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If he was "found" dead in his cell, then maybe. If it's a cell that you put him in, illegally, and where his well-being was your responsibility, and where after he died it became your job to dispose of his body, thus making you an accessory to murder, then I'd really hope you'd be upset. Certainly if you're someone

B&P isn't particularly true to the novel either, but it's a fun film and draws some interesting parallels between the novel's setting and characters and the modern Indian ones. It was my first introduction to (quasi-)Bollywood and I think it was a solid way to get to know the conventions of the genre.

I don't know how much of Ultron's problems are Whedon's fault and how much the result of Marvel twisting his arm to, for example, make the film short while also cramming in all this prep for Civil War and Infinity War. I'm not saying the result wasn't his fault, and there are certainly choices in the movie that were

I think the book is quite brilliant, but then McEwan's genius is in telling stories that should be sentimental pap and finding the hard, real center of them. The film fall face-first into that sentimentality, which isn't surprising given that Joe Wright is involved.

I think the more important question is whether he's ever going to be good in anything he's in. Like a lot of people, I was won over by his performances in the Marvel films, but that's not a terribly high bar to clear (a lot of the time it's just "be more charismatic than Chris Hemsworth," which I'm pretty sure I

Definitely agreed with the frustration suffusing this review, but I think I'd phrase my problem a little differently. I don't have a problem with Felicity breaking up with Oliver or calling off the wedding in the wake of the whole Samantha business (for all that that was contrived and awkwardly arranged so as to make

No, I said that I don't think Oswald was part of a conspiracy, which is to say that I think he was acting alone. I'm not sure where the show is headed with the story, but up until the end of this episode Jake was operating under the assumption that Oswald was a CIA asset, and since that theory struck me as utterly

Dear The Flash: if you want to start a conversation about how Barry can't allow himself to cut corners and justify it by pointing to his heroic ends, then maybe it would have been a good idea to start with, I don't know, all the murders he's been committing? Maybe we could talk about how there was a cell death in the

Not that I think this will be a deciding factor, but it pretty much kills any chances of my participating in future WOT comment threads. 10 AM on the US east coast is the end of the work day for me, so a pretty bad time to start reading hundred-comment-long threads.

So I see they're not doing the plot of the third book at all. Shame, as I thought the premise seemed like a bold choice - but then I also didn't read it, so maybe that should tell you something as well.

This is great news. I really loved the first season, which was funny and romantic and played a lot of clever games with timelines. I was sure a second season wouldn't happen - the first season aired more than a year ago - so it's nice that Netflix picked it up.

OK, but he has dedicated his entire life for the last three years to Jake's mission. If he's an idiot, then Jake's an idiot for keeping him around, and either way, he's definitely a bad friend.

I have to say, this show is losing its appeal to me. Mainly, it's the same problem I identified in the first episode - I don't care that much about saving Kennedy, and I don't believe Oswald was part of a conspiracy, so most of what Jake's been doing for the last six episodes has struck me as pointless. And while I

I hated that he was willing to consider that for Sadie, but just flat out said no to Bill when he asked for the same thing. He's such a bad friend.

I think the writers have stated that the two shows take place on alternate Earths from one another. Which I suppose makes a bit of sense given that they're on different networks. And thus the movies can also be said to take place in their own, sucky alternate reality!

I would actually say that my complaint against this season of The Flash is that it hasn't been serious enough, or rather that it's continued to behave as if it's still Arrow's sunnier cousin even as its characters do awful things. So far this season, Barry has outright murdered two people, imprisoned god knows how

I wonder if the show intends for me to dislike Claire as much as I do. As in, I really hope she crashes and burns by the end of the season, because aside from being a complete wingnut who wants to tag human beings like animals, it turns out that she's perfectly comfortable ordering prison beatdowns and using the

So the last two episodes of The Night Manager showed up online yesterday, and I figured I'd get the rest of the story out of the way. SPOILERS, I guess, though the most important spoiler is that you shouldn't bother watching this disappointment of a show.

I was a little underwhelmed when I first watched it (and I still think that it could just as easily have been a TV movie on HBO), but it's stuck with me a lot more than the other movies on the best picture ballot, and I find myself appreciating more and more what it was trying to say about the communal responsibility

Are they one and the same, or are they branches of the same corporate empire? To put it another way, is ABC trying to make Marvel shows because it wants MCU money, or is it doing it as a form of synergy with which to promote the MCU experience, which is to say at Disney's behest? And does the fact that AoS has