Farscape had its ups and downs as a series, but it’s aged a lot better than just about any of its peers, and there’s a lesson there: a puppet may look goofy when you film it, but it will look exactly as goofy, no more and no less twenty years later, whereas 20 year old CGI compositing will look like complete and total…

It’s a truism among my friends in the SJW set that we’ll know we’ve achieve racial equality in entertainment when A-list black actors are just as free to make mediocre, for-the-money hackwork as Tom Cruise or Matt Damon without it harming their careers, and as much as I love Mr. Elba everything I’ve read or seen about…

The ship has sailed for sure, but the primary takeaway from both Prometheus and Covenant is that Ridley Scott has no more idea what made the first film special than any random dude you’d stop on the sidewalk.

I’m with you man, but this battle feels like rolling a boulder up the side of another, much larger boulder.

“...sorry!”

Technically the book was the adaptation -- the radio series predated it.

As much as I sympathize with this emotionally, I gotta think that adding hizzoner and hizzoner’s security detail and a regular mob of people trying to yell at him or ask questions (or really: yell at him more) to the miseries already suffered by commuters on the F train would be the opposite of helpful.

Yeah, it’s a worry. There’ve been half a dozen or so Discworld adaptations now and not a single one of them has been better than “okay.” And Gaiman’s instincts w/r/t TV writing/production are... I think “uneven” might be as charitable as I can manage.

Sadly, this is almost certainly not going to happen. On the scale of treatability, pancreatic cancer is absolutely dead last. If you’re lucky enough to have the rare islet cell type (the kind Steve Jobs had) and you catch it early, and you’re willing to go through a horror-movie-awful procedure called the Whipple…

I will not attempt to convince you to like mayo. The damage has clearly already been done, and you’re one of many. The sad fact is, mayonnaise has been turned into inedible extruded glop by the exigencies of modern mass production. And America, never a place to halfway commit to a bad idea, made it a thousand times…

there’s a fundamental difference between visual media made to show on a theater screen, and that designed to run on a monitor or a phone

“he was actually born in the United Kingdom”

I had high hopes for this, but it’s more expensive than Apple’s 87W charger. I get that the multi-port aspect is handy, but it’s pretty rare when I’m travelling that I want to charge my laptop and my phone on the same table, so it’s sorta wasted on me. Hopefully Anker will fill out some of the “missing middle” of the…

I had high hopes for this, but it’s more expensive than Apple’s 87W charger. I get that the multi-port aspect is…

Hey, Swedish songwriters gotta eat.

Why hello there, AVclub’s other CT reader. :)

Amen. Johansson and Evans really did an amazing job of selling how their relationship works in just a few short scenes: she’ll flirt with him to bust his balls because she can tell it makes him slightly uncomfortable, but there’s a mutual recognition that they’re essentially two different species as far as their…

Every generation has One Guy who’s so pretty that even otherwise more or less entirely straight guys say “damn” and feel no remorse about it.  Chris Evans is pretty clearly it for the 2010s.

Like, I suspect, a lot of people, I skipped The Winter Soldier in the theaters — I’d liked “The First Avenger” well enough, but it hadn’t done that much for me and I figured I’d get around to the sequel eventually. I found myself on a cross-country flight where it was available and figured “what the heck, why not...”

Yes, this exactly. Admittedly it’s completely cheating to cast Robert fucking Redford in the part and have him effortlessly walk away with it, but for my money Alexander Pierce is the best and scariest villain the MCU has produced so far: he’s smart, charming, friendly, funny, and obviously someone you’d want to like…

The writers for this season are really phoning it in.