Gudetama is everywhere here in Hong Kong, appearing on all kinds of products. They had some Gudetama things on offer in McDonalds one time so there stickers all over the restaurant. I was eating there with my 6 year old daughter when she started laughing and said "Look you can see his bottom!" I turned around and…

The description of the condition in the review is not exactly correct. The starting point of ALS is (the as yet unexplained) degeneration of motor neurons in the brain meaning the connection between brain and spinal column is lost so voluntary muscle movement initiation and control are lost. Of course, being unable to…

My daughter likes the Transformer series on TV (I can't tell you if it's 'current', we watch it on cable TV in Hong Kong so, who knows when it was originally screened, I'm not up on the Transformers Animated Universe, if that is a thing) and we watched this, she loved it, thought it was exciting, asked me why Grimlock…

It was fun, still quote it occasionally, 'That's a good joke, it's very…interesting.'

I imagine like this movie his 'script' is a big A3 piece of paper covered in childlike drawings of big robots, giant guns, aliens and people exploding. When he does his pitch he adds to the picture whilst providing the sound effects. And then the alien jumps out and goes weeeeeeeeeee and the robot spins round with…

The Omen is great because of the pace. Yes it does have suspense punctuated by action but watch it again and notice how it zips along at the same time. It looks great and is thoroughly entertaining. I love the scene with Patrick Troughton shot by the Thames at Putney.

I watched this back to back with a second viewing of Ant Man. Ant Man was fun, enjoyable, at times pretty exciting and zips along at a refreshing pace, it held my daughter's attention twice from start to finish and that's quite a recommendation. Fantastic Four was just dull, droning, fidgety watching.

Isn't the whole thing just going to be a huge bait and switch and it's really Baron Zemo manipulating them into fighting using a mind cube or something?

I didn't know this existed. It reminds me of when I first went to China in 2002 and found a lot of people were still using VCD which I had never heard of. In the UK just kind of transitioned from VHS to DVD with nothing in between. VCD had that glitchiness too (space issues were overcome by leaving out error…

Great and great as the inspiration for this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I have a load of movies on VHS I bought in the '80s and the trailer for this is on one of them. I remember one of my university roommates was a huge Dylan fan and expressed surprise at the existence of this, then told me later he couldn't find it on VHS, and that wasn't too too long after it was made.

A short story called The Nondescript in 'Jon Pertwee's Book of Monsters' caused nightmares, sleepless nights and a fear of the pond in our local park. I used to read a lot of horror anthology books as a kid like the thirty odd volumes of the Pan horror anthologies and similar ones published by Fontana. Also a catching…

A short story called The Nondescript in 'Jon Pertwee's Book of Monsters' caused nightmares, sleepless nights and a fear of the pond in our local park. I used to read a lot of horror anthology books as a kid like the thirty odd volumes of the Pan horror anthologies and similar ones published by Fontana. Also a catching…

I read it and one part of the contents did scare the hell out of me and led to several sleepless nights.

I read it and one part of the contents did scare the hell out of me and led to several sleepless nights.

This was weak. The review touches on the point about the writers' voices, I think they are becoming too loud. Perhaps the diminishing returns of their work is a sign that eventually Merchant and Gervais will end up in an office, spending their days alternating between congratulating themselves and each other on how…

Album Interludes
When I listen to a whole album, interludes, tend to get stuck in my head more than tunes.

The monkey feast is forbidden here in China now along with panda foetus, camel hump, elephant trunk and a bunch of other stuff.

My girlfriend bought this and switched it off after 20 minutes calling it "a boring story of two annoying idiots". It cost us (at the current exchange rate) US$1.01 for that pirate DVD. I could have bought two beers with that

I went through an extended period of being willfully esoteric in my musical taste and resisting liking or even listening too anything I considered "too popular" while I searched for something to satisfy my overselfinflated sense of adolescent existential angst. So I thought I was "too worthy" to listen to certain…