It was also great to read the gradually changing responses of the Indian fans through the series as it became clear that New Zealand were the better side (in our conditions). I hope we can keep up the consistency for the test series.

My main problem with Top of the Lake (which I still haven't finished) is the somewhat condescending attitude it takes to New Zealanders - and that it is almost entirely cast with Australians who don't do good NZ accents.

This week I watched The Big City, Raw Meat and The Pianist.

It's not that it's not serious, it's more that it's acquiring a reputation from people who dislike it to be "very serious" (aka dry and humourless).

This week I watched Inside Llewyn Davis, Modern Romance and Winchester '73.

I'm pretty sure that's still in the scene breakdown I was sent, though I think they're ending with the very few of them who might have actually made it to Jerusalem.

I think they want to do it as sort of an adventure show, celebrating the goals of the Crusade instead of ruminating on the downer ending.

Have you considered digitising your library and then putting the CD's in storage?

I hadn't heard that, but it makes perfect sense that that's how he wrote the score.

I think Frozen is getting a lot of press because it's on the back of what seems to be a minor resurgence for Disney, while Lilo and Stitch was at the tail end of the '90s renaissance.

Frollo (aka Judge Turpin) is an interesting villain, but my major problem with the film as a whole is that it seems to use Disney tropes in place of good story-telling (the gargoyles being a symptom of this).

The guys I'm working with told me that the stage adaptation brings it tonally closer to the book, and makes it clearer the gargoyles are a figment of his imagination, but I've yet to see it.

After being called into work at the last minute last week, I now have two weeks of pop-culture to talk about. Also, I just finished making this video for a guitar quartet (and have no qualms about shamelessly plugging it): https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I didn't mind too much, because most of them played their parts well (especially Pitt, who was able to believably play a scene which could have been far too smug and condescending)

This week I watched Charade, Ender's Game, The Red House, 12 Years a Slave, The Last of Sheila and Catch Me if You Can.

Funny you should mention that, because I just downloaded The Big Doll House.

My resolution is to watch an average of four movies a week, moving up from my three movie a week average over the last couple of years. I'd also like to watch more (good) exploitation movies.

I didn't much like the Christmas Special, but I'm hoping things will start fresh with Capaldi's run. Other than a couple of episodes, the last couple of seasons have been pretty annoying for their insistence on making everything so damn important.

This week I watched Anchorman 2, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Spectacular Now and Eyes Wide Shut.

As someone said earlier, She Loves Me would be ideal for this (as well as being a perfect example of the integrated musical), provided they cast properly. Other good options might be The Pajama Game or perhaps A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.