Every new piece of casting information just confirms the wisdom of the Twitter genius (whose handle, for the moment, escapes me) who called this movie “Infinity War for people who listen to St. Vincent.” I don’t believe it was meant as a burn, or at least not as an unsympathetic one, but I sure as shit felt…

This could be interesting. The focus on ultra-violence makes the project sound like a relic of the early aughts, when torture porn and “Asia Extreme” were in fashion. But Zahler has more going for him than that.

It seems like such a no-brainer to write The Flash as a super-powered screwball comedy, but if Ezra Miller wants to go “darker” then he could do a lot worse than enlisting Grant Morrison, who has always been able to strike an interesting balance between whimsy and depravity. The one caveat is that Morrison is…

Former first-year composition teacher here. The surprising part of this story is not that rich people find ridiculous ways of getting their know-nothing children into fancy schools. It is that all the socially acceptable methods were apparently not enough: expensive tutors, ghost writers for important essays, legacy…

And now that you mention it, Whedon did write X-Men as well. I was among the few who didn’t like it (I don’t like Whedon’s comic work in general, with Fray as an exception).

And no one suffers from this more than Bree Larson, an actress who can become anything you want, but doesn’t bring an automatic charm or charisma if you don’t like say, a Bruce Willis. Her entire character is a smirk and a listlessly delivered wisecrack. She doesn’t come across as a hardened soldier for the Kree…

Lying on your back to shoot up through floorboards WAS pretty great, though. Same with the Rambo-style spiked branch traps you could set.

Instincts was a good time on the 360. The first half of the game makes you spend so long skulking through the grass and firing silenced shots up through floorboards that the powers are incredibly cathartic. Forget this stealth crap, I’m going to leap a ravine and punch that sniper across the map.

Why wouldn’t we have been excited for Iron Man 3?

Alternate title: Be Okay with Giving Game Companies Interest-free Loans.

I went through this experience with Red Dead before the game’s online component made its debut. I was excited for a western world that would reward Skyrim levels of exploration, but despite the incredible detail that went into the game’s world the whole thing just felt cumbersome and dull. I would finish a couple of…

Alita on the other hand is an original work not backed up by the awesome might of the largest media corporation in the world and, despite very positive reactions by moviegoers who have actually seen it, will struggle with gaining the box office numbers necessary to justify a well deserved sequel.

This seems like more evidence that sites should just get rid of user reviews. Most of them seem to be written by trolls and illiterates, and whatever traffic they generate is not worth the way the degrade the entire idea of criticism. The concept might make sense for online stores, where you can verify a purchase, but…

The Academy may need to make more specific rules about the theatrical runs for streaming releases, just to keep Netflix honest, but the divide between theatrical films and streaming is more complicated than Spielberg is acknowledging.

This is a good step, but Rotten Tomatoes should just do the sensible thing: dump user reviews. Whatever notional value they have is immediately contradicted by...you know...looking at them. Troll reviews are the norm, not the exception.

I finally saw it last night (just in time for the Oscars), and as a condescending elitist snob, I think it’s easily better than half of the Best Picture nominees— maybe even all of them, with the exception of Roma and The Favourite.

I would have voted for Isle of Dogs, but this movie was delightful. I’m not sure I’ve seen another superhero movie with such a free-wheeling attitude toward the source material. The Spider-Man story happens so many times, in so many different ways, that the characters can only really be faithful to their circumstances…

It was good to see this film win for costume design and production design. Say what you want about the script, Black Panther has a clear sense of style, inspired as much by Afro-futurism as by comics. Best score...why not?

It is hard to think of another star who has built such a good reputation on such bad movies. Maybe Bruce Lee? The pleasure in a Will Smith movie is in watching him rise above the material, so he should either fire his agent or give them a big honking raise, depending on how you want to look at it.

Yep, it’s pretty good for a horror movie with a budget that makes Blumhouse look luxurious. Good talking to you.