That's a hideous picture. I guess maybe it's supposed to be cute, but the monster is horrible, and it really doesn't look like the bear is going to be much protection. Surely the bear is about to be knocked aside and then the girl ripped to pieces.

I wasn't aware of all that studio politics, so interesting stuff there. I find it funny that Oldman still seems to mix real prestige pieces like Tinker Tailer with rubbish like the film reviewed here. I would have thought that getting parts like Smiley would mean he doesn't have to play Elvis in a Tarantino knock-off.

No harm, no foul.

How did this influence manifest itself? I don't see much Tarantino in the Usual Suspects. What was in that movie that wouldn't have been there but for the Cannes buzz over Pulp Fiction?

The Departed was the American Infernal Affairs.

No-one's saying you can't talk about anything - Salieri was merely pointing out that it's not accurate to say Ant was 'breaking every rule in the pop playbook'.

Yeah, I wasn't calling True Romance a Tarantino knockoff, I was pointing out three similarities between GG & G and True Romance.

I remember seeing Pulp Fiction in the cinema in November 1994, and Usual Suspects around July 1995. Those releases seem a little too close for the former to have had a big influence on the latter. The tone of the two films are completely different too.

Nathan mentions True Romance due to Christian Slater being in it, but there are two other connections - both films had Gary Oldman and both had someone playing Elvis.

The intended meaning is surely that people will be surprised that it's not on cable. And the wording carries across that meaning fine, as far as I'm concerned.

I seem to remember him saying he took the Harry Potter role because he'd been out of work for a while. What is wrong with this world that he can't find decent film roles. Plus, surely he didn't need a reason to play Sirius Black aside from him being an awesome character in the best Harry Potter book?

To be fair, Tarantino's got much more of a right to have a high opinion of himself, and Smith really has more of a right to feel insanely lucky.

I love GPB, and I've never connected it to Tarantino. It's got a hit man in it, but so do lots of films. It's not like Cusack starts discussing pop culture with anyone. Also, GPB has lots of scenes that would never feature in a Tarantino film.

I saw Way of the Gun in cinema and found it a very gruelling experience. I can't really call it enjoyable. I found it particularly horrible when the two 'heroes' torture a guy for information, and as the scene ends the implication is that they're going to do some really horrible things to him. The film lost me there…

To be fair, I lived in Wolverhampton three years, and it is a pretty depressing place. When I moved there in 2002, it was home to the fifth biggest university in the country yet I was able to walk around the entire city centre and not find a single cafe or book shop. Eventually a Costa opened, but I'm pretty sure the…

"whom is this show meant to entertain? Is it for the audience?"

You ass – I've not watched beyond this episode yet. Don't give stuff away.

Why have they drawn Angelina Jolie on the DVD cover?

Ah, the hyphen. Though it equally seems to concern colons.

I'm comparing the two and can't see what SRA changed.