The movie I think commits far more strongly to the notion that religious fervor may not be enough to save you from the Devil.

Thomasin thinks she's flying. But maybe the devil's promises of magical powers are a fraud? Which is I think why there's a little ambiguity about the reality of the magic, as opposed to the reality of the witch. If Thomasin is deluded about the extent of her so-called powers, the feminist reading is a horror story…

Obviously that sounds believable to me, though maybe only because of vanity.

Eisenberg's character is written as killing Dakota Fanning's because that's what men do to women who won't behave. Which is too often true but doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the movie.

Don't give them ideas!

You're saying that the primary creators of scripted movies shouldn't have any "power" because the director's position of authority means they are the primary creators? This makes no sense. Also, it gives producers and studio execs a free ride.

Well surgeons do get to blame God, but the owners of the ship like to blame the captain.

I don't anyone could have pulled off the melodramatic turn in the script. Crime and Punishment segues into male oppression isn't really a thought out concept for a movie.

Pretend the auteur theory really is dead, just like people say when you try to explain the auteur theory mostly doesn't work. Pretend, just to be wild, that for a scripted movie the primary (first!) creator is the scriptwriter. That's David Goyer, which takes us right back to that dreadful Nolan trilogy. (And Chris…

I don't know what Eisenberg thought he was doing with his performance, not really understanding what he said there. But then I dismissed his performance as doing the Joker again, minus you know the character actually being the Joker. Pretty much everything wrong with BvS (aside from the coincidence that sounds like an…

Possibly…maybe it's the cynic in me? I think Logan would have gotten notes from execs at Showtime about getting the band back together quicker. I really do think all this with Ethan is supposed to sell Vanessa's redeeming love at the climax of the season.

Nothing serious about the comment, a joke about Hemlock Grove using the method to make a character a werewolf.

Jim Caviezel on Person of Interest? Not only is it hard to imagine Caviezel pioneering anything, Billy Campbell on The 4400, for one, had long anticipated the habit.

You've outed yourself as someone who watched Hemlock Grove.

Well, near as I can make out "zombies," (or ghouls as they used to be,) are representations of fears of the enemy masses who want what we've got. Inasmuch as nobodies, especially in the US nobodies with melanin, but also foreigners, are the enemy masses, it would be kind of self defeating. There are never going to be…

Oops, sorry, brain fart. Jekyll has only metaphorically slaughtered people with his mind destroying drugs. The would be assassin is his first victim, and you're right, even that needed an assist from Victor to be permanently fatal.

Don't watch either The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones. (Zombies are done for me since Shaun of the Dead, and throwing a kid out a tower window for a punch line, then following up with the rapiness of that girl's brother and Jason Momoa was not entertaining.) But the comparison between Star Trek and BattleStar…

I nominate Rusk as the dude who arrests all the failed characters and has them hung for lame. First Ethan, then Dorian, then Victor.

So far from hoping Rusk fails, I was pleased the producers deliberately made the snake attack feeble and anticlimactic so that Rusk escaped.
The Ethan character is just there to love Vanessa. The show believes the goodness of characters is determined by whether they truly love Vanessa. But I don't. Ethan should die…

Well, human monsters don't surrender and ask to be hanged.