I love love love will always love The Office, but have never been interested in anything else Gervais has done. This seems at least like it might be worth an idle viewing, judging from the review.

YEAH Dead Set! I love that series - contained some very entertaining commentary on reality TV (contrasting with various smug attempts at satire which came before) and featured a genuinely unsettling mix of comedy and gruesome violence. Andy Nyman basically stole the show as the dickhead producer who meets a horrible…

Good old Malkovich. He hams it up a lot, but was pretty much perfect in Burn After Reading, portraying a constant state of barely-controlled rage. That moment where he out-of-nowhere punches Brad Pitt in the face made laugh out loud.

Don't you watch Futurama, EJ? Robot hell at least has the Beastie Boys, which is a vast improvement on Kanye.

So nice he had to say it thrice!

Is it wrapped in ham?

"best film actor in a TV series?"

"Enlargenator" is probably the most appropriate commenter name on this thread.

I absolutely and unapologetically love The Housemartins. London 0 Hull 4 is a pretty much perfect album from beginning to end. I enjoy the bouncy, poppy songwriting concealing the sharp, bitter social commentary in the lyrics. Another great love of mine, covering similar territory, are late 70s-early 80s artists like…

Bit of a cliche now, but…
…I love twisty, identity-based films featuring unreliable narrator-protagonists. Memento, Fight Club, The Machinist … there's something about them that gets me hooked. Maybe it's because we're used to film being an obejctive language, and it's novel to see that assumption challenged. To a…

Oh liolepha, the only thing that would conjure up the angry monster is the unforgivable misuse of a comma in my last post. I'm just a homicidal stickler for punctuation that way.

Two Fucks for Bela: that video is incredible. "It vas not a significant bullet" is now officially my favourite filmmaker quote.

I want to see the conversation between the two carpet salesmen. That was hilarious.

When in the name of Christ will TWfS shut up? We get it; you think you're smarter than everyone else. You've posted more than enough pompous, self-important comments trying to prove it. Time to give it a rest,

"orgasmiscally" = orgasmically + fiscally. At long last, finance is made interesting!

I read Brief Interviews… earlier this year, and it affected me like few other books have. The stories/asides on depression obviously took on a whole new meaning in light of his suicide, but so many of the stories were unrelentingly raw and honest about the harshness of human relationships, but leave you unambigiously…

This film got its UK premiere at a film festival I was working at ("working" = "volunteering" = working for free). I turned down a free ticket for the screening because Young would be appearing at it to do a Q&A. I have never regretted that decision.

Oh, and Evel: Def Leppard rant

"He's a wild card."
"But I'm glad he's in our deck."
"I hope he plays a straight hand."
"He'll come up trumps."
"Unless there's a joker in the pack. …And sometimes there is!"

Leonard Cohen is an absolute legend. Thank whatever diety you like that he's OK.