I disagree that he’s had no formal influence on anyone. Apatow, Rogen, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright all cite him as a key influence. There are plenty of others too. The profanity and pop culture references may seem standard now, but they were pretty ground breaking at the time.

Smith gets a lot of grief, but his influence is huge. Talk to a bunch fon30-40 year old filmmakers you’ll find half of them partially owe their careers to Smith. *

Agreed. This happens on so many superhero movies. Of course superhero costumes look dumb in long lens daylight paparzi shots. It’s almost like there’s an art to lighting, framing, editing, grading, choosing a lens, post production filters, cgi and God knows what else that’ll get done before it looks great on screen.

Eccleston is a great actor, but after GO Joe and Thor 2, I don’t think he does his best work as a face obscured super villain.

Great review. I particularly enjoyed breaking down why the specific shot choices were (over)used. It's always fun when the AVClub dive into the craft and I'd love to see more of it. 

I’d say it said I could be a filmmaker and a slacker. Making a Kevin Smith film looked easy. “I don’t need to be a Kubrickian genius with an encyclopedic knowledge of lenses doing 68 takes? I can be stoned and setup a wide shot with two friends talking about Star Wars?”

He wasn’t there in person, but the UK did a very limited cinema run with a prerecorded q and a afterwards. Lovely seeing it with an enthusiastic crowd. An almost entirely white, male, 30-45 year old crowd admittedly but it was so much fun.

Surp at how quickly Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is coming to Prime. I figured there’d be a good pay VOD window on that. Squeeze the small but fanatical base for a while first.

The vast majority of the UK press is propaganda for the right wing government and has been for a long time. This is a seperate issue.

They should be allowed to say mean things. They shouldn’t be allowed to make shit up, which they do. Every. Single. Day. I thought i was already very cynical about the tabloid press, but then a friend worked for one. The stories she told me were mind boggling. It was standard to just make up a quote, get someone in…

That’s kinda my problem with it. It should be being made by Boots Riley or someone like that. I wholeheartedly love Spielberg, but at the time the original was super contemporary, had young creators and pretty edgy for the time. The slang, teen gangs and even major minority characters were all new at the time and it…

The problem is that it’s the only fun part of the trailer. The rest all looks generic, solemn, tedious hero's journey shit.

I think this review is far too harsh. I loved the movie. Its very deliberately understated, but it hit me harder than the countless more dramatic cancer stories I’ve seen.

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That cancer beat at the end seemed tone deaf. But even ignoring the iffy messaging...

Doctor being socially awkward started with Hartnell. Even in the reboot, Eccleston is a prick who doesn’t understand or care about most humans. Tenant and Smith are really the outliers in being even vaguely capable of a conversation about feelings. But Whittaker has consistently been written as warm and with good…

For all the “how terribly racist” handringing, the Oscars basically are American Film awards. They pretty much always have been, with a few token exceptions. The awards have been around for nearly 100 years and they’ve had about 10 non American, non English language Best Picture nominees in that time. So like one…

Did you read any of Waids run? It’s largely that. The premise is “What if Matt had another breakdown, but then just decided to be happy and largely guilt free?”. It freaks Foggy the fuck out.

Angry is maybe overstating it, but look at the tone of this article for a man who just wanted more diversity if his show is rebooted. A lot of Tweets were needlessly aggressive and confrontational. Many accused Friends of being a Living Single rip off (actually there’s a lot of evidence that it was a ripoff of Cameron…

I live Richard Donner. I think he’s one of the most underrated directors in Hollywood history. But he’s about to turn NINETY YEARS OLD.