I thought the instant forgiveness by Iris was refreshing. Everyone was expecting her to blow up, and it was surprising when she didn't. More importantly, it was a sign of character growth. Iris started as someone who hysterically screamed at Eddie that there could be no secrets between them, and basically threw a fit…

For most white characters in American fiction, their race is never an issue, so it's not big deal to race-swap them in an adaptation. Danny Rand, however, has got a dual fish-out-of-water story based around his race. First he's a fish out of water in K'un L'un—the place where he learns Kung Fu and gets the power of…

I like this, mainly for #3. Because clearly, Lance Hunter is his British persona. Give him an Aussie accent, and he becomes Hunter Lance!

Right now AoS is in a very similar place to the Flash: the team has one superhuman character and everyone else is a human with various skills. With Lincoln and Joey the metal-melting guy around, that status quo likely won't last, then again, you can say the same thing for Flash's supporting cast, which features three…

The big difference between procedural Flash and procedural AoS is that Flash's procedural episodes almost always involve brand-name Flash villains and concepts, while the procedural 2/3rds of AoS's first season were brutally off-brand stuff. The serialization of AoS has brought almost all the good brand-name Marvel…

I didn't love Avatar, but it's a testament to how much filmmaking talent Cameron has that he could make a passable film out of that brutally awful script. I'd still be excited to see him work with material that's better than "sci-fi Dances with Wolves."

Wasn't that the idea behind handing Rodriguez the Predators franchise? That didn't work out too well.

The point isn't whether Jolie actually held anything up, or if Rudin's ambitions for Jobs and Cleopatra were realistic. The point is that even though Rudin's reactions to Jolie were incredibly histrionic, and even though he's a pig, he had several legitimate beefs with her, that shouldn't be dismissed as just…

The "spoiled brat" in the Sony hack emails wasn't about equal pay, IIRC. I think Lawrence is talking about Angelina Jolie, who was labeled a "spoiled brat" because she was holding up production on one of Scott Rudin's projects, not because she was fighting for equal pay.

Now I'm looking forward to the conclusion of Infinity War, when Jeremy Renner pulls the rubber mask off Thanos and reveals he's actually been the Smithsonian security guard who got fired during Winter Soldier, all along!

It's not the Martians on Mars that are raising the ruckus. They're enjoying the good publicity their planet's getting, a big relief after all that John Carter stuff a few years back. But you cast a white guy in the role of the Martian—and it's not like the book says the character couldn't be a white human—and the…

Yeah, Scott, Mamet, and Zaillian certainly made some palatable lemonade out of the lemons Harris gave them.

I doubt that Ejiofor's name was the biggest consideration. The big cost of losing Khan so late in the process is that there was no time to do a full-scale casting process. So for all the people rightly declaring that there are dozens of awesome actors in Bollywood or Indian-American unknowns who could've performed the…

Actually, as written in the book, Kapoor sounds a lot like Kal Penn—I was totally expecting him to be cast. Still, three guys is not a strong bench to represent the entire subcontinent.

"The movie Hannibal, not the television series - which is, love it or hate it, clearly operating on a different wavelength."

Almost always, when the movie is better, people tend to forget that the book existed.

"The problem, plain and simple, is that sometimes the Marvel Studios team can't rescue their crummy source material."

Coulson has the axe that was used to cut off his hand hanging on the wall in his office, on prominent display. I'd say that's pretty comfortable.

My lips are sealed. Seriously. I confused a Krazy Glue for a Chapstick.

This is a nonsense comparison. More so than most people working in TV and films, Joss Whedon's shown what he's capable of when left completely to his own devices, and that's Dr. Horrible and Much Ado About Nothing—projects which didn't have network execs or Kevin Feiges in his face, and where he wasn't multitasking…