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It's definitely Once Upon a Time, that harmonica is unmistakeable. I guess they couldn't find anything else in the movie which could easily be converted into an 'O'.

Also in the running: Aang's hallucinations of Appa, and to a lesser extent Momo, in 'Nightmares and Daydreams', Azula not knowing how to talk to people in 'The Beach', and, yeah, pretty much the whole of 'The Ember Island Players'.

I quite liked this album (still a long way off Hissing Fauna, though), but at the same time I can very easily understand why someone wouldn't.

Let's not forget 49th Parallel.

"And we would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

I'm imagining this being read in a terrible, fake English accent.

Oh Hyden, will you ever learn?

I just read Monsters of Men too, and I think I pretty much agree with you - his style is a little irritating at times, and the number of times the narrative rug is pulled from under you is perhaps a little excessive, but I was gripped throughout. Mayor Prentiss is a fantastically written character.

He's very good in The Third Man, too, even if Welles is much more memorable.

I thought it was fantastic myself. It was extremely well plotted, and I don't think Cumberbatch has ever been better. There was plenty of humour and several sly nods to canon, too.
If I had any criticisms, they would be:
a) The resolution of the case involving the guy in the field. Seemed a little silly to me, although

Wiig and Hader bothered me in the War Horse sketch. They didn't really seem to serve any purpose other than to summarise exactly what was happening/going to happen, which took much of the fun out of it.

Whoever runs SNL should check out the British sketch show from the 90s, "The Fast Show", which managed to fit about 20 sketches into half an hour. Sketches don't need to be interminably long!

I guess he'll have to find a New Girl.

"6. Black Eyed Peas, Bridging The Gap (Interscope)

Like the Thing? How could you be sure she hadn't already infected others?

I just saw Sokurov's version of Faust at the LFF, and it was pleasantly baffling. I'd love to see Murnau's version to see how it compares.

I'm a tuba player!

The British Film Institute is showing a preview of the first of the new episodes in November, though I don't know how much later it will be before it's broadcast on TV.

Smurfs 2: Electric Bluegaloo, perhaps.

I had a dream in which the AV Club gave this film an A-. Crazy, right?