Super is a fascinating, hysterical, deeply unsettling movie, but it really has very little in common with Deadpool, aside from the conceit of a person deciding to become a superhero and then ... becoming one. Deadpool exists in a universe where there are actual superheros, just like in Marvel-World and DC-World;…

I just have one thing to say:

Never heard that version before. Wow! More psychedelic than anything in the trailer.

I am going to see Deadpool later today, so I can’t comment on the movie. But based on the comments, CJA’s review and the commercials/trailers, it strikes me that one thing this movie has going for it is that it emphasizes the “comic” in comic book movies. Much as I have enjoyed the Marvel movies (Disney’s as well as…

I would go farther than that. Without the Han-Leia love story in Empire, you only have half a movie (the Luke/Yoda/Vader half). Han and Leia running away from the Empire (with Chewie, of course) is basically a retread of the middle of “A New Hope” without the developing relationship between Leia and Han. It would not…

Boy, if I were her, I would take a few weeks off first. She’s going to need the rest to prepare for all that fighting she is planning to do.

I hope not! I’d take anything: a 6-episode season, a TV movie, whatever!

On Sleepy Hollow, if it had ended after the first season, I would be right there with you, waving the flag. Then season 2 happened, squandering all the uncanniness that had made the show so fantastic, not to mention sidelining two of the main characters of color (Jenny and Frank Irving) in favor of dull, “romantic”…

I love both the book and the series, but I understand that it’s a tough sell. I’ve read lots of comments like yours. I disagree with them, but I understand that you either like the quirky things or you don’t and I won’t try to convince you otherwise. Just recognize that plenty of people found them both enthralling,…

I think Black Mirror is pretty “sung.” In fact, it’s been a critic’s darling for quite awhile. Great show, though!

Amen, brother! This show knocked my socks off when BBCA showed it one summer a few years ago. That ending was so insane that I couldn’t even imagine how they would continue the story. Sadly, the BBC couldn’t imagine it either.

I had the same issue, poor audio quality. But closed captioning solved that problem.

What about Penny Dreadful? I know that iO9 has been all over the show, but the more mainstream reviewers seem pretty disdainful. I love that insane, amazing show!

Look, I love Agent Carter! It’s my favorite show on right now. I am looking forward to next week’s episode much more than I am to the mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead this Sunday, and I’ve been watching that sucker since the very beginning.

I can’t express how much I despise the sort of line drawing that critics like Terence Blacker engage in, suggesting or just flat-out saying that one type of writing — so-called “literary fiction” — is superior to other types of writing — upon which they pin the derogatory (to them, but increasingly to nobody else)…

Speaking of Jurassic everything, I was threatened by a mom at a screening of the original Jurassic Park, whose two kids spent the first half-hour running back and forth through the aisle we were sitting in. I asked her, very politely (I thought) to please keep her kids quiet. Turning not to me but to her adult…

Coppola could be talking about himself as much as about Lucas. The Godfather movies were for him what the Star Wars movies were for Lucas: fantastically successful films that placed unrealistic expectations on both moviemakers that they could never live up to. Coppola made some good movies after Godfather 2, but none…

Michael’s death had “plot device” written all over it, but once you accept that it was a believable and effective one. To your point, I think it’s possible kill an auxiliary character in a way that doesn’t so nakedly serve as a basis for growth for a main character, but to be honest I can’t think of any instance in…

Apparently not, judging by the responses to your comment thus far. But I dissent. I thought it was really absorbing, not a high-action episode but one that moved the plot along well. And I really liked and appreciated the twinned flashbacks for Peggy and Agnes Curry/Whitney Frost. They illustrated how, before and…

Shhhh! Me too.