Good observations. I think the answer is ... Magic! It’s got to be good for something!

If they ever do make that movie, I fully expect the filmmakers to change that plot point so that Susan is with the rest of the gang at the end. Undoubtedly some purists will bitch and moan, but really! It would be more difficult to explain her absence in the movie to a modern, non-religious audience than to just have…

World’s worst psychotherapist.

Plus the Cap cameo. Evans was hysterical! Another guy who can do comedy effortlessly, yet rarely gets cast in them because of his looks.

I’m no Potterverse expert, but it seems obvious that some portion of the wizarding population must go back into the muggle world after finishing school, either because they are the children of muggles (or half-muggle relationships), or because they are interested in things that the wizarding world doesn’t do (like…

The Dead Zone is a helluva scary movie! Christopher Walken could really deliver powerful performances when he had a strong director (like David Cronenberg). Now, sadly, he just parodies other performers’ parodies of him.

The Dome is the Dome. Is the Dome. Gender is irrelevant to the Dome.

The wings performed fine at the altitude for which they were constructed. They only failed when Icarus flew too close to the sun. Pure pilot error.

I have to admit that I was lukewarm about this, until I saw Tim Curry. Of course, his Doc never did the “Time Warp,” but just having him there at all is a blessing!

And the description of his new “partner”. Yeesh! Could they be doing anything to get people less interested in watching the show? Give it a decent burial and give Mison a new vehicle (Lyndie Greenwood, too).

The way it hits me is that it misunderstands something fundamental about Star Trek, namely that in the utopian future the original series posited, human differences like race, ethnicity and sexual orientation would be simply irrelevant. Sulu might (or might not) have been gay, but neither he nor anybody else would…

I’m not sure that I agree with your analysis, though I admit to only having seen a couple of X-Files episodes. What really caught me about the first season of Sleepy Hollow was the way it really leaned into the supernatural aspect of the premise. The Headless Horseman wasn’t just a horseman with no head; he was a…

I always assumed that Capt. Pike was older than Kirk. It seemed obvious that the events of “The Cage” took place some little time before those of “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” and longer ago yet than the balance of the first season of TOS. Also, Pike in the “present-day” sections of “The Menagerie” looked much older…

Trump is literally talking down to her. Wow!

I agree that the problem is not limited to access to guns. As the gun lobby is fond of pointing out, it’s important to deal with widespread untreated and undertreated mental illness, and for certain domestic and foreign terrorism are problems that will continue to need to be addressed. So let’s deal with all three…

Y’know, lots of people say things like “if it wasn’t a gun that killed these people, it would have been something else.” Really? I have trouble believing that if the same guy entered Pulse with a knife, he could have killed 49 people before being stopped. Even with a car (assuming he could have gotten it into the…

Of course it was fake. Can you imagine how difficult it would have been to do that fight scene without some ... support?

Here’s a fun thing to try: Google “California black male rape mugshot”. See how many images come up. I just did it and found at least a dozen. I guess that sometimes those pictures are not considered to fall within the investigative exception to the open records law.

I don’t want to defend the movie too hard, because I agree with the consensus of opinion here that it’s the weakest of the Cornetto Trilogy. But to your specific point about the “overplayed trope” of flawed humans being better than the utopia that confronts them, I think that was the point of the joke: that instead of…

Since I only know the character from the movies, I’m not qualified to weigh in and I certainly don’t question what you say. But I could see an interesting solo movie being made about the cinematic Mystique. That movie would have to clarify who the character really is, though, in order for the audience to care. I’m not…