Didn't that happen in Syriana?

Darwyn Cooke
The girl at the cash at the comic book store looked at the stack I was buying and said "Have you seen this new Batman book by Darwyn Cooke? I think you'll really like it." How right she was, and Darwyn hasn't disappointed since.

dr. zarnak please tell me you're kidding. (Though, if anyone would waste time on a facile, obvious quirk and pretend it was a personality detail, it would be Chris Claremont.)

It's to spare your eyes the sight of his rock-like Thing.

Earth = Thing
Fire = Torch
Air = Invisible Woman (forcefields = wind ie an invisible form that exerts force)
Water = Mr. Fantastic. (Fluid form.)
What's really clever is that their personalities contrast with their forms: Thing is rock but has a soft, sentimental personality; Sue is ephemeral but is the foundation of the…

Correct. Renaming a cinema after a bank has to be one of the dumbest acts of corporate committee-think since… the last one. Does anyone really say "I'll meet you at the Scotiabank?"

Ack Ack's on the Danforth? We're neighbours? The internet is weird.

It's Klingon. And the closest we have to the Uptown is screen #8 at the Varisty - it's the original, pre-reno screen with pre- arena-raked seating and cool, wide screen. But let's face it, the best cinema in the city was the Eglinton: the only place for really big movies. Raiders of the Lost Ark, a Saturday night in…

Hate that guy
The music in that trailer was scored by someone who'd never heard of the movie. Or, perhaps, any movie.

Sounds like Gene just watched "Dr. No."

Paul Simms/The Showrunners
That book (The Showrunners) sounds interesting - anyone read/got an opinion on it? And yes to Paul Simms - NewsRadio was excellent. Perhaps not quite 30Rock/Arrested Development standard, but on it's good days, in striking distance. (And a helluva lot better than most everything else on…

Never got the Whit Stillman thing. Can someone convince me that it's more than whiney young Republicans, with stiff dialogue?