According to Vinson Cunningham's withering review (http://www.newyorker.com/ma… ), the film depicts Turner convincing his master to buy his future wife because he finds her attractive — which means the film has Turner be complicit in the trade of women for sexual purposes and it's presented as romantic instead of…

Absolutely. The story of Turner's rebellion is utterly public domain. Anyone can make a film about it. There's already about a gazillion books on the subject.

Torrenting is perfectly legal. It's torrenting pirated files that's illegal. And as Biggus Disqus says, CineCraft already covered that.

Isn't it more like those orchids with flowers so realistically wasplike that they confuse passing wasps into copulating with the flower, thus assisting pollination? (In this analogy, Bennett is the orchid, and pollination is greenlighting.)

Yeah, but Chloe was a pretty awful script that couldn't even be saved by Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Atom Egoyan.

I had a family cat once that was morbidly obese, lost a leg after a drive-by shooting (yep!) and had a bell around its neck. The bastard still managed to catch birds regularly even though he couldn't possibly have been hungry. They really are killing machines.

I can't really hate Lucas. Just getting the funding so Kurosawa could complete his last film makes him a bit of a cinema hero. But as a filmmaker, it's really weird to see such a drastic decline in work quality after a great start (THX1138 was a wonderful exercise in ultra-low-budget filmmaking, then American Graffiti…

Uh, no. Leaving his home country for a tax haven and then doling out a fraction of what he should be paying in taxes to selected charities while making sure he gets as much publicity as possible for it is not really giving a shit.

Cast Billy Bob Thornton!

Yeah, I know. The sad thing is that there are occasional small elements in Prometheus that are really good, but as a coherent movie it is just a heap of [insert favourite scatological phrase here]. But, you know, there's always someone who will watch movie that's nothing but a static 3 hour shot of a stinking pile of…

Fun fact*: on big boots, the little things at the end of the laces are just called ags.

I wonder if Baccarin fell into fandom almost by accident with Firefly (and now Deadpool) and doesn't quite get it. Or maybe she was just having a bad day.

Sure, but so was Hannibal Lecter.

"virtue signalling" + "white knight" — he's an MRA arsehole.

I haven't seen this film, but an interesting comparison could be made to Unstoppable, a pretty solid movie about a runaway train and the people who try to stop it derailing in a large town. It also paints the heroes as committed working Joes who know their job up against corporate pencil pushers, but despite its…

I saw one movie trailer where a quote came from "rec.arts.movie.reviews" and I laughed like hell. Pity it wasn't a comedy.

Bet there are deleted scenes of his dog back on Earth…

There have been quite a few movies about Chernobyl. Most are docos, but some are scripted dramas. Frederick Pohl wrote a solid dramatic novel based on the engineers and workers trying to shut down the plant after it went haywire. So it can be done.

That's one of the reasons I love Sexy Beast. It contains both a perfectly executed, extremely technical heist with a terribly executed gang management strategy.

"…it protects Paterson’s legacy by ensuring that even kids who see the movie first may be in for a revelation if they pick up the book."