A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood: Incredible. The more I think about it the more I think it has to be one of my favourite books of all time. I can't say I know much about gay culture in the 60s but, not only was I pleased to find that George's acceptance of being gay at a very bigoted time wasn't an embellishment…

Because how is it meant to get adapted into a movie/TV series if it doesn't match the correct SEO keywords?

I played Mafia III for about half an hour this weekend and it made me wonder how depressing game development is. A lot of time, money and effort was spent on that game and regardless of how good it looks and sounds or how it plays, at it's core, it's just another version of GTA III. Drive here, kill a bunch of guys,…

Dan Brown still does insane numbers. The only time I've ever seen queues in a bookshop, besides for Christmas, have been the releases of his and JK Rowling's books.

That's very sad.

Propping up capitalism isn't worth killing the planet for.

2046 is odd because it feels like both his most conceptually bizarre movie while also being the only one that functions as a sequel, not just to In The Mood For Love but Days of Being Wild too; so much is built on that Tony Leung cameo at the end with him combing his hair and fiddling with a pack of cards.

If only they didn't nuke Japan twice at the end of World War 2, then you'd have nothing to fear.

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After talking about it in the History of Violence column about Aliens, I watched Alien again and it's worse than I remember. I went into it thinking that it was good until the Xenomorph shows up but it's actually only good until they get Kane back on the ship. Until then, it's a slice of life for the Nostromo, whose…

It's just as profoundly stupid as the book, only it's over in two hours and has good actors carrying it along.

I don't know what you're trying to get at here.

The democrats are ignorant right wingers. Why else do you think they were so adamant about getting rid of Bernie?

Pretty much anything that's boring and photographs nicely can be considered a Kubrick homage.

And most of them end up towards the bottom and unseen because they don't get upvoted by the mutants of le STEM master race.

The socially liberal but fiscally conservative argument is the bedrock ideology of the person who likes to think of themselves as the smart, sensible centrist but is actually an ignorant right winger.

He hated working with Julie Taymor so much on Titus that he changed his ethos to focusing on things that would be fun to do instead of producing a good performance.

It's why I can only find Office Space intermittently funny. Too many people I know live that life.

Him getting the Oscar over Sylvester Stallone, who reduced people to floods of tears simply by getting out of breath walking up a flight of stairs, is the biggest piece of acting snobbery since Sean Penn beat Mickey Rourke.

Feels bad, sir.