So, I just watched The Raid, and now have a new benchmark for delightfully over the top violence. It's just ninety minutes of people getting punched, kicked, stabbed, bludgeoned, shot, impaled, thrown down stairwells, blowed up real good, and sliced with machetes ( Read more... )

So, Shameless is back, and Frank is truly one of the vilest characters ever to appear on screen. ( Spoilers )

Today I took advantage of HMV's looming insolvency to pick up The Raid, the Coen Brothers' True Grit, and The Hudsucker Proxy (which I have somehow never seen) ultra-cheap. Despite which I am now watching something called Two-headed Shark Attack. It has Brooke Hogan in it.

Why do I do this to myself?

Strictly Come Dancing (the paradigm from which the American show Dancing with the Stars, as parodied beautifully on Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 - seriously, check it out just for James Van Der Beek and Dean Cain’s ultra-competitive dancing) is down to five contestants, which means I can now actually remember the difference between them. ( Read more... )

Some people are fuckheads. Don’t waste time trying to understand them. Don’t listen to their excuses. Pick up the pieces, mourn the dead, and forget the killers' names.

Michael Shannon's face is to acting as Tom Waits's voice is to music.

It's perfectly possible to achieve true greatness -- to reach the pinnacle of the art form -- without it. But adding it will make anything more interesting.

Seriously, consider recent Boardwalk Empire. First there's the Michael Shannon crazyface when he ( spoiler )

It is worrying the lengths I will sometimes go to for a bad joke.

Case in point: Yesterday at work.

Colleague: (Examining a picture of a dog with crazy eyes) "Still, it's just a Pomeranian. How much damage can it do?"
Me: "You wouldn't say that if... hang on, give me a minute."

(Five minutes of Wikipedia-ing ensue)

Me: "That's what they said ( Read more... )

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Richard Harrow dancing < Daryl Dixon feeding a baby.

Also, the most recent episode of Castle was hilarious.