A step towards a day in which it will be incidental, yes. You are the one coming here and claiming such casting is “political”. I will be happy to admit that the casting in the new movies is more diverse than the original trilogy. But it’s absolutely insane how some interpret diverse representation as being…

Barney Barton’s supervillain name was Trickshot (albeit not the original version). I’ve never heard of Barney as the Swordsman. The Swordsman was Duquesne and more recently Andreas von Strucker (of the Fenris twins). (He had his dead sister’s skin bound to the hilt of his sword, to help channel her powers!)

Upvoted for stealing my idea. (Although I admit I never could think of a good one between Homecoming and Graduation. Prom? Yearbook Photos?)

If so, that protege didn’t learn much.  This looks way, way more conventional/positive than Kids (although I grant you that there are skateboarding urban teens).

Oh good, because I won’t see anything with Michael Rappaport, so now maybe I’ll check it out.

And it was “three great scenes” — not just “good”. That could make a difference here.

That was Howard Hawks.

Chernow’s Grant biography is very good. Even at about 900 pages, I thought it compelling and hard to put down, and very informative for someone like me who has deficits of knowledge in regard that time in history. 

From reading the Chernow bio, I get the impression that President Grant may be severely underrated by history. It’s true his administration had numerous failings and eventually succumbed to that era’s pervasive cronyism and graft (due largely, Chernow thinks, to Grant’s utter naivete). But Grant was more progressive…

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned was one of the episode’s minor delights for me: how Yao was disturbed yet impressed by Laurie’s inhuman inscrutability (“At times, I find it difficult to know what you are thinking”) and by show’s end, was looking to emulate her. As a typically poker-faced Chinese businessman, he has…

This review tracks with my impression of Hazanavicius’ arc thus far. I loved the OSS 117 films as Bond pastiches (though the 2nd one was lighter on laugh-out-loud jokes). I was absolutely ga-ga in love with the trailer for The Artist and was convinced that the film would bear it out, so imagine my dismay when it…

No, I saw it as a deliberate choice. It was well worth knowing that Corgan spewed forth such a consistent stream of alt-right buzzwords, but if the (NYT) article had quoted everything Corgan said using those words, it would have filled half the article, heavily overshadowing the focus on the Pumpkins’ return, which…

He’s been surly since being cast aside by his master.

Whew! While reading your first post, I was hoping that was the explanation...

It’s scary, but that actually looks more like Granny Goodness than it looks like any mental conception of Mrs. Which I ever had.

Also for that pile, Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes.

Glad for the return of this feature, Mr. V. I admit I have yet to delve into Buster Keaton comedies — at all — but this is a good reminder to start.

If only we’d listened to those astute enough to conflate actors with the characters they play!

Sounds like a win all-around.

It used to be able to be two things around here.