I think it is possible to spin the ending as "You can still be yourself, but you have to blend in", which isn't exactly uplifting, but it is very sadly accurate for high school and university.

To be fair, Plummer was apparently a massive prick during film-making, including demanding a body double be made of the youngest child as she was 'too heavy' to carry.

I don't think I've ever been as disappointed by a fantasy series as the The Kingkiller Chronicle, especially considering how highly recommended it was.

Because if there's any industry that values equality and accountability, it's definitely Hollywood.

To be fair to Mohd, when your country has been run by the same party since 1957, you have slightly bigger political problems than an unenlightened attitude towards LGBT rights.

RuPaul isn't some kind of absolute monarch, and people are well within their rights to criticise her for going over the line and seeking to exploit the queen's personal lives for television ratings.

I'm sorry, but there's a huge gulf between "Do you want to appear on a drag competition?" and "Do you want to air out your traumatic childhood to an audience of millions"?

That's the James Bulger murder. As with so many of these 'video nasties' cases, there was no actual link proved aside from media speculation. It's horrific that theses two girls repeatedly stabbed another, but I don't really see the onus as being on Slenderman. People who are psychologically disturbed tend to find…

Yeah, I can appreciate it as a historical artefact, but it's not really much of a film. It's more like a travelogue. By the time I got to the seventeenth musical montage of bikes driving through scenic American countryside, I was about ready to shoot the protagonists myself.

If we're doing a caption competition: "If you find my hole, you can keep it!"

I have only the most tenuous of memories of it now, but I remember it being a lot better than most children's television. Kind of like a low-rent Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossed with Big Wolf on Campus.

I do feel that the discussion was more nuanced than the title had me fearing. But at the same time, the reasoning appears very specious. It would be disrespectful to the ethnicity of the character to cast an East Asian actor rather than a Tibetan one, so let's cast a white person, instead? Having an Asian appear…

This show did immediately remind me of Kyle XY, which probably should have been capped in it's (pretty good) first season before it started being overwhelmed by its flimsy sci-fi trappings. By Season 2, it had descended to Black Hole High levels of tween drama, and Kyle himself may be the only character in history who…

Of course, like any counter-factual, it is impossible to say if the constitutional path was ever achievable or how history would have turned out if, say, the Easter Rising never took place. But I have a very hard time believing that the way events played out was the best possible outcome. As it transpired, Ireland was…

I don't think it's fair to smear the Easter rebels for taking advantage of a favourable international context. The American rebels forged an alliance with France and Spain against Great Britain, Lenin was sent to Russia by the Germans, Indian nationalists collaborated with German Nazis and the imperial Japanese, etc.…

I mean, Story's Fantastic Four wasn't all that far removed from the Marvel template as a quippy, goofy action film, although it was considerably cheaper and dumber. Likewise for Sony's previous Spider-Man trilogy (or the first of three as it now sounds like, ugh). But now it seems the moment another film studio trips…

I wouldn't say it was bad, but it just left me completely cold. I felt like I was watching a really pretentious take on a grindhouse revenge film. By the time that it got to the climax, which seemed to substitute sheer body-count for emotional catharsis, I'd just thrown my hands up.

But what's the purpose of the book? If it's purely catharsis for the author, then it needn't have been published. If it's intended for the general public, then it has to be evaluated from their perspective.

And now I feel like the only person in the universe who didn't like Blue Ruin.

I've heard this complaint so many times, and I've never once agreed with it. Isn't this the very basis of a review?