With movies and TV shows, I want the best image, and that means the highest bitrate, and the highest bitrate means disc.

With video games, I’m split - I just got an Xbox One last year, it’s quite convenient to shift between games without having to change discs. The drawback is that I can’t resell when I’m finished,…

I realized something a few months, that, although I am a fan of 80's films, I am a contrarian in the sense that what I prefer is similar but different to some of the default “classics” of the era.

So then:

If you love Top Gun, I prefer Iron Eagle
If you love E.T., I prefer Short Circuit
If you love The Goonies, I…

As of September 2017, it’s on Blu-ray now. After not having not seen it for more than a decade, it still holds up (appreciably bolstered by the Spielbergian John Williams score) but I could have done without Jinx, or the Star Wars references that date it. It was a big hit when it premiered on HBO in August of 1987 (so…

Having had the experience of having my own father die unexpectedly, this episode captures the feeling of the painful aftermath, but it couldn’t have done so without the quality of the writing and the acting, which has to be among the best I’ve ever seen on a television series.

I never saw Gordon’s illness as a setup for a payoff; I was so surprised I had to stop and wonder if they had to write in the death because something had happened to the actor.

It's not very complicated: with Buffy, Whedon instigated the trend, and J.J. Abrams followed it, of having a "strong woman" character whose essential characteristic is that she could kick your ass and everyone else's - and her lines were written by a relatively nerdy white male who held the typology in an idealistic…

Some of these ideas are better than others, but the fundamental constant is that it would still have to be a man. There are some instances in which the typology is perhaps irrelevant. The Ghostbusters remake/reboot was not awful specifically because of the change in gender, but because of things like casting and…

By the way, I agree that the comparison to The First Avenger is apt, but Wonder Woman is a lot better than that Captain America movie.

I think there are some people who are defending Wonder Woman because they're excited there's finally a superhero movie about a female superhero - and it's not even crappy, it's actually not bad! And it was directed by a woman! And its box office success proves that it's good! It even made Milana Vayntrub cry ! (and…

I'm going to defend Twilight - the first one at least, which showed promise, but then failed to develop its metaphysical themes in favor of melodrama that became more ridiculous with each sequel. I'm also going to dissent about Wonder Woman - some things were well done, but not enough. Jenkins is getting a lot of…

I watched it over two days from Sunday night through this morning. Would anyone have tried to do this if they didn't know that many would binge watch? But it's still structured like an episodic TV series rather than a 13 hour movie - and the fact is that to make one long movie about a raid, 13 hours is too long,…

And then all the other heroes break into a chorus of Neil Diamond's "Turn on Your Heartlight"…

Maybe the series would have been better had it renamed The Awkward Love Story of Danny Rand and Colleen Wing, switching narrative perspectives between the two of them?

"I'm Danny Rand and I've come to destroy The Hand! If you won't talk about The Hand, you will have to talk to The Fist!"

I am amused by the fact that amid the discussion on the show about Danny's vow of chastity, no seemed to want to utter the word "virgin". Also I completely agree that the “Are you sure you wanna do this?” line (classic line as in trope? or just classic period? as I did have that said to me as well) should have been…

From my POV as an anti-Trump Republican, Danny Rand (the apropos quote above notwithstanding) is a lot more like the feckless GOP primary voter who thought that by siding with Meachum (Trump) he was helping to defeat The Hand (the Democrats) when all he was doing was enabling Meachum to help himself. The enemy of your…

The first two seasons of Arrow were "appointment television", but I'm not sure how Berlanti and his crew managed such a quality given his subsequent output. Part of the problem is the aforementioned "corporate mandate" wherein a successful show must be renewed simply because it is successful, and then some of us…

You left out Kathryn Hahn and Ana Gasteyer. Also Julia Roberts, Juliette Binoche, and Monica Potter.

If this had been a European series, it would have ended with the loss of the mother anyway, the moral of the series being that life and time is constructed in such a way that we cannot escape the inevitability of our fate, we cannot overcome it by will or intelligence.

I went to binge watch this over the weekend, and as it starts out, it touches upon one aspect of the time travel scenario that is often passed over: does an alternative timeline still exist in the mind and heart of the person who experienced it? If the series had been just about that, it would have been far more…