Fair enough, but... (again, not denying Hollywood has a problem...)

Fair enough — but what about Meryl Streep in Into The Woods (2014) — she’s top billed, and it easily cracked the top 100 movies (at 23) that year...?

Yeah, Sandra Bullock has The Blind Side, The Heat, Gravity, The Proposal; Julianne Moore has Crazy, Stupid Love. Hollywood DOES have a problem with race/age/gender/sexual orientation representation — that much is clear — but these statistics look more than a little wonky...

“...took the top 100 grossing films of each year between 2007 and 2014 and tallied up some pretty damning statistics... No actress over the age of 45 has played a leading or co-leading role in that seven-year period at all.”

Star Wars ‘overload’ is simply a result of engaging in the internet’s Echo Chamber of Hype. Most Star Wars fans will (I suspect) be content simply with the movies — that equates to around 2-5 hours of time per year (for 1-2 movies). Even if you partake of the TV show and some literature, you’re time commitment is only…

“Cloudy With A Chance Of Exploding Heads”...

Personally, I can’t wait for the next spin-off, “Look Who’s Walking Dead Now”...

“Weekend at HitchBOT’s”?

I’m just happy that we’re discussing two genuinely great comedy movies with fantastic female leads in the context of ‘which one was most hilarious’, without the tediously fallacious spectre of ‘women aren’t funny’.

Probably the best sci-fi movie of last year — sadly sabotaged by opting for the vanilla title ‘Edge of Tomorrow, instead of the better ‘Live. Die. Repeat’, or the original ‘All You Need Is Kill’.

“Darker” is good for night work.

“This relationship will self destruct in five years. Good luck, Tom...”

Nothing is impossible with Xenu at your back...

Panda: ‘No matter how much I eat, DO NOT put me in touch with any dentists...’

This is potentially an amazing idea. Clearly, it raises legitimate ethical concerns about privacy, not to mention the influence of big pharma, but the potential benefits are huge.

With all this talk of shared universes and crossovers, I’d love to see King Kong team up with the forthcoming rebooted Fantastic Four characters. And by team up, I mean kill them — literally, King Kong ripping them to pieces on screen.

Jurassic Galaxy?

Great advice. I just read your short story As Good As New at the weekend and loved it! (I feel like I’m missing something though...? I thought Marisol had four wishes but only exercised three...?)

True. I think his faux outrage about the bugs is a manifestation of the deep denial he’s in about the true horror of what he’s done.

This guy understands...