I can never get over the stupidity of the tornado scene. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that a person the size of Henry Cavill could pull a man the size of Kevin Costner out of harm’s way in that scenario. It wouldn’t raise any eyebrows. He could have done it at normal speed. It honestly looks a whole lot…

A hundred percent this. One of the best moments in the pilot episode is when Hannibal tries to copycat the Minnesota Shrike but Will immediately can tell that it’s a fake, because the Shrike has a perverse respect for his victims but Hannibal couldn’t hide the fact that he thought his victim was a pig. A series-long…

If there’s anything I know by now, it’s that people are totally capable of understanding they’re watching fiction and still develop an understanding of reality based on that fiction.

“decidedly anachronistic 1700s culture”

Not to be the Capital Police or anything, but this article uses both “Capitol police” and “Capitol Police” when it should really pick one and stick with it.

I agree. I am way more interested in the history of the North and the Children of the Forest etc. I would have been more hyped had GRRM released a book detailing the rule of the Kings of Winter. I am tired of all the dragons. All they ever do is kill each other over a stupid ugly chair. Enough with the fire already. I…

The film’s one good history joke—the casting of Tom Hollander in the triple role of King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, and Kaiser Wilhelm II—turns out to be a squandered stunt;

“with Master Chief’s old A.I. buddy Cortana having gone rogue and rallied all of the artificial intelligences in the universe to aid her in a revolution against their creators.”

To satisfy my very old-school Bungie nostalgia, did they call this “going rampant”?

Definitely lacking the courage of his convictions in my opinion. 

She actually sued the producers since their original agreement was a single movie (obviously she had no idea of the major bend towards her supposed husband killing).

Quite sure (hard to hear her really) that’s not French. I don’t speak Spanish but it doesn’t sound like that either. Italian? Portuguese? I’m sure somebody will come along who knows what it is.

The extended cut of Donnie Darko proved pretty conclusively that the absolute last thing we want is Richard Kelly further expanding on its “universe”.  

Skyfall failed miserably for me because it almost immediately ditches the entire mission statement of Casino Royale. It goes from “here’s a new beginning for a new young Bond!” in Casino/Quantum (they’re pretty much one movie since Quantum starts seconds after Casino ends) to “Bond has been doing this too long and is…

Meanwhile Liam Neeson just keeps on going and going ...

What happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type?

Got to say, Clinton is a very strange psychic attractor for just strange things/people.

It’s going to be really funny when Joe Morgan is one of dead ball players that come out of the corn.

I’ve some family whose lifelong ambition was to make it as an actor, and I can say that the London acting scene is dominated not so much by the children of actors, as the children of the rich. Confidence and the ability to live for years in an expensive city with no money of your own is what it takes these days. (My…

Totally agree, and I have stopped watching this type of “based on true events” movies and shows altogether. If a story is interesting enough for me to want to see, I don’t want a fictionalized version of it. Eastwood is a particularly lazy storyteller in this way. He doesn’t give a crap about Chris Kyle, American…

That trailer is so good and understands that Superman is fundamentally about hope. Watching that trailer you’d have no idea that the movie climaxes with Superman snapping someone’s neck.