Wait, this isn't the one about the autistic guy who's also… a surgeon?! Those promos have been pissing me off lately. Why, Richard Schiff, why?

Hadn't realized Groban left already. This show gets a lot of things right—the visual element, using the whole theater space, and having lots of seats where the audience can be right in the middle of the action—but the score is quite bad. (Well, better to say it's pedestrian and utterly unmemorable—a lot of current…

It works for me because it feels like a deliberate comment on how the North operates on a kind of consensus model—less social separation between king and lords, less command and control style decisionmaking.

Nah. From the trailer, it certainly looks worse, with a lot more cliched garbage dialogue and Kevin Spacey at his worst (his default setting post-HOC). But this review has convinced me it's still worth seeing.

Boy, that sounds awfully familiar.

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Yeah, it's pretty bad. On the plus side, there's a scene where Costner is at home with his wife and kids that helped me understand what it means to say that violins "weep." Ridiculously overwrought.

I think it makes sense as a long-shot gamble under unfavorable circumstances. Chuck had Jimmy dead to rights, so Jimmy's only hope was to turn the hearing into a trial about Chuck. Maybe he and Kim didn't know exactly what they'd get, but they knew Chuck was likely to displace his embarrassment at having his condition…

Is this the push our community needs to finally acknowledge that Bob Loblaw was never even slightly funny and that the entire third season of Arrested Development is awful? We can only hope for new enlightenment to arise from this sad story.

Outstanding! Funny and surprisingly deep. There was a Q&A with Vigalondo after the film, and he was hilarious, with a lot of interesting things to say about the abuse theme.

Not scary, and repeatedly failed to build the tension necessary to sustain a thriller/horror movie. Also muddled in what "moral" or message it was trying to convey.

Probably the Jim Carrey Grinch movie. Under very similar circumstances to Sean: rainy day during a Florida vacation with my family.

Do white misogynists really want to acknowledge there was a "heist"? They tend to be a pretty racist crowd too.

I see your point, but I'm not sure I agree. First, I don't think you can make such a neat division between mission and characters; if the movie did its job right, you rooted for these characters to complete the mission, because it was important to them. Second, I think it's perfectly possible to make an audience care…

Two questions for anyone who's seen this: how many tentacles, how many bugs? I would like to see this movie, but I can't really handle either of those specific kinds of scary things.

Aww, I feel a little bad for Drake, to whom I'd previously been indifferent. It's embarrassing when you try to do something nice and realize you've made a bit of a fool of yourself in the process.

Do people really view entertainment of the past through rose-colored glasses? I've often said no TV series made before about 1990 rises above the level of mediocre, but I suppose people do tend to get mad when I say that.

Just remembered that Morton Tyldum got a Best Director nomination over Ava DuVernay and got mad again. Too much white male mediocrity in Hollywood.

I don't think of it as a highly vocally demanding part. Jake Gyllenhaal? He has a decent set of pipes, and seemingly had a lot of fun playing against type in Nightcrawler. But if you go with someone that age for Sweeney, I don't think it would make much sense to cast Bernadette as Mrs. Lovett (although of course…

When do we get Sweeney Todd Live!, NBC?