Good, as always, but I think you fail to capture the impact it had on sci-fi movies as a genre. What I read said Kubrick and Clarke were reacting against the B-movie nature of most sci-fi and wanted to do a prestige science fiction movie, or what some people call hard-scifi.

Someone needs to do the McMartin Preschool debacle as one of these anthology or limited series treatments.  

Ed: "I'm armed but I'm not dangerous."
Gus: "You look dangerous.
Ed: "I mean, I'm really dangerous. I'm just not mean or vindictive."

Who know if this will work, but Big Show has done some decent acting work. He was mostly unrecognizable (besides being huge) as Richie Coster’s prison boyfriend in Happy and he was hilarious in the episode of Psych where he played bigfoot/an ex-army ranger. 

Cary is correct that, in this instance, it should be “doing the drugs.”

Late to this, because I am just watching it, but I had a different reaction.

A very good start to the new series. I didn’t rewatch the old episodes in the runup but I did watch the movie. I like that the mystery doesn’t begin with a personal connection for Veronica, which really does open up the world and move away from the old “amateur detective stumbles into mystery” nature of the earlier…

Really looking forward to this. I was hoping they’d have Picard as an ambassador, which was his predicted future and seemed like an appropriate end. It felt like a good way to explore a more political than military side of the Star Trek universe.

Everyone is always forgetting about the TV show, which wasn’t great but was better than any of the post-T2 movies.

Maya Hawke is really great in this. I think she could have a big career.

Clearly, the only plausible outcome of this is a Jake Gyllenhaal/Keanu Reeves buddy comedy sometime down the road

It’s also weird for him to attack Fast and Furious because he technically costars with Vin Diesel in Guardians, and Diesel really seems protective of the F&F franchise.

We’ll see about this one. The remake was terrible, mostly because of Joel Kinneman’s terrible “white rapper” American accent that he uses all the time but also the fact the corporate guys were actually not nearly bad enough to deserve killing.

They really did overproduce this remix. Replacing the 90s background beats with something more modern and substantial would have been enough

I’m glad they’re trying to make this show this way. No real other way to engage the Dark Tower than this. It barely made sense on the page, no way Blaine or Stephen King would make sense in a film. But the gunslinger stuff could work if they do a Game of Thrones crossed with Deadwood.

Had to rewatch the series before I felt I could watch the movie. It was good, really a celebration, limited in its ability to come to a satisfactory conclusion by the real history it interacted with and, you know, capitalism.

The Snyderverse DC was terrible, but I actually liked Ben Affleck as Batman in his first couple of appearances. I thought it would be nice to move onto an older, more weary Batman. Not quite the old Batman from The Dark Knight Returns comic, but maybe someone on the downslope of his career instead of the upslope. I…

I had the exact opposite reaction to this episode. There is like a half hour of character development missing for Adam, Anathema, and Newt. None of their decisions make sense in the flow of the story. We get very little of Newt’s patheticness and it makes no sense that he’d never have kissed a girl. We don’t see any…

Agree with this. There is no need to shit all over Backdraft. It was a huge movie that a lot of people liked and a technical marvel. It was a serviceable story with great actors, but the star was the practical fire effects, which were truly unique. They were new and bold at the time, and basically no one does them…

The Longest Day is a more interesting than I think you give it credit for. It’s part of a mini-genre of World War II movies as docudrama more than entertainment. It includes things like Tora Tora Tora and A Bridge Too Far. They certainly have jingoistic and political purposes, but also document an experience shared by…