Well, you can argue over the ethnicity of the Ptolemaic dynasty, but they probably didn't look exactly like Liz Taylor.

Arguing over Jesus' precise skin and eye colour seems futile, but (if he existed) we can definitely at least say he was Jewish. That ought to be the minimum for casting a plausible Jesus.

She was fantastic, but she was still playing a kind of 'mysterious inscrutable Oriental' stereotype. It's a pretty good movie, with a lot of uncomfortable subtext.

I'll give you Noah, who's basically a universal myth, but Jesus (whether he actually existed or lot) is located in a specific historical time and place. We can have a pretty good guess what he might have looked like.

That's the title of the porn parody, This Ain't Paint XXX.

And local authorities also have the little-used power to ban films! I'll always laugh at Westminster Council for banning David Cronenberg's Crash.

Did Fury Road underperform? It made $150 million dollars at the US box office and $370 million worldwide. That's more than double its budget, and way, way more than any of the previous Mad Max films. If it's considered a 'failure', it's only by comparison with the likes of Jurassic World and The Force Awakens. But it…

You're the first person I've come across who didn't see that twist coming. What I love about the book is that Ender is supposed to be some kind of kid supergenius, but he somehow doesn't figure out what's obvious to most readers of the book.

I think this goes both ways. It's too bad that many people only knew Rickman as Snape. But I think it's also too bad that many people's only vision of Snape is Rickman. I don't think he completely captured the character, personally - Snape in the books is more creepy, sinister and tragic, while I always felt Rickman…

Channel 4 produces an awful lot of crap, but also a fair few interesting and original shows, which is more than I can say for the BBC.

I saw Neil Gaiman give a talk one time, and someone asked him "Is it true you're working on a project with Guillermo del Toro?", and his response was something like "Listen, Guillermo has a lot of 'projects'…"

I don't know what a PewDiePie is, and I don't want to find out.

I think they were mocking them more for their endearing obsession with 'shipping' hot boys.

Dogma is the closest thing to a Good Omens movie we're ever likely to get, though.

in the actual film though, Isaacs' performance is the hammiest of the lot. There's a wonderful bit near the end that goes something like this:
Someone else: "If this goes on, there could be deaths!"
Malfoy: *long pause* *raises eyebrow* "Deaths! You think so?"

A persion who can 'always appreciate a good pendant' should appreciate that the word is actually spelled pedant. A pendant is something completely different.

I'm still surprised it didn't. That was one of those decisions that felt like the Academy shooting itself in the foot the moment it happened.

That was even stupider than Fahrenheit 9/11 winning the Palme d'Or, and that was pretty stupid.

They were really asking for it with that title. (Though The Cobbler was too, at least for British critics.)

'Jupiter Ascending isn't a boring movie'
I disagree. In fact, I'd say that it managed to be boring despite all that crazy stuff is an achievement in itself. The action scenes in particular were incredibly tedious.