Well, I just finished binge-watching the entire series over the course of a month and I can tell you that series that last for ten years are not meant to be binge-watched. Because the benefit of binge-watching is to see the story told as a whole at once. When you watch something made with the intention of being…

The reason Terminator:Genisys was such a dud was because the filmmakers didn't seem to get the low-budget stalker horror film vibe that the original film gave off, and not getting it, they couldn't have fun with it, or do anything else interesting.

Cameron is the genius programmer, Donna is the earnest businesswoman, Joe is the visionary salesman, and Gordon is hardware expert. I see that as the defining talent of each, even though their skills overlap. Between all four of them, there is a perfectly functioning company, if they happened to be perfectly…

I don't mind the "tune in next week!" but the mannered framing is getting old, and if the show is supposed to be about both mental illness and leftist anarchism, the two themes are getting in each other's way.

"while this discussion is vital to be having with any series, especially one with no black writers"

Is the surname "Healy" intended to be ironic? Healy was bad at his job, but it always like the writers were kind of implying he was bad at his job because he was a white male. I don't understand why a white male had a such a job at a woman's prison, especially one which is populated by so many ethnicities. But that…

I have had movies and TV shows affected by the semi-spoiler (The Force Awakens being the most recent example), and like the reviewer says, it doesn't ruin things necessarily, it just changes perspectives. If the episode or the film is strong enough already, it can withstand even full spoilage because quality is not…

The series should be re-named "The Passion of Vanessa Ives".

I'm not sure if John Logan's purpose was ever to exhaustively re-imagine all the characters of pulp Victorian fiction (as surely the series could go on in that vein, as others have suggested) but rather to utilize those familiar characters for his own meditation on sin and evil.

There was, in fact, a 1990 film entitled "Frankenhooker".

Of the three best shows on TV right now - The Americans, Outlander, and Penny Dreadful - the graphic nature seems most integral to Outlander, whereas there seems to be little necessity to see the naked butts of either Keri Russell or Eva Green.

My girlfriend makes me fast forward through the rape scenes when we watch the episodes together, then I go back later to watch it myself. I can see the case to be made for showing what happened to Jamie, but I'm not so sure that portraying a child rape was necessary, though I haven't gone back to watch those scenes…

This is an "onion" episode - I spent most of it crying, or on the verge of crying, my eyes were starting to burn. It is all very deeply felt and well acted.

"I keep wondering if the food and wine they are all eating and drinking in 18th-century Scotland would actually be good."

I would also add that I'm curious as to what the incidence of headless women on the covers of modern comic books, which I suspect is more common, even among titles one might think are produced with a feminist bent in mind. I just noticed the first cover of Supergirl from 1996 cuts off half her face - but how much of…

Most of this stuff is from low-brow comedies or direct to video crap. No matter that it's anti-feminist, I don't really care about politicizing aesthetics like that, but it's objectively lame posters from objectively lame movies that objectively objectify women. And it started with bloody James Bond, that low angle…

Honestly, someday someone might make a remake with that soundtrack.

Honestly, someday someone might make a remake with that soundtrack.

This is actually the only Prince album I know and have listened to. While I was never a fan of the pansexual image he projected, he did take the Batman thematics about duality a lot more seriously than the 1989 screenwriters did. There was an article about it in Film Comment at the time.

This is actually the only Prince album I know and have listened to. While I was never a fan of the pansexual image he projected, he did take the Batman thematics about duality a lot more seriously than the 1989 screenwriters did. There was an article about it in Film Comment at the time.