And by "demonizing" you mean "tells the 100% true story of how the Catholic Church spent decades enabling the sexual abuse of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of children, and then worked very hard to conceal all evidence of this"?

Have you considered that Stallone's race played a part in that perception?

For that matter, the academy clearly saw Creed, and chose to recognize the white co-star over the black star.

As someone on twitter said, we can just choose to believe that his nomination is for Jupiter Ascending.

I think the film makes it very clear that Cap's objection is to killing people on the off chance that they might some day do something wrong. Which is something that people also object to in real life. The hellicarriers couldn't possibly be a more blatant reference to the drone program if there was a great big neon…

The thing is, though, even if you ignore the existence of Native Americans, or for that matter the millions of slaves brought to the Americas by Europeans, I still don't see how you can call the American revolution "throwing off the shackles of an occupying force." The colonists were the occupying force. They were…

I guess "means well" stops having much value when what you end up doing is so obviously evil. My core problem with Agents of SHIELD is that it never managed to persuade me that SHIELD was a necessary thing, or that it wasn't doing more harm than good. Right now it seems as if most of the villains it fights are of…

A key difference between Obama and Coulson is that Coulson is solely in charge of SHIELD. He could make any changes he wants, and he chooses to keep running it just as it was. That's all on him.

Coulson spent his life working for an organization that did things like maintain secret prisons where people were held for life without trial, and conduct illegal experiments on unwilling subjects. And then he was shocked, shocked to discover that this unaccountable secret police were not the good guys. As far as I…

Seconding all the problems cited in the review and the comments, but to me the biggest issue about the pilot was the fact that I never for a minute believed that the resurrected Jimmy was an old man in a young man's body. They try to sell it with a few old-timey quips, but when it comes down to it the actor is…

Michael Peña was also the very best thing about Ant-Man, and if Marvel had any sense, they'd be trying to turn him into the next fan-favorite recurring character. Like how Coulson used to be, except ideally without the TV series that reveals that he's actually a controlling, self-satisfied asshole.

To me it was less the everything explodes aspect as the fact that all of a sudden everything turned out to be the fault of Secret Nazis. Even the fact that our heroes never noticed that their top-secret, super-powerful organization had been infiltrated and corrupted by the Secret Nazis was the Secret Nazis' fault,…

On the stealing from hospitals front, I think that feeds into the survivalist fantasies that you get, for example, in zombie stories, where the very-thinly-veiled appeal of the whole thing is the ability to imagine yourself as the badass who just takes what they need to survive. I don't think these stories want you…

I haven't gotten to TMitHC yet, and one of the things holding me back is the concern that it's going to take Dick's novel and turn it into this kind of Red Dawn-esque story.

Yes, I think perhaps this review is overstating the degree of Richard's moral awakening, given lines like that as well as the fact that he burns the rec center at the end.

living in a country birthed by throwing off the shackles of an occupying force

I guess I'm still a little dubious The Expanse is really ambitious, rather than looking and sounding so good that you just have to assume it has a real point to make. It's trying to make a political point with its worldbuilding - and indeed, the worldbuilding is unquestionably the best and smartest part of the show -…

I think The Expanse also answers a lot of the requirements of prestige TV (or at least the genre version of prestige TV) in a way that Dark Matter and particularly Killjoys really don't. The way that it focuses on men - and particularly men obsessing over women who don't have a voice of their own in the story - feels…

Well, I finally did it: I finished my entire TV backlog from December, and it only took a week (a week plus, I'm counting both weekends). And happily, most of what I watched this weekend was pretty solid.

For the dresses.