Magic is about no consequences. If you want consequences, it makes no sense to put magic in your stories. I know it's very popular, even to the point where so-called professionals will shamelessly swear to your face that it's all just SFF…but no, magic, like divine miracles, just does not fit with "consequences." Wish…

Magical Arizona looked like the desert habitat in the suitcase.

" Simply put, there’s no nostalgia to draw on, no comfort to undermine; all Rowling can find in America is the repression and social division that is the dark side of Hogwarts’ aura of belonging, exclusivity, and heritage."

The deaths of Laura and the childrens, and Juliana's discovery of Trudy's body are still heart rending. The portrait of life under tyranny is still gripping. Seeing the resistance as the noble heroes predestined to triumph over the forces of evil, still seems more like mandatory positive thinking from the Amazon…

Scary to think so, but that would actually play. Harshaw has an earthy streak. I suppose everybody else's choice would be Jeff Bridges, though.

Yes, well, there are lots and lots of movies where the religion provides real miracles. They are not notably profound movies, rarely very entertaining and thoroughly conventional. The "critique" of religion offered up in the novel rests upon the miraculous powers of the hero's validating his revelation.

And I am re-watching now.

The ambiguous verbal admission that the US soldiers were killing Japanese wounded doesn't really excuse the prominent scene where surrendering Japanese treacherously murdered their merciful captors. Given Gibson's reputation (and the generally low standards in Hollywood) this kind of egregious wrongness is more or…

Ah, I see what you're talking about now, using a growth matrix to culture organs. Who knows where this will end? (I'm skeptical over the 3D printing reference.)This process never crossed my mind because blood vessels aren't ever visualized, nor are visceral organs. And because they use milk/white plastic in the…

Decellularization in reverse is like baking in reverse, if I understand what you mean.

First paragraph….the characters have called him the writer because no, it's not totally different.

In a previous episode, a character intimidates a technician with film of him having sex with a robot in a workroom. If you remember this, it becomes a mystery as to how Maeve can get up to all sorts of shenanigans in her time in the workroom without being detected? The only answer is sheer luck no one's watching that…

Dr. Strange is far more comparable to Gods of Egypt than lots of people would like to admit, I think. Of course, I say that as someone who loved the spectacle in Gods of Egypt. The Apophis monster was much more impressive than Dormammu.

But, Todd is guilty. He stole a dog, threw it off a bridge, to his death for all he knew and everybody knows that in TV killing a dog is much worse than killing a person!)
He set fire to a man's house. He left the woman with a gun demanding to be let into his apartment out there in the hall, so that she was then held…

If I understand it correctly, Andrew Cunanan was a spree killer. But if the people making American Crime Story are really more worried about casting Donatella Versace than Cunanan, they're not off to a good start.

Cumberbatch is a good actor, but he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. If the script is screwed up, he doesn't seem to be able to overcome with his own intuition. In this case, he is playing Downey/Stark. The thing is, the character is a weak version of Steve Rogers, except instead of being able to do this all…

Yes, AVClub reviewers, we get it: Race traitor Jake Sully isn't suitable as a hero because it's the movie that's bad. Nothing to do with the white people doing the perp walk at the end.No discomfort with 9/11 imagery applied in favor of the enemies. Of course you only have purely aesthetic objections, and you have to…

The note back to her said "HI!" There is a perverse friendliness there. And much of the back and forth with the drums and growling engine is perversely reminiscent of boy girl sniping that is supposed to be sparks flying between complementary opposites. That is, it seems to me to be playing off Hollywood meet cute…

"We know he needs to avoid the police, but wouldn’t it make more sense to anonymously tip them off about Lydia’s whereabouts instead of letting Dirk handle it? And shouldn’t he be spending his time trying to get a new job?"

But, that would interfere with the courtship! Hard to flirt without the boys in blue getting jealous.