This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we're talking about Minority Report. We talk about the film's themes, why it deserves reappraisal, how it fits into Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's respective filmographies, the movie's bleak and prescient vision of the future, what the future holds for Spielberg, and more. We then move into Recently Watched. Click on the respective link to find us on iTunes. If you like the show, please leave us a review on iTunes along with your hottest movie-related take, and we'll read it on air and talk about it. …

I had Minority Report wrong. When you look at it in the context of Steven Spielberg's overall filmography, the film's ending seems like it follows in the footsteps of movies like Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and even A.I. Artificial Intelligence (some view the ending as bleak, but Spielberg says its happier conclusion is where he and Stanley Kubrick wanted to take it). Spielberg is a director who doesn't really go for ambiguous endings and wants to give the audience a feeling of hope even in the face of humanity's darkest impulses, and so …

Marvel introduces readers to THE PUNISHER 2099, with its science fiction perspectives on future crime prevention feeling... very familiar.

Maybe the pre-cogs should have told him to grab some Pedialyte, Ibuprofen and a banana before heading to set.