They definitely combined the characters of Illyana and Amara. Even if Illyana often came off as combative and haunted in the book, Amara was more stuck up and a bit racist. Meanwhile Dani was usually forthright, rebellious and a natural leader, but that didn’t work for the “new girl in the hospital” story, so they…

I was really expecting Sam to play Mace like he was “Caine in Kung Fu - walk Coruscant, get in adventures with a lightsaber.” Like a former firebrand who contains his emotions through the force but in action will eff you the eff up. Instead he’s boring lifeless middle management.

Track Listing:
1. Muscovado
2. Rhythmic Ruler
3. Przewalski’s Waltz
4. Can’t You Ring My Doorbell?
5. When the Lord Get Ready
6. See You Next Tuesday
7. Gettin’ Burned Blues
8. Heroin Heroine
9. Roses on Your Grave
10. Moonkiller Base

Yeah I feel the only sin is it’s not as ridiculously stacked as 1999. It has half as many great movies as 1999, but it is still a great year for movies. The only real downside is the mediocrity of the rest of the offerings does bode ill for the movies in general going forward.

Yeah, my big fix would be “have the silver droid that meets them on Gunray’s blockade be C3PO (sorry noted TC-14 lover Griffin Newman) and he unwittingly tries to poison them, but has some important information about Gunray’s plans, so Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan drag him along as they are pursued by the battle droids (which…

Yeah I feel like the modern depiction of serial killers in books, cinema and television as some sort of criminal geniuses has poisoned perception of how they actually behave in the real world. The reason we’ve caught so many is because they’re not Hannibal Lecter, they’re mostly like Oreatta: disordered, impulsive,…

If only the movie had been closer to the book, or written or directed or filmed with any sort of finesse whatsoever, it would have been a perfect send off. Quartermaine in the book is a rich part for an aging man of action with a lifetime of regret.

Yeah it made me a bit queasy, but being familiar with the rhythm of his jokes, I was like “I’m going to allow this, counselor, but it better be going somewhere good” and luckily he pulled it out with the sleepover joke. Similar to the opening, where all that rickety Raven nonsense led up to them all saying “let’s…

I loved that first album but yeah after almost 20 (!) years you’d think they could change up the songs a bit.

Yeah I’ve seen this once, and never again, partly because the war scenes are so viscerally upsetting, but mostly because the maudlin opening and closing ruin what is an otherwise gripping movie. This is the first time Spielberg’s inability to end his movies rears its head. After this it’s all happy endings, oedipal…

Finn Jones was definitely better with the martial arts aspect in Season Two. I also felt he had a better handle on the character rather than ping ponging between “naive” and “constipated.” I still feel he was used best in Defenders, even if that was the worst of all the Netflix shows. 

We are truly in the dot in the i of the Jeremy Bearimy.

She kills with those throwaway taglines: “Directed By David O. Russell.” I was rolling.

Phil Hartman had the best take on everybody. His Clinton was a man conviction done in by his appetites (see the skit where Clinton stops into a McDonald’s and explains his taxation policy by scarfing down Big Macs). Contrast that to Darrell Hammond’s greasy Clinton using fake empathy to pick up chicks.

L.A. Confidential was the movie to beat in my eyes. Just absolutely phenomenal. Then Titanic came along, and it sure was long and loud and a lot of guys fall into propellers, but there wasn’t a single scene that resonated to me quite like Bud White snapping a chair during an interrogation, or Exley facing off against…

God I hate this movie. I very simply failed to care for either of the protagonists or their insipid dialog or their sub-soap opera romance. Winslet and DiCaprio do the best they can but the writing is a waste of their talents. Zane is laughably bad. The only character I care about is Kathy Bates as Molly Brown and…

This is the best possible outcome, barring perhaps Beck showing up unannounced.

It a shame, because after the first few episodes of Sexy Borg (basically once she got out of the silver jumpsuit, because she literally couldn’t breathe in it) the character got better, and Jeri Ryan developed into probably one of the better actors on the show. It’s still not a great show, and they definitely leaned…

Recently completed a rewatch (for me) and first watch (for Mrs. mOrtsleaM) and, on the advice of nearly everyone on the internets, and going back to the the old AVClub TNG / DS9 reviews, compiled a list of the ten best episodes from each season. Skipped a whole lot of Neelix, and pointedly refused to let the Mrs. near…

Looks like a great sister series to Legion, not that that technically exists in the MCU as of yet.