What makes True Detective stand out from the other sons and daughters of Lynch and Frost is the amount of ways it engenders interpretation, the many ways to read True Detective.
I was hoping that the Veronica Mars movie would spotlight the great things about the show, the core concepts that would inevitably win over a new audience.
If you were one of the people who shared Harryhausen's and O'Brien's fondness for both prehistoric behemoths and hard-riding heroes, you really only had two films that solidly fit into that category: The Valley of the Gwangi and The Beast of Hollow Mountain.
Although meant to evoke an earlier era of sci-fi, Oblivion is easily the most forward-looking science-fiction film of the last few years, at least among the big Hollywood productions.