This was a great movie, one of the best I have seen in a theater in years. But although her eyes flickered at the end, I thought it was pretty unambiguous that she killed her alien double. It was not presented in a confusing way at all. I took the end as kind of an artistic flourish-y thing. If they actually were…

Doesn’t matter because even though she destroyed her doppelganger she is still not the same person who went into the Shimmer. Everyone who enters the Shimmer changes.

That was savage. He got destroyed. He thought he was playing the crowd, and he got fucking destroyed by the crowd.

If you want people to actually see this column, it might help to add a “Books” tab at the top of your site.

I just found out that Jemisin is W. Kamau Bell’s cousin!

I have no idea what this means, but I like it.

Dowd’s answer was “HULK SMASH!” followed by him hitting IV with his new Hulk Hands.

Dubai is known for being a billionaire’s playground and nothing else. The only reference it could serve as in a movie would be a “the 1 percent are evil” metaphor.

The current 80s dystopia movie we’re living in has a disgusting lack of Robocops IMHO.

And the sixth billboard was inside you all along.

Unfortunately, idealists wanting to overthrow crappy regimes don’t exactly have a great track record, and often turned crappy regimes like the ancien regime of France, Czarist Russia, and Nationalist China into regimes far more awful and murderous.

And the fifth character is New York City.

The fifth billboard is love...

How do you account for the popularity of Star Trek?

It’s important to keep in mind that the easy recipe for dystopia is: find a subset of the population that is being persecuted, then imagine what the world would be like if that were happening to everybody. With that in mind, Children of Men and Snowpiercer might more accurately be labeled “speculative” and thus not a…

No, but we are at peak use of the word “peak”.

“Coming up next on the top 40, Infamous Sex Jeans with their latest hit, ‘Boobs in Boobland’.”

Think ripped  and faded jeans worn by Christian, when he is shirtless. For whatever reason, the sight of him in those jeans which I think he was supposed to have had for years, before he became wealthy, make Ana all gooey inside.

This was directed by the same guy who directed Glengarry Glen Ross.

Hmm. I don’t really have much of a reaction to this other than “cool, I’ll have to check it out”