They may as well pull the whole middle-chapter changeup thing and have Peter living with heretofore-unmentioned other relatives in California for a year. Or maybe Aunt May moves the family cross-country.

Hey, I’m far from the most informed or articulate person on this topic, but that’s the image associated with her. Such as related to AIDS, for example. I don’t have any understanding of her influence as negative regarding such things. I guess I’d explain it as a manifestation of our need to have positive focal points,…

In terms of ‘have they ever done something great,’ I think so. Generally I agree with everything that you say, but looking at the discussion above I feel like Rush have attained transcendence at least once or twice, Moving Pictures or “La Villa Strangiato.”

I’m not sure what I think of it. On first viewing, it kind of broke the film for me, but subsequently I’m inclined to agree with you. Interstellar is definitely in my top ten for the decade, even if I have a hard time deciding whether it’s a great film, or just great to me...but in the end I think that Nolan really…

Only about a year ago, I watched her SNL performance of “Who Will Save Your Soul” and was blown away. The live arrangement is interesting, but the main thing is the vocals. She’s a monster.

It’s one of those pop cultural touchstones that has a reputation that it is nigh-impossible to live up to for anyone who has absorbed the hype before seeing it. It must have been amazing to see in 1982 if one was already a longtime Trek fan, but it’s hard to replicate those conditions today.

As someone very fond of both Star Wars and Star Trek, I don’t think that either can boast many films that are more than just okay without the emotional investment and franchise continuity that feed into them.

George Clooney and Oprah are both high on the list of avatars for ‘enormously rich,’ which I think overrides politics as far as this is concerned, but in terms of this wedding I imagine—and this is just a casual-observer American perspective—that the Diana derived notion of social consciousness still carries some…

Well, I know that I wouldn’t dream of wearing a slightly similar bracelet unless things were beyond serious.

Ann E. Nigma?

This is awkward because I was going to make a joke about the remaining Three dying their hair black to indicate that we’ve entered the darkest timeline, somehow not having the dots connect for me that they’re already non-blondes.

There’s a lot of quintessentially 90s music to choose from, but maybe they’ll skew towards stuff that is already a bit spacey, like Radiohead (“Airbag”) or SD/MCIS Smashing Pumpkins.

What’s the lesson? I haven’t watched that show.

I think that Anderson’s style/approach has a built-in ceiling. He can do great by his own aims without getting to the same sort of transcendent place that houses most of the great films by other directors. So yeah, I agree.

It’s a bit hard for me to say what would constitute an A for something like Star Trek, but I’d probably put TNG’s best episodes there. “The Measure of a Man,” etc. Most of the series have at least a couple of real standout episodes.

That’s true. Neither of Schumacher’s films are actually funny in a deliberate way outside of maybe Jim Carrey here and there via the sheer force of his antics.

B&R is a better movie in virtually every way other than presenting Batman as a dark, serious character who scares criminals.

Somehow, it never really occurred to me that all of these superhero films were trying to sell teen-me on old outdated characters, or at least I didn’t feel disinclined to check them out for that reason. That said, with The Phantom it wasn’t just the age of the character but the visual oddity: A guy in a purple suit,…

I do feel that some of the ‘other’ presidents, of whom Grant is one of the more prominent, present intriguing prospects for the biopic industry. Alec Baldwin looks much like Millard Fillmore, for one casting suggestion.

They’re definitely going to market this to the Grant demographic, which is relatively lucrative compared to the Ulysses demographic.