Agreed. Pulp can be mighty fine, but it needs to be taught and tight, not baggy. I’ll give most things a try if I know they’re not going to take up much more than 90 minutes of my time.

Mike Read was famous for being a shit DJ in the 80's, gradually disappearing from view in the 90's. He’s been pretty much invisible for 20+ years, Alan Partridge effectively making it impossible for him to make a comeback. It takes a special kind of talentless fuckwit to make one feel any sympathy whatsoever for…

Sometimes an enjoyable nuts-n-bolts thriller is exactly what’s required. I’m a big fan of Collet-Serra’s work. He elevates b-movies into a-movies. If you offered me a ticket to either The Commuter or The Post, I’d take the former all day long.

I thought this too. Dom was hip to Darlene’s seduction from the get go. They are working together to expose her boss.

It’s the latter.

I never really rated the Smiths, I’m 5 years younger than Morrissey and he was a large part of why I disliked them. He was a contrarian bastard back in the 80s and I objected to his flirting with working-class pseudo-fascist culture at a time when, it seemed to me, racism was a very bad thing. I even had a letter…

Agreed, Mac Quayle had to do some heavy lifting during the sequence showing Angela looking for a USB stick. If you removed the audio from the scene it would be interminably boring. It was the first time I noticed Quayle’s top-drawer score for the series sound adrift. (I particularly love the way Quayle sometimes…

Writing (apologetically) as a middle-aged man, it seems to me that Mr Robot perfectly articulates the millennials existential dilemma; they know only what they do not want, and have thus far failed to develop any philosophy to replace that which they reject. (Identity politics is a dead-end.) Elliot helped smash the…

Through The Looking Glass - Discovery is a mirror-image of the Shenzhou, and the Lorca is the polar-opposite of Georgiou. There’s not the usual collegiate Starfleet atmosphere amongst the crew - instead, everyone is either snippy, secretive or hostile (or all three in the case of Stamets). Lorca as the Red Queen and…

The people around him must have witnessed Knowles’ aberrant behaviour. It’s sad that even Knowles’ (very) minor fame affords enough power to compel people to look the other way\ when a line is crossed. He’s a hideous lump of flesh.

If they asked El-P to pitch you can bet there were others who were also asked. And yet they eventually went with Hans fucking Zimmer. You know the film is going to be shit, right?

seems everyone on this thread takes aa dowds word for it when it comes to deciding whether or not to see a movie. for myself, i was enjoying the review right up until ‘(This is the same filmmaker, remember, who turned “Dear Ndugu” into a cheap punchline.)‘ i can only assume dowd feels that this was somehow…

Same can be said of Jon Snow (not that one) and Evan Davies, so