Max Von Sydow is 88 years old, and making big-budget movies is from all accounts incredibly draining. Abrams may not have wanted to go down in history as the man who killed beloved actor Max Von Sydow.

Some people get a little too attached to their favorite shows.

So… has Joe Straczynski ever managed to make a TV series that hit its expected episode count without absurd amounts of drama? Have we considered the possibility that he might be kinda cursed?

"For some reason it seems like Netflix would be able to say, "Meh, you get an hour and a half to wrap it all up" more than other platforms."

Sadly that's a pretty good summary of just about every Wachowski project since The Matrix. (Apologists for Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas: ugh, can we not?) I really wish they'd branch out a little bit: the high concept / high budget stuff hit diminishing returns for them around the time "Reloaded" came out. I'd love…

Please, please, don't ask that.

I was just a few days ago digging back into the far reaches of my collection and pulled out "Handsome Boy Modelling School", the Automator / Prince Paul collaboration from 99, and damned if there wasn't El, knocking it outta the box on a track. I remember liking it at the time but who'd've thought that kid would go…

First time I read your comment I missed the "In" and thought "fuck yeah, that'd be a great idea, is it too late to call up Vernon Reid?"

AVClub Folks: there is 100% no need to use the word "allegedly" with regard to Polanski drugging and raping Geimer. He did that, he pled guilty, and his plea was accepted. The case is done and he is a convicted rapist. Convicted for raping her: nothing alleged about it.

Sense8 actually was the top rated Netflix show.

Alas there is no reason that the following things cannot simultaneously be true:

TYPING IN ALL CAPITALS MAKES YOU SOUND VERY WELL INFORMED AND COMPLETELY RATIONAL.

It's worth following Joe Straczynski's twitter feed if you're curious about the logistical details. The short answer is that it mostly wouldn't matter: once the cancellation order came through, the cast and crew were released from their contracts and immediately started looking for — and finding — new work. (It turns…

Never, ever forget the greatest Adam West story of all time: when he and Frank Gorshin stumbled into an orgy… and 20 minutes later were kicked out of the orgy for refusing to break character as Batman and the Riddler. Yes, for real: http://www.blastr.com/2014-…

Now that Cornell has passed on, are we due for a reappraisal of Audioslave?

Ever since Cornell died, I've been listening to Temple of the Dog for the first time in roughly 25 years.

Belated followup: finally got around to seeing Logan and holy crap that one sticks the landing.

Counter-suggestion: if you want an uncritical 85-100% score for a big-money tentpole movie, there are literally dozens of reviewers and magazines who's entire business model is predicated on never doing anything but that.

It's a weird take. Moulton-Marston knew Sanger, but inasmuch as Wonder Woman was based on any one particular person, it was Olive Byrne, the longtime companion of both Marston and his wife Elizabeth. WW's bracelets were modelled on the armbands that Byrne wore in lieu of a wedding ring.

I think you're generally right that the Marvel Studio films have a consistent problem with falling apart in the third act. That said I personally thought that The Winter Soldier mostly stuck the landing and GotG2 came surprisingly close. (If it had at any point in the first half of the movie reminded us why we were…