To answer your questions:

I remember reading around the time of Before Sunset that Hawke had just got divorced from Uma Thurman and it had been messy/unpleasant/stressful, hence his skeletally unhealthy appearance in that film.

'Actually sir, they don't allow picture taking at this particular resort.'

In general I don't think they're keen on talking about themselves and their music, as opposed to just playing it, but I think that's true of lots of musicians. They give pretty good interview in their concert film/documentary Heima. They're not weird magic rock pixies who live in ice caves speaking a language they…

Don't worry, there probably won't be time for it in between all the jokes about that volcano with the unpronouncable name.

Is this a A Bit of Fry and Laurie reference?

Stewart is at his best, and often his funniest, when he's genuinely pissed off about something (that and covering elections). When there's no huge news story the show kinda meanders and veers into 'here are some things that happened that we can do some dick jokes and funny photoshops around I guess'. Colbert is more…

The Chris Conley School of Film Criticism:

He said 'successful comedy', and Apatow's longest film is Funny People, so I'm not sure this theory holds.

I like how people who claim to have no interest in Lena Dunham feel the need to throw the fact that they totally don't like or care about Lena Dunham into completely unrelated discussions.

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I still believe that if you get over the baggage of being overplayed to death on the radio, the twattery of the people involved in the band, the fact that every album after this one was just the same but worse, the guy at every party when you were a teenager pulling out a guitar and playing a shitty version of it, the…

0. The Master
1. Life of Pi
2. Argo
3. Lincoln
4. Zero Dark Thirty

You spelled Jarvis Cocker wrong. TWICE.

You spelled Jarvis Cocker wrong. TWICE.