The first thing seems like it will be a problem for us non-Casanova types as well, though. I mean, it seems likely that at some point in your life people your own age simply stop looking like tantalizing propositions, and suddenly you're slowly sailing further and further away from ever bedding or attracting a…

Oh goddamnit, fuck that scene with a pair of pliers.

If he is, he should have pointed to himself intensely after spelling J-A-Y with the convoluted code thing that Barry conveniently cracked 5 seconds after first having heard of it.

But chief Peterson, he gets results!

Spotlight - A film that struggles with it's own identity. I felt conditioned to watch it like a slick, Fincher-y A-list thriller (like Zodiac or The Social Network), but by being based on a true story about a deeply serious subject it works more as a very straightforward story that moves from A to B pretty much…

Azzarello's WW is indeed supposed to have been great (I never read it), but his successors have had the book for almost 18 months now and have been critically panned pretty much since the beginning

Arrow and The Flash, but I've been burnt out enough from their limp villain of the week episodes that I await the next day's reviews before checking them out.

I've been catching up on The Sheriff of of Babylon (great, but also indicative of the comics-as-prestige-TV-dramas trend that keeps annoying me) and Unfollow (same praise, same slight reservation). My superhero diet consisted mainly of Batman #49 (somewhat obvious padding, but still great!), Suicide Squad #17 (first…

I honestly (and sadly) think that DC's gamble to go for more diverse and obscure titles in it's DC You initiative (Midnighter, Dr. Fate, Prez, Starfire, Secret Six, Cyborg, Omega Men, Black Canary and so on) at the same time as Marvel launched surefire sales juggernaughts like Star Wars and Secret Wars along with…

Lemire is great when he's actually invested in what he's doing (Green Arrow, Animal Man), but he also seems to have a tendency to phone his work for hire stuff in when he gets tired of big two realpolitik. And while I didn't read Tom Taylor's Earth 2, his Injustice stories were miles better than they had any right to…

I haven't seen Aliens in a few years, but I have no recollection of them looking like guys in suits. A a bit rubbery here and there, possibly. The rest is not stuff that I have a problem with or think dilute the effectiveness of Xenomorphs as movie monsters, but that's of course deep into subjective territory.

Does it really, though? Even after seeing hundreds of Xenomorphs being perforated by hot lead, I have no trouble thinking that one of them would have no problem taking out a crew of unprepared, mostly unarmed space miners. Or are you referring to the addition of the queen into the mythology?

Listen to your friend Billy Zane! He's a cool dude, he's trying to help you!

Would they really be that helpless if they had a person on hand to guide them through it? And in my (admittedly anecdotic) experience, native English-speakers tend to butcher, or simply not care to pronounce even well-known internationally spread names in any way other than their English intonation. "Jacob" is always…

I might have been a bit too categorical. Still, pronouncing names in languages far removed from your own is one thing, but there really is no excuse for a native English-speaker to be absolutely clueless when faced with Italian, Scandinavian or German names.

I thought Sicario's take on the drug war was quite clear; Josh Brolin's character at one crucial point says something like "Look, as long as X million Americans keep showing this stuff up their noses, we'll keep doing this", which in context (possibly without him realizing it) is a pretty scathing take on the current…

If I remember correctly, Carmela gest "called out by the narrative" quite harshly in later seasons, but without falling into the clichés mentioned above.

Native English speakers in general are horrible at approximating names with any other pronunciation than their own. Names like "Jonathan", "Andrew" or "Joe" would sound noticeably different if I pronounced them with my native accent, but since I MAKE THE DAMN EFFORT to approximate an English intonation, they don't.

"Raysh" wasn't even O'Neill's preferred version, he asked someone he knew who studied Arabic at university about the pronunciation and simply got the wrong answer.

What, she was behind me this whole time? Why doesn't anyone warn me about these things?!