It’s funny to me how kind-of-predictable this version of Batman is, based only on the trailer that they cut together two years ago during the COVID-induced break in filming, after only recording like 10% of the movie. It’s moody, patiently paced, capably acted with lots of gravitas, emphasizes detective work, and…

at least in the days before Kinja decimated the site’s robust commenting culture

he actually talks about this meme in the interview

The absence of any space travel makes this feel smaller than Mandalorian, certainly, but the sets are either massive or are flawlessly rendered and composited CGI, at a level I’ve not seen anywhere other than Mandalorian. Even Marvel movies tend to feel more CGI-ish in open-world “alien” settings like this. And I…

I wholly agree with the sentiment that story seems like a weakness for this series, but that it’s made up for (at least so far) by the detail in the world building, and by visual spectacle with the sets, costumes and special effects. I enjoy it in a similar way to how I enjoyed the new Dune movie, which also suffers a…

I’ve liked earlier seasons of Discovery, though they had some flaws, they had lots of redeeming qualities. But in what should be the show hitting its stride, with stability in the production team for the first time ever, and some basic plot elements acrobatically re-configured into more a conventional place (set in…

I laughed at that joke, it might have been my biggest laugh of the season.

Surely there isn’t already a movie or TV show in which someone who has lost their memory wanders around Times Square. I mean, I guess I don’t watch everything, I do have some entertainment Blindspots, but that is way too specific to have been done already. Surely.

Those erotic thrillers also made huge money *in the theater*, Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct both made over $300 million worldwide (domestically, Fatal Attraction is in the top 200 box office all time, adjusted for inflation). It was just a different era when those movies were relatively low budget, and trendy.…

I think the show is being less abstract in its messaging, but not necessarily less hit-you-over-the-head emphatic its messaging. Like take Measure of a Man, it couldn’t be any more overt that the episode is about what it means to be human vs. property. But there is a layer of abstraction to the real world issues of…

I thought this was generally a pretty solid episode, with a couple of bottle stories that are pretty tried and true (I think shuttle crash Trek episodes have to be measured by the dozen, and some version of diplomatic stalemate resolved by the Captain’s clever compromise is familiar, too).

Grey has yet to justify his presence in this season, despite consuming significant screen time. And I agree he’s been an anchor dragging down Adira, I really liked how she was written and performed last season, as exceptionally smart and confident, and now she’s the awkward, perpetually nervous nerd, for some reason…

Imagine an Excel sheet. Row 1: “Person A owns Thing X”, row 2: “Person B owns thing Y”, etc....

Relieved to know I’m not the only one who was bamboozled by this. They are totally different actresses. I know, because I was drafting an AV Club comment diatribe some months ago, complaining about the lack of visible aging, and among my complaints was the use of the same damn actress to play mother and daughter. But…

I don’t think the producers have the balls to make M the centerpiece of a new series of movies (maybe a streaming TV series, though, with some hot young British star), but even if they stick with the hotdogging white male Bond, a period piece really shouldn’t be out of the question. The source material is Cold War era…

I haven’t seen mention of whether Cavill retain’s the humorous edge that made the first season so much fun, so I’m nervous if this season takes itself more seriously at the expense of the Witcher’s dry wit, but either way I’m very excited to see this.

He wasn’t the only one who aged invisibly, it was one my main complaints with the time hopping narrative structure, that they seemed to go out of their way to make it confusing, by having the handful of characters who should have aged not actually age (or so much as change their hair style). At least when Jaskier…

“The area” being Toronto (not Vancouver), by the way, where Discovery is filmed, and where Cronenberg was born, went to university, and lives.

Agents of Shield was relatively detached from the MCU, but it starred a character established in the original Avengers movie, it had guest spots from others in the early seasons, and the Hydra plotline was synced in time with the movies. So I think you have to say it is canonically part of the MCU, in a way that the…

Probably because the Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD TV series started while she was still attached to How I Met Your Mother, and it needed to cast someone as Fury’s replacement who was available to star in the show.