Congratulations to Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE, American legend.

If I take a picture of Darth Vader and jam a random 'Parks and Recreation' quote over the top of it can I get an article about me too?

This is a movie that either needed to be 30 minutes shorter or longer. Aiming for the middle ground didn't help anyone - there are waaay too many subplots and digressions, and yet they all somehow manage to feel rushed and starved for time.

That footage shows off some of the Abrams-original sets and costumes a little better. He has a definite aesthetic, as it looks quite close to some of the design work in his Trek films. Not that I'm complaining - the style suits Star Wars much better than it did Star Trek.

I legitimately don't know how he keeps getting gigs like this. I would have thought that after MoS failed to set the world on fire, Warner might have started looking in a different direction. Instead they doubled the fuck down.

This is the very first project out of the DC Cinematic Universe that has made me go, 'huh, that might be okay.'

Jeez, no 'Alphas'?

I think 'Asylum' is probably the best of the three (though I haven't finished 'Knight' yet). There are lots of ways to potentially make a Batman game, and I appreciated that 'Asylum' took probably the most daring turn they could. 'City' and 'Knight' create the experience of being Batman. There are missions all over…

Maybe I'm biased, but I'm a big fan of this one.

Yeah, but one of them actually runs his country. Terrifying to think about.

Also Taipan and Condor (both dudes I think)

Yeah, but when is the reboot of 'The Event' gonna be announced??

It's not as big as it is later on in the series, but the organisation is referred to as the Church and is unambiguously the Catholic Church.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would from the pre-air reviews. A lot of the lines singled out by critics as being over the top sounded fine in context, and as the setup for what's essentially a whole new show, I thought it was pretty solid.

There's something about the whole process that turns unique worlds and characters into the same mush by the time it gets to the screen. 'Ender's Game', for example - it's technically a pretty faithful (if compressed) adaptation. And yet I struggle to really differentiate it from anything else on this list or in…

Elliott should look a little closer to home if he wants to know why The Golden Compass failed. That film managed to neuter everything special about Northern Lights, playing down its religious critique and chopping off its awesome ending in favour of over-the-top spectacle that the book didn't traffic in.

The show has some issues. The production design is kind of average, and the whole thing looks cheap. There's some super-clunky dialogue and some really terrible sci-fi cliches ("The system is owned by the megacorporation called 'The Company'"). That being said, the leads all seem to work, and there's a lot of room for…

Good on Syfy for trying to revive a little of its BSG-era prestige aspirations. Sounds like they've still got a ways to go, but at least they're heading in the right direction.

Top work, old bean.

Does this mean Silly Little Showbiz Bookclub is coming back as well??