As the main character? I've no idea, but it sounds like it'd be a pretty different/much better take on the idea.

All I can think of are The Dawn Patrol and Regeneration. Neither of which are top of the list when I think of WW1 movies.

This should have been made by the BBC, starred Martin Freeman, kept the Dartmoor setting and been shown on Boxing Day at about 5:30 instead of a Shrek movie.

I don't know who the guy on the left of the picture is, but his haircut is terrifying.

Which films might these be? Paths Of Glory, The Big Parade, or All Quiet On The Western Front?

You both missed out Duel.

I think they're just called cigar cutters, but I'll be calling them cigar-cutter-things from now on because I like the sound of it.

I read Joe Simon and thought for a nanosecond it was the Drowning In A Sea Of Love Joe Simon. Then thought 'Thank God it's not him.' Of course then I realised it was worse, much much worse. RIP Mr Simon.

Specifically the ones they used on the TV show. Why do you ask?

To be honest I'd somehow totally forgotten the series' use of rubber masks. I saw MI:2 shortly after Darkman, and the masks, especially the gagged guy being shot while wearing the hero's 'face', just screamed rip-off at me.

It's Brad Bird, @avclub-4c37107b9dedb73b90f677930bf7728b:disqus . See it, you'll be safe.

Part 2, written by Robert Towne, screenwriting genius, nicked its central conceit -the rubber masks- and a couple of other ideas from Darkman. Awful film, so bad it's funny. Somehow I'm still stoked to see Part 4.

If he was about to mix and was in desperate need I think it's understandable he pissed up their curtains. Much better than an empty stage and silence broken only by the sound of distant urination and a muffled "Zut alors!"

Frank Darabont's original script for Scrooged was amazing. And he drew some lovely little pictures in the margins.

I saw Rampart at the London film fest and I think it's one of the best things Woody Harrelson's ever done. A Cat In Paris I've never even heard of.

One of them goes to Pacino. I'm thinking the first one, as he's already done 'blind' acting, but they sound pretty interchangeable.

They certainly are. Fresh figs with parma ham are especially fantastic. But anyway, where were we? Wookies. Wookies, wookies, wookies…

This score when you something eat it?

You're quite right. When originally casting Fallow they were thinking of a Brit, as he is in the book, so there were a few suggestions, Cleese and O'Toole amongst them. Then for the imagined box office draw they'd bring, Jack Nicholson and finally Bruce Willis.

And Churchill wrote Powell a letter saying that if he made Blimp he'd never get a knighthood. Bless 'em for going ahead.