Didn't Lawson record voices for one of the Rogue Squadron games? I guess voicing a tiny ship flying around calling for help from wingmates was a more substantial than one line and your face obscured by a lens flare.

Blue Like Jazz was the Christian movie that actually got acclaim (I think Rabin gave it a good review here). It went so far to admit that a crisis of faith could be a real thing and maybe not something that goes away if you just pray really, really hard.

Carl Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman both explored faith from a more protestant viewpoint, though granted their films aren't really all that gung-ho about God and all. But Ordet clearly qualifies.

Isn't there something where the writer of Up the Long Ladder claimed it was somehow about abortion and the right to choose because carrying a child is just like someone stealing your DNA to make a clone without your permission?

Seriously, I can suspend my disbelief for dragons and zombies and Kit Harrington being taken seriously, but the idea that Westeros has 8000 years of known history is just totally out there.

I think it's more that "adult" films are increasingly aimed at either kids/family/everyone or a limited adult audience. Tons of kids watch ostensibly superhero and fantasy movies. But outside of that, almost all serious films are rated R. The G rating is practically dead, and live-action PG movies are getting there.

Turning a character into a plot device just to make another character's arc more convincing isn't the best writing practice.

I don't think the message of the propaganda itself is the problem. Casting Sheridan's rebellion as an alien-funded takeover attempt works well and feeds into existing themes of Earth paranoia.

Lyta's apartment woes don't bother me too much (they offer her the reasonable solution of a smaller apartment right?), but it gets more absurd the longer this plot goes on.

God, Illusion of Truth is insufferable, like a 17 year-old yelling about sheeple.

This was the first game I ever owned. But I had no problem with dungeons. It just took me a full year to figure out how to get past that damn raccoon.

While I don't think it's nearly as big an influence on Japan as other classic Chinese novels (since it was published in the 18th century, after Japan had mostly closed itself off from China), Dream of the Red Mansion is all about a doomed romance with a consumptive girl. You could probably make a good argument that…

The MPDG really has to show no or little interior life, and mainly exist to enrich or help a male character. This film actually subverts the trope by giving Poppy a clear an vibrant inner and social life, and by twisting the normal dynamic with the sullen-male-needing-saving through her relationship with Marsdan's…

I'd give Last Year at Marienbad an A-, but still understand how someone would want to give it an F.

Eh, it's understandable what Book-Robb did (because he's young, and overly tied to his youthful ideas of honor), but Martin plays pretty coy about how necessary an intact hymen is for a Westeros marriage, and considering the amount of sex that goes around, it really can't be a complete dealbreaker. The politically…

Book or show, Robb makes a pretty dumb mistake. I just find the "I did it for love" angle a tad less dumb than "I did it for the honor of the daughter of one of my enemies while sacrificing the honor of my ally!"

I haven't actually seen the episode, but the book doesn't actually explain where the swords come from when they first appear. It's not until the big wedding that it becomes clear.
However, Adams over in Newbies got this point, so maybe he cheated a bit, read it in some promotional material, or it was telegraphed some…

I think lovesick Robb can be largely blamed on the extra three years. It makes more sense for a 15 year-old to be semi-virginal and feel honor-bound to marry a girl he had sex with. It's harder to see an 18+ year-old, especially one who's closer to showTheon than his book counterpart, fall into that trap.

The third one is my favorite, but only because of the baby party/exchange.

When it first shows up after a harsh winter like this past one, Oberon is quite literally a gift from the heavens. The first touch on the tongue is the harkening of spring.