Absolutely! A film has so many moving parts, a great film is inevitably a series of happy accidents, even auteur-driven films like his. When a director wants to fix a picture that didn't meet his artistic vision because the demands of the market, or the technology, or whatever extrinsic thing didn't originally allow…

Inarguably the high point, I think.

No argument here.

It had to be someone you wouldn't expect.

That Ditko stuff is wild. I read it in the Essential volume, and it was great, but I can' hardly process what it might have been like in color.

I don't think Colossus was assassinated at all, and at the time I would have called him my favorite character. He falls in love. He doesn't ask for it.

Well, that's certainly something. No suport in the text, though. Superman's wink at the end is the distillation of what Superman always is — "Don't worry, it'll be ok. I'll catch you if you need me."

Read the frikkin' FF. It takes a minute to get moving, but that Lee/Kirby collaboration is amazing.

Great article — Legion Lost has largely been forgotten, but it was a wonderful series (as were the handful of DnA issues on the previous LSH series, Legion of Super-Heros and Legionnaires). They never managed to capture the same magic in their later Legion work, but I recommend this one to anyone.
Also recommended to…

To Rome With Love is a better title for the picture, though — there's not much about it that's bop — even if it's generic.

Death Proof was slight, although it was designed as part of a package that wasn't. Other than that, you seem to have a different definition of the word.

I wouldn't mind another WIld Cards.

It was really cool. The technical achievement is astounding, moreso because it was done so well that the puppets are believeable characters even though you can clearly see the multiple puppeteers. It's at Imagination Stage for two more weeks. I'd recommend it, even for adults.

Technically true!

It's the shit on an iPad. I've read enough comics on a computer that I know I don't want to read comics on a computer, but the iPad is exactly the right size, and you can download, IIRC, 10 comics at a time to read offline. It's not worth $10 a month, but I enjoyed the heck out of my trial this spring.

I hope he bounces back, he was so good in The Social Network.

I took my daughter to a children's stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's The B.F.G., which was great. The story is about an orphan who gets kidnapped by a friendly giant, who then protects her from a bunch of bigger, people-eating giants. The technical challenge in putting that on the stage are obvious, and they solved…

Fuck Webster's.

I think the first one is fantastic, and the second one isn't as good but is very much a Star Trek picture.

I like oral histories but Free Enterprise, while funny, was pretty creepy in its handling of the central romantic relationship, and also I have evere expectation that this will accept the Trekkie-common attitude that the reboot movies blow, which is not an attitude to which I subcribe.