Hey, I'm from the future AND the oft-abused appendage of a sexually depraved first officer, but even I couldn't correctly point out on a map a country repeatedly identified by cartoon fathers over the past 269 years as 'U-R-GAY' on a map. Don't feel bad, America. We're all as geographically inept as each other, at…

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Metroid could work as a decent sci-fi actioner in a pseudo-Aliens vein. Sign up Elizabeth Debicki as Samus, build an interesting universe and you've got yourself a winner. Splatoon also seems a surefire victory on all fronts as a Saturday morning cartoon.

There are so many I could pick for this, not limited to Douglas Adams' passage about Vogon poetry in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (which is the only time a book has ever made me loud out loud, and for a considerable length of time), Arrested Development's implausibly complex sight gags and casual one-liners ("It's…

WARNING: Unashamed, unapologetic Wachowskis fan here.

Everyone's going to pile in, but I thought Annabeth Gish was lovely. Reyes wasn't offered much by way of personality on the page, but Gish gave her a lightness and optimism which set her apart from the other, more subdued leads and worked nicely in concert with her spirituality and openness. It's a shame the writing…

"A good Fantastic Four movie" - A.A. Dowd, AV Club

Jennifer Beals is a wonderful actress who conveys great warmth and strength in everything she's in. She was also the quintessential smokeshow '80s girl and fuels my love of Flashdance to this day. Great interview. Only disappointment was that no-one thought to ask "Don't you want some pizza?" while taking off their…

If they really wanted to be provocative they'd do woman-on-man rape (and treat it seriously). It's not as though there's any shortage of representations of man-on-man rape out there. Sexual assault is pretty played out as a narrative device one way or the other.

I posted a similar idea on an earlier Pitch Perfect article.

The movie was released slap-bang in the middle of a summer already packed with huge blockbusters, including Lethal Weapon, Batman and Indiana Jones. To make things worse, the movie's title was changed at the last minute, resulting in two entire poster campaigns being pulled. It was also given a higher age certificate…

The Living Daylights: The Bond series was fourteen entries in and suffering from serious franchise fatigue when the now-ancient Roger Moore finally decided to retire from the role, no fewer than three films later after first declaring his intention to leave. With A View To A Kill having marked a low point even by the,…

"Not till I get my 600 quatloos!"

"So far the studio has yet to produce a truly unwatchable film."

Is it just me, or is there a joke in the linked trailer about a pre-pubescent girl getting molested by at least one gorilla?

When I'm doing badly at a game, I turn the air blue and dense with obscenity of all varieties, but with the decency not to do it at real people via voice chat - in no small part why I never use the function. That anger, and consequently abuse, intensifies as players do worse can hardly be much of a surprise, nor does…

Man Of Tai Chi is a seriously underrated movie. As well as giving one of the most outright barmy villain performances in recent memory, Reeves directs the action with a wonderful eye for capturing the graceful fluidity of the fighters' movement and momentum. It has huge respect for the genre, the martial arts are…

What horrible news to come out of nowhere. His legacy and impact on Nintendo and gaming will never be forgotten. He was clearly an extremely decent and ethical man whom I remember took a huge pay cut to protect his staff during hard times. It's hard to think of a more noble and responsible way for a CEO to act than…

This is a lovely episode and its handling of how Bart became a scholastic underachiever makes an interesting, if perhaps accidental, point about the inherent difficulty in teaching young boys. As is widely known, boys tend to mature later and - generalising, of course - would rather spend their early years bumping…

Gorgeous poster, and having Morricone back on Western duty will surely be a wonderful treat. The only question is how well Tarantino can handle him: what's interesting about Morricone, for me anyway, is that his music can be so exquisite that it can have an overpowering effect on the movie unless the director knows…