Yeah, it's actually presumably the wu that means 'awareness'. Chinese has a whole lotta wus.

Heh, one of the meanings of wu is actually 'object'. I like the idea that that's just a tautological practical joke.

I like Joe being on a top secret undercover mission which involves calling his boss every day from his hotel room, heil Hitlers and all…

Yeah, a lot of it is entirely implausible. I chose to interpret that as Inspector Kido having some odd personal code of honour thing going on where killing a dude's family as an interrogation technique is fine but killing him unnecessarily is terrible terrible manners.

Go for this and From Beijing With Love, they're both great fun.

Huh, when I rewatched the third one when it was on TV I had exactly the opposite reaction. I remembered it at least being better than the other two, but seeing it again, it really was godawful in pretty much every way- writing, directing, acting, even special effects. It was just a shockingly made film. I really don't…

Looking at it, that logo comes up on youtube because they're the people that translate the show(s), not the ones that actually produce them- see their channel here, which has their logo appearing before a whole load of short excerpts:

Have you got a source on the claim about the children's shows? The main one (Tomorrow's Pioneers) is pretty well documented, and I can't see anything about the production company being run by Israelis.

Holy crap, that's the weirdest thing. I just googled Never Say Never Again to be confronted with a not-particularly-old-looking Sean Connery. I had an absolutely clear memory of it starring Last Crusade-era Connery, complete with beard. Truly bizarre pop culture false memory, that.

"Sean Connery is… Elderly Bond"

I'll be cautiously optimistic about that based purely on the fact that it's set in the 19th century. At least they can't turn to the camera and shout "TUMBLR IS A THING, AMIRITE?"

I never got into their last two albums. Accelerate felt to me like it was retreading their glory years in a way that no previous album did- Around the Sun on the other hand sounds pretty distinct from their other stuff (though not generally in a good way, sadly).

I was never a huge fan of this track just because it feels like a lesser rerun of Driver 8. But Reveal has a bunch of great songs on it.

I thought Curse of the Golden Flower was a stinker, myself. Mind you, I wasn't a fan of House of Flying Daggers either and that seemed to get a lot of critical love. House felt like a couple of steps down from the excellent Hero, while Curse was more of a full-on faceplant.

Yes. For my money Embroynic is their best album, and The Terror (while it was never going to match Embryonic) is pretty great too.

As a fairly stereotypical 'non-rap fan who likes Kanye', I'd say it's mainly the sonic variety and interest of MBDTF and Yeezus (and to a lesser extent the earlier albums). I've listened to Reasonable Doubt and Illmatic, and I enjoy them and appreciate the skill in the lyrics and delivery, but to my ears musically…

Fifteen Step!

Weird. I wonder if American Christians got involved in some organised way? I can't really see why anyone would pick Small Gods as the worst.

I read Sirens of Titan after Hitchhiker's, and the similarities were pretty huge.

No love for Leviathan or Calvary? Call me a sucker for tragic stories with heavy religious themes, political commentary, some comedy, set in small places beside large bodies of water, but those were probably the best I've seen this year.