Room 237 really works because it's measured and astonishingly attractive. No talking heads, no narrator, just bits of films, amazing music, and ideas. It neither sneers nor agrees… it's quite a thing.

Fingers crossed. As a long-time Spider-Man fan, I'm always eager to see a good Spidey adaptation work, but I didn't enjoy the last films origin retread, the palette, the villain or the tone. Garfield and Stone are solid, so I don't think the whole thing is doomed. Despite my worries about this being over-stuffed with…

Urgh, that guy has a voice like sand and glue!

I'm a long term Spider-Man reader (on and off since the early 80s and not missed a core issue since 1994) and I love Superior Spider-Man. I miss Peter all the time, but that's good, right? It'll feel like a huge victory when he gets back, and a horrible struggle for him to set things right, and that's where Peter…

I think the point is that Ethan is a nice guy who turns into a violent, jealous scumbag after a few drinks. Drunk at the event where he hit her, drunk at the Masters' dinner party. Drunk driving, drunk surgery. He's going to learn or it's going to turn him into a bad guy permanently.

But that's not the joke in the Jeopardy sketches, is it? The Connery impression is brilliant not for Hammond's accuracy but for how off-the-wall nutty it is.

All four MI movies are fun in their own ways, and all have killer action sequences. Woo's MI2 is goofy, but that bike chase is a stone-cold classic.

Weirdly, some of the very best martial arts movies aren't about that either. Almost all of Sammo Hung's considerable and influential body of work does showcase incredible physicality, but deliberately eschews and even mocks veins, muscles and sweaty chests.

I thought the car chase in A Good Day to Die Hard (reckless endangerment of bystanders by McClane notwithstanding) was the only decent bit of the film - it felt big and real. But the point that the direction did not support the execution in the best possible way is legitimate - in the hands of McTiernan, John Woo or…

I think:
Reed Richards: John Hamm
Sue Storm: Anna Torv
Johnny Storm: Ryan Kwanten
Ben Grimm: CGI. Get Chiklis back for the voice, or splash out for Bruce Willis.

I have to say that the moon getting hooked by that spaceship made me laugh pretty hard. It was just so out of kilter with the rest of the show.

I didn't mind The Card Player, certainly compared to The Phantom of the Opera and Giallo.

I think he'll be Colonel Sanders.

This is just not true. There are just as many strident or harsh Irish accents as there are Scottish ones, and just as many sweet and gentle voices on either side of the Irish Sea.

Yeah, my girlfriend said "she's about to open that van door and they'll already be on the SHIELD plane".

@avclub-ecbdad96460f85751944de9d6c2d50fe:disqus is not wrong. Temple of Doom is far more uneven and oddly paced. The opening 20 minutes and closing 30 minutes are really brilliant, but the hour in the middle is frequently shrill, annoying and a bit racist. Crystal Skull might not be as good as Raiders or Crusade, but…

But have you heard about the painter Vincent Van Gogh?

He was so involved that Lust For Life almost sounds like a Bowie album, his vocals and style are all over it. Anyone who hasn't heard Some Weird Sin should run, not walk, to the internet and listen to it.

Absolutely. Even in films that don't turn out to be very good, Forsythe is always entertaining and never, ever boring to watch. I always think of him in Firestorm - it's a mostly rotten movie, but he's tremendous fun.

I have a soft spot for Psycho II, partly because the plotting is fairly nifty in dovetailing with the first film, and that it goes all-in on reminding us that poor Norman is a victim himself.