JAY BARUCHEL

The This is The end sTar reveals his sci-fi and fanTasy faves

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY MOVIE

2001: A Space Odyssey. I hated it when I was in high school but there was, obviously, something in it that kept making me watch it again. And again. Somewhere along the line, something in me clicked and the sheer, unbridled, ring Cycle-esque fever dream that is 2001 just made sense to me, even if I’ll spend my life trying to understand it. There is absolutely nothing else like that movie.

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY TV SHOW

Game Of Thrones. Yes, yes, it’s always lame to dig something that millions of other people do, at the very apex of them liking it, but fuck it. The show is amazing. Just amazing. It has more scope, balls, and heart than 90% of movies playing in theatres down the street. It is also, very clearly, made by people who have a great deal of respect and care for the world they’re creating and the stories they’re telling and the action is always just fucking wicked. The best – unparalleled in the history of television.

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY COMIC

Kind of hard to beat Superman. He’s comics’ first friendly alien and has been at the vanguard of science fiction and extrapolatory thought for almost 100 years. Through Superman, generations of kids have been given an entry point into SF. I posit that Superman is the gateway to Asimov and Silverberg and Clarke.

SF/FANTASY GUILTY PLEASURES

I have an embarrassingly high tolerance for the Assassin’s Creed film.

Goon: The Last Of The Enforcers will have a UK release date later this year.