Also, I remember hearing that the film omits the second visit to the Weird Sisters and hence their prophesies about the wood and about no-man-of-woman-born, etc, so I was on the lookout for that so that I could be offended, but unless my memory is awful (I saw it a couple of months ago here in Ireland) that second…

Don't worry, C+ is absolutely the wrong grade for this film. I saw it last month and though it was just beautiful. The changes in soliloquys' context and the edits they made all feel well considered, and the design and photography are incredible.

I had a bad feeling when Cary Fukunaga the director bowed out, along with Adam Arkapaw the cinematographer. The miniseries format meant that those two were behind the camera for every episode of the first season, and along with Pizzolatto writing every episode, it made the show unusually auteurist for television.

"Alexander" is actually a strange example when it comes to directors cuts. The first Director's Cut is actually several minutes SHORTER than the theatrical cut, which has got to be very unusual. Then there was "The Final Cut" which goes the opposite direction and seems to be Stone throwing in everything he could, it…

I proudly cast a ballot for marriage equality. I'm ordinarily uneasy about the civil rights of citizens from a minority being up for public vote (generally a civil rights deficit exists precisely because the abuses of the majority) but it's necessary in this case due to some poorly conceived and drafted elements of…

Like this one?

@baneofpigs:disqus mentioning Resident Evil 5 is a great example of what we're getting at I think. We all agree that lousy mechanics is almost always frustrating rather than fun, but RE5 is pretty close to the feeling of a "so bad it's good" film experience because everything is made so competently, except the story…

Here in Ireland they're generally €69.99 for a full priced digital download on the new consoles, which is pretty much $95 US or £56. I'm not a fan of the price jump either. I know when games moved from the PS2 era to HD development costs probably went up with all the work textures and such now needed, but I don't see…

"I don't stick my neck out for nobody" in Casablanca is a pretty great one, that the entire film builds to him breaking.

I doubt that by "segregation" he meant national autonomy. He was more likely referring to cases like Israel walling in Gaza and blockading them from land, sea, and air.

I suppose one major element is if the film is an adaptation of something that was already a hit on Broadway (like "West Side Story", "My Fair Lady", etc), you would have to do some major tweaks to the source material to come up with diagetic reasons for the characters to sing and dance, and the more you do those…

"I do notice that almost every musical-film which is taken seriously has an in-story reason why the people are singing and dancing…"

The other problem with "Centrism" in America is that the politics of both parties have been either groaning slowly to the right (hello Democrats) or racing to the far right as fast as possible (Hello Republicans), so the idea of a "center" in American politics looks an awful lot like "right wing" to the rest of the…

Well, my understanding is that at the time of its founding, the United States was culturally a bit analogous with the European Union, where people identified far more with their state of origin than with the national unit, and the cultural differences from one state to the next were larger than they are today. A…

Yeah, the team captain is always second from the right, they usually seem to put the maths genius onto the far right, probably so that for the average question the captain only has to face the left of the table to confer with the other two liberal-arts majors.

Probably too intense for a nightly ritual, but I wind up watching more than one a week when I have them available to me.

I didn't think it was possible, but my faith in the AV Club's commenters has swelled even more with this comment. Thanks for the details! I'll have to check out Only Connect next

I am going to sound insufferable and pretentious, but I really do hate the Jeopardy! gimmick. The only quiz show on television that I find engaging or that I can respect is BBC's University Challenge (which I think it still made by the USA-based College Bowl company, even though I'm not sure if they make a US version…

I want a pug puppy version of "Saló: The 120 Days of Sodom"

I want a pug puppy version of "Cloud Atlas"…