I saw it when it came out, along with most of the other films in this article - I was puzzled when it turned out to be a flop, because it's pretty solid and had a really good performance from Geena Davis. As the article points out it felt a few years ahead of the curve. Albeit that I'm not sure whether the Samuel…

Eventually you'll start plotting the known historical locations of serial killers vs the ports of departure for the largest maritime disasters - who knows, you might find something.

The basic idea of hiring models and dancers to pretend to sing was surprisingly common in acid house and rave music - especially when the vocals were samples from old records. "Ride on Time" is the one that springs to mind. Where Milli Vanilli fell down is that they were *too* popular.

I've always wanted to read the definitive article on post-punk/New Wave bands that pre-dated punk. Like Devo and Pere Ubu and Suicide - they skipped punk and seemed to emerge, fully-formed, in the aftermath.

As final paragraphs go, that one's a doozy.

They look like male models. Except for the woman - she doesn't look like a male model.

The big question - will they kill off the black actors first? Or will they subvert that and kill off the white guy first? Or will they kill them off by order of height?

I've always thought that Ian Fleming's idea of Bond was basically Edwardian, or at least pre-WW2. The novels are set during the Cold War, but they're based on Ian Fleming's fantasy of himself in the 1940s, which was itself a throwback to an earlier age. The classic films happened to be made in the 1960s, but a…

The first thing that hit me were the location captions - "Siena, Italy", "La Paz, Bolivia" and so on. Because they used cute localised fonts, like it was a comedy film. It was jarring.

Every time the producers wanted to put him in a film, they had to find a zany scheme to bust him out of prison - just like in The A-Team.

There was a writers' strike, wasn't there? It derailed Quantum of Solace - Craig had to help write the script. But that's an example of a film where the editor decided to show off his Final Cut skills by having lots of edits and the director decided to spend the budget of an entire indie film on the (completely…

There's also something spooky about the way that the threads stay open. It's like communicating with the past - a past in which David Bowie still had music left to make.

Tilda Swinton can't be James Bond *and* Doctor Who at the same time. The schedules would clash.

Somewhere in this short collection of words is a passable comedy concept involving Peggy from King of the Hill and the Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls". That would have been good.

I think Body Heat probably… well, there's nothing scary about the word body. It probably stems from film noir, which typically had really short, punchy titles. Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, Kiss Me Deadly, Gun Crazy, Touch of Evil etc, but shortened to just two words.

That's the great thing about cinema. We all secretly want to see Keanu Reeves shooting lots of people - but we know we'd feel sick and wrong if he actually did it. Cinema gives us a chance to live out our fantasies without any of the danger or the inevitable feelings of guilt. Just like in Westworld, which was also a…

Also, Demolition Man. It was the other film in the short-lived early-90s Stallone renaissance - Cliffhanger still pops up in discussions now and again but you don't hear anybody talking about Demolition Man any more. It has dated in an odd way. It had Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, and Denis Leary, together at last!

But if you want the best 'uns, and you don't ask questions, then brother! I'm your man.

Going back a bit, The Orchids: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I'm always reminded of his appearance on Have I Got News For You, in which he demonstrated that he had an incredibly thin skin, no sense of humour, and a complete inability to read an audience.