And German Americans tend to be heavy, and we Irish tend to binge drink; what's your point? Social circumstances turn a genetic component nto an epidemic of death, disease and despair.

Those Japanese people who die of overwork at their desks, I guess they just have poor cardiovascular generics huh?

It's you who are trying to close the case with your zero-sum generic explanation.

Just intense, constant, daily stress.

Not as long as they bribe our leaders not to compel them to do anything.

Kid gloves. As in the soft, delicate hide of a young goat.

Literally no oversight, accountability, or background checks. This guy should never work in the public section again. Permanent red flag.

One a day is p much normal. I eat more than that albeit white meat and no skin or fat.

Dumb US definition-crosswords or the super tricky lateral-thinking Times of London style acrostics?

Yes and to some extent, there's always been CO2 in the atmosphere.

To some extent.

More means something.

None of those people are actors.

Such as?

Last five years only please.

Oh they most certainly went for Dwayne Johnson. They ran out of comic book heroes that the average punter recognizes long ago.

It's only been in existence for 12 years. It feels like a f*king lifetime and I can't even remember the last one. Billion dollar films are an abomination.

This gross corporate industry, creatively bankrupt, overpriced, committee-written, PR-driven, and utterly formulaic, is on the way out. It's yet another financial bubble.

Marvel won't see 2030.

>they’re the faces of a film but they’re pretty much the least essential part

This makes zero sense. Films are 100% visual, the face of film is all it is.

John Cusack said it best; 'Modern Hollywood is three corporations playing poker and the actors are the chips.'

I dislike his froggy freckled face and fish-lips.

Oh that's just standard dude stuff.

Did anyone see Des, with David Tennant as Denis Nilsen? Brilliant.

The interest lies how dull and self-justifying he is, there's no explicit depiction of the crimes, it's just the police investigation and to some extent, an examination of the society that produced him.

Nobody knows Jack the Ripper, what we know is the police investigation, the media buzz, the social effects of the notoriety, and the victims.

Serial killers are the most boring people on Earth; there's nothing happening inside them and nothing interests them, even killing is just a series of impotent disappointments. They are not Hannibal Lecter. Serial killers are nobodies who know that they're nobody and use murder as a vain attempt to be real for one moment.

You're just morbid.

Life is Beautiful.

Swill.

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

This was actually based on a (surprisingly tart and insightful) opinion piece in The Economist.