I'd be happy with a good copy of Olsen's Book of Standard British Birds.

That would be a damning comment on our age.

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Oh if only.

Masons are so 1996.

That's one of my favorite line readings on a sitcom.  It's like, halfway through the sentence, it occurs to him how awesome it is that he's wearing electric sex pants.

My primary knowledge of Livesey before finally watching the Archers' movies was from his role as Archie Rice's dad in The Entertainer and as the Player King in that weird Hamlet with Nicol Williamson.  I have to say, he makes a pretty great romantic lead in Going, and of course he's amazing in Blimp.

Oh Matter's wonderful, no doubt.  It's been a while since I've seen it, actually, so it's possible that one reservation would be less prominent on a rewatch.

Having checked the IMDb to determine that, yes, there is an actor cast as Barack Obama, I now know exactly how this movie is going to end.

I am seriously upset that they did not take the time to cast Kelsey Grammer as Ford and Chris Cooper as Carter.

This looks hilariously bad.  This is like a Dave Chapelle parody of a movie trailer.

It's Gumping Miss Daisy!

That was the one fact about The Canterbury Tales that I learned in high school.

Nice read on that scene.  If the Archers' A Matter of Life and Death has a flaw (and it's hardly one that diminishes the movie), it's that the wartime "hands across the sea" message occasionally threatens to overwhelm the premise.  I think this movie and this sequence in particular handle the same idea with such a…

I Know Where I'm Going! is tremendous as well, and a direct antecedent of Bill Forsyth's Local Hero.

He also did a quite fascinating Alice in Wonderland, and I liked his feature Otesanek (live action-animation mix) quite a bit too.

I hope to goodness you do it in the Moss voice.

I've had my every value challenged, and I am captivated!

I'm fairly certain I couldn't pass for Jewish.

Well, it's kinder to the altar boys.