They are genuinely awful if you aren't a 13 year old boy and even then you might realise they are awful.

Still ridiculously awful hackwork and a tragic (for the family) death does fit in completely with the Wheel of Time series.

I don't think the reviewer really gets it. There is some serious missing of the point and not getting irony. Not going to go into why as it spoils plot points but calling it reactionary assumes zero irony. Yet it's a film that is pure nod and a wink (and bloody ultraviolence)

Why? Kick Ass was great. This is better. One of the best times I've had in a cinema in ages.

Alan Partridge: Thank you for being this morning's farmer, Robert Moon. Have you had your breakfast this morning, Robert?
Robert Moon: Well, the way things is going, I dunno…
Alan Partridge: Can you just answer "yes", for the purposes of a joke?
Robert Moon: …Yes.
Alan Partridge: Well, then, you must be a full moon!
[pause]
…

One of The Smith's jauntier songs.

The series just gets better the last 3 episodes are some of the most compelling tv I've seen since Breaking Bad ended and there is a hell of a cliff hangar of sorts ending. It's also a series that plays with a lot of your expectations.

Went nowhere?!!?!!

35 years on and off with less than a hundred episodes so not all that bad.

"and the problematic hegemonic masculinity of Statham’s characters"

There was a Stewart Lee and Richard Herring recurring joke on TMWRNJ in thr lazy comedy slags section bad sitcoms and it pains me Bent Coppers they didn't even make a mock titles or something.

Get his albums, they are genuinely wonderful.

What a fantastic summary and one I completely agree with.

The DS had Jump Super Stars and it's sequel Jump Ultimate Stars. They never came out outside of Japan because they use basically all the Jump licences and licencing deals made it effectively impossible but importing them was super easy.

"In a broader sense, the Prime Directive is an acknowledgment that cultural values aren’t absolute—a fairly advanced statement for a show about space cowboys."

It's always worth remembering that you really don't want to go where you can't buy coke.

No one is perfect but I think it's somewhat OK to say that yes the British are slightly better than the Americans but largely partly because the demographics/social settings are really quite different, there is not nearly the same amount of ghettoisation for example.

It's likely (although I'm not 100% it could be referencing something more specific) that the 'SS Death Camp Criminal Battalion Go To Monte Cassino For The Massacre' comic title was a reference to the trend in British comics of the mid 1970s to early 80s of action comics like Warlord, Bullet and Action that were not…

Ignore the chin (the man has a chin who cares?) what I don't get it why in this universe someone deciding to be batman would deliberately put a furrowed brow into the bat-mask.

Ed Gamble is one part of Peacock and Gamble who are pretty much the best double act in 20 years.