God, if only the Whitaker years had been “Broadchurch but with aliens.” Broadchurch was consistently good.  I feel genuinely sorry for Chibnall: the thing he wanted to do most in the world turned out to be something that he was very bad at. I hope he’s got another downbeat police procedural left in him.

...and do it fast, before James Gunn casts him as Perry White or something.

Given that there was a full fledged criminal investigation involved on top of the (very, very public) civil divorce proceedings, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it was a figure of speech and that he was extremely aware of the process as it was going on.

It’s a mess: it basically boils down to the fact that there is no compulsory license for music to use in other media (as opposed to playing the song on the radio or in your bar, where you just cut ASCAP/BMI a check and go about your day), so the rights for “home video” releases have to be separately renegotiated each…

Expand it out to music and it gets even more depressing. Lotta black dudes dropping in their 50s and 60s. :(

And in turn the son of a man who you can make a strongest argument was the greatest Hey, It’s That Guy! of all It’s That Guys ever to walk the earth. W. Morgan Sheppard is as far as I know the only person who can claim named speaking credits on Doctor Who, Star Trek, SeaQuest, Max Headroom and Babylon 5.

I dunno. I’d like to believe this was the intention, but (and I guess we’re getting into spoiler territory here but I can’t imagine too many people are still checking this thread) very little in the movie other than throwaway details comes off as critique? He’s surely not as suave as he thinks he is, but everyone who…

Just saw this at a screening and honestly this review might even be being a little generous. Fincher can put together a visually interesting scene in his sleep, and honestly it seems like maybe that was in fact what he was doing here? Great soundtrack, stacked cast, but all in the service of... what exactly? “John…

“The High Evolutionary was a Kang variant” feels like the simplest way out of this. They’d better nail down Chukwudi Iwuji’s availability before Gunn casts him as something indispensable in his Superman film though.

He’ll always be Albert Spica in my heart.

Okay but indefinitely delaying a Tron sequel starring Jared Leto is a good thing, and reason to hope that it goes on a lot longer?

DePalma had a mostly solid 20 year run from Carrie to Casualties of War. I don’t have any explanation for what happened to him after that, but you can’t call a guy who’s 17th film was The Untouchables as a case of squandered talent.

Has there ever been a director with as much obviously squandered promise as Blomkamp? The first two thirds of “District 9" remain one of the most startling things I’ve ever seen in a movie theater, but the ending was a mess and then... every other movie he made was also a mess. He can still direct the hell out of an…

“...yet.”

And this is James Cameron, the man who said “yeah, fly the helicopter under a 15-foot highway bridge and into the back of a moving van: it’ll make a great shot!” and who was previously known for saying “okay Ed, we’re gonna fill this suit up with pink water, you just hold your breath until I say ‘cut’ oh except you’re…

There’s an “extended” cut of the first movie that uses work-print and test animation of scenes that were never fully animated because they got cut: it, also, is seriously over-long. I get the distinct impression that the surprise success of Into resulted in a sharp reduction in the number of people empowered to tell…

My hot take: the Ang Lee Hulk would be a lot better regarded if the foley work hadn’t been absolute garbage. The Hulk sounded like an asthmatic construction worker trying to double-time it up a flight of stairs, and it broke nearly every attempt at an action sequence.

I mean this is not wrong in any respect, but and I realize that Mr. Gillis is not at fault for what I’m about to say, but... dear god. There’s no little chutzpah in hearing this complaint from the puppeted corpse of the AV Club, which long ago pivoted from being one of the more reliably insightful (or at least interest…

THIRTEENTH!!!!!!!

There’s also the relative advantage that several of the scripts here have already been written, and the plot outlines for a few more probably already exist: he can look at them and decide in advance if he likes how it looks. Whereas there was no way to know when The Force Awakens was filming that The Last Jedi was…