True; another older film worth mentioning here is the original Murder on the Orient Express - and of course the new version isn’t shabby in its cast either, but I think the original tops it. Bergman, Bacall, Gielgud, Finney, Connery, Balsam, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Anthony Perkins... even Wendy…

On the flip side of this, the Star Wars prequel series has to go down as the biggest waste of a deep cast in recent memory. While a lot of people dump on the Anakins, if you can’t make a solid film with Samuel Jackson, Liam Neeson, Ewen McGregor, and Natalie Portman (with a bunch of good actors in supporting roles)…

The thing with Cowboy Bebop is that it works perfectly as an anime. The backgrounds, the vehicles, the character designs, the stories, it’s quintessential anime. I think the production design on this series is admirable, but end of the day it’s trying to emulate something that thrived in the medium it was intended…

I wouldn't mind seeing Edgar Wright give it a shot. Maybe a live action Lupin III. 

We saw The French Dispatch last week. It has some great, laugh out loud moments, and the first of the three major segments is some of Anderson’s strongest work as a director, but it suffers from the usual problem I find in anthology films, in that the end result is very uneven. Not that the last two stories are bad,…

Lucky you. I, on the other hand, got recast. My life is now lived by Mark Ruffalo.

I’ll wait until this is on streaming.  I guess that means I’ll Di Another Day.

When it turns up on Netflix you’ll be able to Live and let Di in the privacy of your own home!

My calendar is pretty full so it looks like I’ll have . . . No Time To Di.

Spencer: Di another Day.

Hello? I’m looking for Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley.

A great place to read printed words on sheets of paper bound in a soft or hard backing in a world of history, imagination, and adventure!

I was going to say... I don’t think there’s any anime that could have inspired Blade runner, but pretty much any sci -fi anime made after Blade runner owes its entire aesthetic to blade runner specifically. the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA series flat out uses the same character names and entire setting , just with…

Doing a quick personal inventory, I realized that I would find this incredibly douchey if almost any other celebrity did this. Hanks might be the only one who gets a pass from me

and i guess Bill Murray, who’s really more of a cryptid

The more children see adults not wearing helmets when biking and skateboarding the more they’re getting the message that the helmet is infantilizing or uncool or encumbering. I used to see this dad biking around with his young kid (probably about 8 or so), kid in a helmet and dad without. You just know that as soon as…

I’m a freelancer and have pretty minimal contact with any so-called corporate overlords, but this isn’t a decision unique to the AVC. For movie reviews to not drop whenever the studio lifts an embargo, it would either have to be a movie generating little publicity (and therefore unlikely to be read ASAP), or…

despite their incompatible ideologies, biologies, etc. The series is narrated by the pair’s daughter Hazel from some distant-future point

Arguably, this review is more valuable for being distinct from the others. Even if it’s by indicating that the only critics who dislike it are ones with criteria very different from yours!

Vaughan has nothing to do with Invincible. He did co-create a comic that recently became a TV show, but I’m not gonna do all the work for you, Hughes.

A remarkably terrible idea...IN SPAAAAAAAAACE!