Could use a little more motivation for Hale. The show is trying to push her as more nuanced than, say, Malick or Kasius (who didn’t need big setups for their villainy because they each had a grand, operatic kind of goal), but they haven’t given her the setup of, say, Cal or Ward (or the gold standard, AIDA). She’s had…

“Please note that the above video is very, very frightening”

Yeah, they definitely have the pacing off. Not even that far off - take out an episode or two from the back half of SHIELD IIIIIN SPAAAAAAACE and put it into the setup for 100, giving more time to set up and deal with YoYo’s situation and Coulson’s ailment, and set up the fear dimension in 99 so it’s not a massive…

Nah. It’s a weak movie despite having some good moments, memorable lines, fun performances, and a terrific central character (but not really any others). It’s still that, though those elements are enough for many people.

That was my take on it, and I’m not sure anything above takes away from it - once they’ve transitioned, once they identify as a woman, surely that’s not drag anymore? Any more than a cisgendered woman dressing up in the same outfit would be drag, it’d just be drag-style. Women dressing as women isn’t drag, that’s…

And get Ming-Na Wen in for a cameo, of course.

Well, feel consoled that even Disney will never, ever do a Pocahontas remake (It’s a decent enough film with a lot to love - and plenty of problems - but there’s no way they could get away with Pocahontas now; there’s absolutely no way to walk the tightrope of accuracy-fantasy in 2018 with that film as a basis. They…

Okay, I know the whole ‘Cars kill people too, why not ban those?’ thing has been argued both ways ‘til Sunday (it’s a ridiculous comparison for way too many reasons) - but if both sides can agree that guns are on [at least] a same level of dangerous as cars, could a ‘Cars->Guns’ bill go through? Just like a straight…

I saw it for the second time this weekend.

I haven’t seen it, and sadly I’ve probably missed my chance in the UK until home release. I love Aardman’s films - Flushed Away is the weakest so far, and even that still ranks as ‘pretty good-good’. Is Early Man weaker than that?

Sometimes - and I think it happens more in her later works, where she became more interested in the character of the murderer shining through rather than actual evidence (Cards on the Table was written precisely to be deducible only through character, not through actual evidence). Though I’ve read a couple of dozen…

Aside from the odd, notable exception, Agatha Christie used to start by writing the story from beginning to end, creating as compelling characters as possible with a story and mystery that would challenge them in all the right ways. She typically wouldn’t decide who the murderer was until the end, when she’d choose…

That’s what I wondered, thanks. I’m pleased it still goes down well! The West End one is an utter delight.

It’d be... interesting to see how well they accomplish that. And to see quite how it all (assuming it’s unchanged from the West End) gets received by the audience.

I’ve seen it twice in the West End, and I’ve seen the original cast’s improv shows three times - incredibly talented bunch of people. The play itself is an absolute delight. You’ll want to be in your seats 15 minutes early - things start going wrong even before the play begins.

I have actually seen in other articles confirmation that his attitude is an evolution of his father’s attitude... but it really didn’t come across that well in the film. I think I’ll be seeing it again this weekend (a friend wants someone to go with), so I’ll bear that in mind.

That stuff in the opening though, we never see it affect him. What’s his actual response to any of it? Does he even notice it, given that he’s a kid (some are aware of those kind of things, many aren’t)? And as the special ops soldier he was hardly one of the oppressed people (and note his diatribes about oppressed…

For me the problem is that Killmonger’s motivation to arm oppressed black people across the world isn’t actually rooted in his character - it’s exacerbated by it, to be sure (his blind quest for ‘justice’ matches pretty closely to his quest to overthrow T’Challa) but the movie never actually sets up why he feels this…

Killmonger was the part of the film I’ve thought about the most since seeing it, both because of the strengths of his character and because of one particular weakness, which I’ll come to in a moment. First of all though: