I really enjoyed it, but yeah, it's definitely the kind of series that really gets cooking in the second installment. Only yesterday did I reach that moment where the camera pulls back and the yeti's right there growling … It's gone straight into my top ten videogame moments.

Since he doesn't put a fada on "Seán", you could legitimately read his name in Irish as sean bean, "old woman". (Though it really should be "sean bhean", if I remember right.)

I've always felt somewhat the opposite. I've only played a very few shooters, but I prefer WW2 ones because I'm interested in the experience of those who were actually there - indeed, it's the closest I ever want to get. Maybe it is a bit ghoulish, but I don't think any more so than watching Band of Brothers.

And hey, at least it's an improvement on the book, where he's explicitly "fixing" a lesbian with the power of his manliness. Oh, and she's only a lesbian because she was molested as a kid. Yeesh. At least Honor Blackman plays it more like she's just "playing along" - it's hard to imagine anyone throwing her around if…

If we're talking who we'd think would be good in the role, I've always thought Adrian Lester, Mickey Bricks in Hustle, could make a decent go of it.

I'm not sure I'd consider it the very worst run in the series - Diamonds Are Forever - Live And Let Die - Man With The Golden Gun is a serious contender too. I'd take Tomorrow and World over those three any day, weak as they are. And Goldeneye's just straight-out great, even if it was an attempted return to the…

I really think you mean "genre-blender…" and not "gender-blender of a movie". Unless you remember it very differently to me.

I like the idea (which will be contradicted in December, no doubt, but anyway) that Luke embodies the new balance by becoming the Last Sith as well as well as the Last Jedi. Sith lineage passes down when the student kills and replaces the master - when Vader asks Luke to let him die looking at him with his own eyes,…

Die Another Day is a real shame, because there is some really good ideas in it - a lot of elements come straight from "Moonraker" the novel, the whole "captured in Korea" echoes "Colonel Sun" and would have been a great lead-in to the "Brainwashed Bond" opening of the novel "Golden Gun", as someone else mentioned.

I only saw The Mummy for the first time a few weeks ago, and yeah, fun is exactly the word. It's the sort of Saturday evening, post-Indiana Jones pulp-revival High Adventure! you just don't seem to get anymore. I'm playing Uncharted as we speak (also for the first time, yeah, I'm behind the times) and it seems like…

I have (or had) a "Ten Best Science Fiction Movies" magazine special that Empire magazine brought out circa 1998 (I got it years later at a book fair). Two highlights of the last page, which was about upcoming movies in 1999, included Arnold Schwarzenegger in I Am Legend and something called The Matrix, starring Johnny…

Yeah, I may be overstating that a little. He's definitely said he's completely sick of their strangulation of the entire medium, though. Which I would agree with.

Huh. If anything, my main criticism (though I do like it) is that it's not wacky enough. Certainly not as out-there as Morrison and Pollack could be.

Alan Moore's pen name is Translucia Baboon. Everyone knows that. He warned us about the ducks.

He hates superheroes, which is a genre. He loves comics, which is a medium.

I'd much prefer if a sequel to U.N.C.L.E was coming out this year, rather than to Kingsman. This was a lot of fun.

She is basically just a retread of Spock, with some elements of Worf added in.

Did they know they were getting cancelled? I know they've often shared the plans for Season 5 episodes (which looked like they had potential, too.)

I recently finished John le Carré's The Russia House as part of my complete George Smiley read. (TRH is sort of a brief detour because some of the characters show up again in The Secret Pilgrim). Enjoyable, but I think in some ways it was a (mildly) inferior retread of The Honourable Schoolboy.

Has Coal Hill ever looked the same two episodes in a row? I'm fairly sure it looked different between "Unearthly Child" and "Remembrance…" too, and they only take place a week apart.