The only Arcade Fire album I own is Neon Bible, but from my limited experience that's a good one to start with. There's some single-friendly rockers like Keep The Car Running, Intervention and Antichrist Television Blues, mixed up with less conventional tracks, so you get a decent sense of what they can do.

It took a little while for me to get into it, but The '59 Sound is indeed awesome. "Film Noir", "Miles Davis…", "Casanova Baby!" - those are the standouts, but the whole album is excellent.

Can't wait for that to show up as a one-liner on Mad Men.

magnusbarford: "every book he's written since has been worse than the last"

The funniest thing I've read about Taye Diggs was on this site. Someone commented that he could play the RZA in a Wu-Tang Clan TV biopic, except he "probably wasn't C-List enough." For some reason, that made me laugh out loud.

Way Of The Gun was called a Tarantino rip-off by some critics because in the wake of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, there followed a slew of low-budget, low-talent imitations who thought that self-conciously clever dialogue + ultraviolence was the magical formula for being "the next Tarantino." People looked at…

Recognise indeed, Zodiac. Taye Diggs getting shot in the neck while trying to deliver a baby = gold.

Pilgrim: Were you perchance a character in Tobias Wolff's "Old School"?
No wait, that was Hemingway. Carry on.

It probably never got a bigger audience because, as a film, it's all over the place; it's a laddish guns-and-ammo thriller with a plot that revolves around a surrogate mother, with high-falutin' pop philosophy dialogue to boot. The kind of people who just wanted a straight shoot-em-up would be turned off by all the…

Congrats, Occam's Straight Razor. This was all a set-up for "What Would You Do?" where we see if a regular bystander would jump in to correct someone else's grammatical error. You have been judged by TV as objectively "Not a terrible person".

A Second World War reference? If only I was as cutting-edge as you.

Actually, if it's the BBC it would be "What One Ought To Have Done" and if they get it wrong the follow-up show is called "Not The Done Thing, Old Chap".

No Rock Bottom?

She seems very down-to-earth and unpretentious. That answer about how she's more scared acting than putting her life at risk doing stunts was completely charming.

I want to see an edition where someone is being mugged, and the would-be Good Samaritan who steps in to help gets beaten mercilessly. The lesson is: someone who attacks people for fun and profit is probably better at it than you.

I always thought Hank was the kind of guy who'd watch The Shield and wish he was Vic Mackey.

Ahhh. I was thinking DVD in the generic sense rather than "Blu-Ray and regular DVD". That's actaully a decent policy, as you could have (say) a Blu-Ray player and a laptop, but be able to watch it on both.

Amen, El Zilcho. It's great because it doesn't show the strait-laced protagonist turning to crime and being instantly good at it. There are mistakes and near-misses and bizarre flukes, and yet there's this crushing inevitability to Walt's direction, even if you have no idea where it's going. If that makes any sense.

Thanks for that, Snape. But AMC makes its money through commercial means, right? My point was that we don't have any similar drive for quality in the UK, either through commercial or publicly funded channels. BBC News is still a world-beater, but there hasn't been any recent British series on the level of The Wire,…

Seconding (or thirding, or whatevering) the love for Pinocchio. I watched it over and over when I was little, and it's the mood of it - that mixture of dark Brothers Grimm-style fairy tale, childhood nightmare and understanding of How The World Works - that stays with you.