I think an Adam Sandler character can just be silly (like a cartoon character) rather than mentally disabled.

I think it helps that we’re supposed to find the lead unpleasant.

I thought Allen was most popular among New Yorkers.

He’s already made another movie, but he did it in Europe.

which I guess is a good way to ensure there will be more readers

Has the AV Club ever had a policy of just not reviewing certain directors? They’ve certainly never had one against reviewing films they expect to be bad.

What happened ten years ago?

News Of The World, which also stars Mare Winningham and Elizabeth Marvel

John Cassavetes’ Gloria had Gena Rowlands protecting a young boy from mobsters. Leon: The Professional is basically a gender-flipped remake, but Erick Zonca’s Julia keeps that combination. Lone Wolf & Cub had both the adult and child as males, and that got semi-remade as Road to Perdition and Logan (the latter going…

If they’re adapting all of “Fire & Blood”, only part I has been published. It ends with Aegon III’s regency.

Viserys I’s dislike of conflict resulted in him being a sub-par king who set up a succession crisis after his death. GRRM had multiple kinds of bad kings, including the relatively passive Aenys I & Aerys I (I don’t know why there was a second named after him given his unsuitability for the throne) to contrast with the…

I’m the opposite: due to my completionist tendencies I’m more likely to start watching a show if I know it won’t require that many episodes to finish. So even if “The Good Wife” was genuinely great, I’m just not going to find out for myself.

I’m not sure which unpunished murderers you’re referring to.

Done.

Per Wikipedia, she was born in Kabul Afghanistan, so her mom was also in that country for at least some time. Her dad is Indian, and I wasn’t aware the Indian army was deployed there.

Eh, Daenerys doesn’t really have much of an option to consent to her wedding or not, and their early relationship does involve a significant amount of rape.

There is no season 2 of Firefly. Which is fine by me.

The director intending the character to be annoying doesn’t make him less annoying. Why was Blade putting up with him?

I wasn’t impressed by any of the vampires in II. But the worst bit was bringing back Kris Kristofferson after he died in the original, and adding in Norman Reedus as his dirtbag quasi-replacement.

One of those pictures is mis-captioned “The Woman Who Rain”.