I played enough of the first Borderlands game to realize A) Claptrap is horrible and B) Oh... in this game you just shoot things. There’s no bigger RPG system coming its just well-animated boxes full of guns that the sole metric of achievement.

Which is awesome if that’s your thing - it was very good at the shooting…

I am perfectly willing to accept my 92-year old queen probably has some deep-seated racial issues that were never properly confronted. But I’m also 100 percent certain that all brit tabloids are nightmare garbage rags who’ll take any hate-filled position if it sells a single copy more than a non-hate filled one, and…

I come from the future to warn you that in my time, a Romney victory with Bachman as a cabinet secretary now seems like .a wonderful dream we would give our right arms to live through.

I come from the future to tell you the good news that not only did Michelle Bachman not get more power, but “Michelle Bachman” is a name no one has thought or heard about in years!

The bad news is that we’re in a dystopia, Donald Trump is president, and his overt, venal criminality is getting no pushback from his own…

It persists because nobody wants to confront the idea that alcohol isn’t safe, that our great social ‘lubricant’ is gasoline poured near open flames, that recreational substance use in general doesn’t exist in safe amounts for far too many people. I speak as someone whose country just legalized pot that all the…

This is a very thoughtful article, but it feels like it came close to saying something really aggressive and meaningful about the normalization of drinking-as-therapy in culture and how flat-out disturbing it is - but swung away from it at the last moment. It was possibly excised by an editor who knows that nothing…

I suppose that’s a fair point - it’s a million years since I watched it on a bus while on a six-hour long trip to a drama festival showcase where I won a lighting award (which gives you my entire teenaged experience in a sentence), but I suppose I continue to think fo Juno as the Ur-Quirky movie because that’s largely…

I like the ending scene with the joke, and I liked that in consequence Barbara got to become the awesome Oracle (and I will curse DC forever for scrapping her because the comics world was crying out for another able-bodied female superhero in a cat suit), but the comic itself? Yikes. 1988 is when Moore was at his…

I think the moment LEGO Batman stops working for me is when it decides that the Batman/Joker relationship isn’t enough to carry t he movie, and that what really needs to happen is that Batman needs to learn a lesson about found family and working with others.

And while Batman to me is at its best when Bruce is the head…

I went to see it with my mum, and at some point around the 45 minute mark without any sort of consultation we started to laugh at the movie.

Because it’s goofy. It’s silly. It’s very, very silly.

You know that point in a Fast and Furious movie when you realize that Vin Diesel believes in the Hallmark Card dialogue about…

I miss Batman oreos. They were from the early 90s and had yellow icing. I swear I did not make this up but can’t find proof of their existence.

I think Ledger’s gives an incredible performance in an obnoxious and repugnant movie, and I’d be hard-pressed to call his Joker one that anyone should emulate as it is as toxic as the film property it attached to.

And with all that being said it’s a million times better than Nicholson’s. The comment below me saying “He…

Hi, I come from the future to tell you that in the dystopian year of 2019 people are openly, vilely racist all the time in the highest offices in America, and that episodes seem more relevant now than they did in 2012.

I mean that’s a slippery slope.

Primates can be trained to read.

Boy that header image really is... competent. That sure is competent art. Art that was drawn by someone who can draw things recognizably as things, that’s for sure.

Boy howdy. That sure is a thing you can say about it. It sure does... exist.

I really liked Kevin Smith’s relaunch of Green Arrow.

And literally nothing else he’s ever done.

I haven’t touched his Arrow book since I was a teen so I may even not like that anymore.

Anyways, in summation, Kevin Smith is just some guy, you know?

People get really, really angry when you critique Laika’s storytelling, and I don’t get it. Laika has some of the most talented artists in the world - every frame of Kubo represented not only hours of labour but skill and craft and time and passion.

So why shouldn’t the script be treated to the same standard? Why are…

This feels like the kind of movie i’d hate but struggle to articulate why without coming off like a cynical asshole.

But have you seen my avatar? I’m down with light and whimsical works - but live action works so often seem to fail at getting it right. The only way I can think of descrbing it is “trying too hard.” Juno…

Queen of Mars from Olympus Mons to Tarsus!

Why the fuck are we still doing this? Why are we still treating these Serious Adult Works seriously? The Joker isn’t mentally ill - I speak on behalf of mental illness sufferers everywhere whenI say he’s crazy. He’s a guy who dresses as a clown to taunt another guy who fights crime dressed as a bat.

He is not grounded…