@Mrs Schiller. I saw that exhibition when it was in London. It's pretty cool, but it's not as great as I hoped it was going to be. It's actually fairly small.

I have a small daughter and I think Slimpickins (if that IS your name) has got it about right with setting boundaries. Its important for children, especially when they're small to know that there are limits and where the limits are. They'll hopefully push against and question the limits you set (you don't want a…

Ukraine is awesome. I hadn't seen that one. Luuuuurve the centurions.

Even better, having the train from Paris arrive at Waterloo was one of the factors that tipped the balance in getting the tunnel under the channel dug. The Tory MPs thought it would be hilarious that every time the French wanted to get a train to London they'd have to ask for a ticket to Waterloo. It was entirely…

err, no, me too. But for much the same reasons. I enjoyed, if that's the right word, Anthony Beevor's book. And Rachel Weisz was a redeeming feature of the film.

I've had a crush on her since My Summer with Des. She's gorgeous in that.

First time I saw Dangerous Liaisons, all the men in the room applauded as Uma doffs her nightgown. They're still about the best boobs ever caught on film.

I've liked her since then. Also since she appeared as herself, asleep, in an artwork.

That's a long list. I fucking hate Madonna. I did anyway, but after Swept Away I can't see ever coming close to tolerating her again.

Don't be surprised if I demur for, be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast 'The Queen'.

Ratings should be binary:
FUCK THE FUCK YEAH
or
SHIT IS FUCKING WACK

Oprah Winfrey raped my childhood

Ask David Bailey.

It isn't as if there were tons of quality scripts for young black actors that would be higher profile than this. Of course Elba took it. It'll give him some diversity on his CV, and a chance at not spending the next five years getting killed in Michael Bay films.

Zombie Paradise Lost:

Have John Banville's The Sea on my shelf, but I've been putting that one off.

I second Robert Denby on A Star Called Henry, but you probably have to know at least a bit of Irish history to really get that one.

Ayoade was in Nathan Barley, which was well Mexico.

A British 'Scrubs' is very harsh for Green Wing. It's a very funny and surreal comedy that just happens to be set in a hospital, but could easily have been in a school or prison. Tails off in the second series a bit tho.

Germany invaded the Soviet Union six months before Pearl Harbor and six months before Germany declared war on the U.S., so did he pull the book between June and December 1941, or after 1941 when the U.S. joined the war?