"Snyder’s widely derided 2009 adaptation of the canonical graphic novel Watchmen gets rightly criticized for missing the nuances of the book, but it doesn’t get enough credit for its fight scenes, which are really something."

Spoiler: 'Planetarium' is less about communicating with the dead than it is with a particularly shameful part of the history of the interwar French film industry.

They are as alike as a short film is to a feature, or a story is to a novel. The distinction that can be drawn between these different types of "comic" isn't much use in this context (and, as I've already explained, isn't a particularly helpful one in parts of the world where comics aren't usually packaged in the way…

I was wondering how best I should anticipate this particular bit of pendantry, including a) the obvious pointing out that the method of packaging should not be mistaken for form/content, and b) also that not being an American* I'd never grown up with this artificial distinction which seems as alien to me as the notion…

"Not only was it not the best film of the year, it wasn't even the best Morgan Freeman film of the week." - Mark Kermode

"the studio is already preparing to push the film in a major (and majorly expensive) Oscars campaign with the goal of making it the first comic-book movie to get a Best Picture nod"

I like to think of the difference between the two shows as being illustrated by the host's differing responses to watching the candidates doing the QVC task: Trump nodding gnomically and narrow-lipped as his disciples go about the business of Business; Lord S yelling obscenities at the hopeless muppets messing…

But Lord Sugar made his own choices? Right? Please tell me that…?

You could always, y'know, just not read those articles and allow the films to diminish in your mental landscape to something pocket-sized and altogether less threatening?

There's never been a year where there were more superhero movies than westerns in cinemas, and westerns are basically a dead genre.

Fett Babies.

Following playground logic that the boy who brags about how many girls he's snogged is the least likely to have got to first base, it has to be McGann's.

I've double-checked and the villa isn't in Gaul but it's definitely outside Rome, to the north at Acesium. It takes both the Doctor and Vicki (travelling on foot) and Ian and Barbara (captured by slave traders) a while to get to the city.

He's just visiting Rome in that story, but has been living in Gaul for a month or so beforehand.

It's quite indicative of how prosaic New Who has been that something as comparatively straightforward as 'The Eaters of Light' can be characterised as left-field. If anything it seemed to be trying to stifle anything that a Saturday tea-time audience would find too lyrical or too weird (see also 'The Big Bang', in…

So everything wasn't being orchestrated by the omniscient thirteenth Cylon in a coma, like in 'Saint Elsewhere'?

'The Dark Knight' is a curious remake of 'V for Vendetta' where you're supposed to side with the fascists instead of the anarchist. (The Joker incidentally kills far fewer people than V does in the book and implausible as some of his set-ups maybe be at least he's not managed single-handedly to build an entire…

No room for 'Black Narcissus', which climaxes with a nun cat-fight to the death in the Himalayas shot in the most ravishing Technicolor the cinema has ever seen?

Satan was too busy with 'Baywatch'.

A dream to some… a nightmare to others!