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I think most regions and countries have a similar dynamic - it's OK for us to poke fun at ourselves, but we get defensive when it's someone from outside the group. If you live in the Midwest, or a similar area, you probably see movies like Payne's as being warmer and less cruel than people looking in from outside.

Shia LaBeouf impulsively… vaulting the… sordid… Evan Rachel Wood['s]… rabbit-hole[!] What… a tease[!] [I]rresistible[!] ~ Ben Keningsberg, The AV Club

I love that interview. The bit where he talks about how he can't understand how you got this chick, man, and you're filming a scene with her and you're supposed to look like you really want to bang her, but then, like, the cameras stop rolling and you have to not want to bang her? What's that all about?

Forget okay - I'm interested to know if it's possible.

Yes, to a movie rather than another poster. Why do you continue to interpret swipes at bad Hollywood films as being personal abuse? Is this some weird combination of MPD and Truman Show delusion that we haven't properly categorised yet?

Because they were set in worlds that would be fun to explore further, and hadn't exhausted themselves by the end of the first film?

I think that's an inbuilt problem with the heroes, too; if you have a guy in an iron suit that flies and shoots lasers, only another guy in a metal suit will really stand up as a threat against him. DC gets away with it because their heroes have been around much longer - Lex Luthor, say, is the evil mirror of a…

That's true, but there are never that many newswires about Robert Mugabe.

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of the Person Who Thought A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Was a Good Idea

Desperate or Robin Thicke - but I repeat myself…

The death scene that takes up the last third of that movie genuinely made me feel like I was dying myself.

I don't know, he did go off into a lengthy rapture about how the piece of bacon nailed to the bathroom wall in Gummo was a revolutionary act in cinema. Herzog is a genius, but he's also a man who once jumped into a cactus patch to apologise for nearly immolating a dwarf. I wouldn't say anything is too crazy for him.

I've often been confused by the Dawes meme, but then I am from the UK, where the government has embarked on a punishing Dawesterity programme.

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, 'Death Cab For Cutie'.

My choice for the first female Doctor is Vicky McClure (very cheekbones! Much androgynous!), but the two Olivias are pretty brilliant ideas.

Don't forget his inimitable reasoning for nixing Gilliam's choice for lead actress: "Samantha Morton! You think Matt or Heath want to fuck that?" said the famously svelte, chiselled, handsome producer.

Yes. Surprised more people don't hold this view - those two movies seem to me to be his straight-ahead funniest. I suppose it depends on what you're watching for.

Just got back from it, and - for all the clunky speechifying and cheesy 'internet!' visualisations - I did enjoy it. The main thing it offers that recent newspaper reports don't is a sense of the background to the organisation, the utterly laudable and under-reported things they did in Kenya, Switzerland, Iceland,…

My main complaint about Cody isn't that her dialogue is stylised. I could easily forgive that if it was funny, or if it was in the service of a worldview more developed than a particularly obnoxious teenager trying to prove to herself that everyone's just jealous of her brilliance.