Every time I see the commercials for this and someone refers to Foxx's character as "Officer Vincent Downs" the only thing I can think of is "The seriously named a character 'Officer Downs'?" Having not seen the movie I don't know if that name is intentional foreshadowing/symbolism or not, but that feels like Brian…

There's no place for anyone named "Mary" in Christmas!

Wait until they find out that Kendrick's Santa is still married to Mrs. Claus.

Good question.

I've always liked the idea (that I can't take credit for) of having Stan Lee be the Watcher, but that'd be a great roll for Dinklage if they don't go that route.

Seriously, my biggest complaint about this show - which I like, but see many areas it could improve - is that the show is unintentionally hilarious in how ineffectual the un-named (and some of the named) villains are. I swear there've been episodes where the main characters have paused to discuss their options while…

If memory serves, the Geonosian exits the episode by uncovering a hidden hole in the ground and climbing into it. I kept expecting them to show the inside of the hole and reveal a thriving underground city, or throngs of dormant Geonosians, or a big nest full of eggs, but they never did. I'm thinking the reviewer also…

Well it was supposed to be a younger Rosa. Granted, they probably would have gotten an actual child to play young Rosa if she was supposed to be a little kid, but then we also know Rosa was heavily into ballet at some point during her childhood - presumably to the exclusion of other physically demanding…

Yeah, usually when there's some "famous person does thing" news story on here and the commentariat is all "why should we care about this?" I roll my eyes and think "It's a pop culture web site; if there's a story about a famous person or a media property, they're going to pick it up" but I'd be happy to declare a…

Considering that I don't even know who Marshawn Lynch is aside from remembering that there was an NFL player who became Saturday Night Live's favorite topic for a couple of weeks because he was humorously evasive in press conferences and therefore had no idea who the guy in the cold open was until Rosa explained that…

Where were you Spidey? Grabbing people out of the way of oncoming buses and trucks is, like, you signature move.

If you dress like Han Solo, you're just a nerd dressed like Han Solo, but if you dress like a Stormtrooper you look like you stepped right off the screen of your favorite movie.

I think she was more worried that her niece getting expelled or arrested would result in her not getting the money she wants from her sister than about bird law.

Nearly a millennium and a half over half a millennium in fact. The reason I said "Judaism or Islam" instead of just one or the other is that the movie gives no indication as to whether Chirrut's order predates the Jedi or vice versa.

I got a case of gourmet hot sauces so I'm looking forward to getting back into the non-holiday routine so I can start using it. It's not necessarily the "best" gift I got, but it rates highest on the "they know what I like" vs. "they asked what I wanted and then bought that" scale.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Eisenberg's Luthor would be worth it if only it were possible for him to play opposite Heath Ledger, just to have a scene where Luthor goes off on a manic tangent and Ledger's Joker gives him a weary sidelong look and says "Can you dial it back a little Lex?"

Depends on what you mean by "tail."

I know I'm giving a by-all-accounts-terrible movie that I haven't even seen way too much thought, but it occurs to me that the one time I was on a cruise ship, they gave everyone a ten-minute lecture on how to use the lifeboats, where to get and how to put on life preservers, how to activate emergency beacons, and the…

You know, now that I think about it, I love the idea of a story set 120 years after this movie about a writer hopping on the brand new FTL ship for an hour-long trip to the outer colonies only to arrive at the same time as the ship from this movie, and another ship that left 20 years later with engines that can make…

In all the discussion about how horriblly ill-conceived this thing was, I think we're all losing sight of one important detail (that, to be fair, might make more sense in context than it seems to in the review): Lawrence's character got on a trip that takes 120 years one way in order to go there, then come back and…