As you can see from my anecdata, all of life is terrible and people only ever struggle to survive. There. Wasn’t that entertaining. Art: it Is Challenging.

After Westworl came out there were all these posts talking about its “philosophy” - what philosophy? “Humans are intrinsically bad and violent” is about the extent of it - it has the same philosophical depth of your average 17 year old who just skimmed Niezche and now thinks he’s super-smart for being so cynical.…

I would say that’s not an unreasonable point - if the show existed in a vacuum, instead of in the long shadow of True Blood, Game of Thrones, Westworld et al. which have a history of masturbatory violence. Also, the show has been to this gory well before for equally salacious reasons: the lynching scene in the first…

“What it doesn’t deserve is this lingering voyeurism, the lurid slo-mo brutality of his many injuries”

I haven’t been watching Season 2 of this show - everything I hear is negative - but this kind of lurid gore is what I hated in the first episode of the first season. When it dialed it back in later episodes (that is…

I’ve come to hate Iron Man’s suits and their ability to materialize out of nothing. The nano suit is the absolute nadir - it’s literally a magic suit that can become anything its wearer wants or needs it to be at any time, which means Tony Stark never has to meaningfully build anything ever again.

Part of what made the…

You’d have to pay me to sit through an Ant-Man movie again.

Without Feathers was one of my favourite books as a teen.

Got rid of my copy a few months back when I came across it on my shelf - haven’t read it in years, and even without the endless ‘new’ batches of revelations - if i could be returned to an unknowing, author-ignorant self - I suspect I’d find it much more…

“While the American F-35 has many problems, accidentally ejecting civilians won’t be one of them—the Joint Strike Fighter is a single seat jet.”

Oh Jesus. it’s been a long while since I cared - but are you telling me the F-35 is still under development?

Oh shit.

I mean the movie would suck, as DC has made a decent picture that wasn’t afraid of comic books since... of, 2006 or so, but still - what a great casting choice, god-damn!

(I heard that both Aquaman and Shazam were fun, but I didn’t see them. I was told good things about Wonder Woman too. I was disappointed.)

What’s it supposed to be filled with? No idea what a CBP is beyond some kind of flak jacket if that’s even the term.

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…