“It’s based, like Princess Bride, on a book—Neil Gaiman’s 1998 novel of the same name, itself an expansion of his earlier comic-book miniseries.”

“it’s widely considered the first full-length motion picture, and Griffith effectively invented the close-up and fade-out”

No, there’s definitely empathy there too. The very last shot of the first episode is him and Baby Yoda on the verge of Michelangelo fingers.

Yodas?

It’s all over the place and takes an age to get going but it has some genuinely inspired moments (the Martian Girl sequence is cherishable).

What’s all this Mass Effect stuff when it’s flagrantly the Butlerian Jihad from ‘Dune’ (and the rumbling-away-in-the-background-but-never-quite-coming-into-focus driver of the much of the action in Frank Herbert’s last few sequels)?

My lovely horse/running through the field./Where are you going,/with your fetlocks blowing/in the wind?

1) ‘Howard the Duck’ is not technically a superhero movie. 2) It is, however, only the fourth best film with Howard the Duck in it.

“the actor playing her son overplayed it to the point where I lost all sympathy for him”

Regardless of the quality or otherwise of the VFX, surely the point is that it’s bad form for people quite high up in the food chain of a famous disaster to be making jokes about people much lower down said food chain in front of an audience of literally millions?

Kylo Ren’s by far the most compelling character in any Star Wars film. Darth Vader was a big scary evil bloke in big scary evil robes and helmet who turned out OK in the end because... reasons, allegedly... and later we on we discover he was just a stroppy teen.

The screenplay categories, where everyone who’ll be baffled by the Best Picture winner ten years from now will find the films they thought should have won.

‘Dark Knight’ is great whenever Heath Ledger is on screen. And is also a better Joker movie than ‘Joker’.

“a self-serious origin story for maybe the most famous of comic book adversaries”

Multiple internal personalities seeking to control a host body and characters who are aware of the audience and can hear the narration: ‘Mr. Robot’ turned out to be a lot more like ‘Doom Patrol’ than I expected.

Some of us are still trying work out where the child abduction subplot was supposed to be going before it completely vanished from ‘Batman Returns’.

*cough* Booksmart *cough*

‘“Oh, now he makes sense,” track-and-field fans could think. “Otherwise he’s just a Mary Sue!”’

It’s not about hate. People hated it... in 2009. People loved it... in 2009. It was a genuine phenomenon... in 2009.

I liked this film better when it was called ‘Midsommar’.