One of my favourite Onion pieces…

"…and I'll whisper 'no'".

I cant believe we had to bleep that out. That would have been such a nice moment.

You won't believe this one simple trick a single mom found for more cynicism! Morrisey is angry!

All I can think of when Tek War is mentioned is Father Ted.

Well, you can deny that the subtext is there. That's the great thing about subtext - it's all interpretation. It boils down to how the person viewing it sees it themselves. Just because someone spots something that they connect with doesn't mean it's 'there' now for everyone.

At least back then those pointless lists would come in round numbers.

Eight? Not sure I'd class him as better than Two but some could make that argument.

Exactly - Angie's family was cast fairly early on. By all accounts, NiS was written and re-written very late in the day - definitely after filming had begun (Gaiman has said the order to include the kids came very close to the filming of it and he struggled to fit them in organically). So the family had been cast as a…

I got married this year so I made an effort last year to break my own personal best for visits to the cinema knowing that it'd be the last year where I could fairly do it. I went 158 times and saw 140 different films - 100 new releases and 40 classics.

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It's revealed about two-thirds in that the boxtrolls were friendly with the boy's father who begged the boxtrolls to take his baby in during an attempt on his life.

Madagascar 3 was a hell of a surprise. Made my top 10 for 2012 and that was a hell of a good year for film.

Girl power!

It's not so much that, though of course there is some initial homophobia and shock at the culture difference from some characters (though I was surprised how few seemed liked this as I, like you, assumed that angle would be played up).

True. However, the 'shock' discussed is that he's dead during that conversation. I went in knowing that it was about her dead son - it's the whole premise after all - and so, like most of the audience, assumed during that first scene that we were pre-death in the narrative, or perhaps witnessing a flashback. So yes,…

Here's some money. Go see a Time War.

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very true. Had it not won I bet it would be seen as the underdog that everyone still loves. Same with The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire and The Artist.

For most of the film I thought looked like the result of mating Ryan Gosling with Bradley Cooper (he has a smile that evokes the smirk and eyes of Cooper). Later on in the film I decided it was closer to Paul Walker than Gosling.

I'm very disappointed the clip chosen to prove his musical prowess wasn't David Brent's If You Don't Know Me By Now.