I'd still rate Goldeneye as the best Brosnan, but that's in no small part due to what a hit of rejuvenation it was after the debacle that was License To Kill. A compelling villain, colorful bit players, massive setpieces, and enough tweaking of the familiar elements without degenerating into outlandishness. I still…

I long ago reconciled myself to the idea that 80% of Bond films are mostly bad and overlong, and learned to look for spots of fun or ingenuity here and there. Bowie would have at least made, say, Tomorrow Never Dies bearable.

I hadn't thought of that, but yeah - I totally see it!

I really wanted a David Bowie villain turn in a Bond film.

I have it on good authority that at least 30% of rom-coms are set in Generic Midwestern-y Small Home Town Lately Returned To By Our Otherwise Big City-Residing Hero(ine).

What the living fuck.

I kind of want to make a ringtone out of Jericho's "Quiet. Quiet. Quiet. QUIET. QUIET. QUIET!"

“Guys! I’ve got a great way to get the heat off us about not having pitched a Black Widow movie despite having one of the MCU’s foundational characters and one of the world’s biggest movie stars already on board!”

David Warner sounds like a lovely man, and someone I'd like to have come visit and regale us with stories regularly. Great stuff, Will.

I keep beating the drum for a Three-and-Android centered spinoff from the Killjoys team. I feel like that would basically strip away 95% of everything I dislike about Dark Matter, and inject some badly needed coherence in the world-building.

That's a great point, and something I think applies to Killjoys as well.

Hannah John-Kamen is absolutely killing it on, er, Killjoys, so I'm excited to see her name attached.

Maybe it's the proportional powers of a bat?

To be fair, the general idea is "what if Dungeons and Dragons had a baby with Neuromancer and it all happened on Earth"? Since the answer was "cybernetically enhanced criminals that mix fireballs with motorcycles and sniper rifles while hacking into megacorporations run by dragons", a LOT of us geeked out over it. And…

It's hard to nail down one, but I think it would be either any one of Bruce Hornsby's innumerable piano solos off any number of tracks from Harbor Lights or Hot House, or Dylan's harmonica solo at the end of "Tangled Up In Blue". The former are virtuosic jazzy wonders, and the latter is just a perfect melancholy howl,…

Totally agreed. There's a ton of drama (and alternate history what-ifs, if you wanna go that direction too) to be found in the centuries of foundation, expansion and decay. Exploration, conquest, nation-building, internecine politics, cultural clashes, barbarians, hubris…. it's all right there! It's a huge canvas…

Yeah, the women's match was excellent I thought, and a weird oversight in the recap. I also liked how everyone wanted a shot at beating up Lana.

He added, “I am no danger to pull a gun on anybody”

Lee gets his balls shined by Lost Cause fuckos because he had the advantage of being "moderately shitty with flashes of humanity here and there" as opposed to "completely shitty".

Given that the current president is someone who by all accounts forms "policy" and makes "decisions" based on whatever he watched on TV yesterday (and I can't believe I have to say that without a trace of snark), I'm not sure we need to be giving him any ideas about how to further institutionalize oppression and…