Adele's "Skyfall" got some radio play.

I'm from the future. It's awful.

Because the suspension of disbelief required to buy that slow zombies could cause an apocalypse might work on genre nerds, but would be rejected as laughable by a mass audience?

Hey, at least Michael Bay covertly apologized with his Chinese government ass-kissing in Trans4mers with Season 3 of The Last Ship, in which the fictional post-plague Chinese government was conquest-happy to the point of genocide and cultural extermination. Or at least, that's how I like to interpret that arc.

"Hollywood studios are now banking on the Chinese box office…"

^ They're both better than 6, IMO.

"You…. create MAN??"
"No… WOMAN."
"WO-MAN…"

I love the first one, and agree with Ebert's 3.5/4 star rating. But apart from the cast and director, ASM 2 is about as big a tonal, visual, and musical departure as a direct sequel can get; it feels far less like the first one than any of the Raimi movies do to each other. To name just one example: no mention…

That is amazeballs.

Yeah, I hate the mindless conflation of "conservatism" with "fanatically right-wing" that that crowd falsely markets itself as. Hillary was the more conservative pick in the general as well as the more liberal one. Trump and his fellow Goppers are brand-new in their right-wing depravity (albeit culminations of…

Best case: by hiring serious, experienced professionals who know what the f*** they're talking about, and genuinely believe that government has a role in solving said issues to the greatest benefit of all. We don't elect presidents based on their military careers (not for the past few decades, anyway), but we expect…

… But enough about Mar-a-Lago!

*Johnny Cash guitar plucking*

Um… sure, Mr. Schwarzenegger. This was exactly the sort of movie I hoped you'd make after no one cared about Maggie. I didn't want you to, say, do a buddy-cop comedy with Mr. Shatner at all.

No less British than "Arterton."

So this gets rated R, but violence porn like this summer's Transformers and Guy Ritchie v King Arthur: Dawn of Sword-Legend will get PG-13s.

I know it's been a while since I took the reading portion of the SAT I here, but I see no assurance here that the movie, when completed, won't be in the ballpark of 170 minutes.

Clooney and Soderbergh already made one in 2006's The Good German. (There's a Paperclip shout-out in Captain America: the Winter Soldier, also.)

Awful, yes, but also made up - the linked Economist article says "as many as one in five YOUNG women were prostitutes in 18th-century London." Which is still horrific, granted, but in a pre-modern context where cities saw a lot less child-rearing than they do now, puts things into a bit of perspective.

Dear AV Club, an Economist article stating "As many as one in five young women were prostitutes in 18th-century London" does not mean "an estimated 20 percent of women in London were sex workers." The key word being "young", which, depends on how one defines it (especially by 18th-century life expectancy standards),…