Why don't they just cast a black actress as Sue Storm? Then her and Johnny are still biological siblings and the "invisible woman" subtext has a deeper meaning.

David O'Russell may be an asshole, but he's also a master filmmaker. If you're going to judge movies based on how nice the director is, you have to rule out anything by Kubrick (who frequently reduced actors to tears on set) or Hitchcock (who sexually harassed nearly every actress he worked with).

I've definitely met people over the years who love the show, having discovered it on their own whenever. But any time over the last decade I've been hanging out with friends trying to pick something out to watch, and they're like "What's Stella?" and I put on an episode — invariably, the result has been uncomfortable…

Same here. Sketch comedy usually doesn't age all that well. Even the masters of the form have to include a lot of clunkers that just aren't funny in retrospect.

A few weeks ago I started the "So, anyone into fantasy football?" conversation at a poker game around a bunch of guys I barely know, and got the squirmy look you get from guys who don't follow sports but don't want to admit ignorance of a guy thing. After a few seconds of silence, one guy's like, "Haven't been…

The writer mentions early on that Pi intends to tell him a story that will make him believe in God. Which implies that he doesn't believe in God to begin with, otherwise he wouldn't need convincing. You can label the writer character an atheist or agnostic or lapsed or whatever, but he's clearly meant to be an…

I hated PJ's King Kong but was very impressed with the modeling and animation of the title character. However, the compositing was pretty rushed — the lighting is usually way off between the CGI and the live-action plates, and the creatures sometimes occupy the same physical space as the actors. It deserved its…

Well, the Matrix sequels were attempting to pull off things nobody ever had before — while effects artists had been pasting an actor's head on a stunt double's body for a few years, the Agents Smith scene combines the actors, live action stunt doubles, and CGI stunt doubles into one elaborately choreographed fight…

Well, I got dragged to Life of Pi by my girlfriend without knowing anything about it, and I couldn't tell the whole thing was shot in a green-screen tank with 100% CGI animals until I was reading about the movie afterwards. It's not that I thought they really put a kid out in the ocean with a tiger on set, I just…

This example does kind of highlight how misguided this award usually is — it's usually given to the best movie with special effects, not the movie with the best special effects. I mean, why did the first Matrix movie win the Visual Effects Oscar, whereas the inferior sequels (which had way more complicated effects)…

I think it would have been much more interesting to introduce Khan in a subplot, but have him be the Federation's ally for the entire movie (and then for the rest of the series). It's an alternate timeline, why do they have to re-do the KHAN! story? Maybe Khan wants vengeance against the Klingons for waking him up…

JJ Abrams knows he could have made a better movie. The guy has seen thousands of movies, including Wrath of Khan. I don't believe for a second that Abrams feels he made a better movie than Wrath of Khan.

I think the CDC episode is pretty misunderstood. It wasn't an episode meant to explain the zombie plague in scientific terms — it was an episode meant to demonstrate that the zombies are supernatural, and that there is no scientific explanation.

Once you start explaining why the walkers aren't decomposing, then you have to start explaining how they're generating energy without properly working respiratory and digestive systems.

I liked the unspeakable defeat of the original ending — Oh Dae-Su loses in every imaginable way, and it's rare for a revenge movie to leave the audience without any catharsis like that. It would have been so easy to just have Oh Dae-Su get his vengeance after the reveal, but it's more challenging the other way.

Hey, I've got a great idea — why don't they call it Batman vs. Superman! That way everyone would understand that Batman and Superman are in it, and that they will fight.

After Darabont's work on Season 1 of TWD, I'm not sure we can just assume that his treatment for Indy 4 was necessarily better than what wound up on screen.

Yeah, I've always thought that Harrison Ford felt Ridley Scott interfered with his process. He told Ford to play a human on the set, and then spent years telling anyone with a microphone that Deckard is a replicant.

So how come every time a series regular comes across an isolated group of survivors, said survivors don't know the first thing about zombie rules or killing zombies? Rick's group has to kill dozens of walkers every week, and change locations approximately every 1.5 seasons. And they keep losing people to zombie…

They've been very hazy on things like incubation period, speed of the disease progression, and mortality rate. It seems like Glenn and Sasha, though symptomatic, are going to live long enough for Daryl's crew to get back with the medicine. So at least one of them will be alive 24 hours after first showing symptoms.