No seriously, watch the Danny Boyle film 'sunshine'. Walking on that stuff HURTS like hell, and even the catchy Katrina and the Waves tune isn't enough to make up for all the blisters you'll get.

What sucks is that i really liked Irving in series one, when he had a good arc, sensible dilemmas and a far better fit into the character dynamics of the show. It was also really refreshing how quickly the show jettisoned the tired 'disapproving police boss' shtick and made him part of the team in a manner very…

Of course, to be really authentic, they'd need some horror movie buff character who spends the whole film shouting 'they're GHOULS, goddammit! GHOULS! Not ZOMBIES! The original scriptnotes said GHOULS! This is the damn 1950s and zombies are still something from Haitian voodoo films!!!' (before getting eaten by a…

In all seriousness, my bet is that it will be about the local 'sweep and clear' vigilante team that end up finding the last survivor in Night, with a new look at 'that' ending:

I'd much rather see another film set after Land (in the original Romeroverse of course, not the Diary and Island reboot setting). That kind of setting, where people have started to adapt, and a character getting bit is less a 'oh my god he's going to turn into a zombie!' moment, but rather a casual 'so, what's your…

On the parody thing, like most here i suspect there was a large element of being embarassed by their former immaturity (they often made a point of apologising for their early 'dancing girls in cages' gimmick, for example, and when the Prodigy called them hypocrites for calling them out on the same thing, their…

Tasmanian tiger - not Tasmanian devil. The Tassie tiger is the long-thought-extinct creature that inspires search parties to trawl through countless pieces of rumour and overhyped 'evidence', the Tassie devil is the very much still-around, foul-tempered marsupial.

Hey, Reese didn't start wearing a uniform until this year, and we'd all like to see Shaw naked, so… bah… old news AV club.

Johnny Rotten may have been too punk for its own good (though in fairness, the term really should be too Johnny Rotten for his own good - the Ramones and most of the other contemporary bands had a much greater diversity of what being punk meant before the gazillion clones sprung up within a year of never mind the…

Oh be fair. If you lived in Haven, and people were causing earthquakes and the dead to rise every episode, you'd be pretty upset about the troubles too!

I wasn't a big fan of the cross-over arc in the comics, but does anyone else think that this would have been a great opportunity to do a 'Blackest Night' arc? Have Ollie, a bunch of the 1st season villains he killed - and Count F****G Vertigo!!! - resurrected as as twisted versions of themselves like in Blackest…

It never seems to emanate from criticism of her performances either. Don't get me wrong, she's never been more than 'really quite solid', but she's very rarely been weaker than that either. In her early days she was one of the most drop-dead beautiful women in Hollywood, and not in the usual sex-symbol kind of way,…

Seems a hard film to grade. The review makes it seem more like an upper-level B+ (or an A- if this was the tv section), but I understand the disparity: it's hard to grade a film that succeeds well at the thing it aims to do, but where that same thing is off-putting to a significant portion of movie-goers.

You're probably right, but I hope not. There's few worse structural missteps than basing a major character arc on a crutch that removes the character's moral responsibility. Vampire Diaries' downfall was that it kept going back to that well over and over, when it was a terrible idea the first time round. Ongoing…

To be honest, I can't see any way that the show could spare the screen-time to flesh out Diggle to the extent the character and actor deserves. The best thing that could happen would be for them to do a 'Suicide Squad' miniseries (of similar length to Marvel's Agent Carter) with him as the point-of-entry lead, before…

Noticed it - just thought it would be in poor taste to complain about a (brief and situationally logical, albeit hamfisted even in context the heightened expressions of the cartoon) negative portrayal of men given that it's fairly insignificant next to the issues that arise from the portrayal of women in comics.

Do we have to make every review of a female focused episode into a giant, condescending 'and hey, they're just as good as the men, no really! Even when they're displaying their naughty gendered flesh!' The reviewers motives are in the right place, but this style of review seems at loggerheads with the point he's…

One of the lowest budgets of any scripted show on TV (read it was the lowest budget for non cable drama). Testimony to how well the show is managed that Hannibal has the atmosphere it does, and to their priorities in spending enough of that budget on a first rate, and quite well known, cast (fishburne in particular…

Did you miss how the first arc of season 2 ended?

From memory, the crazy-good thing about the film's casting is that (1) Pitt was a very minor star then (known mostly for his brief role as 'sexy cop' in Thelma & Louise), and what reputation he did have at the time was mostly as a 'pretty boy' actor who wasn't taken seriously, and (2) the filming, if not the movie…