Yeah, I always thoguht that Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg must have seen COTS as kids and been influenced by the GroupSpeak/Think of the villagers with their 'Happy Day' and their blank expressionless obedience, when they came up with the NWA and their 'For the Greater Good' in Sandford village in Hot Fuzz.

I'm with Kermode calling her IKEA Knightley, cos she's as wooden as hell.  She does that posh British actress thing of swallowing her words before they're out properly - see Elizabeth Hurley in the Austin Powers films, another 100% teak actress.  In fact, I think the triumvirate of Wooden Actress Oscars (TM) should go…

Oooh yes.  Michael getting to work on my bot bot.  Mmmmm.  *ladygasm*

As long as we don't have to see Topper's teeth.  Nasty.

But Jamie Bell can't act.

My sister's friend thought it was 'White rat, I wanna rat, white rat, a rat of my own', which she thought was quite sweet …

There was a young vampire called Mabel
Whose menstrual cycle was stable
Each weekend in four
She'd lie on the floor
And drink herself under the table.

Sadly, OhGo, you're too late: the Squadron Leader's wife cleared them out.  They were beauties: firm, yellow, fuzzy little lovelies, grown in a local garden, not a blemish on them.  The pub was abuzz that night, I can tell you.

This film was one of the hardest things I've ever watched - I almost had to leave the theatre a couple of times - but also one of the most rewarding.  The three actors are perfect; Olivia Colman is stunningly good.  I think Paddy Considine is a terrific actor; he also has proved his chops as a first-class writer and…

Seriously, Olivia Colman should get the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.  I was blown away by the film, and it stayed with me for days - no weeks - after I'd seen it (and that doesn't happen very often), but it was Colman's performance that resonated the most.  Just flawless.  And such a genius bit of casting…

Well I met him too, but had to have him pointed out to me, not being a fan.  I was helping at a Cats Protection Christmas jumble sale at Wincanton in Wiltshire a few years ago, and he lives not too far away from there, and had agreed to come along and draw the raffle winners etc.  I was doing the teas, gathering dirty…

This time last year Hurt was in a fantastic BBC adaptation of the MR James ghost story 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.  It was beautiful and heartbreaking and scary, and Hurt was perfect in it.  The storytelling was slowly paced, such a luxury in these quick-cut jump-edit days. Hurt's tv work is often…

I know it's a legitimate word, but it's just used by Americans, not British English speakers.  One of those weird past-participle-or-whatever-the-grammatical-term-for-them-is differences, like we say 'dived' and you say 'dove'; or like you say 'outside of', 'inside of' and 'off of' when to us the 'of' is tautologous…

Did he really say "gotten" twice in this interview, or has the transcriber been taking liberties and putting words into Hurt's mouth?  Hurt is about as English an Englishman as you can get, and we don't say "gotten" over here.

Oi!   Come back with moi tankaaaaaard!

What?? No mention of "Max, Mon Amour", Rampling's greatest-ever artistic endeavour?  Y'know, the one where she gets hot and heavy with a chimpanzee?

My brother used to live in the road in the first clip: Nelson Road in Crouch End. When the shot in the first clip looks up the hill, his house was on the left, half way up. The house that Shaun comes out of has a lovely ceanothus hedge growing above the low wall, lovely dark blue flowers, that I took a cutting…