The best is how the entire production team's eyes are blocked out in the credits to protect their anonymity and preserve their family's honor.

Yeah, Excalibur remains the film version to beat, and I have no reason to believe this will be the one to do it. Nicol Williamson is flawless as Merlin, Helen Mirren is great as Morgana. The whole cast, really. And knights riding through a blossoming cherry orchard to O Fortuna. It's pretty much the best.

This may very likely be terrible, but after so many years of deconstructed fantasy epics that try to tell the faux-historical "story behind the myth", it's nice to see a full-throated endorsement for the return of wizards and fireballs and spooky tree nymphs.

Like so?

I'm happily going to rent this. It's like Magnificent Seven cross-pollinated with a D&D adventuring party.

I enjoyed it a lot as well. It was almost like a Refn film in it's quiet-to-brutality contrast. Bone Tomahawk took it's entire running time worth of allotted violence and gathered almost all of it up into one intensely horrifying scene.

When I first saw the logo, I was really analyzing the typography; "There's some pretty interesting decisions here about how big they can make Pence's name compared to Trump and the have to use a lighter point font…" And then I looked up a bit and was all, "Oh, they're fucking."

That's amazing. Holy cow, that must have been an awesome show.

I dunno. I think the truck turned out pretty good.

If you were Bayaz, you could have machinations in place thousands of years ago to ensure it ranked no less than a 6 on this list.

I think the one thing the writers and commenters alike can reliably agree on is we all have a desire to have our voices heard. Otherwise, why would any of us be here? So it's easy to understand the impulse. That said, it generally produces a more efficacious result when we extend the effort to make our observations at…

Vietch's Maximortal is the only book of his I've read and I haven't heard of this. Thanks for the recommendation.

I always like to pretend that you're making appropriate comments on slightly different articles in the universe next door to us and somehow a Disqus wormhole transports them here to ours.

Because it's the right kind of rectangular for the composition. Also, why not incorporate some region 2 assets? We have a global readership and it might be nice for them, just once, to see their particular brand of packaging represented for a television series concerning women who are learning, living and loving.

Yeah, it was 2006. I should have specified. It's a testament to video games that it required the purchase of an open-world murder playground to offset the taint of Sonic 2006.

The clerk at Blockbuster actually stopped me from renting it. He was a 17 year old kid, and he told me in no uncertain terms that the game was garbage and I should go pick something else out. But he wasn't being pushy or condescending or snotty about it, his voice was touched with real concern. I was so startled by…

You're absolutely right. Corrected, and thank you.

Yeah, I think 'fun' is the operative word.

I'm very excited for an open world game of this scale with a whimsical art direction. As much as I love the fidelity of games like Skyrim, I look forward to exploring a more unrealistic world, where the discoveries may be stranger and more unexpected.

David Rakoff was my second choice after Cate Blanchett. Partially because his wry, measured, but ultimately sympathetic voice is an endless pleasure. And partially because he's the one celebrity I feel truly passed before his time, and I'm not nearly done hearing what he has to say.