I think Menocu has it. Other than some nice visuals and a well-told middle section, my favourite thing about the movie is that, in spite of the apparent soft new-agey spiritualness implied by the opening, the final message is hard-edged and realist rather than spiritual: the story is supposed to make you believe in…

Is that only available in China?

When the midnight sirens bleed to blue-flash road-mash, stretchers,
covered heads and slippery red macadam find you creep beneath the
blankets to snuggle close a mangle-bird, wishing you be freezer-drawered
- then welcome…

Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it- but it IS scientific fact.

How can we sit around talking nonce-sense when, right now, pedophiles are disguising themselves as schools?

It's also a made-up drug. That means it's made up from chemicals.

So is The Terror. This streak ain't stopping any time soon.

I love Embryonic. It's so huge and frankly stunning. Not quite sure on The Terror yet- it's definitely excellent, but it's just not as massive as its predecessor.

Thanks for that article- that was glorious. Now I want a copy. Or maybe I want to commission a sequel.

Harvey Manfrenjenson I think that was actually Money. In London Fields the narrator (an unsuccessful writer) is staying at the apartment of a successful writer with the same initials as Martin Amis. That kind of messing about should be annoying, but instead the book is pretty goddamned excellent.

The AV Club should really do a 'classic sci-fi short stories' Primer or Gateway, or even just a huge list. Mainly because I like them, and if I don't get what I like people end up in cornfields.

I think 'the place you'll be from' works nicely if you're talking about a child, but connecting that to dudes going home from a bar is a strange metaphorical stretch.

Normally I have no problem getting that people have different tastes, but… come on, people saying Springsteen is overrated, have you not heard Racing In The Street?

You have to differentiate Hallelujah as a song (excellent) from 'the fifteent time you've heard Hallelujah used to soundtrack a character's death/funeral because dammit, we need more gravitas up in this TV show' (less excellent).

I think this wins the 'surprising Radiohead songs' competition. Seeing a band suddenly and unexpectedly become excellent sounds like a good time to me.

It's monitored for politically sensitive stuff. Pirated films get by just fine.

Why pay for a bootleg DVD when you can stream it for free?

Ooooh, is their new album good? I wasn't sold on Barriers, partly because the production (at least on the preview) sounded horribly flat.

…also this article strangely doesn't do the obligatory reference to the film after which the song is named.

Laid is a fantastic song, though. Of the songs I've head, I'd put that or Sometimes on top.