The more I hear about Into Darkness the more I'm morbidly curious to watch it. Its on Netflix and there's a copy in my flat but I hate the first one so much. I might have to give into nerd rage and scream for 90-120 minutes

You get an upvote for referring to History's Greatest Monster as 'dastardly'.

Similar thing with 'Blue Ribbon' chocolate bars in England. Everyone calls them so but it wasn't until I was 15 I noticed its 'Blue Riband' after the yachting race of all things. As such I propose the yachting elite are part of a transdimensional conspiracy to do… things?

Lady walks out of Jurassic World, a 12A in Britain (basically PG13) to me behind the counter. She went on a huge, terrified rant about the blood and scary dinosaurs and how even with adult supervision its insane little kids are allowed in. We went back and forth over how the ratings are nothing to do with the cinema.…

The same reason I always pause when someone says The Third Man is the greatest British film ever made. It stars Orson Welles and Joe Cotton with a cast of Viennese natives and only two supporting British actors. The composer is Austrian and Selznick is producing. However written by and directed by Brits with a British…

"Perhaps they're more distinctively American in their sensibilities than I took them for" - they're not. British film nerds are just as likely to spill the pale ale over them as American are. Is a weird omission though.

Until its renamed the Women's Championship the rebirth isn't complete. The Butterfly belt is the WWE Universe's Confederate flag.

I think some people are getting wise to Sandler, and Happy Madison know it. There's a giant Pixels poster in my local cinema. The whole cast are on it without credits (Dinklage and Blart being national treasures obviously don't need them) and Sandler's face is positioned in such a way I thought "Hm, Nick Frost has…

That actually has been a rumour surrounding Batman for some time. Hmm…

My favourite is the rocket that's fired into the back of the helicopter, killing Steve Buscemi in a ball of flames while Kurt Russell in the pilot's seat is not only fine but doesn't seem to be aware what has happened.

The face seems to morph. If he'd fallen another twenty feet a Primus video would have kicked in.

The make-up still looks great. Its just a shame what it is put in service of.

Its the river part of that that gets me.

best kind.

He got rudely awaken by the dustmen once.

I just meant he disliked America but it was too far away to be a priority, whereas he was more ambivalent to Britain.

This was the view of many appeasers in Britain too. The idea that a century of German aggression ruining Europe could end if they got a big chunk of rich land, and where better than the evil, under-developed Soviet Union? There were similar feelings about China being Japan's India.

That's the thing with all "America gets invaded" stories - its just so implausible. Dick realised that and decided he might as well go all-out. While he got all the nitty gritty out of the way so he could write a decent story about the effects of such a world, he sadly birthed decades of crappy alt-history in the…

The latter being a big scene in Slaughter House Five, Vonnegut having experienced it first hand.

Nothing in Mein Kampf but he had a thing against FDR in the 1930s. At one Nuremburg rally he called the New Deal a sham designed to save the plutocrats while stealing the 'progressive' clothes of fascism. He called FDR out as a "One Percenter" hypocrite. America was a horrible place (jazz music and jews!) that was too…