David Tennant as Kilgrave is one of the scariest villains I’ve ever seen period. 

Both of those villains are great examples of Marvel’s famously good casting. Another actor could have played Kilgrave, but to get David Tennant in to subvert his cheeky chappie Doctor persona was a brilliant choice. As for Kingpin, that’s a role that could easily have come across as silly and cartoonish, but D’Onofrio…

The Internet as such started in 1981 with the adoption of Internet Protocol v4, which alongside TCP gave us TCP/IP, and the true Internet that we’re still using today. Through the 80's, people used mainly email, FTP and some forgotten protocols, usually in an academic, military or governmental context. This was the…

I can’t believe the Halloween II website is still up!

Maybe you were not alive in the early 80s, but the internet existed (imagine a landline phone docked in a clunky tabletop modem). The word wide web did not. 2 different things.

You’ve never seen WarGames?  It felt kinda like that.

If you’ve ever wondered how it felt to log on to the internet in October of 2023 and read a news story featuring the most Sam Barsanti-esque lede sentence ever constructed—a sentence that barely makes sense and goes on for far far longer than necessary—then you don’t need to wonder any longer: [A]s announced today in…

And that’s the thing for me. While Star Wars is the movie who definded me and Raiders was an awesome experience I will never forget.... Jaws still is the only Movie I can watch 10+ times a year (when it’s on AMC etc) and I see that this movie has no flaws.

Agree with you on Death Proof; the full version is a bit too much...

I still want them to make a short where Wong is in the library at Kamar-Taj, and suddenly portals start opening and Wongs from other universes pour in, and Original Recipe Wong has to get them each back to their own universes without wrecking the place.

I don’t know. Nassau 76 is fantastic. Santa Monica 72 is also amazing. 

I know it’s not a common view but that first Tin Machine album is pretty fucking great. Not flawless (lyrically it needs work) but there’s a vast amount to admire on it, and the album makes so much more sense in a post-grunge world. Indeed I suspect it may have been thought of a lot kinder had it been released after…

Reality shouldn’t even be showing its face without Heathen being there.

I agree about Earthling and Heathen and Pin Ups, and also think The Next Day is very underrated and should have a spot on the list as well.

There’s more than enough evidence to support the theory, for sure. From a “real world” perspective, what’s more likely? That his wife single-handedly broke into a maximum security prison and rescued him with his eye, and from there he brought down the entire Precrime organization  while also reuniting with said wife…

Man I saw this movie when I was a kid and never even thought there was an alternate way to interpret the ending (I always thought things happen as shown). Need to rewatch the movie.

I get that reading, I really do, but I think two arguments would go against that reading, the first meta-textual and the second in-plot, so to speak: firstly, this is Spielberg. There is absolutely no sentimental happy family ending that Spielberg would not embrace, no matter how unrealistic. Secondly - surely, if…

It’s definitely an interesting interpretation, although given it’s Spielberg I suspect we’re supposed to take the sentimental ending as the real one. 

Hmm I was recently talking about this on some other MR stories, and I noted that I found it odd that the movie set up the idea that the third act was all a dream but never explicitly addressed that possibility later on. But reading your analysis, it sounds like maybe it does, just using the “language” of cinema…

I might be dense, but I had honestly never thought that Anderton was still in the halo prison, though judging by the comments here it seems to be a thing a lot of people assume.

I think you make a good case for it and it certainly feels closer to something PKD would write but...I just don’t see anything in Spielberg’s…