The weirdness of the performances is part of what makes it so good. I could watch Kilmer's "social engineering" all day.

I cannot help but dream a wonderful dream about how good Snuff Box would have been had Fulcher were replaced by almost anything else - I'm not talking another comedian, I mean literally anything else, like a glass of milk that's recently gone off or a lump of snow that melted over the course of the series. It's a true…

"Spartan" is wonderful and anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong.

Good background knowledge, cheers mate!

Part of me thinks it's cheating to pick two films from the same director, but the 17yo me is pretty chuffed with the selection.

From my limited understanding, it is (or at least used to be) also a very HK view of things (not that it's missing from the western canon) and is probably expressed in its purest form in Andrew Lau's "Infernal Affairs".

Michael Massee, the actor who played Funboy in the original and was also the actor who, tragically, fired the shot that killed Brandon Lee, died last month. Said he never got over it and, yeah, I don't see how I would, either.

Lars Ulrich isn't even the best drummer in Metallica.

Peak Metallica was "No Life 'til Leather", everything's been downhill since then.

Elba recently won his first pro kickboxing fight and on behalf of everyone who doesn't have their shit together worldwide I'd like to ask him to just stop doing stuff.

Or to offer a counter opinion: It was shit.

I do like how "death metal" is still being used as shorthand for extreme music. "Altars of Madness" came out in 1989 and could quite easily be the music grandad listens to.

Anyone who considers Cage "an icon of unintentional comedy" needs to be made aware that the joke is on them.

Bunnny, ball ball!

Rickman is a wizard… yes, there's something in that…

I sort of feel like about that duo like I do about "Way of the Dragon" and "Enter the Dragon". Way may be the better film, but Enter is THE Bruce Lee film. "The Killer" is arguably better, but "Hardboiled" is just the most John Woo film ever made.

Tonight I watched "Blood Father". It's not the greatest film, but it's good enough. What it does do is show that even at age 60, Mel Gibson absolutely nails a certain type of character, a guy skidding right along and sometimes falling over the edge. This, in no small part I think it's clear now, because he has some…

"Terminator" and "Aliens" are very different films in a way that, as much as I love them, "The Killer" and "Hardboiled" are not.

It must have been unusual to be Alan Rickman, to come in for your first film role and absolutely smash it. Not only for the role as required, but above and beyond to the point where people will name top movie villains and someone will go "yeah, but he's no Hans Gruber" and then the conversation stops.

I, too, really like Hudson Hawk. Partly for Willis, but a lot for how fantastically over the top Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernhard are.