Tucker almost losing it is even better. "I used to be a the fucking pharoah…" Some seriously dark shit there.

Anyone who would willingly watch Skins has no business commenitng on quality in television. Now Misfits … that was a good, underrated show. Killer hook (teens on community service gain superpowers), brilliant acting, plotting that actually made sense, and some of the filthiest dialogue on TV. Any word on whether it'll…

It looks like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2: Steampunk Bullshit Redux. (Please note I'm referring to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen the film and not the comic, which may be steampunk but certainly isn't bullshit.)

The origin is in the comments to this article:

"It's actually possible to get a perfect score on the RHCP Rock Band vocals just by shouting out nonsense words over and over again"

Well, Knife, you obviously underestimate the importance of teaching our children about inter-species sex.

In unrelated news, I watched Aliens last night. You'd better believe it holds up. The effects have dated less than CGI-heavy efforts from a couple of years ago, the pacing is spot-on, and you actually care about the characters (excet Burke, he's a douche). Why is it so hard to make an action film like that nowadays?

Those riffs are too mindless, dear boy! ::adjusts monocle:: Give me an example of some intellectual riffs, if you please.

Cravat made out of Naht-zee scalps, if you please.

I haven't read it in years, but doesn't the plot of Choke hinge on the anal beads being a shoddily-made product? You wouldn't particularly want to use them.

Resnais is all about the swag. I scored some wicked sweet matchsticks when Last Year At Marienbad got released on DVD. Night and Fog … well, that wasn't nearly as fun.

I'm inappropriate every day without trying. I could do with a book called How To Be An Absolute Fucking Disgrace.

"I think it's his goal to get his pull quotes into as many commercials as possible, rather than to have a discerning taste"

Lay off the Greeks. They invented civilisation.

Online critics trolling to get a response? Outrageous! Also, Mike D'Angelo says you don't understand how cinema and the human visual system work.

Piling on the pro-Hurt Locker sentiment here. It was an intense, nightmarish experience; you never feel the adrenaline junkie character is triumphing over anything - he's just putting himself and his squad in further danger, and as the end of the film shows, there's no way out for him. It's as good an indictment of…

I wish I had enough time to spend watching 30 episodes of a usually-terrible show.

For a film that long, it's surprising how much Basterds holds your attention. I didn't feel there was a wasted frame in the whole film.

You know what I hate?
Those cheap-ass videos consisting of nothing but poorly-shot footage of the band on tour. If I wanted to watch them lounging around in dressing rooms and posing in front of landmarks, I'd buy the live DVD. The only one of those I like is the Manic Street Preachers' Motorcycle Emptiness, because…

I bought a short story collection by Stross aafter reading a good review on the AVC, and A Colder War and Missile Gap were the standouts from that one. He has a really interesting knack for playing with genre and ideas, even if all the stories weren't quite up to the same standard.