Eternal Sunshine had more than its fair share of melancholy and pessimism in it. I'd say the ending of that film - Winslet stating that an attempt at another relationship is doomed to end with the same misery but both of them going for it anyway - is practically summed up with those two words.

They haven't brought back Calculon yet, I'll give them that.

It was released in September 2001 over here in the UK and cinemas just put up signs telling people that some people may be upset by images of a ruined New York skyline featuring the WTC in the film.

Was Men in Black II really due to be released one week after 9/11? I'm certain it was due July 2002 regardless of the ending changes. There would have been a much bigger upheaval if that were the case.

You know Quasimodo predicted all this. All these problems - the Middle East, the end of the world.

I don't want to add too much authenticity to the hologram theory but if you take the image of the Towers and add a simple line between them and they go from

I'll stand with you on Signs. @avclub-664a26f366b9ef4988631e95af9b366d:disqus  - haven't seen it in years but I remember watching it in a packed cinema when it came out and it was a great experience. The dog barking towards the start and the alien on the videotape were great "boo!" moments.

The last act of Insidious was very silly but I forgive it because there's a solid half-hour or so in the middle of the film that had me more on edge than I remember being during a film for a very long time. It's a shame they couldn't sustain that but I found it so effective that I'd still rate the film despite its…

I take it you haven't seen VHS then? Because that takes the found-footage concept and fucks it up completely - it uses it because it's the cool thing (and a way to make low-budget horror) but abandons any rhyme or reason for the concept. It's a bad film anyway but its use of "found footage" is absurd.

I take it you haven't seen VHS then? Because that takes the found-footage concept and fucks it up completely - it uses it because it's the cool thing (and a way to make low-budget horror) but abandons any rhyme or reason for the concept. It's a bad film anyway but its use of "found footage" is absurd.

I take it you haven't seen VHS then? Because that takes the found-footage concept and fucks it up completely - it uses it because it's the cool thing (and a way to make low-budget horror) but abandons any rhyme or reason for the concept. It's a bad film anyway but its use of "found footage" is absurd.

He's a robot!

It was four seasons back in the early days of Harmon, when he set up the four year plan and sowed the seed with Jeff mentioning his May 2013 plans for a dinner to celebrate finishing. By season 3 Harmon and co. admitted they didn't see it stopping at four seasons (assuming NBC wanted it to continue) and said they were…

I'm not looking forward to the years of polite "Never say never" quotes from the cast and crew to journalists that lead to rumours of it coming back as a mini-series / TV movie / actual movie / comic book / web shorts / Netflix show… Over and over and over again.

If the screenplay was faithful to the book then yes, it would have had serious problems.

Newman's score for Skyfall was fantastic though so it's hard to begrudge him this one.

"You're goddamn right"

I imagine we'll have them for six months on Netflix alone but we'll see them by Christmas. At that point the people signing up just to watch them will have abated and there's extra profit to be made (plus it will give season 2 of House of Cards extra promotion and hopefully grab new fans). The shows will still hold…

I imagine a good few fans feel like that. Luckily Mitch Hurwitz wouldn't take 'not optimistic it could be done' for an answer.

This being The AV Club I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that one of those cops is Mike from Breaking Bad. 25 years younger and with hair but still with that growl of a voice.