I really enjoy Kick Ass (the film is less try-hard edge-lord than the graphic novel), I’d generally list it higher than most of the MCU films I’ve seen.

I’d really love to see some of the Ed Brubaker series made in to films like Velvet or Criminal, though I think one of those may technically be Marvel

As I’ve said in a comment that will seemingly forever be stuck in the greys, the structure of the trial seem prejudicial when you can have the plaintiff devote a huge section to character assassination before the defendant gets their shot at justifying their position. They’ve somehow got to unpick all the insinuations…

I reckon however the verdict goes, it is being followed in minute detail by Marilyn Manson’s lawyers - if they win it’ll be a blueprint for how to silence allegations

I can’t believe this system frankly - the defence being able to hire someone unilaterally really does raise questions about conflict of interest. You’re going to pay for someone who will support you, not one who is necessarily a fair judge (similar to the Cicchetti filing in support of election fraud which although he…

Really curious about the structure of this trial - it seems like it essentially sets up the plaintiff to have a free run of character assassination prior to the defendant getting to present anything. Pretty much all the evidence so far seems to be stuff intended to attack Amber, or frankly irrelevant stuff like people…

Simultaneously strongly worded and poorly written, while being ill-considered

If I see a TV show proposing a solution, it’s generally done so having grossly oversimplified an issue. One of the things I loved about The Wire is that it opens up the questions of how much does political pressure/interference affect the way officers on the ground carry out their jobs. It didn’t give an easy answer,…

I wish I had intended that pun... Just pretend that this post doesn’t exist!

I saw Andy Serkis on an interview years ago trot out this execrable comment “If Orwell was a alive today, what would he be writing about?”. That’s one reason I’m expecting this adaptation to be a bit of a disaster - he is going to be putting out his own politics in, rather than presenting the complexity of…

I’m curious why being motivated by money is being touted as a bad thing in the movie industry, as though it isn’t entirely motivated by money itself! Putting this motive on the people affected by a production that was cost cutting in dangerous ways to maximise their profits seems disingenuous at best and outright…

Mrs Brown’s Boys is only funny when the show is used as a punchline by other people. It’s a particular pet hate (and understandably so) for Grumpy Skeletor.

If there was an AVClub article on shows that survive when they don’t deserve to, it would be a potential number one...

Mrs Brown’s Boys is only funny when the show is used as a punchline by other people. It’s a particular pet hate (and understandably so) for Grumpy Skeletor.

If there was an AVClub article on shows that survive when they don’t deserve to, it would be a potential number one...

I think a reboot is generally on a hiding to nothing anyway. Any time it tries a big plot twist, it’s going to be compared to the original, plus the show was strongly anti-fascist so can you imagine all the cries of being ‘woke’ it will get? I’d love to see JMS given a shot at doing another original series, maybe even…

It’s not even about that for me - You had Dany and her brother survive, fine, then you had ‘Young Griff’ and then Jon Snow’s big reveal and it just gets to be tiresome. The speculation about Tyrion is icing on a turd cake, but I was already eye-rolling before that! My feeling with GRRM is he equates detail with…

I’m struggling to care about Winds of Winter because of the preceeding book. More secret Targaryaens, Tyrion’s endless moping about where whores go and just lots of other bits that feel like empty plate spinning which I think a lot of them will have to be dropped if they aren’t going to be tied together in some…

It doesn’t matter whose property it is - “If you can’t make your property interesting without stepping on some element of what came before, you’re just a bad fucking writer. Be better”. Look at the guy behind the writing for the Highlander franchise for another example!

They struggled with consistency even with the…

I feel like people found detail and confused it for depth. There are loads of plot, exposition, planets, technology... but nothing resonant or genuinely meaningful. It’s OK to be fun nonsense, I feel like Star Wars has spent four decades trying to pretend it is more than that. Alec Guinness had it right...

It’s a Netflix show, holding your breath for a next season is likely a huge gamble... (No, I’m not bitter about what happened with Glow...)

I think there are questions with sports and entertainers about whether they take too much out of the industry as wages with other people suffering elsewhere. Using the Premier League as an example, you can clearly see that the players are taking a significant proportion of the turnover of the clubs which is fine, but…

There is a longstanding issue of failure in films. William Goldman wrote about a scene in which a character was drowning and was saved by his girlfriend - the actor involved would demand that it was changed to show he was faking his own drowning to help his girlfriend get confidence in her own swimming skills, and I…