Perhaps. I sort of feel I should wait and see the film, and Jones' character, before I get too mad about what the content might be. I like the people involved, so I'm happy to grant them my patience and withhold my judgement.

So I agree with your points, except that Jones persona is slightly more complex than that. She has a lovely line in using her bravado to reveal her underlying emotions. Much of her comedy seems to be about being lonely. She directly addresses her heritage frequently, and not in a "black women be x-ing" way.

Well, they gave the "big and loud" role to a woman whose comic persona is being big and loud. I'm not sure her race has much to do with the casting so much as her presence on America's biggest comedy show.

Up until the most recent trailer, it absolutely was the cast for a lot of internet complainers.

The great thing about the comic version of the encounter with Negan is that Kirkman really draws it out. Negan literally debates who he's going to kill out loud to himself, and when I read it I knew it could be anyone in that group.
But comic rules are different to tv rules, so the show has done some canny work in the…

Just here to let you know about Ed Wood and Edward Woodward, man.

To be fair, and speaking as someone who dimly remembers England in the late 70s, it did look like that.

An invisible bed
A… freaky ghost bed!

Yes. Between this and being adorable in 80s sitcom Three Up, Two Down Lysette basically jump-started my puberty.

You know what? I don't mind this idea too much, if it's done right. Of the five current DH films, only one is bad and the other four are either good (2, 4) or excellent (1, 3). That's a solid strike rate.
I think if the casting was right and the script was good, this could be an absolute winner. Think about it - smart…

Girls In Their Summer Clothes sounds like a Magnetic Fields song. Thus, it is brilliant.

This is a great point - Miss Marple is initially portrayed as a gossip and busybody who thinks everyone has a dirty secret and is unusually adept at pouncing on them. In later Christie books she mellows and becomes a lot more genteel and sweet. Perhaps it was the menopause.

So how do you re-do Miss Marple? What are her essential qualities? She has to be someone it's easy to overlook, without social power, but also part of the established order. Someone perceived as not having the guts or motivation to get involved, or the intellect to back it up. If you are going to make her younger,…

To be fair to Romeo Must Die (and Scott Pilgrim, which inverts it), it's a mainstay of kung-fu films. Also it's not always a gender thing, often masters are doing it with inexperienced pupils.

It's a mess, but it's not the fault of the performers. It's just a misguided attempt by Paul WS Anderson to force a Dumas shaped peg into a Resident Evil shaped hole. The good bits - particularly the final fight between Logan Lerman and Mads - are worth seeing.

Okay then - let's recast Bond for the next decade, assuming Daniel Craig is done with it as of tomorrow. Who's on the list?
Michael Fassbender (a bit too wiry)
Tom Hardy (a bit too crazy)
Idris Elba (maybe a bit too old)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (a bit too much depth and intelligence)
Rupert Friend (a bit gawky)
Jamie Dornan (a…

I loved the first, but the second dragged a bit for me.

Never Say Never Again isn't brilliant, but it's tighter and a lot more fun than the turgid Thunderball.
Otherwise, I think you're broadly right.

Meet the new Bond! Same as the old Bond!

Cassandra's Dream is the only one I've really had huge issues with. I could hardly finish it, to be honest.