Heigl should go back to that inexplicably popular medical soap, while Rashida can make a genuinely decent, non-pandering comedy that treats women as something other than sex objects, crazy ballbreakers or incomprehensible creatures from another planet. I definitely want to see her screeplay get made.

She was about as cool as you could get in that setting. She did a very good job of acting aloof from all the craziness around her, without doing Jim's patented "smug look to camera".

I worked at the same summer job three years in a row, from mid-degree up to the summer I graduated. It wasn't shitty by any means, but it had that atmosphere of working/slacking off with a bunch of similarly-aged people while asking "What am I going to do with my life now?" (Still haven't answered that question yet.)…

I am a fan of Matt Berry. Everything sounds better when you say it in his booming Lucien Sanchez/Denham Reynholm/Snuff Box voice. Plus, he's sharp and insightful in his interview segments on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe. Plus, he's a pretty good musician as well.

As a former English student, I can say this Vonnegut character is half-right. The absolute worst are those humanities students/graduates who assume that the world of science has nothing to teach them. They're the reason for the piss-poor reporting on science in most of our mass media, which in turn leads to higher…

Yeah, count me out on the obsessing over box-office stats. Films come out into the world as products, to be promoted and marketed like any other product, so discussion on how it's sold and who it's sold to can be help us understand how it's seen by our wider culture. But is it the be-all and end-all of discussion. Of…

I will second Louis's "attractive, talented and smart" comment. I was always a little disappointed that she didn't get more screen time when she was in The Office (except as third wheel/corner of a love triangle), so I hope this new series gives her more to do.

El Zilcho: As someone who's met a few foreign exchange students from Brazil, I'd say you're about half-right.

Also, Collateral Damage. I was scrolling down the list, and half-intrigued until I saw that second word.

Let's keep playing this game!

He's nowhere near as annoying as a print interview with the "I Love College" guy I read that touted him as the new face of "conscious" hip-hop. That kicked off my day with a hit of pure rage.

As I recall, there's a dedication to Hermann in the end credits, so you're probably right. The score is such an important element in the film, creating that mood of slowly-building tension, like a spring being wound up.

I bought 2666 some time ago and it's still sitting unread on my shelf. Curse my obsessions with "big" books - Tree Of Smoke is giving me enough trouble as it is!

"how often do you get Tupac, Bruce Lee and Machiavelli in the same list?"

Lucky Jim is one of my favourite books EVER. For what is essentially a broad English farce, it's had a huge impact on my life and how I see the world.

Chiming in on "London Calling". First heard it at a party, and I HAD to ask what I was listening to. Then I bought it, and listened to it over and over for months on end. When I got an iPod, it was the first album to go on it.

Books or writers that were game-changers, ie. that made you think in completely different ways about writing, about language and about ways to see the world. I'd give anything to read the following again for the first time:

A couple of times my teachers caught me reading under the desk and had me read extracts from the books to the whole class. The first time was a Red Dwarf novel. The second time was Bonfire of the Vanities. I regret neither of those choices.

Thanks to this review, I'm now intrigued where before I was merely bored. I haven't seen that many comedies in the huge web of Apatow connections, but I can understand how some people can feel fatigued at so many films with similar casts/premises/outlooks. Anyway, this sounds like it's at least worth a watch on DVD.

Chiming in for Rushmore. My first Wes Anderson film, my first experience of that kind of low-key, awkward/warm-hearted comedy. Ideally, I'd come in knowing as little about it as possible, and the stuff that made me laugh out loud would be completely fresh.