It makes me sad when actual literal grownups - people with jobs, who can vote and drive - need to have this concept explained to them. I knew some grown-ass people who were furious at Infinity War because they thought T’Challa was dead for real and would never, ever come back.

Well it was the best film in the Lumiere Cinematic Universe (or, Lumiverse)

I hear what you're saying and i mostly agree, but my 12-year old daughter marked out so hard for the Girl Avengers shot and that makes it feel like a triumph 

The Alien series should have been a sandbox where directors got to experiment with their own style. It went well at first and I think Fincher is the best of the three. Shame Jeunet didn’t get to make a great Jeunet film (Amelie vs Predator)

Counterpoint: Alien 3 is good. It is maybe the best of the series. 

“I am here to chew bubble gum and burst out of John Hurt's abdomen. And I'm all out of bubble gum." 

He plays Ultron as Robert California. In fact Ultron might actually be Robert California. 

If only Pearl Mackie had been in place for that season. She would have set the universe on fire with a script like Face The Raven.

In nu-Who, I'd go Family of Blood/Blink/Utopia. Human Nature is the best nu-Who by miles, and Utopia is an immense setup for the sadly disappointing finale. 

Critical and popular opinions do diverge though. Transformers 4 was the biggest box office success of it’s year but I think we’d be horrified if it won Best Picture. Why? Because we understand that there is a valid critical perspective beyond just what’s popular. So the real question is what makes a film good, in a…

The thing about the “but it’s popular” argument is that you then have to follow it to its conclusion and say that the most popular film should have won- which would actually be Infinity War.

To be fair, a lot of Best Picture winners haven’t been best picture material

The “you” in Everything I Do, I Do It For You was his own weird, villainous dick.

Honestly, we’ve seen lots of movies where a real person is reimagined in a stripped-down, sanctified form in order to make some glib point about mental health (ie A Beautiful Mind). But this dude built his reputation on killing brown people both abroad and, according to his own bullshit, within the United States.…

It was a hagiography of a racist narcissistic liar, and it had the moral seriousness of God’s Not Dead. American Sniper is literally right wing propaganda, the first instalment of the MAGA Cinematic Universe. 

I think it would be more beloved if there hadn't been any Oscar hype. It's whole vibe is Weird Indie Oddity. 

Birdman isn’t that bad, it’s just palpably not as good as Boyhood or Whiplash. But it’s better than American Sniper, which is basically a very stupid superhero movie.

This rarefied idea of what a writer does is silly. You get a commission, you write the piece, that’s how it works. Journalism is a team sport and the editor is the coach.

I find musicals are easiest to rewatch because it’s basically just listening to your favourite records. For parents, the answer to this question is “whatever my kid was into when they were three.” I’ve seen Happy Feet atleast a hundred times.