I kind of like Flash to be the happy show, Arrow to be the dark show, as befits the challenges and characters. Though that seems to have been lost if it ever was. Perhaps I only saw what I wanted to.

It will be alternate Barries in the house. Each successively warning the next one first to let his mother die and second to let it happen. They will hide in increasingly crazy places - starting with closets, progressing through under the table and in a sideboard cupboard to League of Assassins ninja-style suspended…

He's actually a Hell of a lot nicer than he used to be.

Getting a woman fired is worse than (accidentally) killing a man.

Young Justice was great for many reasons. But having actually competent villains who actually planned for failure was perhaps my favourite. Also for just how stunningly creepy the whole "Hello, Megan!" thing was when you think about the whole situation. Right down to Connor's name.

And that's the thing. People like this reviewer and many readers here complain about things when really, with the level of analysis and genre-savviness they bring to the show, I'm really not sure what you can do without throwing out valuable elements of the genre that people enjoy.

Same here but for me it's because I'm very used to hanging out with a pile of blokes and such groups tend to insult each other all the time. I'm pretty sure Renée is like that and used to that too. Then he's suddenly put in a social situation with a guy for whom sensitivity is how you show you care (not chest-bumping)…

Renée's ripping on Curtis is very realistic for a type of cultural schism I come across sometimes. In a group of lads you're normally insulting and picking on each other all the time (alternated with praise) because, well, it's bonding. Also I guess there's a continuous low-grade jostling for supremacy whenever a…

The Fearless Vampire Killers is absolutely one of my favourite comedies of all time. It seamlessly mixes Mel Brooks style absurdity (The Jewish vampire being unaffected by a crucifx still cracks me up) with physical comedy (getting stuck in the window or Albert slowly sliding down the snow covered roof I love) with…

"White people" are not a team. Nor are "Black people" a team. People are individuals who happen to be one colour or another. It is insane to try and dismiss one individual's skills or interests based on what other individuals who have nothing in common with them other than skin colour have or haven't received.

That's the thing, though. I don't feel it did. I watch nature documentaries, I love David Lean films and some of my favourite scenes are Nature's Majesty style images. There Will Be Blood mesmerises me. The opening of Ridley Scott's Prometheus is gorgeous to me (the plot, not so much ;) ). I adored the opening of John…

Thank you for writing all that out. Interesting read about an area I don't know much about.

But you seem to define "self-indulgence" as a whole grab-bag of stuff you don't like. So maybe to you they can't, but your definition of self-indulgence seems off. Anything you don't like you see as the movie indulging itself rather than the audience (you).

Plenty of White jazz musicians and fans and plenty of Black people who aren't into Jazz. And vice versa. Culture is not contained in your genes. You pick it up from everyone you come into contact with and you choose which bits you like and which you don't.

The Revenant was one of the few films I've not watched to the end. Maybe I'll finish it some day, but usually even bad films I'm OCD enough to see through to the finish. But I just found The Revenant so dull. Very little about it really meant anything to me. I didn't care about any of the characters. None of them…

Bullworth. Amazing film. She's one of the leads.

The Neon Demon was a beautiful film. I would love to see it nominated, but unsurprised that it wasn't.

The Nice Guys is such a good film. It's so well done it's a shame not to see it up there in the nominations. Of course a film that is just a perfect subtle noir comedy is never going to be grouped up with "Serious Business" like Moonlight et al. I'm sure there's a film buff here who can tell me the last time a…

Maybe you would like the oft-overlooked but very good Dredd. There are some overt similarities to the The Raid but the Fascist Police State is lampshaded front and centre.

I've never seen her in anything else, so all I can say is that I liked her in this.