The movie shows heavy signs of having been re-shot and re-cut several times, so Fox being worried about it checks out just fine. Lawrence also seems fairly disinterested throughout the whole thing (although that might just be me working from pre-conceived notions), but to be fair she doesn't have much to work with…

X-Men - Apocalypse: I had high expectations after the excellent Days of Future Past, but sadly it seems like the X-Men movie franchise is back at square one again. Apocalypse is a boring, poorly structured and slow-moving story with too many characters, unnecessary detours and inexplicable jumps in the narrative as…

This felt like the first episode this season to reach the heights I've come to expect of a good Game of Thrones episode. It lacked most of the tendencies towards a more traditional and "safe" narrative that has creeped into season 6 so far, and instead featured some classic GoT scenes of tension rooted in character…

Fair enough.

"Perfect" might be stretching things a bit, but it certainly gets an unbelievably bum rap in some circles. There's so much great stuff in that game, and there's no way all that gets overturned by what at best amounts to academic complaints over how well some of it's traditional gameplay match parts of it's narrative

I might end up doing something like that (although I'm definitely not longing to go through the whole thing again), but in these types of games I'm a real stickler for letting my choices play out uninterrupted; good, bad or catastrophic alike. I haven't had time to play for about a week now anyway, so I'll give it at…

I'm currently really stuck in Dragon Age: Inquisition, as my playthrough of Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts (which is in itself a pretty terrible "level") ended up with me fighting the assassin duchess (or whatever she is) with a poorly put together (or possibly underpowered) party. It's a huge slog since she's such a…

That's the best boss fight in the entire series for me! Which isn't saying that much considering I found most other bosses in the series, give or take some of the confrontations with Bane in Origins, to be mediocre at best, but still. I liked how they managed to sell Deathstroke as Batman's equal or even superior in…

Waid's sensibilities when it comes to writing corporate owned superheroes tend to get on my nerves, but Irredeemable was pretty great throughout. Although it seems like the writer and director should be switched around?

That's the worst kind of rat!

That third letter… I can buy that "accidental penetration" might occur once or twice, especially if the person doing the fucking isn't very experienced, but four times coupled with an earlier expressed interest in anal stuff? I smell a rat.

…it can be two things?

Conroy and Hamill sound great, but doesn't this look even cheaper than DC/WB's usual animated efforts? Some of those shots are like straight out of MS Paint!

I'm not at all on the same page about Tina Fey's character. For me, she was just another example of the very heightened reality this show takes place in, and too over the top to ever become "hard to watch". That doesn't mean she wasn't funny or not well integrated into the narrative, just that I felt no inclination…

I honestly think you could just as reasonably question AV Club's decision to focus on that part of the interview by using such a knowingly inflammatory headline. It's not only click bait, it's twisting and spinning the content of what someone actually said into click bait, and this site is usually above that sort of…

You're expected to have seen the movies before listening to the podcasts, but I honestly don't think it matters that much. Every episode is pretty much a shenanigans-filled walkthrough beginning to end of each film, and barely remembering some of them or even having missed one or two completely actually enhanced the…

Have you listened to the James Bonding podcast? It's a pretty great companion piece to these movies, especially during the period where the films themselves become formulaic enough that they start to almost aggressively blend together.

It's kind of sad that we have no problem imagining and accepting a world where alien monsters comes through a portal to fight superheroes on the streets of New York, while a cityscape without ads and logos seem fake enough to take us right out of the story.

You may be right, I'm just not sure that would work in a movie context.

Agreed. Zod and Luthor made sense for the stories they were trying to tell in MoS and BvS, but if they wanted fans buzzing (which seems to be more and more of a priority for studio PR) they should have done something we hadn't seen before. And third act facsimile Doomsday doesn't count.