Indeed it would have, had Steven Zaillian actually written Dark Waters’ screenplay, as I originally claimed. But in fact I’d experienced a brain hiccup—it’s The Irishman that Zaillian wrote. This film was penned by Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z, Deepwater Horizon) and Mario Correa. Sorry for the temporary error…

“Some filmmakers strive to . . . elude responsibility for knowingly poisoning people. . . . [B]ut . . . Haynes has said that he . . . infected the good people of Parkersburg.”

“Robert Bilott, while an admirable guy, lacks any of the unorthodox qualities that landed Julia Roberts an Oscar”

Wikipedia reveals the not all that surprising, not super-tasteful twist:

*sigh* Everything is and always has been political, stop pretending that just because a movie is about white people that it’s free of politics.

Is it true that once he gives away both his As, Ragnarok begins?

I’m surprised it’s even marginally watchable; word leaked out that the military liaisons and others were being asked such basic questions that the script and directing for this thing was always going to have an end product that landed somewhere in the Pearl Harbor 2 range.

You know what pisses me off? Nic Cage was 33 when Con Air came out, which is 8 years younger than I am now. I don’t know why this pisses me off, but it does.

Can’t someone just step in an pay off his debts already, so he can exercise at least a tiny bit of discretion in choosing his roles?

I came in here specifically to reference Homeward Bound! so kudos.

He was good in The Hurt Locker and he was good in The Town. That plus a great agent? I dunno. It is pretty weird how everyone became so bullish on Renner in the early 2010's, but it clearly didn’t pan out.

“given the nerve-racking wonders Flanagan did with composition and atmosphere in his rather Kingish take on Haunting Of Hill House.”

I’ve always been reviewing Doctor Sleep.

Don’t you remember A.A.? You've posted a review for this every day for the past 3 years... My God, the haunted film critic? It's a stupid enough premise to work!

I’d ignore it (the io9 review). Dowd is a pretty great reviewer who by and large is not the ‘fan boy’ type and legit takes the time to try and understand the films. I honestly prefer his reviews (and he’s a tough reviewer, which I really respect) to almost anybody else on the web or in print media (IE the NY Times).

You can ignore all the reviews from i09. I imagine AV Club has little to no control over what gets cross-promoted from the other G/O Group websites. Considering all the kerfuffle and firings and shutdowns across the group, it seems like the people who actually write the content for these sites have no control over…

Dying to see this one. I’m a sucker for a good Lion in Winter type project, which seems to represent a major return to form for just about all involved (except Scorsese who it could be argued has never really lost it).

Counterpoint: fuck that noise. CEOs and quite a few politicians are sociopathic by nature and don’t need movies to tell them to be. Mafia leaders and gang members might identify to a degree to gangster movies, but it doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be doing the same things even if they didn’t exist. Most gang members were…

The humour is great. There’s a running element where the fates of minor characters pop up as text boxes (most were murdered, often between 1978-80), and for one character we get the legend ‘Widely liked by all. Died in 2001 of natural causes’. That got a good laugh in the theatre.

You won’t see the like of Evans again. He came to power in an age when the studios were in flux. The old moguls were either dead or retiring, and the studios were being scooped up by diversified corporate conglomerates whose management didn’t know the first thing about making pictures, and were willing to give…