A lot of this review seems to be “It isn’t as good as the book” which doesn’t mean anything to me, considering I never read it.

Great news. This is fun little show with a surprisingly strong narrative through-line, and two seasons seems like the right amount of time for the big blowout.

The first act is actually pretty darn good, there’s some nicely weird little camera tricks and suspense setpieces. It’s a shame that the back half of the movie is on autopilot, but it’s not total trash.

It’s a ROAD WARRIOR ripoff AND a ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK ripoff at the same time, thank you very much. It’s delightfully stupid.

TAKEN is a truly, madly, deeply stupid motion picture that I can’t help but enjoy. The one thing the clones and sequels never understood was the fun of seeing a fantastic dramatic actor treat the material like it’s King Lear even as he’s chopping guys in the neck and shooting out kneecaps. Only Denzel’s stuff seems to…

This redesign is giving me an actual, genuine headache. Which is something to be proud of, I guess.

Saw V is the second-worst Saw film, and the most poorly-directed to boot. Whoever thought Saw should become a police procedural starring a dime-store Jason Lee knockoff mixed with a bizarre and pointless real estate narrative should have has their WGA card burned.

I knew the very very basic premise before going on, but seeing Strickland toy with the audience's expectations of the power dynamic in the first half was one of the best purposes of the year. The amount of genuine, non-exploitative humour he manages to pull out of the characters was delightful.

You see that firsthand in the blooper reel for The Rock.

No, it's just a remake of the movie.

Mekhi Phifer is too big to be the Nightingale. That guy was tall but lanky.

I refuse to believe anyone adores Hollow Man.

Film festivals are insular bubbles where self-centred artistes get to pretend they're the taste makers of the world.

Yes, the one sci-fi spectacle movie a year we get. Truly an era.

I was following Bertino for years after that film until it seemed like he just fell off the map entirely.

He shit himself out of Hollywood pretty loudly with Hollow Man and that certainly damaged his reputation, but Black Book was a huge comeback.

I just want it to be that Seth Rogan/Danny McBride fight scene from Pineapple Express for 45 minutes.

Or West Coast Avengers, he's great in that run as the Avengers equivalent of Q.

I don't disagree, I'm just saying that she's always been under-served as a character.

The weirdest part of that whole thing is that it DOES have the plot of the original novel, with the necklace and the whole bit.