Yeah, surely the question to ask is whether Bucky will appear in Black Panther. I'd sort of like that to happen, on the off chance that getting him away from Steve will finally give him that personality he's been lacking for three movies. But on the other hand, I wouldn't want him to distract from the actual…

He just held up a bag of jelly beans and said "What if one of these were poison?"

One of the interesting (or, depending on your perspective, annoying) things about Gilmore Girls is how each of Rory's boyfriends is awful in his own particular way, and also has some redeeming qualities. So pretty much everyone who watches the show has an adamant and unshakable view that this boyfriend is Rory's one…

I'd argue that the homework effect is a lot more noticeable for TV shows than movies. I don't mind spending two hours watching a movie that is only questionably entertaining if in doing so I can keep up with characters I like (and the cultural conversations around them). Asking me to do that for 13 or 22 hours is a…

Chaos Walking is a very good series that doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the YA dystopia craze - for one thing, it's proper SF rather than "everything's the same except dystopic and YAish". That said, I really wonder if you can make a good film adaptation of the series. An important plot point is that every…

Given the compressed timeframe of the story, I can understand not casting actors who are exactly the same age as the characters in the book. But 16-17 would still have been doable, and more accurate.

Maybe, but I think that will also depend a lot on whether someone finally cracks the superhero show concept and manages to make one that is a hit by the standards of a network other than the CW. Right now the best hope of that is Legion, and good luck getting a network to fork over enough money to make a show that…

I wouldn't necessarily say that AoS's genre is unworkable - honestly, there's not much between it and OUaT, despite the very different settings. You just need characters that people care about and a story that draws them in. The soap opera aspects help a lot, of course, but most shows can be boiled down to a soap…

As noted, the fact that AoS launched the Inhumans in the MCU would be more impressive if that launch hadn't completely failed. As of now, the Inhumans movie is on indefinite hold, and the show's storylines with them have been so thoroughly sidelined that the writers of Civil War - a film that might have used the…

On the one hand, synergizing with the MCU turned out to be a total bust for ABC. On the other hand, Once Upon a Time shows that it can be done, if you have the right property and figure out how to turn it into a soap opera. I'm not quite sure which end of the scale Star Wars would fall on.

The crucial difference being that Keanu is still pretty hot, and Fraser settled into a gentle but still quite noticeable middle-aged bloat a while ago. I mean, biology is what it is, but it probably hasn't helped his career any.

Given that they got Cumberbatch to star in it, I'm guessing that they want it to be more successful than that. A year ago I would have guessed that the plan was to transition Strange into the role currently occupied by Tony Stark. Now that Downey doesn't seem to be going anywhere, it's possible that that plan is on…

I was where you are yesterday, but now the film is starting to approach the Fantastic Four/Terminator: Genysis threshold, where I simply can't justify it to myself.

One of Frozen's core problems is that it basically sweeps away all the problems the sisters should have - with each other and in themselves - after the abuse and mistreatment they've suffered. I'm still physically angry at the decision to kill off the parents at the beginning of the movie, because boy did they…

Which is how you end up with Tangled (whose title was famously changed from Rapunzel in order to appeal to boys) literally hiding the fact that it's a musical. I watched the film more than a year after it came out in theaters. A couple minutes in, the main character starts singing, and my brother and I turn to each…

Controversial in what sense? I liked the character a lot, though I'm not sure how well she worked as a depiction of a trans person (and obviously, there's the issue of casting a cis actor in the role).

I thought it was good on that level. Too long, and with too many intersecting storylines, like most seasons of AHS. But I thought it was both spookier and more fun than seasons 3 and 4.

There was actually a Roanoke reference in the first season of AHS. I'm sure this season will try to spin that as yet more interconnection, but at the time what made it a good gag was that the heroine fell for the story of the mysterious Lost Colony, and the occult significance of Croatoan, but it all ends up being a…

I have a soft spot for some aspects of the hotel season. But the witch season and the carnival season were terrible.

I watched this for the first time last year, and immediately started kicking myself for not getting around to it sooner. Truly an overlooked gem. This review gets at so many of the things I loved about it - the fact that it's about sisters, that those sisters are working class women of color with curvy bodies, that…