Forbrydelsen is very much a slow-burner (although it still proceeds ludicrously quickly for a murder investigation).

Does Martin have a son and a garage spacious enough for a box of manuscripts to be fortuitously and posthumously discovered?

If a technology is hypothetical in our own lifetime, then it is downright magical when used in a period piece.

Yes, but intention does not negate criticism.  Marlon Wayans may have set out to make A Haunted House as a puerile, juvenile comedy, but that doesn't mean we can't criticise it for being puerile and juvenile.

I thought it impossible for Salon to ever hit a new low without drilling into the Earth's core, but turning Angelina Jolie's medically-motivated double mastectomy into some act of feminist defiance against The Man certainly qualifies.

Todd a curmudgeon and a perfectionist?

I don't get this at all.

The rigidity of your principles is inversely proportional to your chance of obtaining high office.

In fairness, they're the opposition.  It's their job to be a nuisance.

I'd go as far to say he's a great actor.  Aside from Never Let Me Go, he was pretty good in Boy A and Red Riding, as well.

He's actually two-thirds Portuguese.

"Why don't you just skip the whole show and stick to stuff like American Idol or Touched by An Angel reruns? Seriously. Why don't you stop listening to the podcast too? Oh, that's right. What else would you have to do but bitch and get fat. This is what you do with your day? Great, man. Good for you."
 
/David S.

The Boston bombings displayed how much of an unwitting tool of terror the media can turn into.  The hysterical, panicked reporting did much more to propagate terror than the actual bombing.  And then the authorities felt compelled to resort to the most heavy-handed response to find the bombers - thus fulfilling the…

That was trite and logically flawed when it was still called "Welcome to the internet."

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It's the standard dehumanising inherent to the internet.  What particularly irks me isn't the sociopathy but the hypocrisy.

Don't get me wrong.  I was all prepared to hate him for the "A. A." thing alone.

I believe they call that 'confirmation bias'.

Seriously, there is no excuse for the straight up ad hominem attacks.  Simply put, he's getting the same opprobrium that Koski got for Ghostbusters, but whereas that was a pan of a beloved classic with a rather inflammatory reference to 'nostalgia goggles', all Dowd did was give a mediocre review to a superhero sequel.

I'm a little suspicious that a lot of the complaints being made about this film (inhuman acting, wooden dialogue) are generic Shyamalan complaints that, while certainly applicable to his latest dreck, don't really apply to Unbreakable - like people are judging his decent earlier work in hindsight of his later decline…