I worship Raimi and see every new Marvel movie opening day with friends, frequently at the midnight screening, but...

I wish Rowling was that toxic but I think it’s just that no one cares about the Fantastic Beasts movies. If they did an adaptation of Cursed Child with the original Harry Potter cast, it’d make a billion dollars without breaking a sweat.

Given that the big problem with a lot of blockbusters is dumb exec notes, “great management” seems a very relevent thing for him to flag up. I’d rather he was making smaller stuff like Drag me to Hell, but after nearly a decade of absence, I'll take any Raimi I can get 

Fault in our Stars cost $12m and made $300m at the box office. Baby driver cost $35m and made $240m. Then Spielberg cast him as a lead. It doesn’t matter how bad he is*, the guys safe for a while yet.

I dunno, there are countless comedies and romcoms in Oirland, but I challenge you to find any film set in NI that isn’t about the Troubles/a bunch of mad bastards murdering each other.

You should try being from Northern Ireland. At least you guys get to be charming, friendly primitives.

I know it's fun to snark, but honestly, this new season of Pen15 looks great.

Anthony McCarten has an amazing ability to do biopics that gloss over the most interesting part of the story. His 2 pope’s drama that barely mentions Vatican abuse, his Hawking relationship drama that doesn’t cover his infidelity, his mostly straight and sober Freddy Mercury biopic.

Even for Griffin, sometimes those guesses clear and sometimes they bounce...

Cassidy is also a great deconstruction of that fun loving Irish lad archetype.

A lot of that is fair, but I love that early stuff. The All in the Family arc in Preacher is almost perfect. So well structured, so many cool moments, but they all come out of character. I know the overall series is all over the place, but that storyline is one of my all time faves.

I agree with all that, except I haven’t got round to the sequels yet. I’m really looking forward to them.

The Boys is one of the best things on TV, but it’s one of the worst comics Ennis has ever written, IMHO. His Hellblazer, Hitman, Preacher, Punisher Max etc are all brilliant.

Im very surprised that Sean Murphy’s White Knight isn’t here. It’s a standalone batman story with incredible art about Joker being cured and Batman losing his mind. It’s easily my favourite Bat story of the last decade. Fast paced, twisty, unpredictable, political and fresh. I feel like you could have lost one of the…

“Scream, a movie that seemed like a fairly big hit at the time but is already a ways under Uncharted after seven weeks (it made $1.3 million and has $79 million total).”

I enjoyed the reviews, so thanks. Sorry the AVClub shafted you. Good luck.

I think the demand for an outline is unfair. Lucas made up most of Star Wars as he went along. Johnson went in a without an outline on Last Jedi. For me the problem isn’t that the lack of a plan, it’s that they weren’t willing to take any big risks in the third one. Combine that with a rushed production and the death…

It’s not a question of processing power though. It’s dependent on technical skill and time, both of which are affected by budgets and schedules. So complex shots are split between multiple teams halfa world apart. Then there’s a pipeline where it doesn’t matter if 8 stages are done well, all it takes is one stage to…

There’s also a question of style. The latest Bond was full of CGI but it rarely felt it. The bit where the car on the bridge nearly runs over a ducked down Bond is basically 100% CGI (bar some reference photoscans) but feels real. But as you say, everyone wants to do impossible camera moves that just feel like pre Vis…

I'm glad it works for you and I'm a time strapped parent so I understand the appeal in theory, but that would be like nails on a blackboard to me.