I think the BBC also pulled their contribution to future seasons, so HBO would have been left footing the bill alone. Lotta reasons went into it.

Holy shit, he was Posh Kenneth? That's a pretty damn diverse resume he's building.

It always seemed to me the target age for Shrek was just barely young enough for The Stinky Cheese Man not to have been a thing.

Neither City of Stars or Audition are anything resembling an earworm (though I quite liked them both).

I believe they're referring to Nate Parker and Casey Affleck, respectively.

I would have expected Rheon to gravitate toward roles that, like Simon, made use of the way he could be both lovable and offputting as shit at the same time, but Ramsay could end up typecasting him into only using the latter.

And while unhinged megalomania and assholery may be Maximus's defining character trait, it really doesn't distinguish him from the rest of the Inhuman Royal Family. They're all unhinged megalomaniacal assholes.

He was pretty impressively cold and unpleasant. I was also impressed with how tightly Kirsten Dunst can frown.

See, I felt it worked for Fences (for the same reason I thought it worked for Rope, actually!). Both of those stories have an intensely claustrophobic atmosphere to them that's always made me feel they were better suited for black boxes and thrusts than a proscenium stage (though that doesn't stop theatres from always…

The payoff to that with some white dude being sent to fetch Katherine to do last minute calculations and having to make the same run we'd seen her make over and over was the best belly-laugh I had in the theater all year.

This was a good year for movies. All the major Best Picture nominees I've seen were great (haven't seen Hacksaw Ridge, don't want to), and I'll throw my hat in to say Silence and 20th Century Women could have gotten more love.

Between this, Mangold apparently saying he'd be interested in making a sequel, and Jackman publically retiring, I'm wondering if they might angle for a new X-verse set in this future following X-23 and whoever else they introduce.

Wouldthatitwaaarsosimple.

No one else here was inspired/scarred for life from being shown To Live in high school Pacific Rim history class, I see.

It's an endless supply of seltzer water at what comes to 25 cents a liter for carbonation. It's nothing special and it doesn't replace an occasional Coke, but for some reason I'm more encouraged to home-make syrups and do funny sodas now despite the fact that I could have done that with seltzer water before.

It's the 1992 Konami arcade one, by a landslide. I have fond memories of wiping out an entire screen of enemies at once as Nightcrawler.

Main thing I remember about Black Vortex and it's aftermath: closeted teen Iceman briefly attains cosmic awareness and turns into Sir Ian McKellan for a few issues from a thing designed to bring out an individuals' potential, and then is outed an issue after the crossover ends. The experience he just had has…

Now she's gonna lead the X-Men again after the coming relaunch. Everything's coming up Pryde.

And the "Dragon Lady" identifiers on the Ancient One are pretty intrinsically baked-in to the plot as they conceived it—both Swinton's ethnicity and performance work counter to that archetype, and it's still kinda there. Altering the character so she could be played by an Asian actress without tripping those wires…

There's a very specific strain of watchable-but-unremarkable popular-SNL-veteran-starring comedies that I can only imagine are the product of people saying "let's make a movie because it's our jobs. It's not gonna be a particularly good one, but we'll all show up."