Two issues leap out at me:

“I was willing to accept that she was quirky and got lost in what she loved doing most of all to not focus on romance until the right one came along.” - Um, but the movie never suggests she has any solid reason for thinking Steve is actually “the right one.” The writing, performances, and direction all indicate…

Pretty young cheerful women trying to be kind can get away with a whole lotta stuff.

Agreed, which is a big part of what makes it so watchable. It feels as though it was written by a genuinely insane person.

It’s a case of gender-swapping just not making a lick of sense. Everyday straight male divorce lawyers who look like Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson can’t get laid with random/new people at will, so their labors for hanky-panky have the potential to be funny. A woman who looks like Sandra Bullock, on the other hand, can…

Fair enough. All About Steve is a lot of things, but it’s not boring.

“too off-putting to be worth sitting through for some ‘so bad it’s good’ fun” - Strong disagree there, this is probably the most entertaining awful movie I’ve ever seen. (Disclaimer: I haven’t seen The Room, only The Disaster Artist. But, solid budget and production values aside, this definitely strikes me as a…

Another big Stahl fan from Carnivàle and T3 here. I always thought that, while no one could made George Lucas’ dialogue for Anakin Skywalker sing, Stahl could at least have sold it better than anyone else. Here’s hoping he stays well, and that he gets/continues to get great roles that challenge him again.

“a trio of bankable stars” - er... Gadot hasn’t been in the lead role of any hit movie that wasn’t about the world’s most famous superheroine. Her non-WW bankability seems to be untested.

Several hundred, or maybe several thousand, very real people whose lives suddenly got very awkward when meeting anyone new about 20 years ago.

The first four books/movies were fine and charming. Starting with Year 5, however, things dove right off a cliff. Instead of the world expanding, as the visitors from the other schools during Year 4 promised, the story shrank, with most of Year 7 being a boring slog of an isolated camping trip, culminating in a absurd…

Starring TNG’s Reg Barclay as Oppenheimer!

Gunshots often are digital, of course. And, what with digital doubles, one could extend the safety argument to all sorts of driving/motorcycle stunts. But actors probably prefer a real recoil to jerking their arms, and especially in scenes with lots of guns going off, it would probably be hard to believably simulate…

Canada is more litigious than the US?!

Yeah, from what I understand of the show based on casually skimming reviews, it sounds like a part-anthology series already...

I was also certain the previous one came out just last year, but maybe I was mixing it up with Scoob...

I’ve seen Freaky. Fun, and kinda charming? Sure. “Great?” Nah.

Well, this is a movie that thinks you can fly from the East Coast to Britain in a Cessna or something. It’s a very bad, extremely dumb flick.

“This entire situation certainly seems to be the sort of thing that Liu’s team would want to address concretely with a proper statement”

That’s perfectly fair. As a recap-heavy review of the pilot, I found the piece fine. But would I say it succeeds at describing the general outline of the show to someone unfamiliar with the books in an elegant, lucid way, as one might hope from a pop culture web site built on great prose? Not so much.