I'd say it's good enough. I'm really keen to see the extended cut though - it has the feel of a movie that either needed to be shorter or longer.

I think this just proves the worth of a horses-for-courses approach to these kinds of properties. I love the Nolan Batman films and their tone, but there's no way that should become the default mode for all superheroes. The Flash can be fun, Daredevil can be dark, the Guardians of the Galaxy can yuk it up while…

This was pretty cool, but aren't we now too far away from the Cold War for origin stories like Black Widow's to still work? The Soviet Union fell in 1991, so how was she a KGB agent when she was born in 1984?

'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' is pretty much the same movie as 'Fury Road' - big vehicles, desert, outlandish costumes…

"Elaborate game of heads or tails."

I kinda hope Josh Trank's departure opens the door for a more interesting director. Considering that the stated point of the Anthology movies was to tell different stories on different scales, it seemed a bit much that they picked two white guys who'd each made one small-scale genre film followed by one studio…

Yeah. He was literally the face of the Empire in World War I.

Chris Noth came back to the franchise in Criminal Intent after starring in the mothership (plus a TV movie where he works on Staten Island), so I guess there's precedent.

I liked that he was an experienced police officer who'd never fired his weapon. I don't know that there's a single TV cop in recent memory who you could say that about.

I always loved that in every episode of L&O, at about the 45-minute mark, there'd be a sixty second scene in Schiff's office where he'd either mumblegrowl "You've taken this one far enough - cut him a deal" or "You've put yourself out there with this one - get a conviction!" He wasn't big on detailed management, was…

Admittedly, I haven't seen Trial By Jury since it aired, but I remember it being better than its reputation and this article would suggest. Much as you might say that L&O series are based on "ever-shifting relationships between detectives and prosecutors", that hasn't really been true of the New York-based spin-offs.…

I think it goes even further than that - Gallipoli is regarded as an event separated from its context. We rarely discuss in a critical way what the point of Gallipoli was within the broader war. Nor is all that much attention paid to the Turks, who are regarded less as a former enemy and more as some people who…

I thought the point was more about how institutions fail individuals, and how "justice" is an elusive notion that you sometimes have to pursue yourself. But even that might be going too far - I think the actual point of the acquittal was to set up the very overwritten idea that the community would literally rally…

Maybe. But then it's the same problem as the Miller trial - all smoke and no fire. We know Hardy is innocent, as surely as we knew Joe was guilty. There's no real suspense in watching people miss the truth, unless they're setting us up for the lamest twist ending of all time.

I thought this episode was okay; not the best of the season, but good enough to leave a positive feeling.

The Joe Miller verdict was dumb as hell. The defence case rested on this whole string of nearly-contradictory conspiracy theories: Danny saw his dad having an affair so his dad killed him; Nigel helped cover up the crime; completely independently, Hardy and Miller conspired to stitch up Joe.

After the teaser, I was worried this film would be too dark. I don't know if it's the effect of seeing the whole cast together, or the fact that Zack Snyder reminded me what a dumb dark superhero movie looks like, but I feel better about this now.

"In a more intelligent movie, the relatively benign, even spiritual nature of these creatures being used to justify a bloody and expensive war would serve as a metaphor."

That's probably the best interpretation, although it does seem like a lot of the moves against other players (the Russians, Japanese, etc) were opportunistic rather than part of a larger plan.

Yeah, I get that. I just keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. Predatory developers are nothing new; is there really nothing to his plan other than putting up apartment blocks?