Ah, we make enough jokes about Americans being stupid gun-loving fatasses with whitened teeth, so it all balances out in the end.

"Nine Billion Names" and "Nightfall" are for me the perfect argument for short stories in sci-fi. Introduce a "big idea", have a smallish cast of characters bounce it off each other, then extend it to its logical conclusion. In a genre where the ideas are the most important, it's not necessarily a failing to have…

Frasier is pretty much classic stage farce adapted for the sitcom era. Also set among urbane, upper-class types, but with a much more mocking tone, as an aspect of the democratic spirit in American culture.

danrimage, you just summed up why I dislike Saving Private Ryan intensely. Whenever I try to explain this to people, they just look at me blankly.

It's a little strange to encounter people who've never heard of Wodehouse. Across the pond he's kind of a cultural touchstone - very out of date with modern tastes but well-known all the same, from both the novels and the Fry/Laurie TV series. Rather shamefully, I've never read anything by him, but I'm sure there's a…

Saw it in the cinema too. I actually liked it that way - it might have been a little easy to get distracted if you were watching it on TV or something, but the film's got a strange atmosphere that pulls you in. Agreed with Nathan on the acting - Clooney and McElhorne sell the whole thing with the subtlest expressions.…

For me, the scariest/most unsettling bit was [SLIGHT SPOILERS] when we discover who's been appearing to Jeremy Davies…

Not to be too pedantic, but Michelin send in anonymous reviewers, to make sure they get the same service that any other customer would.

Michael Crichton beats that hands down. After a book critic trashed his "Oh noes, global warming is fake!" novel, Crichton gave the critic's name to a child abuser in a short story, who is only mentioned in passing, completely unrelated to the plot, and serves only to communicate to the reader that…

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I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the Comic Book Guy in the Itchy, Scratchy and Poochie episode. I mean, it coined the "Worst. Episode. Ever" catchphrase, which is still used without irony by the fanboy set that they were sending up in the first place.

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Actually, I thought that in its consideration of crime, celebrity and alienation, Public Enemies had a lot in common with 2007's The Assassinations Of Jesse James… Both films offer a "new take" on the period film, both are concerned with early celebrity culture and the mythic figure of the outlaw, and both depict how…

Also two actors from The Wire (Herc plays a random hoodlum, and Judge Phelan is Dillinger's lawyer).

Bay and Fox: the Mozart and Salieri of our times?

Well, that's good to know. At least they haven't sunk to the level of the identity parade round on Never Mind The Buzzcocks…

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