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I’d love to know what goes through Benicio Del Toro’s mind when he picks films. 

It’s an exclusive club. Anthony Michael Hall and Philip Seymour Hoffman also count, if you’re willing to accept Hall as a first name.

Don Johnson was a bit like that as well. They were both handsome young actors who had film careers in the 1970s but didn’t really make a breakthrough until they moved to television in the 1980s. In general Johnson seemed to deal with fame better.

As a person with Crohn’s, where have you written down your passwords? What kind of password does a person with Crohn’s come up with?

No, you were right first time. Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re better than you think you are. I respect you.

They should package the later cars with little bottles of lighter fluid and knock-off Lego men with removable limbs.

I think your thesis is flawed. The idea of Eastwood as an invincible lone gunman isn’t borne out by the films; in Where Eagles Dare, Kelly’s Heroes, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Outlaw Josey Whales etc he relies on others to help him, and in those films where he’s a loner - Unforgiven, Dirty…

Eastwood didn’t yell, though. That was his thing, he didn’t shout. He hissed through clenched teeth. It should be “Old Man Hisses Through Clenched Teeth at Chair”.

I’m surprised it wasn’t more popular in Russia, although it is popular. I’m also surprised that it’s so big in Japan! I didn’t realise Queen had such a following over there. The stereotype is that Western rock bands went to Japan to die, but Queen never sank to that level when Mercury was still alive.

I’ve always associated old musicals with fuzzy prints shown in letterbox on small televisions - crushed horizontally so that everything looks tall and thin. At the proper aspect ratio, in widescreen, that clip looks really good.

Is it true that whatever commercial clout they regained after Hot Space was destroyed in the US by the video for “I Want to Break Free”? Perhaps it’s a cultural thing but I’m genuinely surprised it was controversial in the US - you loved Monty Python, and they dressed up as women too.

I had a similar dilemma a while back. I ended up buying a PS3 mainly to play Blu-Rays. One problem is connecting the PS2 to a television - they were generally intended to hook up with analogue televisions using component cables. Also they used IDE hard drives, so you’ll need an adapter or something similar. Not every…

There was a difference though. The PS2 sold DVD effortlessly - people snapped it up just to play DVDs because the timing was right. The market really wanted DVDs.

People always post images like this. It’s a publicity photograph for a brochure! The passengers are models. The stewards are models. The food is cold and probably sprayed with something to make it look fresh. The blinds are drawn because it’s a mock-up of the cabin for publicity photos.

My favourite acronym is SEPECAT, which is short for Société Européenne de Production de l’avion ECAT, with ECAT being short for Ecole de Combat et d’Appui Tactique.

The plot would involve Wonder Woman helping a bunch of Spiral Tribe fans to fight off the police - she would be armed with a special gun that fires breakbeats, and a magic pager. Her invisible jet would be an invisible generation one Toyota MR2 / Sierra XR4i.

I dunno. People fixate on the gloss - Phil Collins and Jeff Koons etc - but it was also the decade of Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones, Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden, and Paris, Texas. Among others.

The problem with this argument - that the world is too intertwined for global war - is that it was also the case before the First World War. The world was globalised back then, and it didn’t stop a local European war turning into a huge bloodbath.

It’s a lot easier to be reckless when you don’t have to worry about paying bills.