Thor: The Dark World: I think better than the first film, on the whole. I know people have been debating how much comedy is appropriate in these movies, but I like that Marvel Studios is pushing back a bit at the post-Dark Knight grimness that a lot of people were embracing as the new standard for these movies…

I'm not sure if the imminent arrival of an actual pseudo-Rocky VII (the Creed movie with Ryan Coogler) makes the episode's actual joke about Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge funnier or less funny.

Yeah, The Body was a jolly day in the park.

Malekith isn't a very developed villain, but I don't think the one from the comics is either; he's a classic myth villain. He wants to destroy the universe, because that's the sort of thing a Dark Elf instinctively wants to do.

Jaime Alexander was injured on set and out of filming for a month, so that may have influenced the content of the film.

A Hunger Games theme park, for those who completely missed the message of books and thought Katniss' experience looked like a lot of fun.

Students don't get away with ignoring directives from teachers/ coaches/musical directors.

Marley is singing that next week.

Easily the best thing about the McKinley side now.

Did Will just suspend an underage female student with a history of eating disorder for not wanting to wear a revealing top? I seem to recall last season that when a boy had concerns about going shirtless everybody was quite understanding about…ah, forget it.

That's from the book (in an adapted form). The problem was that the scenario where the son is presumed dead is so seemingly ironclad that his survival is just beyond belief, whereas in the novel the narrator was just assuming his wife was dead based on events he didn't witness.

Spielberg was doing comedy action sequences in Tintin, so that's a bit different from other examples.

Audiences loved Gollum, so it seems like it worked fine.

95% of superheroes can't be done in live action without CGI. Hence, why the genre only took off when CGI became widely available.

Most of War of the Worlds is astonishingly tense. I've subsequently read the book, and I now understand what he was going for with the ending, but it doesn't really work, because the wife's survival in the novel was plausible, whereas the son's just isn't.

They disliked people thinking that he really wasn't such a bad guy after all.

Sophie Nelisse was amazing in Monsieur Lazhar, so I'm glad she's getting work in the "big leagues".

I would guess they wanted to get him looking as inhuman and like the descriptions as possible, and perhaps also saw an opportunity to push film-making technology forward (where they clearly succeeded).

Catch Me If You Can is my personal favourite of his films (not his "best" or most influential, just the one I have the fondest attachment to). Partly because he's a rare director who elicits a real heartfelt performance from Christopher Walken (I like his schtick, but when he's as talented as he is, it's hard not to…

When his entire body is CGI motion capture, I'm not sure what the point of using practical effects in a select few parts would be. Mixing disciplines makes sense in a lot of contexts, but I really don't see why you would do it there.