"Naysayers like to point out all the holes in Mitchell’s logic, and they’re not wrong, exactly—in addition to the unanswered question of what happens if the target, say, crosses an ocean (Does It walk across the ocean floor, or sign up for a cruise going in the right direction?), there’s no question that driving a…

Oh God I loathed The Force Unleashed. The game was fun, but the story… Vader and the Emperor incompetently start the Rebel Alliance; the Rebel Alliance is started by a freakishly overpowered Gary Stu; Vader has his butt handed to him, and the Emperor makes an offer of apprenticeship to another person as he sits there…

Dracula was one of the first classics I chose to read outside of school (when I was 16) and I was - and am, still - amazed at how creepy the Transylvania section is, particularly as Harker approaches and arrives at Castle Dracula.

I like the prequels, and think an awful lot of the hate they get is popular culture enjoying being negative, but Shmi being left behind to a life of slavery really bugs me. Anakin just saved Naboo - could Padme not write Watto a cheque? Do Yoda and Mace not think it would maybe be a good idea to make sure - even if…

I laughed out loud trying to picture some poor schmuck trying to sell a film to his friends. "Jared Leto's in the movie… I guess."

I thought of that quote directly I read the headline. It's good to know that there are plenty of other people out there whose neural pathways are all organised by Simpsons lines.

I really don't see how it seems mundane. The prospect of being ambiguously beaten/fucked to death is horrifying; when you add the facts that the thing is invisible to everyone else, is endlessly resilient and untiring, is able to assume different forms to mess with you and disguise itself, and is an efficient and…

J.K. Rowling's 'Death of an Auror'

Ponderosa Pine!

(Natalie Portman lurches into frame)

I can't put my finger on it, but there's something incredibly irritating about how this is edited.

The suits, anxious to make their money, should retool this as a Star Wars film. Padme and Obi-Wan get shipwrecked on Tatooine, and make friends with Owen Lars (this will be explained with a tear in the fabric of spacetime). Everything plays out the same, only with a Star Wars opening crawl at the start and, after the…

Yeah, when I was a teenager I wondered if there was something I wasn't getting - like, who would want an autograph signed to eBay?

This made me laugh loud enough for my flatmate in the other room to ask what was wrong.

There's nothing morally wrong with the idea of bringing someone back from the dead though - it's only bad in Pet Sematary because the thing brought back ain't what you put down they-uh.

I loved Pet Sematary, but I read it towards the end of a big trawl through King's back catalogue, and his reliance on the 'I don't know why I did it, I just felt it was right/I didn't feel I could help it/some undefined evil made me/some force was working through me' trope had become distractingly noticeable.

Pet Sematary is one of the most unsettling books I've ever read; while it's not his most entertaining, it's definitely the most frightening King book: the visit to the cemetery - 'those are just loons', the breakdown of the family, Jud's stories, what Gage tells Jud, the Wendigo, it's all extraordinarily creepy and…

Calling her Queen of Star Wars is misrepresenting the situation, and calling what she's saying 'pandering bullshit' is unfair -

I agree - I wish I'd never noticed it. The trend slowly dawned on me. A few years ago I remember thinking how on the nose it was that the last Harry Potters were essentially black and white; after I saw the Jurassic World and couldn't put my finger on why it looked so fake compared to Jurassic Park, I looked it up -

Kennedy is answerable to many, many higher ups at Disney. For complex and insidious reasons, there are extremely few women with experience directing mega budget films, or even mid-budget fantasy action films.