Play ball you squinty fuck.

He's a stag, surely?

Have you ever been in a situation where you knew you had to act a
certain way, but when you got there, you didn't know if you could go
through with it?

Exactly, and a dull montage at that… so this film has a Miss Exposition - is that really worth highlighting? Even rom-coms have them.

I know… all I asked for was a cigarette.

I would genuinely like to know what American/Canadian fans of The Smiths and The Beatles who travel all the way over to Manchester or Liverpool think of these places. Does a form of 'Paris Syndrome' settle in? Those cobbled streets and red-bricked terrace houses probably look quaint and romantic through the veneer of…

We live in New Zealand so you're constantly ticking off Lord of the Rings locations…

A family member once mentioned apropos of nothing that they wanted 'Goodbye My Lover' by James Blunt at their funeral (apparently this is a popular choice amongst the unimaginative)… I was so angry I had to bite my lip and walk away - not because it's an atrocious song (it is), it's more that they've chosen something…

I didn't know about how he was cast (thanks for the heads-up though) - it was more that you can see flashes of 'Tony' in Gandolfini's character in Twelve Angry Men - a regular Joe who in a split-second could switch and look like he would kill you and mean it.

Just last week I watched William Friedkin's nineties 'Twelve Angry Men' TV remake (worth checking out - the cast of which is a who's-who of 21st Century TV legends). Remember thinking that role must have been a real clincher in Gandolfini being casting as Tony Soprano - he brought flashes of such power and menace to…

I thoroughly enjoyed the book - right mix of existential whimsy and humor without feeling bloated.

Four episodes in and barely a glimpse of the gang sat around the study room.

So Carrie's just been kidnapped, held captive by Nazir but 'escapes' with Nazir still at large… so Quinn's response is to 'go home and get some rest'? How about lock her up in a safehouse?

So Carrie's just been kidnapped, held captive by Nazir but 'escapes' with Nazir still at large… so Quinn's response is to 'go home and get some rest'? How about lock her up in a safehouse?

And there was me skating around the whole misogyny thing…

Eh?

I've been ploughing through Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books recently… what an insufferable arsehole Holmes is??

Kristen Wiig's character in Bridesmaids.

I concur.

This was great fun - entertaining, the right side of silly and felt as though they designed the (impressive) set pieces and chose the locations first, then wrote around them, but it didn't matter… Was a tad too long and needed more Josh Holloway but other than that, you can't ask for much more from a 'blockbuster'…