wouldn't it be easier to look at the list first rather than guessing? just in case guessing wrong might make you look silly?

It is by now my duty to say MACBETH.
But Jauja is a good call. The other best films I saw this year were The Policeman's Wife and Disorder, but probably neither had a US release in 2015. I need to see Slow West still. And I really need to see A Pigeon sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, because Andersson is a…

Or British, or Australian, or Indian, or South African, or from almost anywhere else in the world where English is spoken…

sounds a bit too much like that show Deadbeat tbh.

It's 2am where I am right now and I'm watching films on my new shiny free amazon trial. but I never claimed to act like a goddamn adult I guess. I used to knit but don't really any more, maybe I should take it up again, but no one needs the faff of knitting socks. Double-pointed needles!

I know it doesn't help but I am so envious of you having snow! I moved to the seaside last year and so don;t even get the two or three days of snow a year I used to get :(

Iyengar is the best kind of yoga. I did it for years and it was great. (I also studied Latin, haha) The spiritual side helps explain it, I think, but I prefer a light touch with that, without doing away with it altogether. I wish there was a class here - I might be ready to go back. But here it's all wafty watered…

Well now. I had been letting things slide, and am in the vicious circle of eating a bad thing>hating myself>eating a bad thing because I hate myself. Etc. I feel like I'm literally ballooning, ie if you watched me for half an hour you'd see me getting bigger. The swimming pool is still closed, which doesn't help.
Just…

Those are classic Oscar bait though. Biopics, check, about people who suffered terrible illness or injustice, check, overcoming difficult odds, check, to do something remarkable, check, in period costumes, check, in nice scenery, check, with the bonus of it being nice English scenery, check, with weird-faced, sorry I…

Absolutely, and the only way to end nonsense like anti-vaxxers (or any of the evils of fundamentalism) is to begin by understanding where the thought processes come from - fear, essentially, as you say. And I'm not a scientist but I believe fear is one of those lizard brain, primeval responses that go way beyond our…

Yeah, science and religion were interlinked for thousands of years, one being done in the name of/support of the other. if you look at how much pain it caused scientists to start to separate from religion in the 19th century you can see that this is a process that in itself has already been going on for 200 years and…

My own feeling is that there's something in human nature that predisposes us to want to have faith, even to need to have it - and that desire is closely linked to our awareness of what death is and our desire to avoid it. Of course if someone tells you you can live forever if you do this, you will. Just like the…

I normally hate xkcd but that one is spot on (minus the pointless humour-destroying alt text. somehow, even when he has a good one, Munroe manages to ruin it).

Yeah, I was surprised by how effective it was.

lol, 60 seconds in a Whedon film beats 55 hours of a Murphy TV show.

This is my favourite cleaned-up version: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Absolutely, spot on. It says 'Look at me, critiquing religious self-righteousness! Are you shocked yet? Are you?' in a way that's massively, disgustingly self-righteous.

you really, really, really do not need to see the massively overrated, revolting French original. Saw IV is better than Martyrs. Hostel III is better than Martyrs. The Human Centipede is better than Martyrs. Martyrs is utter fucking garbage.

My only real problem is the lack of Macbeth. MACBETH, PEOPLE.

I certainly think it was much, much worse than Terminator Genisys, which a lot of people are citing. I probably even enjoyed Fantastic Four more than JW.