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Such a sad thing to see a fella who had the world at his feet, and put in a good performance in the movie, die so needlessly.

I think I'll add The Crow to my re-watch list, and hope, that it hasn't aged as badly as a lot of movies from the nineties have.

Whatever, it has a hell of a soundtrack.

Mad Max : Fury Road.

I saw it in the cinema and went in hoping to love it but after about 45-60 mins in I realised I was bored and irritated.  It felt like all that happened was a bunch of smaller vehicles were bouncing off of a truck for the whole film.  Also, being set as it is in a desert, it meant that it all felt like one long scene.

BUT with that said, I definitely need to give it another go.  I've really disliked films in the cinema and then found that I didn't mind them when watching them a second time at home.  Weirdly I hated Reservoir Dogs, Mars Attacks and to a lesser degree Terminator 2 in the cinema but ended up growing to like them more after.

I suppose it literally is one long, extended chase through the desert, but I don't know what kind of alchemy George Miller conjured up, but I could watch this movie from start to finish a few times and never be bored of it. The fact that every bump, hit and explosion is real, and that there weren't multiple deaths from making it astounds me.

The story of it even getting made, with ten years of pre-production, miracle rain scuttling them as they're about to shoot, multiple recasting's etc. would make a hell of a movie alone.

Definitely give it another go.

Fantastic stuff!

Those Horned God pages must be worth a fortune.

The Departed.

I've watched this twice in the last week and a bit, and I really am asking myself why I was mildly a fan first time around, because it is a hell of a movie, and has a gut punch ending or two.

Great performances, a lovely soundtrack and Jack Nicholson at his most Sharkiest.

Have seen the Korean original, but for the life of me, I can't remember how closely it sticks to the premise of that movie.

Mad Max : Fury Road.

Still astonished by it, and the fact that a bloody action movie should have won every Oscar it was put up for.

No harm, but I know what movie I'll still be watching in another ten or fifteen years, and it won't be The Revenant.

Thanks for this AlexF.

Love reading 2000AD, and love reading peoples thoughts / reviews / musings.

What's so wonderful, is that you aren't snarky and hateful, and always try to find the positives, and in the year we have just put behind us, we need more of your lovely writing on something we all hold near and dear to our hearts.

Thank you.

Manager throws a hissy fit in front of entire team during team meeting. Actually states, "I'm not having a temper tantrum," whilst in the middle of a temper tantrum.

I later ask, in a meeting with him in his Office, if I can Work From Home next Tuesday and Wednesday for personal reasons, and he advises me that I'd have to take them days as Annual Leave, or go and WFH from this coming Monday until the 11th of December.

I mean, how childish can you be?

Sounds like a proper gobshite.  What's wrong with working from the Monday to the 11th though?

I've decided to just Work From Home from Monday, and come the 11th, I might just ask to continue working from home. At this stage, I can't see him being able to force me back in, seeing as we have a memo from a Senior Manager stating that if you have the ability to WFH, you should.

Manager throws a hissy fit in front of entire team during team meeting. Actually states, "I'm not having a temper tantrum," whilst in the middle of a temper tantrum.

I later ask, in a meeting with him in his Office, if I can Work From Home next Tuesday and Wednesday for personal reasons, and he advises me that I'd have to take them days as Annual Leave, or go and WFH from this coming Monday until the 11th of December.

I mean, how childish can you be?

Let's distract ourselves from all this nastiness with some very good news from the mighty John Wagner's Facebook feed.

John Wagner
I've just finished a 6 part Dredd for John Higgins - "Now That's What I Call Justice!" - though I don't know when it will run. Hope that suffices for the moment.

See isn't it nicer to think about that!

Fantastic!

If, as has been reported by a few people on the Twitter, Georgia Republicans deface their Senate Run-off ballots with Trumps name, thereby handing the Senate to the Democrats, I may well laugh for a week or two.

Republicans protect Trump, Trump throws them under the bus. Poetic. And something many Political Commentators warned them of at the time.

The Simon Bowland thing was awful. Bowland's point was a reasonable one and politely put. It certainly didn't merit that response (or Dan McDaid piling on). The whole thing was just depressing. I give Pat Mills a lot of slack, but my respect for the man took a real hammering yesterday.

Vey much this.
I just feel really disappointed.

Agreed. So sad to see him tearing strips off of people who are respectfully disagreeing.

The Brendan McCarthy thing is equally disappointing, to see someone who produces such incredible work put forth such ugly, divisive views. Having seen snippets of his FB and Twitter posts over the year, it is just another sad moment when I realise that some of the people who produce the stuff I most value, and cherish, are terrible arseholes.

One thing with mice is that they weigh bugger all. I could barely tell when one of the traps had a mice in it or not. Opening them up was always exciting...

Yep, it's like Christmas every day with a humane trap  .

Forget a ships cat, what you want is a ships snake. That'll clean up your mouse problem in no time and it won't care if you shoot off for a couple of days as they're uncaring bastards at the best of times.

NOW we're talking.  (I laughed out loud at the expression 'ship's snake'.)

Brilliant 

Now, I think I prefer the thought of mice running around, rather than a snake that could just appear out of nowhere at an inopportune moment, leaving me shrieking!

[The Gentlemen]

The Gentlemen

Enjoyable tosh.

Not a massive fan of Guy Ritchie movies, but this passed by and was decent enough, with Hugh Grant blowing everybody else off of the screen. With this and Paddington 2, i'm now quite happy to watch whatever High is currently popping up in, which is something I wouldn't have said a decade or so ago.

As has been said, remember and publicise the victims and their families, relegate him to a nothing, a phantom mention at end of every article written from here till eternity.

Yeah I fully intend to dom a rewatch of The Sopranos soon. In my triumvirate of the four great TV shows of all time and after Twin Peaks probably the one that means most to me. Tony is such a beautifully realised monster.

That performance by James Gandolfini is just absolutely the best acting I've seen.

A monster, surely, but whatever it says about me, i just wanted him to be happy, despite all the horrible, terrible things that he done.

It's a shame that the actress who played his Mother passed away, because i think that the scenes they had together were fantastic, and whatever was planned, would have surely been unforgettable.

I hope David Chase captures that same magic for the prequel movie, but i fear the perfection of the show, and the hours they had to develop and the characters, will leave it looking like a pale imitation.