I’ll beg to differ as far as Wonder Woman is concerned. Agreed there doesn’t seem to be a “montage” part (though I seem to remember a short growing-up montage or transition). Otherwise, the first act is “origin” (plus some exposition) and the third act is “generic fight scene with a less than disposable villain” (D.…

I haven’t seen Spiderman, but I’ve seen the other three movies. Logan indeed deviates from the norm, but why do you feel the same for the other two? As a moviegoer I enjoyed them, but all in all they felt quite formulaic. And audiences rewarded them for that.

At the same time, you don’t want your suspension steel bridge examined by a lover of 16th century stone bridges.

Good point. But I don’t think Amazon’s stupid. They’re too big and just don’t give a f***. And they’re probably right. People won’t stop coming to Amazon just because it lacks a feminist alibi.

Thank you for the column Tom. One of the consistently good columns on the site (though I didn’t always agree with your picks) and I always looked forward to it. I’ll be here for Age of Heroes!

I see the word “nihilism” thrown around a lot when it comes to R&M. Usually it’s discussed as Rick’s worldview, admired by some, detested by others. But nihilism is not a proposition, it’s a reply, it’s a rejection. But one can only reply to and/or reject something that is already there, a thesis, a proposition.…

No, I looked it up. “Blackfyre” was an old name for Targaryen bastards (they had come from across the narrow sea as far as I remember). And the rule (if such a word applies) with bastards is that either a) they are of unknown parentage and consequently take on the name of the region for bastards (Stone, Hill, River,…

Well, how else would all us dimwitted little people visually understand that this is a really dead dragon right away? Why, only when I saw the holes in his wings did things finally fell into place!

“Its existence is a monument to the Confederacy”? Putting aside all the nasty (and glossed over) slavery-related stuff in the movie, I never felt that it was a love letter to the “glory days”... It only ever felt like a portrait of a very strong (and not very principled, or likeable) woman, trying to survive and…