Definitive Batman: Adam West
Definitive Joker: Cesar Romero
Definitive Riddler: Frank Gorshin
… and so on.

Yes. I don't suppose the distinction matters much to anyone who's not an Australian or a New Zealander, but even so.

"You know Bruce Lee's not really dead, don't you? What he did was, he faked his own death so that he could work undercover for the Hong Kong police, infiltrating drugs gangs and the Triads."

In all honesty, I think I'd be surprised if Hiddleston ever did anything of the sort (we'd surely have heard by now). Cameron, on the other hand, does genuinely seem like the kind of man who'd manage to get caught fucking a pig.

I don’t know… he’s managed to make it this far in life without going on a Bullingdon Club rampage or inserting his manhood into a dead pig - can we truly call him soft southern wanker Old Etonian Oxbridge Tory scum?

Yep - the UK, Europe & the Middle East, and Japan and South Africa too for some reason.

To be fair, his middle name is Gieszczykiewicz.

What's wrong with this country? Can't a man walk down the street log onto Disqus without being offered $6900 a week and a new McLaren F1?

Yeah, no doubt that's another reason he likes to come back to Australia to work - he gets to speak in his own accent again.

As of late 2015, Acorn (whatever that is) was planning to stream the 3 telemovies, and had expressed tentative interest in the series… or so says Google.

From what I've read, it's not that Jack Irish per se is a passion project, more that Pearce wanted something Australian to work on (Australian stories, casts, crews), to kind of decompress between the outsized Hollywood-blockbuster-nonsense movies he'd been working on.

Sliding Doors is not a good movie, but it does star British Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress who turned in three very watchable performances (Shakespeare in Love and Emma being the other two) and then disappeared forever, leaving the field clear for her insufferable American doppelganger. What a loss for cinema.

I think the colourful atmosphere and the acting (especially Pearce and Marta Dusseldorp) are the main / only reasons to watch Jack Irish. The storytelling is piss-poor sometimes, especially in "Dead Point" (the 3rd movie), which made no sense at all.

Yes - especially Matthew Lillard, who's made the role his own to the extent that he even voices the cartoons nowadays.

Young Leonard Nimoy as Jesus, modern-day William Shatner as Pontius Pilate (channeling Denny Crane).

So that's who "Sutton Foster" is? I was vaguely aware of the name, but all this time I’d been assuming it was a character from fiction, or some obscure 19th century personage, e.g. one of Ken Burns’ more obscure Civil War letter-writers (" 'Mother, war is hell' - Pvt. Sutton Foster, 1st Alabama Infantry"). I’m…

Are libertarians required to have a position on Nia Vardalos' movies now? I didn't realise that was in the handbook.

There are a fair few Greek Cypriots here, but ultimately, migrants came from all over Greece… anyway, there's not much that's Greek in Australian popular culture (which still skews very Anglo-Celtic, even after all these decades of multiculturalism), so I'd suppose Vardalos' original movie was just Greek enough to…

*Flails arms evilly*

Ha! Yeah, that's pretty much what I had in mind - the way they kept all their references restricted to the 1960s (apart from Wonder Woman) was a nice touch.