The Batman franchises really should do more with the weirdness of a kid being raised by his butler. It seems to go almost totally un-remarked in most of the stuff I've seen, despite how nuts it is. I thought Gotham was going to do more with it, but everyone on that show seems to more or less accept it (at least,…

Yea, the decision way back in the first movie to tone-down or ignore superhero costumes was pretty smart, but it made it doubly bizarre that Singer decided to abandon it for just the villains in the last instalment. Especially with them all appearing standing in scenes of the movie where everyone else is dressed…

Yea, in the context of the movie it was pretty clear that she was playing Mystique as war-weary and cynical, and it worked fine.

I'm only aware of this movie because one of the screenwriters is Ted Cruz's old room-mates and has been tearing him apart on twitter.

Or in Ramanujan's case, not dying of liver parasites.

I didn't like it either. And I'm usually into slow moving historical dramas. Part of the problem was there wasn't actually much conflict. The Russians and the US both wanted the trade to go through, so the film was basically just Tom Hanks agreeing with people while fighting off a cold.

That would explain the somewhat bizzarre pro-Hillary slant of the recent Power Ranger episodes.

Jesus, even Sundance is showing remakes now

He's probably plugging for the new war he has coming out next year.

Yea, but his speech was more specific then just "murder bad", it was a specifically "law and order/ends don't justify the means" type justification for pursuing murderers. Which doesn't really jibe very well with Sherlock's otherwise lackadaisical relationship with the law.

I assume it was Clinton, whose library is in Little Rock.

When I was a kid, our class was planning a trip to the local science museum, and so our teacher pulled up the website of the IMAX theatre they had, and put it on the class projector thing so we could pick what movie we wanted to see. Each film had a link to the corresponding IMDB entry, and so the teacher clicked on…

I imagine cereal makers already have contracts with the makers of plastic trinkets, and just change what kinda toy they want every few months, making it easier to just ask them to whip up a plastic coin then have to find some new company to provide foreign coins for a one-off order.

It's easy to get confused, The Parthenon is in Georgia, the Pantheon is in Rome.

I'm kinda curious how the AV club chooses which movies to review. I mean, I admire the reviewers will-power in being able to make himself burn through two hours of his life sitting through this. But I don't think the AV club readership really needed a review to know that its safe to give the fourth instalment of the…

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Triumph of the Will

I know nothing about the movie business. But can't they just, like, play more than one movie in the theater?

I'm kinda at the same place. I like the actors and characters, and some of the cases at least have fun ideas behind them, but the actual plots in the show are so weirdly lazy.

Both of which would actually be wildly more useful then laser-eyes, retractable metal claws or making playing cards explode.

I remember The Matrix as being kind of like that. I don't remember any hype for it before it was released, and I went in knowing nothing about the plot other than it was a Sci-Fi movie.