Thank you, I definitely will!

I'm listening to it right now for the first time in years, and I'm a little bit astounded about how good it is. The mind boggles at how poorly it reviewed at the time.

As long as they're good books, I don't mind the Boss Fight series taking the 33 1/3 route, and not exclusively hewing to a straight documentary essay formula.

Roar Uthaug is a serviceable action director without much in way of a personal style, so I think a lot will come down to the strength of the script and the storytelling nous of the producers.

I mentioned it upthread, but Alien 3 for SNES. Game over man indeed.

Okay, so superhero comics have been around since the 1920s, but it took at least seventy (arguably eighty-odd) years before Hollywood started making non-rancid superhero films. By that reckoning, the first "adequate or better videogame films should start rolling in around 2040.

Man, that's so true. SNES Alien 3 is one of my all-time favourite games (surely one of the best licensed games ever made), but I'll probably never get to replay it without using an emulator.

Actual feelings evoked by abstract representations of real-life concepts and situations? Whoever heard of such a preposterous thing!

Given how it's the only Badly Drawn Boy album I've listened to extensively as a whole, I'm not too well positioned to argue for the virtues of Have You Fed The Fish? relative to the rest of his catalogue. I do have a lot of time for that record, though; there are songs and moments on there I genuinely treasure.

Although discussion and highlighting of issues like these aren't likely to change the minds of actual misogynists, I do believe — like Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote about recently — that it's possible to get through to the "passive sexists".

You're a damn saint, Sister.

I related to it as well, but I think Hawkins came by that relatability by way of specificity. Maybe it's unfair being pessimistic about the filmmakers' ability to bring the same kind of quality to their depiction of wherever the movie's set.

Transposing the story from UK to US also means Hawkins' very well-conveyed sense of City commuter despair and seedy London suburbs is out. I'm not saying those things would've made the film better (they certainly didn't save the book from being a disappointment in the end), but I'd like to have seen it attempted, at…

Agreed. I loved how well Hawkins used the first-person narration to convey the feeling of depressive despair in the main character, and I was convinced the book was something very special indeed. Until the plot machinations took over, and I suddenly realised I was just reading a bog-standard thriller with some fancy…

After how stone cold amazing she was in Edge of Tomorrow (and Looper for that matter), it just has to be a matter of time before she gets one of those parts, right? Unless I'm being naive about how afraid Hollywood is to bet on actresses with even a whiff of box-office poison about them.

I guess you could call the Hollywood Foreign Press Association critics in a pinch, though, by all accounts, doing so would be a slight toward the profession. But the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences most definitely isn't a critical organisation; comprised of industry professionals, it's pretty much the opposite.

Critically acclaimed? Aside from a handful of favourable reviews when it first started out, I can't recall ever hearing a critic muster up anything beyond a shrug and an "eh, it's all right" in the years since.

Support Group Thread For People Who Actually Kinda Liked This Show That Nobody Else Seemed To Like. Also Tamsin Greig Fran Fan Club Thread.

Because my mind is a sieve, I'd forgotten all about how much I enjoyed this episode in the year or so since it aired, but when it came on midway through a S4 Netflix yesterday, I was stunned at how good it was. Certainly my favourite, but maybe even the show's best ever episode? Reading through the review and the…

Up until recently, I felt the same way about Ennis, but revisiting some of his work recently, as well as finally reading some stuff of his I'd previously avoided, I was blown away by how skillful a writer the man is. The things that made me think of him as a hack turned out to be mostly surface — crude, repetitive…