That eight minutes of thought provoking commentary is mostly Amy Adams being taught how to pretend she knows what's on her computer screen and Villeneuve talking about how important it is that 1980s stereotypes about Russia and China get maintained in time for the new Cold War.

I can't believe people are praising a screenplay that uses the line "the best thing about this wasn't meeting them, it was meeting you" as a big emotional moment.

We know pretty quickly because of how heavy handed the film is. Talking about how she doesn't believe in beginnings and ends over a montage that features a prominent beginning and end is a major sign that we aren't going to get a chronological story, especially when that prologue is treated as something separate from…

I don't know what part of Arrival's screenplay was great or, for that matter, particularly non-linear. It telegraphs itself very clearly in the opening montage and then tells a normal linear story, only with flashforwards instead of flashbacks, until it ties itself into a knot with the Chinese general ten minutes from…

Ewan McGregor is one of those actors who's always come across as a good guy and this confirms it. I hope McGregor doesn't respond because Piers Morgan is the kind of guy who will be more pissed off that he's being ignored than told to fuck off.

It's apt you mention Siri because I thought the voice doing the nominations sounded remarkably like Nina Hartley.

I'd agree if Mortsensen wasn't being nominated for a film that very few have heard of and none of those people like it.

A bland list for a bland industry. The Oscars have been shit for as long as I've paid attention to them so I look at them more like a barometer for the tastes of the idiots who make movies these days rather than a sign of quality so it makes a lot of sense that they're rewarding stuff like Arrival, a boring movie…

They're going to slowly but surely remake Eastwood movies until he dies and then it'll be less than a day before the Dirty Harry remake rights get sold.

Jason Schwartzman is so bad in Listen Up Philip that I almost turned it off but I'm glad I didn't because I would have missed the scene where Jonathan Pryce starts bullying him for being short.

They had jokes on TV about how the Nazis were actually good and the LGBT movement was the reason for Hillary Clinton losing the election but they consider a joke about Barron Trump too much. It's hard to even claim respectability politics on this one.

I liked Queen of the Earth a lot but it was almost all entirely down to Katherine Waterston, Elisabeth Moss and the commitment to, rather than the quality of, the premise. Rarely does a film do nothing at all to try and redeem the characters involved.

Who would have thought comic books could attract weird conservatives? Anyway, back to sending death threats to Shane Black for ruining The Mandarin.

Now I am intrigued. Thanks.

I played a game of this with the new Obama deck and it's pretty good:-

That guy is such a dweeb. You can see why people like that are a big deal online but rarely seen in real life.

I was interested in seeing this until I saw Bullet in the Head. It was the last Walter Hill movie I had to see and it ended up feeling like the least Walter Hill movie of his whole filmography. I don't know how someone with such incredible visual sensibilities and knowledge of pulp storytelling could have made…

Does this have anything to do with the earlier Resident Evil games? I've only seen this article and a few brief mentions on Twitter and nothing has mentioned Umbrella, S.T.A.R.S., etc.

My major takeaway is that it made me think the Harvard bore stereotype is true because La La Land could only be made by someone who has no personality. It isn't nostalgic or self-aware enough to work, it's just out of date and would crumble without Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in it.

Two movies ago they returned and now there's only one remaining? I'm not interested until I can buy the comic book that explains where they all went again.