Also, Alan Dean Foster. His novelisation of Alien was really good - it's a shame he never gets to write scripts by himself.

My favourite is the first Poopie Tape, which is just outtakes. They never break character and they all seemed so happy together. It's funny and heartwarming at the same time. I always had the impression that when the camera stopped rolling on Whose Line is it Anyway that the cast absolutely loathed each other, but the…

He's the wind, baby!

I have the same reaction when I read about Chungking Express. It's slightly younger than Reservoir Dogs but still almost a quarter of a century old. The Three Colours films are roughly the same age as well.

This is one of those things that starts arguments about creativity. Someone is bound to point out that by fixing your students' mistakes, you're just averaging them out; turning them into a homogeneous mass of pianists who play to the same average standard.

The AV Club, where you're only two hours away from an MST3K reference.

I think the problem was Goering himself, rather than the Luftwaffe. He had a habit of continually overselling the air force in order to make himself look more important. He did the same thing a few years later when the German army was trapped at Stalingrad, boasting that he could resupply them by air, against all the…

The Science Museum played a lengthy trailer for this back when it showed Rogue One on their Imax screen. I remember thinking that the CGI Spitfires and so forth were spot on - but the soldiers all looked like GQ supermodels. I refuse to believe that British teenagers of the late 1930s were that good-looking, or that…

It is of course a loose adaptation of the Commando war comic "Desperate Days", a nail-biting tale of heroism set against a backdrop of Dunkirk: http://www.culture24.org.uk…

Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!

Wow, Digg. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. It was the next big thing, and then it wasn't.

One tip - the Hunters are vulnerable to kinetic damage, so if you punt trees and rocks etc at them they go down after a couple of hits.

My desktop is an i5-2500k that I built myself in 2011. Since then I've swapped the hard drive for an SSD and bought a cheap second-hand graphics card at negligible cost, and it still runs modern games just fine at 1920x1080. It's easier to keep a desktop running over time, but I can remember when you really did have…

One problem I found with an even older ThinkPad laptop - it had Intel's GMA graphics chip, which was terrible even at the time - was that some levels worked better than others. Valve backported the high-dynamic-range technology from later versions of the Source engine into Half-Life 2, but only some of the levels were…

When I was a kid I had a Space: 1999 annual. Do you remember how, back in the day, annuals used to outlive the series? And how Space: 1999 was cancelled just slightly too early to benefit from the post-Star Wars space fantasy boom? The annual was dated 1980, so it was actually published after the likes of Battlestar…

Directed by Clint Eastwood, if he's still alive. We'll see the same events from several different perspectives - first the kid in the yellow vest, then through the eyes of a Syrian refugee boy watching it on a television wired up to a truck battery in the desert, then through the eyes of a journalist tasked with…

That's some kind of right-wing symbol, isn't it? You'd like to make her great again. You have a rare Pepe you'd like to show her.

You know, this is literally the first I've heard of this film. When I clicked on the link I thought it might be a direct-to-video knockoff, but it's a major picture. And it's launched over here as well. Either I'm really out of touch - I am out of touch - or they don't expect that this will make much money.

"Nerve gas was big in ’90s action movies."

Butthole is a cuss word.