I'd watch, it's all quite serialised and even though this is slightly standalone and fills in a gap I do think the buildup to it is pretty good (and the end of season 2 pretty fun)

I'm glad [REC] wasn't on this list. Cliched and not scary (even back when it came out).

The sexism surrounding Seven of Nine's casting and costume is valid, but you
say it became about her 'to the detriment of other characters' as though those other characters were worth spending time with in the first place. More time with Kim, Chakotay, Neelix, and Paris was never needed, no need to blame the…

Well, if it's based on a series of books that bodes well I suppose… Fellowes didn't seem to have any ideas beyond the first season of DA but at least here, if it's a raging success, he won't actually need much originality to make more seasons.

I must have missed the bit where the author writing about feminist criticism of films said that that was all feminism was.

The original one seems to be included as a bonus track on iTunes at least.

Just finished this and really enjoyed it. I read the book a year or two ago and really enjoyed it, but lots of that was to do with the writing style and after finding the first two episodes quite rushed, but also fairly inert, I figured the show just wasn't really going to work. However, I just binged the rest over…

Because he was really turned on by the brother and has a pretty obvious masochistic streak? There's something about the allure of the hyper-masculine to lots of gay men and I think this film tapped into that convincingly enough for me to go along with the ride, albeit in a rather blackly-comic way.

Definitely prefer TWS story as well, I was never keen on the original as a kid but then (accidentally) dl'd the 1986 version and fell in love. Her voice is so much more powerful, and the production a lot punchier.

I don't really know any of her songs beyond My Heart Will Go On, but recently saw Mommy and the scene which featured her song On Ne Change Pas was brilliant and, having never heard it before, I totally fell in love with it even though I don't speak French.

I felt like I was constantly waiting for this to get going and the sci-fi story to have some sort of pay-off, before realising that no, 'the point' is just these separate stories, a few of which are only occasionally engaging, with some of the worst dialogue I've heard on a drama in a while.

HBP is one of the best for sure - it was the first since PoA to feel like a solid film in its own terms, with some really nice directorial touches and not just an attempt to get through the book as quickly as possible, which plagued some of the earlier entries. I think that both DH films continued in that vein as…

I'm a huge fan of Erotica and hold it up as Madonna's second best album (Ray of Light being number 1), but interesting that you hold up the authenticity of it, as I always kind of saw it as projecting outward, a response to AIDS amongst other things. I don't think it's fair to dismiss it in comparison to janet. but I…

Very true, one thing I was surprised in discovering about her 80s stuff is just how much attitude is on display - Nasty is still possibly my favourite vocal performance of hers. But even moving into the 90s, songs like You, This Time, What About have a lot of power in them, that I think people can be pretty unfair…

I was a bit too young to really hear much of Janet in her prime (I recognise a few All for You era songs from my childhood and, of course, Together Again), and she wasn't quite as big in the UK, but I've been discovering her big 4 albums in the past couple of months and wished I had sooner. Really reaching Madonna…

Plenty of Blu-rays don't get released in the US either. Aside from Friends I can't think of any sitcoms to be released in full on Blu-ray. I love my physical media but when I have a NAS and know where to get 1080p downloads of anything in the last few years the incentive to get the DVDs just so I have the set is…

That review generally seems to be, 'this was traumatising to watch, therefore it was bad' and 'the characters didn't act in the way I wanted them to, therefore it was bad'

I agree. I think you needed to get an impression of the sustained torture in order to buy him being mentally broken in that way, and you needed to see that it wasn't just a that first rape scene (which is probably the image one would imagine), because it wouldn't have told the whole story. The viewer follows Claire in…

If you really thought that when watching that scene I think you completely missed the point.

Hmm, I don't know, the anthology structure makes TD quite a different show to judge alongside it, despite their similarities. But I have to say I adored TD from beginning to end, pretty much, and I feel like it balanced out the out-there surreal stylings with decent script and character work in a way that Hannibal has…