The shame of it is.. if it gets a decent-ish grade from AVClub, I'm gonna be tempted to see it. Especially if it's cheesy delicious. Damn you, Nic Cage.

yes me too! I don't crush on Jason Dohring and bad boys really don't do anything for me either but goddamn, Logan Echolls. I tried to resist it and failed.

I was a-going to blithely pass this by (celebrity crushes are one thing, but ones on fictional characters? feh), until I realized I totally have to cop to at least two: Tony Stark (Iron Man) and Logan Echolls (Veronica Mars). Because I never felt tingly about Robert Downey Jr. until he played Stark, and he still…

I believe that it's Black Widow swinging round the pole. Though both have luscious locks, one of them is almost a foot taller and a dude and doesn't wear black leather.

I admit, I'd be excited for this too because pretty much all the movies leading up to it have been good to great (IM1 the only "great" one), but having Joss Whedon writing and directing has sent me into a right tizzy.

Jeez, no wonder. I watched the first season of BSG before I gave up (my conclusion: I didn't care how Cylons vs. humans ended). The first episode of BtVS season two has no weight unless you've seen the last ep of season one.

I believe that Sony had to exercise their rights to Spidey or lose them back to Marvel. So, reboot rather than Spidey 4.

Yes! please!

I say: blerg.

I admit, I would see this on opening day had Donald Glover been cast.

Scarlet Witch - Summer Glau. She can do crazy magical witch like nobody's business.

I've already started polling my friends on who is coming to the Thursday midnight screening and then I have to wipe away a little drool  after I ask.

Have they watched BtVS? That is the only explanation I can see for their terribly misguided opinion.

She's on the bad side of 40 and not named Meryl Streep nor British. Duh.

The Devil's Backbone is one I thought of later, but in a weird way, it doesn't "read" to me as a ghost story because I don't find it very scary. Just beautiful and sad.

CK's bit about how you can only time-travel if you're white & male because being white is the best. His bit isn't revelatory to me — anybody born non-white and/or female understands this innately — but the fact that HE does knows quite clearly the benefits of invisible privilege he gets for being born white and a guy:…

so like Ginger Snaps for boys? I wish boys could menstruate at least once in their lives. It would be so enlightening for them.

sadly me too. I want them to get settled-married and be semi-content ever after.

OK best ghost story movie thread: The Innocents dir. Jack Clayton, based off of Henry James's "Turn of the Screw." I caught it on PBS as a kid and I've loved it ever since. It's sincerely eerie and creepy, and kind of gorgeously elegant.

peoples is bad at Google.