As if Card's assholery wasn't enough, it's produced by Roberto Orci, who recently tweeted about the Boston bombings being "false flag" operations and apparently turned Star Trek Into Darkness into something of a Truther allegory (I already have my ticket to STID because of a friend's birthday party, but feel a little…

I'm waiting on a director's cut. An older draft of the script was uploaded online a while ago and it was pretty good. The movie itself had great actors, effects, art direction, etc. and the director seemed really passionate about the project and then really disappointed by how it turned out, so it seems like the type…

@Juan_Carlo:disqus I'd say his biggest sin isn't his punditry, but his activism. I mean, I'd feel a lot more comfortable giving him my money even if he was an asshole if he weren't going to spend that money to fund political campaigns to try to ban gay marriage (campaigns which were quite successful for a while,…

Kind of an eh episode, but the animation was nice and BMO continues to be amazing/hilarious/tragic/adorable/insane.

Moon, from the same year, gives District 9 some competition, and you could also argue for Wall-E from the year before.

If they have any eligible releases this year. We could be waiting on next year for the US releases of the Miyazaki and Takahata films.

Outside of the obvious childhood picks (Dr. Seuss, Sendak, Harry Potter), the His Dark Materials books really blew my mind when I was 11 and they're still among my favorites.

The most pointlessly censored scene post-9/11: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Thor makes most logical sense to set up Guardians, since they're both space movies.

That makes sense, but I'm confused how her praise of the Harry Potter movies fits into this, where all the terrorism is set in motion by an evil genius with a specific credible goal in mind (and of course, once the mastermind's defeated cut to ridiculous happy ending).

I'm kind of puzzled by Dargis's reaction to the movie: http://movies.nytimes.com/2…

You've obviously never heard of Armond White, have you?

Well, now I know what commercial we're gonna see when they eventually air Korra Book 2.

Frost was in Attack the Block, which Wright only produced and Pegg wasn't involved with. Does that count?

I dunno, given the origins of the kaiju genre (nuclear anxieties), as well as what GDT did in his last film, the similarly popcorn-y Hellboy 2, I could see there being an environmental subtext to it.

@avclub-58238e9ae2dd305d79c2ebc8c1883422:disqus : Like, this trailer (this sold me immediately; any supposed "children's film" taking such a weird advertising tactic I knew had to be kind of dementedly brilliant)? https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I enjoyed Despicable Me well enough and want the second one to be good, but the idea of a Minions spin-off fills me with dread. Yes, they were cute and funny. They were just as cute and funny back when they were called the Raving Rabbids.

What. 14 years and nobody ages? They better explain that in 4.0 or that's some ridiculous laziness.

They definitely seem to be going in different directions than EVA, but the DDR synchronizing pilots does recall episode 9 of EVA, and at NYCC I recall Del Toro saying something about the mechs having souls, which sounds very EVA.

Are you talking about Devin Faraci? Guy seems to get really annoyed by anyone mentioning any non-Ghibli anime, even if it's something pretty universally agreed to be at the least artistically interesting like Evangelion.