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I had a suspicion that they wouldn't have been able to burn that book if they tried. There's all kinds of legendry about accursed books of black magic. I bet it's one of the ones that can't be destroyed, only neutralized by giving it a Christian burial.

Don't forget Being Human, where he also played the same sort of character. I actually liked his performance on that show, but dude has been typecast about as bad as R. Lee Ermey.

From what I've heard of company towns in that time period, she'd get off Scott free if she confined her murders to recently-arrived Irish workmen.

Perhaps Lizzie should take inspiration from Mr. Siringo and become a traveling amateur sleuth?

Well, Artemis did gift her with the eye of the hunter and unity with the beasts when she was born, but while a pet tiger would be awesome in general it really doesn't match any version of Wonder Woman I've seen. Maybe MacLaren can make a movie about Siegfried & Roy as superheroes.

I just think they're taking the easy, thoughtless way out. Vin is a proud Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek, there's loads of comedy to be mined from playing him like one of the characters on The Big Bang Theory.

Him guesting as Heimdall would actually be the thing that could get me to tune in to the series. You obviously weren't within earshot of my home when that train wreck aired. Casting Danny Glover as Ogion was the only thing they got right in the whole damn miniseries!

The Melinda May vs. Bobbi Morse fight in a recent episode of Agents of SHIELD made up for a lot of the show's shortcomings.

I'm not fond of Dre either, the hypocrisy of how he parents Zoey and Andre Jr. just rubs me the wrong way. Though I suppose residual dislike of Anthony Anderson from the Scary Movie franchise may play into it too.

I thought Martin Short's recent turn as host was one of the funniest shows SNL has done in years. Thanks for the warning so I can avoid it.

To be fair, they did establish that the kid character was 16 and actively pursued the hot teacher. While I think it's still spectacularly bad judgement on the part of an adult authority figure to fool around with a student like that, the situation wouldn't fill me with the same outrage over a child being molested and psychologically damaged for life that Letourneau's case did. I'm pretty comfortable with asserting that no 12 year old is capable of giving informed consent, whereas I think for 16 year olds it's more of a case-by-case gray area. Actually, I take issue with the Vin Diesel impression. Both Taram and Jason Sudekis before him play Diesel as if he's one of his glower-y testosterone overloaded movie characters, but in every real life interview I've seen with the man he's been charming, funny, and self-depreciating.

I thought it held together as one of the year's better shows in general, and appearances by Darrell Hammond, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, and the Muppets shot it into the stratosphere. Weekend Update is finally snapping again, Leslie Jones is magic in just about everything she does, and I'm growing fond of Kyle Mooney in these dance instruction video sketches. I'm not actually sold on Kate's Hilary Clinton - Amy Poehler's version from this cold open is still the definitive impression for me - but I'll forgive a lot to see Hammond's Bill again.

In the fictional setting of the show, wouldn't a black sheep criminal half-brother showing up right after the trial, making a spectacle of demands for his cut of the Broden inheritance, and apparently murdering the family's main creditor after an argument in front of a bunch of witnesses pretty much exonerate Lizzie of guilt in public perception? I know I'd be thinking "Ah-ha! So THAT'S who chopped the Bordens up like firewood!" rather than continuing to suspect Lizzie if I were one of the locals.

That quote showing in the promo was what guaranteed my eyes glued to the screen. Yes, it's basically Christina Ricci playing Lizzie Borden as a grown-up Wednesday Addams, and I'm perfectly fine with that!

While I would prefer Hawkeye's characterization to be like that in the Matt Fraction/David Aja comics, nothing I'm reading rumors about bothers me, so as long as this movie doesn't engage in more genuflecting to Phil Coulson's alleged awesomeness. I've made my peace with Wanda and Pietro's origin being scrapped, and Tony Stark being responsible for Ultron rather than Hank Pym, and those were the big potential sticking points for me. As for

Sad to admit I did go to Seaworld back in the 80s before I was conscious of all the issues with Orca captivity, and was wowed by Shamu and Baby Shamu.

I don't know who the woman in the comics is, but if Hemsworth were to bow out and Jaime Alexander picked up the hammer in his place I'd be a guaranteed opening night ticket purchase. Bonus, no more Natalie Portman as chemistry-free love interest!

Linden Ashby and Melissa Ponzio may show a bit of mileage, but it's that same experience that lets them act circles around everyone else on the show.

I don't want to have to root against Dom, Lettie, & Co. in the next movie, so I'd prefer she not be the villain of the piece, even if she would undoubtedly do a fantastic job. Maybe she could be one of Mr. Nobody's contemporaries? What with former Soviet Block nation Azerbaijan likely being at war with the US after conducting an airborne terrorist attack on Los Angeles, there will probably be plenty of reasons for government types to get involved in the next film. Or hell, just cross over the Fast & Furious and RED franchises and have her play Victoria!

It might be like Adamantium in the comics - initially malleable when the alloy is first formed from smelting, but once it cools and hardens it's effectively invulnerable to heat or impact. I assumed the "windows" are actually LCD screens on either side of thick steel bulkheads within the cabin walls.

I think Wolverine's appeal begins and ends with Hugh Jackman's charisma. I've never been able to stand the character in the comics, and am sincerely happy that he's currently dead.

Not only that, but he knew exactly how long it would take to batter down the door. It's like on Star Trek where the computer was always able to tell them down to the second when reactors were going to go critical or how much shield/hull integrity they had left. Some processes are affected by random chance, people!

Eh, the movie earned earned over a billion dollars worldwide, far more than any of the other solo movies. As a comics fan I've made my peace with the prospect of being overruled by the vastly greater number of people for whom Iron Man 3's Madarin is the only Mandarin.

Yeah, movie Cap has the powerset of the Ultimate Universe version rather than the "gifted decathlete" abilities of the regular comic book Captain America. Thankfully they stuck with the latter for his personality and idealism, though. (They also seem to have made his shield less powerful than in the comics, what with Cap being thrown back by grenades, weapons fire, and punches from a guy with a metal arm while using it. Some screenwriters and directors should watch that sequence where it stopped an all-out hammer swing by Thor without transmitting any impact to the guy holding it.)

I had to leave about an hour into my viewing today (thanks a lot, stomach flu! ... or bad sushi... ), but was having a great time watching up until they go to Dubai. I feel my admission price was well-spent on whatever fraction I got to see, and will probably be returning later this week.