That has to be one of the all-time great cheesy one-liners before an enemy is violently dispatched.

Gary Numan sampled that speech in one of his songs… Can't remember off the top of my head which song it is, but it's on his Outland album (which is peppered with vocal samples from various 80s sci-fi and action films).

Eric Bana was in a pretty unfunny lowbrow sketch comedy show, then he hosted a pretty unfunny talk show, then he blew everyone away with Chopper. For a US audience, it would be like if Jimmy Fallon left TV to turn in a serious, acclaimed performance in a gritty movie about Charles Manson.

Action Jackson features cast members from Predator (Carl Weathers, Bill Duke), Die Hard (Robert Davi, Al Leong, De'voreaux White), Poltergeist (Craig T. Nelson), and Back to the Future (Thomas F. Wilson). Plus Vanity and Sharon Stone. There's something about that movie that's so 80s, it's like, how much more 80s could…

…and it ended up as a devastating portrait of what happened when Argentina went bankrupt.

That's exactly what happens. It's like, he's realised that the "Courtney Killed Kurt" thing is a dead-end, but he needs some sort of climax for his film, so he gate-crashes Courtney's ACLU appearance to make a point about free speech. He does get up onto the stage and gets a few words in before being hauled off (by…

I saw Kurt & Courtney for the first time about a month ago, and I found it really odd…the way that, about 2/3 in, Broomfield realises his interviewees are full of shit and that Courtney didn't have Kurt killed, but Courtney is still a massive hypocrite who needs to be taken down a peg. The whole "Who killed Kurt?"…

Oh, I don't think there was anything surprising about Love refusing to licence music for a documentary that was investigating her involvement in Kurt Cobain's death. But I don't think the music-rights issue was what was driving Broomfield - it was more about him perceiving the hypocrisy of Love receiving a "Freedom of…

Nope, Alan Rickman tried out for Lister. From Doug Naylor: "We saw a lot of people. We saw Alan Rickman who really liked the script, said it was the best script he'd received within I think it was two or three months and he wanted to play Lister…and we saw Hugh Laurie, there was a whole bunch of people we saw."

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971). Directed by Mike Grey and Howard Alk. This film started out as a documentary in cooperation with Fred Hampton, that was supposed to end with Hampton making a final statement leaving the USA to escape (trumped-up) robbery charges. The film was almost complete…and then Hampton and…

Hans Gruber with "chirpy gerbil-faced optimism"?

Random non-role? Alfred Molina was cast as Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf before being replaced by Chris Barrie. (And Alan Rickman auditioned for Dave Lister! Imagine how different the show would've been with Molina and Rickman in the leads…and how Rickman wouldn't have been free to do Die Hard.)

God almighty, has Frank Miller turned into the Crypt Keeper?

Stone cast Woody Harrelson because he detected a sense of violence and sickness in him. The thing is, prior to Natural Born Killers, Harrelson had only really done Cheers and White Men Can't Jump. I just love the idea of Oliver Stone watching Cheers and getting it into his head that loveable ol' Woody Boyd is a…

..how about Peter Serafinowicz's James Bond: Licence to Tell Jokes?

Not only does the prison riot occur offscreen in QT's NBK script, but it's pure chance that it breaks out and gives Mickey and Mallory the chance to escape. In the film, the riot isn't a deus ex machina - it builds up and breaks out as a result of Mickey's interview, and plays into the film's whole cycle-of-violence…

I'm more of a Tarantino fan than a Stone fan (that is to say, I like everything QT's directed, but nothing Stone's made since Nixon) - but I think Stone's lurid gonzo mess of Natural Born Killers improved on Tarantino's original script. Although QT partisans have accused Stone of wrecking the original script, I think…

Oh the joy, me and Stephen Hawking, we laugh
We missed the sex revolution
When we failed the physical
When we failed the physical!

"For whatever reason I remember Winnie leaving and the show flashing forward to adult Kevin as an 80s-era yuppie talking about his memories of his wonder years, or whatever."

What would happen to John Cazale's batting average if hitherto-unseen footage of him was spliced into the next Friedberg/Seltzer piece of crap?