I have been forced to speak up. Society needs to act to rein in ridiculous movie runtimes | Rebecca Shaw

They are trying to slowly and sneakily acclimatise us, like we are frogs boiling in water. But this frog won't be boiled

Unless you've been living under a rock (or perhaps even something heavier than a rock, like Dwayne The Rock' Johnson), you would know by now that the movie musical Wicked is in theatres. As someone who wastes a lot of useful time being useless on the internet, I have been absorbing the strange press tour and countless memes along with everyone else, and I've been on the fence about actually going.

I haven't seen the stage version of Wicked, but I know some references and enjoy musicals generally. I love some movie musicals (hello Hairspray), but a lot of them are not great - and if they are bad, they are punishing. If I'm going to take out a second mortgage on my avocado toast in order to pay for a movie on the big screen, I need to be sure I'm making the right choice.