I feel like if your marriage can’t agree that Salma Hayek and/or Antonio Banderes are hall-pass material, what are you even doing together?

Damnit, we’re never gonna get an actual adaptation of Replay, because crappy knock-offs of it have salted the earth. :(

This movie looks atrocious but I’d like us all to look at these pictures and ponder one small fact:

Whoa. I generally fancy myself to be a painfully nerdy authority on Doctor Who trivia, but I literally had no idea.

Wait what now?! Of all of your many and variegated pulls from the past, this one blew my mind: there was a 7th Doctor / Fantastic Four crossover?

Deadline says that means it is “likely” that the studio will find “new talent” to play the young versions of Aubrey and Maturin

If you feel like giving her another try at some point, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is definitely a lot less interested in playing head games with the reader than the Broken Earth books.

As a side-effect of dating someone with a serious thing for Keanu Reeves, I actually saw Johnny Mnemonic in the theaters — if not opening weekend then very soon after, because boy oh boy did that film not do well — and I can assure you that it was just as perplexingly awful when it was brand new.

THIS. Jessup was a raging narcissist and psychopath who turned what was basically a pre-retirement junket posting into an excuse to go full Colonel Kurtz. The movie is not subtle about this.  And yet.

A Few Good Men is a great movie that’s aged weirdly because a shocking number of people walked out of it with a very weird idea of who the hero of it was.

Death talking in all-caps is a bit from Terry Pratchett’s books. (Good Omens and the Discworld novels primarily.)

The phrase “adapted by the author” has always been less than reassuring to me: William Gibson wrote the screenplay for Johnny Mnemonic and look how that worked out.

Seriously we are years overdue for a Joan Chen renaissance.  Someone at least give her a Taken knockoff or something.

I think it’s hard to talk about this in a way that respects everyone’s autonomy. Suicide is, in the end, a choice that everyone has. And it’s a choice that I personally think people should have: obviously the terminally and painfully ill, but in the end none of us ask to be born and should have the option to choose…

Ditto.  There were a small handful of celebrity deaths from our last few hellish years that actually hit me hard, and Bourdain was #1 on that list. :(

I think it’s under-reported that Grimes and Musk are effectively part of a religious cult, for which “AI will save/destroy us” gobbledegook of this sort is liturgical speaking.

Absolutely.  Being God in the Watchmen universe is a poisoned chalice: humans have, or at least get to believe they have, free will.  God is a clockwork automaton, trapped in his or her own continuity.  Angela should have known better.

Damnit I was going to like your post but it’s at a very nice 69 stars already and it’s just too good to waste.

Neither here nor there, but you do have to appreciate the sheer intentional perverseness of casting Jenna Coleman in your adaptation of Sandman, but not casting her as Death.

The thing I absolutely loved about Casino Royale was that Le Chiffre wasn’t a Goldfinger-esque supervillain. He was just an asset that MI5 wanted to turn: a smart man who’d made a few risky decisions and was getting more dangerous as his options narrowed.