Forget Bond - I want Carey Mulligan as the younger version of Judi Dench’s M in a prequel series as the MI6 agent growing ever more cynical while discovering how shitty British imperialism really is as decolonization takes hold across the Commonwealth in the 1970s. Maybe she occasionally crosses paths with the…

I am all for a death with dignity and in my own terms.  I don’t want to spend my older years in constant pain, unable to move and unable to do anything.  I’d happily sign up for one of these if the day comes when I get an incurable disease.  But not one second earlier than that, and not while I can at least give some…

I re-watched Crimson Peak a few week ago, and the gulf between that movie’s visual design and narrative is even more dramatic than I remembered. Visually it’s a great mashup of a giallo and a fairy-tale, but the villains’ motives and modus operandi are basically self-evident, and the story wraps up with a very long…

I also watched the original last month:

For me, Del Toro has been pure aesthetics and bland scripts for several years, the initial hype leaves a bitter taste after watching.

You mean sounding like she’s from New York because she’s from New York?

As a biomedical scientist whose work deals with genetics, I’m more than a bit annoyed at the constant disingenuous conflating of anything to do with human genetics with eugenics, though. Eugenics had nothing to do with actual genetics research and was actually invented *before* the (re)discovery of Mendel’s Laws.…

As insane as it sounds, he couldn’t possibly been worse than Greg Abbott.

Odd that he knows such words yet still insults his men by calling them things like "you boobs" 

Yeah, but wasn’t it a case of the classic cliche “suicide by eunuch”?

That sounds like a lot of fun to 8 year old me. 

Agreed. I don’t see why people are coming in here to dunk on Mars. “Truly beautiful?!? It looks shittier than the Nevada desert but without the oxygen! It’s no Iceland, lol!”

I’m just saying, bustin’ makes me feel gooood. It’s right there in the song.

I’m sure this has been explained but it seems weird to me that Loki and Thor are 1500 years old but they are doing all their personal development in the last 10 or 15.

I also think the Danish Girl presents Redmayne’s character as a jekyll and hyde character, constantly jumping in and out of costumes that dangerously equates being trans as something you can slip in and out of like a dress.

And it drives me nuts that THIS was the film Alicia Vikander won her Oscar for, when Ex Machina was...right...there!

The weird thing about it, beyond the obvious moral implications of springing surprise medical procedures on people, is that these “imperfections” can often add a lot of character.

They might’ve been more “prestige-y” but they didn’t exactly kill at the box office. Neither made as much as Bring it On (Cider House was close, Pleasantville lost a ton of money). By the time Spide-Man came out, way more people had seen Bring it On than those other two movies combined.

Okay, but...Maguire was also, you know, the lead. Wouldn’t the more relevant question, given the similar size of their roles and similar levels of fame at the time, be whether Dunst made less than James Franco?

“I mean, one, I find it incredibly joyful. I think that with any of the movies that anyone grows up on, you want to see the DeLorean hit 88 again. You want to see the lightsaber power on again and you want to see Ecto-1 again.”