Bear Grylls is certainly a survival expert. In that he expertly survives by staying well away from absolutely anything remotely dangerous.

"If I don't survive, tell my wife… hello."

Bar Spaced on Part 1 and The Office here, this list seems to be excessively US-centric. Don't get me wrong, American comedy can be and often is utterly magnificent, but ignoring so much exemplary comedy from elsewhere seems remarkably shortsighted. In response, a list of my favourite British/Irish comedy episodes from…

No winners this time!

"A show about a mullet-sporting lunatic who repeatedly hurls himself into danger, then reacts squeamishly to said danger."

That was Moonraker! MOONRAKER!

For me…

This is a fucking brilliant movie. Yes, the CGI is crap (mercifully, it never gets worse than that sort-of-dog-shaped creature in the header photo) but the tone is sweet and delightfully loopy and laugh out loud funny all the way through. The trailers have grievously missold it, especially since a lot of the gags…

A nice episode, not right up there with Christmas Carol but enjoyable, funny and sweet. Santa was sort of shoehorned in, but Frost was as wonderful as ever and nailed his one-liners (magic carrots; bigger on the inside) while Jenna Coleman continued to give Clara no end of pathos and Capaldi was as compelling as ever.…

"Bea begins exhibiting unnatural behavior—standing naked in the woods,
forgetting how to perform normal household tasks, mangling basic turns
of phrase."

Someone's awfully pernickity about the Hubble telescope.

Another set of leaks, this time of Lionsgate Films, has revealed plans for new Divergent stories beyond those which creator Veronica Roth originally wrote.

Ha, absolutely. I love the idea that after however many months of brutal apprenticeship under assassin-turned-supervillain Malcolm Merlyn, she flunks her first real life combat scenario with the small but crucial tactical error of forgetting that the balconies of upper floor skyscraper penthouses tend to be rather…

I'm not sure it would make my top 10, but The Flash has been enormous fun and barely put a foot wrong from the beginning. If it hasn't quite taken off yet, it's mainly do to some narrative holdovers from Arrow which didn't work on that show and are not particularly interesting here either (Iris being this show's…

Umm… did Thea make her escape by leaping over the side of a skyscraper? Does she not understand that parachute pants, no matter how sparkly, do not provide the same function as an actual parachute?

My initial thinking, as I suspect was the same for many people, was that Wells was probably a future Barry who had time travelled to effectively create himself, maybe as a result of another time travel-related disaster in his time. That theory was supported by a lot of this episode, except for the fact that after…

Maybe the AV Club were watching a different production than I was because nearly everything I saw was utterly lifeless, from the tepid musical numbers, uninspired sets (Victorian London aside, which was great) and stiff choreography to the acting, which was singularly awful from the two leads. Walken wasn't even…

Perhaps some sort of death clock!

Dave Bautista is apparently far closer to Ian Fleming's description of Blofeld ("a massive man [6’3], weighing roughly 20 stone, has black crew-cut hair, black eyes, heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth and long pointed hands and feet") than Christoph Waltz.

"And British Rail say they will launch an immediate investigation into the crash to decide they have nothing at all to do with trains and anyway they're underfunded."