Call me crazy or a lazily corrupt local politician if you must, but I kinda like Spider-Man 3. At the very least, it is superior to the two Webb films.

La Strada is his break with neo-realism because of its spiritual focus. When it won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Marxist critics denounced it as "wrong" because of its Catholic themes of forgiveness and redemption. This led into a public brawl between the film's detractors and supporters.

As a film scholar, I much prefer Dolce Vita to 8 1/2, which is a little too hermetic for me.

its tone of trying to condemn people for seeking out "pleasure" while at the same time saying, "But isn't it cool?"

Perhaps he will be the new Red Skull. If memory serves, Hugo Weaving has said he has no intention of doing big Hollywood films anymore. Skull also was the central villain in Brubaker's run on Captain America that coincided with Civil War.

I find this exceptionally unlikely, from the contract itself to Plant's behavior. Thirty-five gigs in only three cities? Even in 1975 Zeppelin probably couldn't have held court for nearly two weeks in one city. Plant has refused to be part of a greatest hits tour for years, so why would he ask for 48 hours just to…

Nolan is also interested in bigger themes than Shyamalan ever has been (the exception being Signs, maybe). For all his faults, Nolan is at least trying to think on a larger scale, to use cinema as more than a device for twisty stories. Shyamalan seems to write the twist first and develops the movie from there.

I do not malign Halloween III because it does not have Michael Myers; I knew that it wouldn't when I went to see it in theaters.

My first name is quite similar to Daron; at my first academic job, an administrator congratulated my department for hiring an African American even though I am quite white. Apparently, the administrator continued to believe I was African American even after being told that I wasn't because a white person wouldn't have…

You want to develop this line of thinking some more?

"Built" is an awfully strong word to use her. "Dumped via clumsy expository dialogue" might be a better term. None of the scenes that don't involve robots punching the shit out of inter dimensional monsters could even be called perfunctory.

Hulk was a childhood favorite of mine, but I kind of like my characters to grow with me. Simple "Hulk smash" isn't going to carry a movie. Peter David's version of the Hulk remains the best and the only basis for a good movie. (Lee's is underrated but admittedly not great; the Pelletier version is a more expensive TV…

Hunh?

a) No one is claiming he mangled the source material; however, as director, he is ultimately responsible for the creative choices that were made and that resulted in the imbalance the author outlines. Fincher could easily have requested rewrites

I don't think he's necessarily meant to be sympathized with — but he is certainly not as unhinged as his wife is and thus is more relatable. The worst thing we see him do is cheat on Amy, though were told the bar is a sinkhole and he gets depressed and just assumed that Amy would move to Missouri so Nick could take…

The fact that for you "this movie was a first-rate thriller first and foremost" doesn't mean it isn't also involved in gender politics and media satire. To dismiss the actual arguments laid out in this essay by saying "only Ben Affleck broskies would think that way" is to in effect think like Ben Affleck broskies: you…

Oh, Gilliam has been making movies for more than 20 years.

I have many records, books and films featuring people who have taken
their own lives, and I regard them all with a bit of disdain. … I no longer take this person seriously.

His dancing here could be interpreted here as demonic possession.

Some of the earlier numbers — "Black Mountain Side" and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" are clearly theft; "Dazed and Confused" owes Holmes at least an "inspired by" credit but the overall composition seems novel enough. I'm less impressed by claims against "How Many More Times," which certainly borrows a lot of blues…