Suburban Republican dads, the arbiters of all that is hip and happening in the world of industrially-ghostwritten paperback publishing...

In all fairness, I did look on their works, and I sure did despair...

Not to defend Crawford’s behaviour, but he was the reason to watch the show, quite apart from the fact that Riggs is the main character of Lethal Weapon.

You know what would really sell it? Get a couple of big Chinese stars to appear in some extra scenes talking about the other characters but not really interacting with them!

I read somewhere that Ang Lee himself donned the mocap suit to act out the Hulk’s scenes. And I remember thinking “fuck you, Ang Lee. You have a damn actor for that.”

Sliding Doors split life in two for Gwyneth Paltrow

I watched Jaws tonight. Now that’s a score.

It could have been worse. It could have been The Eagles of Death Metal.

I cannot begin to picture the stirring flag-saluting scene Pete would have worked into that...

Everyone except the one who counts, frozen corpse-like in his cryo-chamber and waiting, forever waiting...

“Tell them we have our own van!”

“The Scottish Parliament, your drunk relatives...”

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Any two-word title ending in “Wars” (except Star, which is grandfathered-in). Because how many actual wars do you think I’m going to expect to learn about in your fictional entertainment? Can you deliver on that expectation? Then think of something less generic.

I think you’ve hit on the nub of the issue.

It’s a general rule that if you have to put the word “Parody” in the title, you don’t know what parody is.

Daniel Day Lewis?

The Shining section was a real blot on the movie version of Ready Player One for me. It’s a long sequence, from a film that for all its merits, is too singular, too timeless to be a nostalgic touchstone. Plus it was made in 1977. For a movie built around a memory of the 80's, that’s an odd choice. I suspect that Spielb…

However sad this is, and it is sad, infinitely sadder is the inevitable death-march to the day when Disney decides to remake the OT. Because that will happen.

I suspect also that people made superhero parodies back then because it had never yet been established that the serious (-ish) superhero movie was a viable genre. You’d had the Superman films come and go, Batman was its own thing, but superheroes in general? Risky. So people who liked that kind of thing and wanted to…