That’s another one that I have avoided like the plague based on a vague knowledge of the content. A dear friend of mine, since departed too soon, was keen for me to watch Mr Lonely. I still might, but it’s by Harmony Karine of Gummo and Kids which really puts me off.

Sometime in the early noughties on a Friday night in Edinburgh, a group of my friends excitedly discussed a video they were eager for me to see. It was a hilarious film they had rented and I still remember vividly the sheer joy on their faces as they watched me watch it begin. I was about to share in the collective…

All caps? English teachers everywhere, despair.

game that was literally half-baked

That must be a real (ba)boon.

(Remember when putting something in quotes, meant you were quoting?)

Key point: “a show”.

Even forgetting about Gibson’s transgressions, he’s 65. Glover is 75. It’s no longer a joke that they’re too old for this shit.

Richard Donner’s dying wish that Gibson direct a fifth movie. 

Not to mention, a rip-off of Ben Hur.

I loved the original series. Haven't seen the U.S. remake, but for the remake of the remake of the remake... why not just fucking call it something else?

Fuck, it makes you sterile? I'm already double vaccinated but sign me up again!

In Scotland, in the days of only 4 TV channels (i.e. the 80s), we only got it on Saturday mornings. It was also split into two parts within the broadcast of a longer kids’ TV show and I often only got to see the first half because my parents made us go and do the shopping for the week before the second part had come…

It was not. It had fantastic graphics and a lovely opening sequence and I’m such a G1 fan that I imported it from Japan to play it. But it has terrible “press kick x 10 times, rinse and repeat” gameplay.

I used to wonder if Tarantino was a bit of a dick.

“I am Lieutenant Tuvok. And I’m Neelix.”

They shoulda killed ‘em all and let god sort it out!

Suggestions you may be wrong about something #9:

Bigfoot.

You know, you really shouldn’t interact with yourself in the past, however casually. Do you want to end up as your own grandfather?