Eli Roth does clear the Paul W S Anderson bar, but just barely.

The trailer looked fun, but I’m a little worried about it being a TV show. It could easily work as a movie, but can they really wring 6-10 hours out of the idea?

If “time is a flat circle” is the go-to example, did he ever deserve that mantle?

Spending 10 minutes building to a reveal when the movie had clearly explained how the portal device thing worked was certainly an interesting approach. It’s one thing for Miles to forget in the heat of the moment, but why the hell didn’t anyone in the Spider-Society immediately clock where he’d really ended up (or,…

There are cliffhangers, and there’s Across the Spider-Verse’s decision to just stop mid-story. When the next one is out and we can watch them back-to-back, it’ll probably be great, but that was a bad way to end an otherwise very good film.

If something is announced as an origin story it generally implies the biggest adventures are yet to come

Great, yet another movie designed as a 2-hour trailer for another movie that may or may not be made.

Yeah, Babel was apparently published in China, so they killed the favourite for seemingly no reason.

They don’t need to retool it, it was a fantastic show... for 7 episodes. The writing nosedived the instant that they killed off Cottonmouth and replaced him with whatever the fuck Diamondback was supposed to be*, and never even came close to reaching that high watermark again.

Evil’s past two seasons have featured thematic episode titles.

I don’t think it’s about leaving out context. By all means, include an aside about what a miserable bigot Cleese is. But it should perhaps be an aside, not a diatribe — save those for when he’s done some new miserabilist bigotry that warrants the commentary.

I don’t think they do have that reputation, which makes it all the weirder.

Announcing that the new Alien film is unwatchable, even to the people making it, is certainly an... uh... interesting PR approach.

a first-rate criminologist and forensic detective

I read Forever’s novelisation by Peter David before I saw the film, and it certainly had more happening on that front. Though I couldn’t guess how much of that was added by David and how much was in some version of the script but just didn’t make the final cut.

Slight aside, but my feeling is that “a pretty good Burton movie” is a low bar. His whimsical gothic schtick was wearing thin after approximately one movie, and beyond the style, even his supposed best films have precious little going for them (that said, I can absolutely understand if the style just speaks to…

Forever is not great, but yeah, it’s fine. Schumacher’s two movies often get lumped together and that’s unfair because it’s nowhere near as bad as Batman & Robin. It’s arguably a better movie than Returns (which has some great costume design, but otherwise is a mess).

Batman & Robin?

You’re right: Tenet was far more linear. We spend virtually the entire movie following a single protagonist through events in the order he experiences them.

Not to rule out the possibility of there being more to it, but there are millions of abandoned homes out there. It wouldn’t be especially difficult to find clothes, if you were immune to the effects of the Simian Flu.