Well that just killed about all the interest I had in the new Star Trek movie. You can trust Hollywood to really not get the motivation behind terrorism. I like Cumberbatch a lot, and I'm sure he can portray a compelling character, but does every new Star Trek movie have to be about homeland security?

Not sure if he's persona non grata, but he hasn't been able to get a project off the ground for years back in the Netherlands either. I'd say it's time for him and Arnold to reunite for this. If Game of Thrones can be popular, then surely the world is ready for a Verhoeven Conan? (If not can we just get him to direct…

It differs country by country, but I think that our monarchy does have its uses. The first is that I think it helps enormously to have a head of state who stands apart from the elected government. This way our national identity is never fully bound up in politics. Look at the difference in the US between Bush and…

Are you Dutch or were you just excited on our behalf? Regardless there's a wonderful irony in someone going by the handle of La Comtesse complaining about the aristocracy.

I thought Neil Jordan was going to direct an adaptation of this one. Though that was rather a long while ago. Still I think, that would have been a good fit. Ron Howard is more than competent and certainly sympathetic, but I don't think he has quite right touch for this book.

Yep, my sentiments exactly. Besides the brain works like a magic jigsaw puzzle on Fringe anyway.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who does that.

Do we really need a dark Cinderella anyway? Who would it be for? Apart from a few disaffected teenagers, that is. Parents wouldn't take their children to see it, and without majorly rewriting the story I don't think adults would very much go for it either. Romanek was smart to walk away from this, because I don't…

Just from a cursory look at Qi Baishi's work and that image above I'm inclined to say it's a fake. Baishi's brushwork is completely different than the xenomorph painting. Frankly that picture screams photoshop to me. When you look at a real Baishi you can see the ink doing things on the paper that you can't really…

Yes, but they're run by people, who definitely have moral capacities. Their decisions have effect on other people and the environment, so we can certainly assess corporations in a moral sphere. The fact that a corporation itself is just an entity on paper, doesn't excuse the actions taken by the real people working…

Babylon 5 didn't have the advantages DS9 had, like an allready well known franchise and universe and mainly a decent budget for sets and actors.

Maybe go to a few other movies? Regardless, the problem is more producers demanding 'successful' sounding scores, directors who can't let go of temporary scores and the same few people getting hired to do everything, rather than bad composers.

Yeah, the last change was kind of terrible. They seem to have instagrammed the time vortex. I did think the tunnel looked better in the Tennant days.

Actually I keep thinking that the line in the trailer about protecting 'your family' isn't about Cumberbatch but about Kirk.

As opposed to the gritty realism of Legolas taking out a giant war elephant through the medium of ballet and a bow and arrow?

Good god, yes. I completely agree with the comment I was responding to.

For real, I read that and just thought 'you pathetic wanker.' What the hell happens to someone to make them turn out this way?

I loved him as lord Groan. He would have been a great Dumbledore too.

Utter fantasy casting: Mr. Norrell - Nigel Hawthorne.

Seeing how the perfect choice has been dead for eleven years, I think that if Nigel Hawthorne can't be reanimated then Ian Holm would be a fine second choice.