With respect, I'd hardly call those major consequences so much as plot drivers. New York was apparently rebuilt in all of ten minutes, while the Ultron stuff is wrapped up comfortably at the end of that movie. That's to say nothing of two gargantual skyships crashing to earth and presumably causing serious damage to…

First off, thanks for these fantastic reviews. They've been a nice treat to stumble across every once in a while.

I am near enough sick to death of superhero movies and certainly wasn't optimistic about this, even though I didn't especially hate Man Of Steel despite it being a complete mess. What a nice surprise, then, that this trailer at least hints at this doing everything it needs to do to not only repair the mistakes of that…

The Amy Schumer 12 Angry Men sketch encapsulates why a lot of her comedy just doesn't work for me. It looks great, the cast is terrific, the idea is fun and even some of the gags land fairly effectively, but considering the weight that Schumer puts on Discussing Issues in her material, the supposed social critique…

Not to mention subsequently being deported back to the UK for literally pissing on the Raj and his officials from a balcony during a horse racing meet.

John Steed, and by extension Patrick Macnee, was a hero of mine growing up and inspiration for so many fondly ridiculous memories of grabbing my grandfather's bowler hat and umbrella to recreate or invent Avengers episodes in the garden. The show is rightly remembered for all it did for women, but it should never be…

I believe that one was Robin Hood.

Words cannot even come close to conveying my respect and admiration for Diana Rigg, or how important her roles in The Avengers and OHMSS were to me growing up. Instead, I'll just say that AV Club needs to put The Avengers into its TV Club Classic rotation immediately - the Emma episodes at the very least. Wonderful…

A crucial difference for me between film Bond and book Bond is that in the films, it's fair to assume Bond is near-permanently soused - Dalton apart, naturally, who's too busy being a badass and leaves his martinis for Mrs Richard Gere to hoover up - and while book Bond certainly doesn't hold back on the booze, he is…

***The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS leaked from a Universal Pictures outline***

I checked the Enterprise computers for records of Reggie Fils-Aime's statements at E3 2015 regarding those exact questions. Here's what I found. Red Alert!

When researchers in the distant future look back on the history of the human race, seeking to discover its reason for leaving earth and abandoning physical form in favour of a globular mass of chrono-neutral cosmic unison, they will look into their time-o-matic visualatrices and see ice caps melting, the creations of…

The rigmarole of picking up the same power-ups/items over and over again really needs to go. There's no reward to collecting them because they're tools you've used hundreds of times before, rarely offering any surprises or excitement when you get to use them - the only exception I can think of was the grappling beam…

Well, 007 In New York was written specifically for a Sunday Times collection in which Fleming visited various cities around the world and wrote about them, so it's not supposed to be a 'story' per se. I'd agree that, outside a pun about having sex with a girl from a shop's indoor games department, there's no really…

Ah yes. 'Luke Collins'. Now there is a name that promises untold thrills and excitement. As an aspiring writer, I long for the day when I too am capable of devising names as arresting, enigmatic and outright provocative as 'Luke Collins'. I'm betting his superpower is the awe-inspiring ability to fill out and submit…

As a lifelong Bond fan, the most pertinent case for me of an unfinished, but published, work would be Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun novel. Fleming did complete a first draft in March 1964, but was unhappy with it (telling his editor that it was in need of a great deal of rewriting) and died in August of…

What Picard calls going where no man has gone before, I just call spreadin' it around in space. Red alert!

The avatar turned that quote from unsettling to adorable. People are growing up, like me, the happy rainbow puppy!

Roswell That Ends Well is maybe the perfect Futurama episode. My best friend, an avid fan of the series, swears by War Is The H-Word, but for me, Roswell is the series at its most effortlessly absurd, anarchic, clever and quotable. It's the only one where Zoidberg works as anything other than a hilarious…

Jessie Bannon or no deal, Rodriguez. That's right, folks, Real Adventures kid here. Show any ten-year old boy a clip of an animated redhead girl riding a horse away from a helicopter with this theme tune playing over it and see if the result is anything less than an erection that could take a giraffe's eye out. Until…