Yeah, it's very much not that! Definitely worth checking out. Maybe not as likely to inspire hate as Only God Forgives, think of that crossed with Vikings and you're in the neighbourhood.

Anyone who reads this blurb of Valhalla Rising and then checks it out expecting a narrative driven adventure film is going to be so disappointed.

Melbourne was founded by John Batman, and was nearly called Batmania.

I'd chose based on mood. Orphan Black is fun, Rectify is not. (This comment brought to you by the fact that I've had a shitty week, and, as great as Rectify if, I will not be watching the new episode until I'm feeling more cheerful.)

The Aussie sketch show The Late Show (which, crikey, is now 20+ years old), introduced so many phrases that they called back repeatedly, and which entered the lexicon from there (Shit-Scared, Piss-Weak, Like a Tiger…).

I was never sure if the last line in 'Papa was a rollin' stone' was, "All he left us was alone", or "All he left us was a loan." You know, because he left them with all his debts.

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David Oyelowo will always be Danny Hunter on Spooks to me, but I just checked and found that he finished on the show ten years ago.

I always took Cas's look to be based on Peter Falk in Wings of Desire. (Haven't read Constantine, could easily be both).

They have mentioned Hannibal's sense of smell before - he detected Bella's cancer, and there was something else I don't quite remember - smelling the corn on a corpse that lead Hannibal to the mural at the start of the season?

In this episode, Philip and Elizabeth both talk about horrible aspects of their childhoods, and this to me is a hint at the reason being turned would destroy Paige. She's had a comfortable childhood, with the biggest hardship being that she doesn't understand her parents, P&E grew up hard and with a real motivation to…

I actually knew this Final Jeopardy! Thank you Neal Stephenson and The Baroque Cycle for teaching me this.

I love Cliff Curtis. He's not always great, but I'm always happy to see him. Although that beard in the picture is a little ropey.

Not familiar with SCTV, but an Australian tv show of the late 80s, The Money or the Gun, used to have a different artist cover Stairway to Heaven each week: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I imagine at the end of the first night, one by one the women pulled a producer aside and said "I'm gone", at which point, a lawyer came along and showed them that they could only break their contract by paying some stupid sum.

I hate walking over manholes in the footpath, because I imagine myself falling through them. The fact that the Moon Door has an actual door wouldn't really reassure me.

Neal Stephenson. Anyone who likes Neal Stephenson is automatically OK by me.

I did all my high school assignments in WordStar. In 1992. I did have a little nostalgic thrill when I read this article.

This blog is perfect for those wanting to reminisce about Windows 95.
http://windows95tips.com/

Yay for Bear, fetching extra guns for Reese. MVP of the night.