I'm always ready to talk some HARD TARGET.

I was actually surprised. Like I said I don't think it's that anyone clamored for an UNBREAKABLE sequel, but enough people had seen it that the moment lands.

Yeah I've started down that rabbit hole. It mainly just seems to be a bunch of nonsense ramblings.

Singer is a weird case. I've always liked this movie well enough (Though yes, its limitations come through clear) but THE USUAL SUSPECTS is so self-assured, particularly for something as twisting as that movie (And really in the hands of a lesser filmmaker, it could come off way worse), but then I watched X-MEN…

Verbal is clearly there and involved, but there's nothing that really says outright that he's Soze. Or that Soze actually exists.

The casting of Cruise is such a non-issue to me. And to be fair in the books Reacher almost reaches (heh) super-human status at times. His casting is only really an issue if you're slavishly devoted to the source material. And to be fair they do a good job of making it seem like Cruise could fuck you up (The fight in…

No one is missing the point that you're valiantly trying to make. But all you're doing is insisting that because a character uses a line about being broken, a line which by the way encapsulates the whole thesis of the movie, then people would make the connection that this is set in the UNBREAKABLE universe or whatever…

I don't think it's entirely successful at it, but it straddles this strange line between nazi-killing madness and then real character work. SPOILERS I guess, but by the end I was sad to see BJ go, but they do a great job of establishing just how utterly worn down he is.

I agree with IRON MAN II, it's a dire movie for many reasons. But that avoids what I said, which is that the first IRON MAN movie isn't spoiled by the Nick Fury scene, and I don't think this one is either. SPLIT still has a coherent beginning, middle and end. It still tells a story. The scene we're talking about comes…

According to Klein it was to send him to sleep. Which is overkill.

Really this is overblown. The scene comes after the title card. It's like being angry that IRON MAN ends with the Nick Fury scene. It doesn't alter anything from what came before.

Based on my screening last night in a packed cinema, a lot of people got it. It's going to be anecdotal, but enough people on the way out were high on it.

Yeah I buy it. He lays it out pretty simply that Kevin was a minor character in UNBREAKABLE and was a subplot that he ultimately cut out at the scripting stage. You can see why he'd want to go back to that idea.

To be fair it's not that out of the realm of possibility. One crazy nickname for a guy reminds her of another crazy nickname for a guy.

The "M NIGHT ALWAYS DELIVERS A TWIST" thing is so overblown anyway. This was great because it gets spelled out multiple times what's going to happen at the end, and then it just happens.

The only ones that was outright bad was THE LADY IN THE WATER and THE LAST AIRBENDER. Even THE HAPPENING, in hindsight, feels like him trying to do the horror/laughs thing but being far less successful at it.

EW just did a little oral history of UNBREAKABLE, and Shyamalan and others bring up the same thing. Essentially the studio didn't know how to market it and tried to sell it as a deep brooding thriller.

I saw this last night and the crowd actually gasped, which is rare for a UK audience as we're normally so subdued. It isn't that people class UNBREAKABLE as their favourite movie or anything, but they certainly recognised what Shyamalan was doing.

According to Arnold Klein, Jackson was having propofol administered professionally while on tour in 96/97. Janet Jackson says that they tried to have an intervention for Jackson in 2007, two years before Murray came on the scene. The family have now denied that, but I think they're trying to save face in some way.

This happens all the time in cases like this. Families have a hard time accepting that their loved one died a fairly banal death, that's probably true of larger than life figures like MJ and Prince. They're these massive stars who are ultimately cut down by very human flaws, such as addiction.