



Quentin Tarantino is going way out of his comfort zone with his next project.

No grind-house gore, 1970s-style banter, or even bare feet. Tarantino’s new project is a play, not a movie. “The Popinjay Cavalier,” to open in London’s West End next year, is an 1830s-set comic farce.

'We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.'

It sounds like a twee Wes Anderson project, but it’s merely the Oscar winner stretching his creative wings for a new kind of story, all the while stalling on what his 10th and final film will be.

Here’s guessing Rosanna Arquette won’t be invited to opening night …

Crock lobster

Should late-night TV shows go the “legal notes” route? We’ve already seen “The View” adopt that survival strategy after one too many Fake News stories.

Colbert and Co. are often just as bad, and this week, they’re even worse. The usual late-night suspects ripped into Team Trump for spending way too much on surf and turf. The phony narrative ignored historical precedent. The U.S. military routinely treats soldiers to great grub to thank them for putting their lives on the line.

To hear folks like Seth Meyers tell it, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is eating large 24/7 with a greasy lobster bib around his Fox News neck.

Here’s Kimmel pushing the false narrative to its illogical conclusion:

Again, just in September, [Hegseth] spent $2 million of taxpayer money on Alaskan king crab. He spent $6.9 million on lobster tail. $140,000 on doughnuts. $124,000 on ice cream machines. $26,000 on sushi preparation tables. And $15.1 million on ribeye steak. What is this, "My 600-Pound Defense Department"?

Stop it, you’re killing us!

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Too 'Late'

When you’ve lost Variety, it’s not a good sign.

Legacy outlets like the Hollywood Reporter and Variety routinely carry late-night TV hosts’ water. They regurgitate their tepid punch lines while protecting them against serial fact-checks.

But Variety did something unexpected this week. The rag mocked Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” for becoming a never-ending ego trip in his final weeks on the air.

The show’s focus on its own host’s misfortune has become outsized and a bit dramatic, especially because so many other institutions are in crisis: With everything else going on in the world, we have to go through a months-long celebration of life for a comedian whose job is coming to an end?

The site’s readers were not happy with the column. The Facebook comments section uniformly raged against the op-ed. We could have warned them. Never expect things to go smoothly when you peek your head outside the progressive bubble …

Gay abandon

Margaret Cho can’t get her talking points straight.

The lesbian comic savaged you-know-who while accepting an award from the website Queerty.

“It’s a f**king nightmare, we’re in a f**king war, they want to draft people for this incontinent child molester who doesn’t even know what he wants out of anything. It’s just insane.”

She also said the trans community faces a genocide under President Trump. A few beats later, she changed her tone so violently that a few in the crowd may have suffered whiplash.

“So what we have to do as gay adults, if you’re a gay adult, you have to stand up and be proud. Throw your shoulders back and look happy all the time. Because trans kids will see you, gay kids will see you, and they will see you and they will say, ‘Hey, that person made it. They’re happy. Maybe I can grow up to be like them, maybe I can be like that happy person.’”

Right. Because nobody sounds happier than Margaret Cho …

The Docter is in

My, have things changed at the Mouse House.

Disney animators saw themselves as the tip of the woke spear not long ago. Animators injected sexual themes into kiddie fare, purportedly to change young hearts and minds. Or, as one infamous Disney employee described it, the company’s “not-at-all-secret gay agenda.”

A few mega-flops later, Disney is singing a different tune. Screaming it, to be precise. The company stripped a trans character from its Pixar TV series “Win or Lose.” Recent sequels like “Inside Out 2” and “Moana 2” delivered joyous fun without the woke lectures.

Now, veteran Pixar director Pete Docter is delivering the smackdown on those demanding that Disney sexualize its content. Docter previously helmed “Monsters, Inc.” and “Up,” among notable Pixar projects, and he explained to the Wall Street Journal why the company removed gay themes from its 2025 dud release, “Elio.”

“We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said.

Here’s betting some Disney employees might need some after hearing that quote.

'Bell'-buster: Joy Reid tries to cancel classic Christmas 'Jingle'



“Truth. Justice. Whatever.”

Hollywood’s disdain for America is official with the poster tagline for this summer’s “Supergirl.”

'I don’t care for Owen Wilson, and I don’t care for Matthew Lillard.'

How the industry embraced the problematic “girl” part of the name is a debate for another day. Just know that Hollywood hasn’t been cozy with the classic Superman slogan, “Truth, justice, and the American way,” for some time. The 2006 Brandon Routh reboot infamously ditched that last part, as did this year's James Gunn version.

Now to show us that this Supergirl can’t even, the phrase is purposely imploded. And to be fair, the results come off better here, if only because the newest Supergirl is a rebel without a cause (or home planet).

Those offended by ditching “the American way” may be more outraged by the accompanying trailer. It looks as gloopy as this past summer’s “Superman” reboot, but with half the gravitas and action.

Prediction: Superhero fatigue goes nuclear in 2026 ...

Jay Zzzzzz

Slackers never grow up. They just stay in their parents’ basements indefinitely.

That isn’t true for Jay and Silent Bob. The slacker heroes from Kevin Smith’s imagination refuse to call it a career. They’ve appeared in two features as the key attractions and several Smith movies like the “Clerks” franchise and “Mallrats.”

Now Smith is warning us there’s a third Jay and Silent Bob film in the works. “Jay and Silent Bob: Store Wars” will start production next year. But will anybody show up?

“Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” made under $5 million in 2019. Smith’s last film, “The 4:30 Movie,” didn’t earn enough for BoxOfficeMojo to include its figures.

Smith may have come of age during the ‘90s via “Clerks” and “Chasing Amy,” but his devoted flock has done nothing but shrink since then. Bigly.

Smith, 55, and co-star Jason Mewes, 51, may seem too old to keep cracking pot jokes, but Smith deserves credit for finding enough cash in his sofa to keep his franchise afloat ...

Pulp Friction

Quentin Tarantino can’t get criticism out of his system.

The former video store clerk was set to make “The Movie Critic” his 10th and final film, but he got cold feet and went back to the proverbial drawing board. Since then, he’s been criticizing ... everything, including specific movie stars.

That’s an unofficial no-no in celebrity circles, but Tarantino is out of you-know-whats apparently.

The director recently slammed actor Paul Dano (“The Batman,” "Love and Mercy”), dubbing the actor “weak sauce” and worse, as part of that now-infamous “Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” interview.

Hollywood stars rallied around Dano, saying he was far better than what the mercurial director dubbed him. Tarantino also shredded two more stars as part of that conversation.

“I don’t care for Owen Wilson, and I don’t care for Matthew Lillard.”

Wilson has yet to publicly respond, but Lillard did just that at a recent Comic-Con-style event, the GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio.

“Eh, whatever. Who gives a s**t,” Lillard said before revealing that he actually does give a bleep.

“It hurts your feelings. It f**king sucks,” he said. “And you wouldn’t say that to Tom Cruise. You wouldn’t say that to somebody who’s a top-line actor in Hollywood.”

So far, Lillard’s former co-star Scooby Doo has no comment ...

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'Jingle' jerk

The war on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is over, and the good guys won. The song continues to play every Christmas season despite a woke attempt to cancel it. The less problematic “remake” by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson was quickly forgotten.

Now former MSNBC host Joy Reid is declaring war on ... “Jingle Bells." And you’ll never guess why. Just kidding.

The song’s writer, James Lord Pierpont, allegedly penned the ditty for racially charged reasons, according to Reid. To her credit, if anyone knows about racially charged topics, it’s a former TV personality who sees racism around every corner.

To her, Elvis Presley’s nickname, “The King,” is racist.

She used a Massachusetts plaque as her “proof” of the song’s racial components, along with Pierpont’s days fighting for the Confederacy. The song’s lyrics appear as benign then as they do now.

Maybe she could record her own version of the song, a la Legend and Clarkson, and watch it follow eight-track tapes, pagers, and MSNBC into the dustbin of history.

Sorry, Selena — your liberal tears won't melt this ICE



Everyone’s talking about Selena Gomez’s crying cringe-fest. That’s to be expected.

The 32-year-old’s dramatic performance, targeted at ICE raids scooping up the worst of the worst illegal immigrants, gave 2025 its first digital belly flop. She made it worse by yanking the video after her followers torched her teary-eyed theatrics.

'Captain America represents a lot of different things, and I don’t think the term "America" should be one of those representations.'

One element lost in the kerfuffle? Her supersized hubris.

"All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry, I wish I could do something, but I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”

Everything? What can one ill-informed starlet do to impact the immigration debate? Will she swoop in, like an action heroine, and stop ICE officials from deporting murderers and rapists? Will her tears melt border czar Tom Homan’s heart, making it grow like the Christmas Grinch of yore?

Maybe she did the right thing by removing the video after all ...

Captain crunched

Anthony Mackie has a message for PR nightmare Rachel Zegler: Hold my beer.

Mackie takes over for Chris Evans in “Captain America: Brave New World.” The Feb. 14 release has been hounded by bad buzz, from frantic reshoots to reports of disastrous test screenings.

Mackie saw all of the above and thought, “How can I make it worse?”

“Captain America represents a lot of different things, and I don’t think the term ‘America’ should be one of those representations. It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity and integrity.”

Oh.

Somewhere, the publicist for Zegler is uncorking a bottle of red and thinking, “Not my responsibility.”

Naturally, Hollywood sites like Deadline, Variety, and the Hollywood Reporter ignored Mackie’s quotes for a good 24 hours or so. Meanwhile, Mackie attempted some super-heroic damage control.

“Let me be clear about this, I’m a proud American and taking on the shield of a hero like CAP is the honor of a lifetime,” Mackie wrote on Instagram Stories Tuesday. “I have the utmost respect for those who serve and have served our country. CAP has universal characteristics that people all over the world can relate to.”

So does Captain America represent America? Maybe his next Instagram Story will give us that answer ...

Requiem for a P hat

Where is that resistance sequel Hollywood ordered?

So wondereth the major industry publications like Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Every few days, there’s a new story echoing that theme. We want p***y hats, marches, and more! Can’t somebody update that Kathy Griffin bloodied head image? Remember when Madonna dreamed of blowing up the White House?

Nope. Nothing.

Sad? Of course. Predictable? Not really. We all thought the resistance sequel would greet No. 47. Instead, we get this nugget from Variety tied to the Sundance Film Festival.

Publicists implored journalists to avoid asking their clients political questions, while celebrities who previously came out swinging against the MAGA movement were less eager to sound off.

You hate to see it (not really) ...

QT: Movie biz DOA

Who better than Quentin Tarantino to read Hollywood its last rites?

The “Pulp Fiction” auteur raged against the new normal at the Sundance Film Festival. Said normal, according to his R-rated rant, is where the best directors debut their work on streaming platforms, skipping theaters entirely (or barely dipping a toe in them):

"Well, what the f*** is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four f***ing weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last f***ing year of movies."

Tarantino added that he’s in no rush to shoot his 10th and final film and that by waiting, he’ll be able to spend time with his young son on set. He’ll create memories to last a lifetime, he figures.

“Look over there, son ... that actor’s head is about to explode in 3 ... 2 ... 1!”

“Cool, Dad!”

Awww.

WATCH: Quentin Tarantino’s expletive-filled rant on Bill Maher’s 'Club Random' podcast says the quiet part out loud – 'It’s about winning!'



Bill Maher may be a Democrat, but he’s at least a sane one. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same of renowned movie director Quentin Tarantino, who delivered an unhinged rant on a recent episode of “Club Random with Bill Maher.”

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During a conversation about the election cycle, Maher criticized Kamala Harris’ tactics — specifically how she “doesn’t talk to the press” and stays away from moderate voters, like Maher himself, as well the type of person who watches his show.

“[Harris] would never go near me,” he told Tarantino, adding that the decision is a mistake because he “speaks to the exact voter she needs — the person who is in the middle, the person who is not ideologically captured by either side.”

Tarantino, however, disagreed on the premise that this isn’t a normal election cycle in that Kamala Harris doesn’t have “a year to set [her] case” and is therefore forced to focus on “f***ing winning."

“I think they’re just all about winning the f***ing election…We’re the f***ing president, and Trump’s not the president,” he ranted.

He went on to argue that Democrats don’t get enough credit for their cutthroat mentality when it comes to winning. “Sometimes it's just about winning, and it doesn't matter how we look at this moment; it's about f***ing winning.”

“I’m gonna f***ing vote for her anyway no matter what she says in the stupid f***ing interview,” he raged.

Dave Rubin points out that what Tarantino revealed in his conversation with Maher was something most people wouldn’t dare admit out loud — that Democrats and their voter base think “principles don't matter; you've just got to win.”

He compares it to the way “Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and the rest of them [admitted] that they did the move to get rid of Biden and that they didn't run the primary and that they don't care about their voters.”

As for the voters themselves, Tarantino perfectly captures how they think: “We don't care that there was a coup; we don't care that they installed [Harris],” as long as Democrats come out victorious, says Dave.

To hear more of Tarantino’s obnoxious tirade, watch the clip above.

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Colbert slays fans with 'CNN reports news' gag



Who knew Stephen Colbert was so funny?

“The Late Show” host uncorked his best line in ages during his Monday night chat with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. The two were attacking President Donald Trump and celebrating VP Kamala Harris when Colbert hurled this killer quip.

“I know you guys are objective over there [at CNN], that you just report the news as is,” Colbert began before the live audience began to howl.

“Is that supposed to be a laugh line?” Collins asked.

“It’s not supposed to be, but I guess it is!” Colbert responded.

This Colbert guy is one to watch. Here’s hoping he shares more howlers this week.

The Last Walz

Now it all makes sense.

Stolen valor-adjacent Tim Walz is hitting the Hamptons Thursday for a tony fundraiser.

Nothing new there. The catch? The musical act chosen to lure people to see Captain Folksy and friends.

Mumford & Sons.

Yes, the same band that hung founding member Winston Marshall out to dry when he had the gall to support brave journalist Andy Ngo’s anti-Antifa book in 2021.

Marshall decided to leave the band and start a new career where he could speak his mind sans consequences. He’s done that and more.

Now his remaining bandmates are stuck with the unenviable task of making the Democrats forget Walz’s disastrous record.

If they play “I Will Wait” LOUD enough, they just might pull it off.

Life support for terminal Terminator

Audiences have spoken. We’re so done with “Terminator” movies.

The last two “Terminator” films, including 2019’s “Dark Fate” co-starring OG players Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, fizzled at the box office. The latter lost a reported $120 million.

Franchises end. It happens. MoveOn.org.

Tell that to James Cameron.

He teased yet another “Terminator” in a recent interview.

The self-described “overbearing” director has struck it rich, again, with the “Avatar” franchise. He’s booked for "Avatar 3, 4 and 5," but evidently has enough time to revive a franchise already read its last rites.

Why did he have to take "I’ll be back” so seriously?

Clooney a movie star? QT calls BS

George Clooney has it all. Looks. Money. Fame. A thin skin.

The “Ocean’s Eleven” lead is sore at Quentin Tarantino for saying he’s not a “movie star.” The two worked together on 1996’s “From Dusk ‘Til Dawn” but apparently grew apart after filming.

We’re siding with Tarantino. If anything, Clooney is a TV star first and foremost. Who else could rock a mullet like his “Facts of Life” do?

You're Sorkin in it

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin of “West Wing” fame is getting attention for a provocative attack on today’s GOP. Sorkin says it would be impossible for him to write a “reasonable” Republican character were the NBC series on the air now.

“People would watch that and it would be unfamiliar to them as the country that they live in. On the show, while the Republicans were the opposition, they were reasonable, the Republicans that they dealt with.”

Remember how Sorkin’s party demonized Mitt Romney, the most “reasonable” Republican in sight? Methinks the celebrated court scribe of the Democrats doth protest too much.

Something else Sorkin could never write today? The climactic monologue of 1995's "The American President," in which the titular character (Michael Douglas) makes a full-throated defense of free speech:

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours."

Nowadays, Dems like Sorkin know better. Those words that make your blood boil are called "misinformation."

Coy George

With Kamala Chameleon making a run for the presidency, now's as good a time as any for "Karma Chameleon" crooner Boy George to return to the spotlight. An adaptation of the pioneering gender-bender's autobiography is headed to the big screen.

Don't expect an unflattering "warts and all" treatment. In an era in which singers routinely sell their song catalogs for millions, biopics, and documentaries are elaborate exercises in brand management.

Just ask Pink, Taylor Swift, Elton John, and others. Who needs a publicist when you have entire movie studios shaping your image?

Meanwhile, actress Christine Baranski is threatening a third “Mamma Mia!” movie. To paraphrase the great Boy himself, "Do you really want to hurt us, Christine?"

Quentin Tarantino Visits Israeli Army Base

'Show support and encouragement for The Israeli troops'

Former DNC Chief Keith Ellison Compares Clarence Thomas To ‘Django Unchained’ Character

'He's abdicating his responsibility'

Quentin Tarantino’s Deeply Personal Examination Of Hollywood Legends Is Now A Book

In the novelization of his most recent film, 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' the famed director entertains and offers some surprisingly intimate and unguarded commentary on his love of movies.

In furious essay, Bruce Lee’s daughter says she’s ‘really f***ing tired of white men in Hollywood trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was’



Shannon Lee, daughter of martial arts icon and actor Bruce Lee, says that it's high time for "white men in Hollywood" to stop "trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was."

What's a brief history here?

She made the remarks in response to Hollywood power player Quentin Tarantino's remarks that the late martial arts guru was arrogant. Tarantino in his 2019 film, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," portrayed Bruce as such, and recently told Joe Rogan that he believed Bruce had "nothing but disrespect for stuntmen."

In the film, Lee — portrayed by actor Mike Moh — challenges fictional stuntman Cliff Booth — portrayed by actor Brad Pitt — to a fight and loses. At the time, Shannon said that Tarantino portrayed her father as an "arrogant a**hole who was full of hot air."

"I understand they want to make the Brad Pitt character the super badass who could beat up Bruce Lee," she said following the film's release, "but they didn't need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive."

In his recent discussion with Rogan, Tarantino said that Bruce was "kind of an arrogant guy" and "was always hitting [stuntmen] with his feet," and "tagging," a move Tarantino explains as "when you hit a stuntman for real."

"And it got to be the point where, 'I refuse to work with him,'" Tarantino insisted.

What has Shannon said?

In a column published in the Hollywood Reporter, Shannon insisted that she is "really f***ing tired of white men in Hollywood" — such as Tarantino — "trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was."

She continued, "I'm tired of hearing from white men in Hollywood that he was arrogant and an a**hole when they have no idea and cannot fathom what it might have taken to get work in 1960s and '70s Hollywood as a Chinese man with (God forbid) an accent, or try to express an opinion on a set as a perceived foreigner and person of color. I'm tired of white men in Hollywood mistaking his confidence, passion, and skill for hubris and therefore finding it necessary to marginalize him and his contributions."

"I'm tired of white men in Hollywood finding it too challenging to believe that Bruce Lee might have really been good at what he did and maybe even knew how to do it better than them," Shannon continued, noting that her father — who "lived and breathed martial arts" — was the leader in his industry at the time and made an incredible impact on the action film genre with his groundbreaking fight choreography.

"I'm tired of white men in Hollywood barely footnoting the impact he had on the action film genre and fight choreography, or the proliferation of and interest in martial arts he sparked globally ... while casually downplaying how his accomplishments have lifted spirits and become a source of pride for Asian-Americans, communities of color, and people around the world," she added.

The martial arts icon died in 1973 at the age of 32 — and at the height of his career — after suffering brain edema, which was possibly caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller.

Bill Maher trounces big tech over lab leak theory censorship: 'You were wrong, Google and Facebook!'



Bill Maher took big tech to the woodshed over censorship of the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory that was suppressed on social media. The "Real Time" host also lambasted the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday night's episode.

Maher called out Google and Facebook by name for censorship of the coronavirus lab leak theory that suggests that it is possible that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

"Facebook banned any post for four months about COVID coming from a lab," Maher said during a panel discussion on the political talk show. "Of course now, even the Biden administration is looking into this."

"Google – a Wall Street Journal reporter asked the head of Google's health division – noticed that they don't do auto-fill searches for 'coronavirus lab leak' the way they do for any other question and the guy said, 'Well, we want to make sure that the search isn't leading people down pathways that we would find to be not authoritative information,'" Maher slammed Google, which has over 86% of the search market share.

Maher then blasted the big tech behemoths, "Well, you were wrong, Google and Facebook! We don't know! The reason why we want you is cause we're checking on this s***!"

Maher continued to criticize the head of Google's health division. "He said, 'We want to ensure that the first thing users see is information from the CDC, the WHO.," Maher added.

"That's who I'm checking on," Maher furiously proclaimed. "The WHO has been very corrupt about a lot of s***, and the CDC has been wrong about a lot of s***. This is outrageous that I can't look this information up!"

Maher then castigated YouTube for censoring evolutionary biology professor Bret Weinstein's podcast on the video hosting platform. Weinstein may have his channel removed from YouTube for interviewing a critical care and pulmonary medicine specialist, who touted the effectiveness of the drug ivermectin as a treatment for coronavirus.

"YouTube should not be telling me what I can see about ivermectin. Ivermectin isn't a registered Republican, it's a drug," Maher said. "I don't know if it works or not and a lot of other doctors don't either."

(CAUTION: Explicit language)

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In April, Maher chastised the media for peddling "panic porn," and praised Republican Governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott for opening Florida and Texas back up to allow Americans to go outside.

"Sunshine is the best disinfectant and Vitamin D is the key to a robust immune system," Maher said. "Texas lifted its COVID restrictions recently and their infection rates went down in part because of people getting outside to let the sun and wind do their thing. But to many liberals, 'That can't be right because Texas and beach-loving Florida have Republican governors,' but life is complicated."

Also in this week's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the HBO host talked to director Quentin Tarantino about political correctness and cancel culture.

"I've always really appreciated the way you've pushed back when everyone's tried to stifle you, shut you up, shame you, bully you, corral your artistic license—they tried it with the last one, with 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' some bulls*** about Margot Robbie doesn't have enough lines," Maher told the legendary director. "You do what I wish other people would do: instead of apologizing like a little p****, you say, 'I don't agree with your assessment.' What's so hard about that?"

Tarantino, director of "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction," was attacked and labeled as a "sexist" by the media and online critics over giving actress Margot Robbie only a few lines of dialogue in the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."

Tarantino responded, "Look, even when we're in a pressure situation where your movie is opening next Friday… if somebody brings up something that's actually legitimate, I'll even have a conversation with them about it, because I'm actually into interesting thought, and I don't even have to agree with you… but when it's just BS, when it's just bulls***."

Maher replied, "Well, it seems like criticism in the recent years has gone to this place of not just… 'OK, you can criticize a movie,' but they seem to be saying, 'This isn't the movie I would have made.' Because you can't."

Maher later said, "There are two kinds of movies: virtue-signalers and superhero movies."

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