He put out a deconstruction of Richard III a while back that was great. Sadly, the site it was hosted on is gone and all that i can find on YouTube is the clip for the opening monologue. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

At this point, I'm kind of rooting for Bernthal to show up as the antagonist—or at least in a pre-credits mini-adventure—in a solo Spider-Man film.

If you get Alexander to direct the pilot and somehow work Lundgren, Jane, and Stevenson into villain roles, I'd commit to signing up for Netflix through the run of the series.

You knew there was something up with that character the second you recognized the actor.

Jon Hamm as Superman, Harvey Keitel as Batman, Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman, and Joe Morton as Norman McCay in Kingdom Come.

In terms of plot, it was faithful. In terms of the tone and themes of the story, it was completely off. As a film, it was like one of I Love Lucy scenes where she's at a factory line or bakery and perfectly mimicking the moves of the other workers without really understanding the purpose of the moves.

This. Nolan liked to play with the 'killing v. letting die' distinction in moral philosophy, of which the train sequence is a textbook portrayal.

The rights are framed as unalienable in the Declaration of Independence and most other work on rights by the Framers—the basic idea of the American Revolution being that our rights are granted to us by virtue of our humanity, they are not privileges extended to us by those who govern us—and most interpreters view the…

Given how this series has turned the Kents into emotional terrorists who probably took in Kal El because they'd been denied adoption and fostering applications on psychological grounds time and again, I sort of wish they went in this direction.

This argument is why I am scared of this case or a case like it going to SCOTUS, especially if Garland—who is actually to the right of Scalia on a lot of issues in this area or God forbid someone even worse—gets in. This is the kind of case made for the Roberts Court. Make a generally popular ruling that will turn…

I had actually forgot all about Doink the Clown until I read this.

All the rights in the Constitution are meant to be absolute. But ultimately our legal concepts are interpreted and enforced or not enforced or even violated by human beings. When you mix that reality with the way the powerful are actually trying to make even the most educated among us stupid—and the general stupidity…

It's a kind of Dark Knight Rises thing. How Marvel explains today's Hell's Kitchen being like what Hell's Kitchen was actually like when Daredevil was created is that "The Incident" basically leveled Midtown. So, Fisk and the Hand were using the massive amount of redevelopment and plummeted real estate value to seize…

He just took the shells, not the gun—he gave the guy money to disarm himself, basically.

This seems like a chicken and egg thing. Did Miller not go crazy until late his career or is it just now that the industry is basically voicing its death rattle and he sells a lot of issues that editors just won't tell him no like they used to?

Apparently most shows don't play with the format in order to keep the content licensable for international broadcast.

Most parents in this country have sort of horrifically violent fantasies about child predators when thinking about them in purely abstract/hypothetical terms. It's not a big leap to think a guy who already sees himself as judge, jury, and executioner of society's worst after losing his kid would jump at the chance to…

I would actually be excited for that if they went completely weird with Howard the Duck and made the movie the Colbert Report-type satire of right-wing ideology his title was in the comics.

On a business level, I have a feeling it's to bolster traffic with Star Wars and Guardians-related traffic.

Forget his mind, the dude has to wash the sheets of a batshit crazy person who gets in fights with and beds equally crazy people for kicks on a constant basis. I don't want to think about the weirdly high level of exposure to all sorts of blood-borne diseases he has for a butler.