I don’t see the big deal. Some of the biggest hits of all time run into or damn near the 3+ hour range: Titanic, the LOTR / Hobbit films, Harry Potter, Dark Knights... not to mention older critical hits and box-office hits (for their era) like Schindler, Godfather, JFK... Audiences can and will sit for three hours.

So... this has to be Jesse, right?

Not a horror game, and no doubt exacerbated by my arachnophobia, but easily the biggest jump-scare fright I ever got while playing a game came in, of all things, World of Warcraft. Specifically, the Burning Crusade... my little gnomelock happily questing through the southern corners of Terrokar Forest, oblivious to…

She borrowed Lynchian iconography in a bid to cast her mundane pop as something more substantial than it actually is. Blech. 

The Grudge six times? Now that’s scary. 

Arrested Development’s quality arc roughly resembles Arcade Fire : two albums/seasons of unassailable awesome, a third that spins more plates and succeeds 95% if the time, an uneven fourth with admirable artistic ambition that suffers from bloat and aimlessness but is worth checking out at least once, and a fifth that…

Far easier to say genres that are immediate “nopes”. For me that’s hillbilly horror and/or “extreme” horror with all its torturey rapey gore endurance test nonsense.

Black Swan is an excellent example of this as well. 

Alien and Halloween are my two favourites, but I couldn’t go with sci-fi horror or slashers as a favourite genre - they’re just standouts.

You’ve given me a lot to think aboot. 

Spider-Man came out in 2002 and has already notched six headliners, two guest shots, two reboots, and three actors. Clearly, the Pirates franchise has some catching up to do if it wants to maintain any pretension toward respectability. 

It shouldn’t feature any characters that were dusted. Original Six Avengers, Rocket, Nebula, Ant-Man, Okoye, War Machine... and of course Thanos. I don’t even want to know the fate of unconfirmed types like Wong or Shuri. Just let it unfold. 

I’d love it if this were the case. Actually, what I’d love even more is if the trailers are all Hawkeye all the time. 

I’ve been wondering since this column started which way you were going to come down on the 2008 question. TDK is the right call, in my view - for all of the milestones established by films previous (Donner’s Superman, Burton’s Batmen, Raimi’s first two Spideys, and Nolan’s first run at Batman), and despite Iron Man’s…

Moana is bad-ass and is also clearly a princess. 

Not only that, I heard they paid Shakespeare diddly-squat for the Lion King remake. Fucking criminals. 

Bond is a rich source for showstoppers. The parkour chase with the ridiculous jump between two real-ass cranes in Casino Royale, the bungee jump from the dam / jump from a motorcycle into a crashing plane in Goldeneye, the Union Jack ski jump in Spy Who Loved Me. All great. 

I would love to see someone create that as an installation. Holographic Amy dies of an overdose. Yeah, holograms!

I’ve always firmly maintained that if your name isn’t Prince (or at the very least, Sheila E) then you have no business writing “you” as “u”. 

I don’t know nothing about birthin’ no babies!