I don’t think American Sniper is a particularly good film, and the plastic baby is hilarious and deserves all the ribbing it gets, but I will give it credit for being one of the first films that convinced me Bradley Cooper was a good actor. While I’d seen him in a lot of films up until this point (The Hangover,…

The trailer didn’t look particularly great, but I do love the concept of a normal person basically being trapped inside a multi-camera sitcom world. There’s a touch of Too Many Cooks to it.

What We Do in the Shadows is easily a top 5 sitcom of the last few years. Me and my girlfriend struggle to find stuff to watch that we both enjoy (a lot of the comedy I like is apparently too cringeworthy or uncomfortable for her to enjoy), but WWDITS is one of the few shows we both absolutely love, and binged through…

Two things:

A trashy Rear Window rip-off starring Amy Adams and Julianne Moore that’s written by fucking Tracy Letts (!) and it still isn’t any good? Damn.

Why are you on the AV Club if all your comments are about how much the AV Club sucks?

I legit forgot he was in Black Panther and was trying to think if I’d forgotten about him playing the villain in Chronicle.

He was rumoured at one point to be starring in an American remake of Toni Erdmann, but who knows if that will ever happen?

The last 15 minutes of Onward are terrific, but my God it was a slog to get there. The main character is so whiny and downbeat, and everytime Chris Pratt speaks I just think, “Why wasn’t Jack Black cast in this role?”

Even though I haven’t liked any of his films in a few years, I don’t begrudge Ben Wheatley for taking the Hollywood/Netflix and making disposable crap like Rebecca and the Meg sequel.

I watched this when it aired in the UK last year. If you like gore and fights, it definitely provides them. Unfortunately, the plot and characters leave a lot to be desired. It’s pretty fun and watchable, but after Episode 5, which is a terrific hour long action sequence, the plot gets so dense and confusing that I…

This is one of my favourite topics to discuss and there are literally hundreds I could pick. Tarantino and Scorsese are probably still the kings of the needle drop. For Tarantino, I don’t think there’s a more thrilling moment in his filmography than the opening note of Miserlou kicking in over the opening credits of…

As outstanding as Heath Ledger’s performance is (and I really do think it’s a monumental piece of acting), I’ve otherwise never loved The Dark Knight all that much. I think it feels incredibly long, and whenever The Joker isn’t on-screen, it crawls along, especially after the initial heist sequence. 

I haven’t seen Spiderman 3 since it came out when I was 10, yet I still remember the origin of the Sandman, the moment where he can’t hold his wedding ring, and the reveal that he didn’t kill Uncle Ben. They might seem goofy to older audiences, but as a kid, they were genuinely quite affecting and sad moments. Thomas…

I really liked it. It’s an interesting dark comedy in that it has the humour comes from this real sad, weary tone throughout. It starts off kind of deadpan funny and gradually grows more unhappy and serious. I described it to someone as the ‘If The Long Goodbye was about millennial burnout rather than the end of the 60…

Graham Norton is very good at both taking the piss out of his guests, and encouraging his guests to take the piss out of themselves. He really is a legendary talk show host.

He’s such an understated actor - and often finds himself amongst impressive ensembles - that it is easy to overlook the fact he never gives a bad performance. In films like The Master and The Irishman, he’s just doing solid work, never stealing the show and doing exactly what he needs to do.

One thing that always gets me for some reason is flash forwards into the future, seeing the effects of time passing and ageing in quick succession. I don’t know why, but that feeling of time rapidly passing just makes me emotional every single time.

Just from that clip of the skinny psycho and the dumb-looking guy quipping about Patrick Bateman and Jason Bateman while battling over an axe had me baffled that this got any good reviews. The guy playing Kato’s accent is so bizarre.

A few years ago, Mike D’Angelo’s review of Antichrist at the Cannes Film Festival basically said the truly bad movies are the ones made with passion and soul that just whiffed. Hugely personal, ambitious projects that were made as labours of love and happened to not really work at all.