Citing Lucas here might be a mistake. I can remember another difficult second film prompting the franchise runner to retreat his safe space for the conclusion of the trilogy, and then full it with jungle-dwelling teddybears for maximum merchandisability.

Who’s Angela’s dad in this reality?

HipsterWellick was quite disturbing, to the extent that I thought he’d be the one to puncture Elliot’s illusion.

No one has seen ‘Cats’ yet.

Once Upon a Time is a film that spends hours fetishising Sharon Tate then blames her death on her thoughtless failure to be a hardbitten action TV star with a flamethrower in her shed.

Dudes, I’m not going to fault you for leaving out ‘Booksmart’. Subjective is, and there’ve been a lot of good films this year...

Whiterose has several times insinuated and once explicitly stated she regards Trump as a stooge and a moron. Why would he be in the Deus Group?

I would imagine that if Whiterose really existed, the Chinese government would be full of rivals itching for an opportunity just like this to get rid of her.

Most sf about cloning either tends to work on that assumption anyway (e.g. ‘The Boys from Brazil’, where the plan to engineer the personal circumstances of Hitler’s life for 100+ clones are simultaneously insanely elaborate and utterly inept) or makes up additional memory transfer science to account for it.

Is it just me or this the most eventful Christmas Day ever?

*Feels uncharacteristic but not unwelcome flush of national pride at Deegan cheerfully not giving one solitary fuck about the Dark Army’s terrifying reputation*

You don’t think that a silent movie vibe in an episode without dialogue might have been intentional?

Didn’t this used to be an episode of ‘The IT Crowd’?

“Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, a more flagrantly fictional story that also folded the exploits of Tesla into its narrative”

To clarify, Rachel Riley is an outspoken critic of Jeremy Corbyn - a vicious antisemite who is basically the British equivalent of Donald Trump, except that a) his cult is even more dangerously fanatical and deluded than Trump’s and b) he is massively unpopular and has no danger of ever being elected (which is why he…

This isn’t a “Christian-themed movie”. ‘The Gospel According to St Matthew’ is a Christian-themed movie. The works of Tarkovsky are Christian-themed movies.

I have some sympathy with Spielberg’s TV Movie argument but I think it could be resolved by strict adherence to the theatrical run qualification period. There are plenty of good - perhaps even Awards-worthy - films that don’t qualify because they don’t get released. Netflix shouldn’t be absolved from this just because…

Is it too much to expect that the Academy might have grown up a bit in the past 29 years?

Because one person winning a competition is “thwarting and fucking over” another entrant in the same competition?

You didn’t want those grapes anyway. They were sour.