A reminder that Mrs J and I realised that you could replace one word in each of the Harry Potter book titles with the word 'cum' and get some interesting titles. E.g. Harry Potter and the P… (View Post)

Worse, I fear it makes people believe that they can rely on superheroes to fix things. I got annoyed in the latest Captain America film that there is yet another American superhero coming in to fix t… (View Post)

From chatting to (non-MCU obsessed) friends, I think the problem is that there's just too much MCU, spread too widely. It was good when there was a film or two a year, and you could go to the ci… (View Post)

They're absolutely flogging a dead horse. Not as bad as making The Hobbit into three overlong, boring films, but still flogging it. The films were good enough IMO. And that's the thing - th… (View Post)

Harry Potter was a brilliant example of a series, with a great overarching plot arc and story, great characters that grew with the series, and superb world-building. It all generally just works. The … (View Post)