There's a disembodied voice in the big meeting early in the movie that sounds just like Langham. Or my ears were hallucinating. He doesn't have a credit, so I could well be wrong.

RE: the cleaner, isn't Malcolm also polite to her in a previous scene? I might be remembering incorrectly, but I'm sure he acted like a gentleman to her before he needed to. I always had the impression that it was only politicians he hates. Everyone else deserves a bit of courtesy.

I avoided it because of everything Loeb has ever done that wasn't Hush (though I gather Long Halloween Fans hate that too as it is so similar to the previous work). He's just incomparably awful. Why comic fans rail against the terrible Chuck Austen but embrace the equally terrible Loeb is a mystery. 90s nostalgia,…

That was exactly the problem with UFF. It just kept falling short. I would have liked the Millar run a lot more if he had been paired with a better artist (almost any other artist would have been better than Land), and Mike Carey is one of those writers I find technically proficient but awfully boring. I'm not sad to…

miles_underground totally nailed it. I recall getting blasted by a blog commenter who thought any criticism of Heigl was a misogynistic rant aimed at any woman who dared to voice an opinion of her own and didn't tow the line about Hollywood. She's daring to say the unsayable and you only hate her because she's not a…

In the midst of all the profanity in ITL, the way Malcolm and Jamie sign off when hanging up the phone to each other is especially hilarious. No spoilers…

I know so many non-comic readers who love Y-The Last Man. That story is so immediately compelling that the usual fear of the medium doesn't factor in.

@cokebabies, I too was upset to hear about Bagley leaving, but luckily Stuart Immonen's art is great, expressive, dynamic, and fun. He was a very good choice.

For a while there the Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer logo was great at attracting audiences who enjoyed orange filters.

Hoyt Yeatman
I might actually go see this, just because I've greatly enjoyed the effects work by Yeatman's FX studio (Dreamquest) in the past. Their work was quirkier than stuff cranked out by the bigger guys like ILM. I've been told by people who care about me that this is not a good enough reason.

Best Burt Lancaster anecdote ever. What a guy.

Alastair Campbell is the worst thing to happen to Britain since Thatcher. I fucking despise the man. And the BBC keeps bringing him on TV to talk about himself after he heroically pushed the corporation into the path of an enquiry bullet just to save his own lizardy hide. What are they thinking?

"I can't stand to see a woman bleed from the mouth. It reminds me of that Country & Western music which I cannot abide."

SHUT IT, LOVE ACTUALLY!

Nice one, Mr. Phipps
A-! I'm so glad you liked it (and the odd comment from other AV Club writers suggest you weren't the only one).

Here it is.

@This Country!, it almost sounds like you wish there was more vigorous masturbating on YHBW. I think Brooker would be amused by that.

Here it is:

@Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan, thank you for that. I've got the DVDs but never found that Easter Egg.

@Shorty McShort-Shorts, I'm afraid, in my brain, no love. Well, a little love for Trainspotting, a bit more for Shaun of the Dead, LOTS of love for Hot Fuzz and The Descent and Eden Lake, and obscene and boring fandom for Morvern Callar, but even taking all of that into account, I'd put In The Loop above them all.…