Whoa, they’re making a Shanana series? Who’s playing Bowzer?

Please tell me that was a joke.

“Millennial critic reviews old book/movie/TV show/breakfast cereal and finds it problematic by 2015 standards” might be my least favorite kind of pop culture article. It’s not even the implied “we know better now” smugness that’s so grating, but the clanging obviousness of the observations presented as being somehow…

I LIKE the rave scene in Reloaded. There, I said it. The idea of defying the machines and their digitized, artificial reality through sex, sweat, music, mud, and corporeality is powerful and even moving. I think people pick on the scene because it’s painfully earnest and emotionally open in a film series (and film…

A brief, successfully resisted occupation by a foreign power isn’t the same as colonialism. You even had the same guy—Haile Selassie—back on his throne by 1941. Try again.

If that’s the case, then shouldn’t Ethiopia— which successfully resisted colonialism and is largely within its own cultural borders— be hugely better off than the rest of Africa?

The scariest thing about this trailer is that Hollywood is now casting 43-year-old Carla Gugino as the mother of a 29-year-old playing a college student.

Zombie-looking dude in the letterman jacket is giving me serious flashbacks to the Buffy episode “The Zeppo.”

Sarah Connor tells Kyle “on your feet, soldier” while he’s half-dead toward the end of the first Terminator, so technically she’s stealing from herself.

Evil twin/clone episode.

Except that's not remotely true. The idea that Lecter somehow only kills the rude and deserving is nowhere in Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon. Hell, in the film of Silence of the Lambs Demme goes out of his way to portray the two guards Lecter slaughters as professional and respectful toward him. Lecter is an evil…

"We had such a great time making it."= "...and a good thing, too, because you're not gonna have a great time watching it."

A lot of what they're doing with the AIs on Person of Interest is so close to what we wanted to do on the Sarah Connor Chronicles that it makes me sad we never got a chance to explore those stories more.

No offense to Luke Evans, but they should have cast the awesome Disney World Gaston from all of the Youtube videos in that role.

William Gibson's unused script for Alien 3 featured a Cold War in space with Vietnamese commandos and a Union of Progressive Peoples. My vague recollection is that he turned it in the same week that the Berlin Wall came down...

Farscape was actually quite expensive and got more expensive as it went along. It was subsidized by Henson basically as a big demo reel to showcase their impressive capabilities.

I LOVED the Space Cats books when I was a little kid. Those books and Tintin comics were my gateway drugs to science fiction and adventure stories.

I find that scene incredibly frustrating, because it's a wonderful bit of backstory that casts those characters in a new light, but because they were so obsessed with hiding the reveal, they end up putting all the emotion of the story into the last 15 minutes of the film. To me it's a great example of how guarding the…

I'd love to see an alternate history story where the impromptu truces spread and turn into a general mutiny by the opposing armies that ends the war nearly four years early,

Photo ops with expensive planes sometimes don't end well: