"Go on…" - Tina Belcher

I'll always remember Planes thanks to the incredibly tasteless marketing stunt I saw, with a plane trailing a banner saying "PLANES: Crashing into cinemas this summer!"

I think because Jones is clearly the author of the interesting things about it: the Orc characterisation, the classy supporting cast, the occasional flashes of humour. It's not a terrible movie, but it always feels like there's a legitimately good one that can't get out from under the piles of studio memos.

Apparently he's just got Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard for Mute, a SF/noir he's been trying to get off the ground since Moon came out. So there's an upside.

It makes me feel like a terrible snob to agree with this, but I agree with this. One of the go-to defences for Zack Snyder's Superman films is "Well, Marvel do sunny kid-friendly superhero movies, so DC do dark, disturbing ones - are you saying you want all movies to be the same?" The idea that moviegoing choice…

The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Twelve Monkeys were all technically for-hire jobs, in that they were based off scripts and ideas that had been floating around Hollywood long before Gilliam got involved. Definitely not standard franchise stuff, of course.

It's nice to set yourself low, achievable goals.

"In the old days you could get your head and submerge it in a vat of boiling acid. And now they're going 'Oh, don't do that - what if Jews see it?'"

It is, but - ssh! You're meant to be archly disappointed! Bonus points if your reason is "Well, in the intervening decade-and-a-half other people have done the same thing as them, but not as well, so they suck".

"Please give me the clap."

It's more a problem with the method of analysis than the films, though. Gilliam and Jeunet's films are obviously absurdist and satirical, and I remember there being some criticisms about the world-building plausibility of Snowpiercer too. I mean, the society in Brazil obviously wouldn't work in real life at all, but…

Eh, I'm not sure any system of class inequality can survive that kind of screenwriting-logic analysis, because it's not a phenomenon that makes any sense in real life. In my country the government is currently pushing a massive anti-immigrant drive at the same time as it's encouraging rich immigrants to buy up houses…

Donnie Darko to Southland Tales?

A Marvel/DC Crossover: Assholes on Infinite Earths.

Is zie funny or something?

The only problem with this outline is that Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel are both scheduled to open in between halves of Infinity War, and I'm not at all sure how you can go from a huge cosmic this-changes-everything event to an Ant-Man sequel without intense tonal whiplash. Possibly Infinity Wars 1 is only…

The producers tried to tell him that, but he reached in his pocket and pulled out a laminated copy of a subclause in Texas's Romeo and Juliet laws which permits being a dick to underage extras.

Colin Farrell is the best example of this. Absolutely alive in support and comic roles, but nobody can get past the fact that he really, really, really looks like someone who should be a blockbuster action star.

Quiet Explosions sounds like a sensitive Sundance indie-comedy about bereavement starring Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Daniels.

SPILL EVERYTHING