I don't think it's a coincidence that the internet started mandating that every film be 'fun' - loosely defined as a lightly self-critical and referential tone that's apparent throughout - around the time Nolan dropped The Dark Knight Rises. Up until then, his movies had been good because he legitimised Batman: before…

So what is it the people actually want from a Batman film? A quick fire, referential comedy about Batman or a trilogy of tedious objectivist apologia starring Batman? The only similarities between these two movies is the protagonist is a guy in a bat suit.

If that's what people wanted from a Batman movies, why did they spend so much money Dawn of Justice and on Christopher Nolan's trilogy?

I'm glad you said that because that's exactly how I felt. I wouldn't go as far as saying I was a musical theatre snob but I'm a fan of the genre and the whole thing felt like a cliff notes version of a 50s musical with a really bad Jaques Demy twist that's drawing critical acclaim because very few are aware of those…

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter: Paul W.S. Anderson has said that he has director's cuts of all his movies and I hope his version of this has less Doobie White on it. The first act feels like it's been mangled in the edit and the second and third acts feel like a fight between director and editor, at its best when…

This post is good proof that we need to keep capitalists away from education.

The critical argument is a limp one. It tends to be that critics are good if they agree and are pretentious if they don't. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky agrees with me on Paul W.S. Anderson and Richard Brody doesn't but that doesn't mean one is right and the other isn't. As for popular culture and entertainment, there is more…

The sides have changed. He's now a generic conservative pundit (with the occasional Lady Gaga satanic ritual story) and the generic liberal pundits are now frothing at the mouth over byzantine conspiracy theories.

The Winter Soldier is like someone made a spy movie for children and put Robert Redford in it so people would have the easy reference point.

There's behind the scenes footage of Iron Man Three showing he does a lot of his full body scenes wearing lifts and his mid shots and close ups on a raised platform.

There will be "no more taste," unlike in the days of Obama when sophisticates indulged in Iron Man 2 and The Winter Soldier.

It's the only Wong Kar-wai I haven't seen and the reaction to it seems odd because I saw the redux version he released some years later and loved it and can't imagine how it could be so different in a meaningful way.

Finally, we've found the person who thought RoboCop was too subtle.

Everyone keeps saying 1984 because it's the only book they've read besides for Harry Potter.

I didn't see this but the trailers reminded me of when Peter Kay started singing as Geraldine. It starts out as a joke but ends up coming across like they're really trying to prove they can be a pop star. The stuff in the show with Brent's songs was great, and played well into Gervais' history with Seona Dancing, but…

I thought it was funnier than anything Gervais has done in years.

That's also why I think the Falcons didn't run it at the end. As with Pete Carroll calling for a pass play at the end of Super Bowl 49, it feels like the coaches are in their own heads trying to figure out how to outmanoeuvre Belichick.

It's the Dan Quinn system. Overload on fouls knowing full well that the referees aren't going to stop the game for every single play.

I think your opinion on Tyree's catch is affected by the first sentence of your post.

Being an adult seems almost exactly like being a vindictive child that got their comeuppance at one of the biggest events of the year.