Why 'from this year'? Should we be grading on a downwards curve?

I haven't heard all the other albums of that year, but MBDTF is stunning and I'd be surprised if any of them beat it.

Exploitianary.

He was your… buddy?

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: 15 Jokes That Aren't Funny Anymore

Holy crap I missed the fact that Pulp put out a new single. Nice one. Delightfully disco.

Ah, but then there's The Road to tell you how that works out…

Dan's advice seems good, but I'd go more elaborate, like so:
"Honey, that's not all I'm into by any stretch of the imagination. Take a closer look and you'll see women of all sizes. Also all kinds of freaky shit you wouldn't even believe. I mean, look at this. What are they doing, and how does that even go in…

[thunderous applause]

The 'big question' being banal was actually the main thing I liked about Prometheus. People go out to meet their makers because they have the technological capability, but have nothing to actually say to them but hopelessly vague questions about what it all means and the desperate plea not to die… and the makers…

Cormac McCarthy, Ridley Scott, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, and the Fassbender? With violence and existential musings? Why yes, thank you, I will. I must have missed this because of the dull dull title, or maybe the fact that my brain wants to dismiss it as a spelling mistake.

Wonderful stuff, but… really, those drums are ridiculous, especially at the end. I loved the brief snatch of old-style theme tune before they showed up to smack everything else way, way down in the mix.

She was probably eaten by a Korean river-monster. And, in a final ironic twist, her wake started out sad and then inexplicably devolved into hilarious fighting.

You were obviously disliked for being so insensitive as to suggest that Koreans veer from comedy to horror at the drop of a dime. But really, is there a better explanation for Kim Jong-il and his wacky son?

Yeah, I went through a loooooong transitional stage of thinking "should I be laughing here? Maybe it turns out the monster (of cultural insensitivity) is me?" But as the seconds ticked by I decided it was definitely deliberately hilarious and also amazing film-making.

Liked because that scene is awesome, but I just remembered that one in Pulse of the woman climbing the ladder. Shudder. Mind you, does it count as a single shot if the camera pans up? I not so good at the words.

The Wrong Kind Of White People are number one on the list of stuff white people dislike.

It's probably me.

The only correct way to watch the Wire is to have written and produced it.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Good stuff and far more lighthearted than I expected. But so far in a Jeanette Winterson-off I'd vote for The Passion, which (it now seems to me, in retrospect) takes the odd lyrical/fairytale interludes of Oranges and weaves a whole book out of them with gorgeous results.