Leviathan (the Russian one) is pretty great too, and suprisingly funny. And boozy.

Yeah, I saw that. They were really rude and childish
On a related note, if anyone hasn't seen the Norton show when he and Mark Ruffalo re-enact an imagined fan encounter with Ruffalo google it now. Sheer hilarity.

That sounds amazing.

Went to see the great Late Turner Exhibition at Tate Britain, then Damon Albarn at Royal Albert Hall - guests included Graham Coxon, De La Soul and the Godlike Brian Eno.

Think so, yes.

I saw this at posh Odeon Leicester Square in London and I had problems catching a lot of the dialogue.

Completely agree with this review; a welcome respite from the gushy shite UK reviewers have been coming out with.

It Alfred Molina kissing a camel too!

I got Kenneth Anger to sign my copy of 'Hollywood Babylon' when I interviewed him, and Tim Burton very gracioulsy signed one of his books for my niece during a junket.

Innit. He's an amazing Bond villain - Scaramanga is a gauche vulgarian desperate to impress 007. He even classes Attack of the Clones up for about five minutes.

I misremembered Alucard as being played by Ralph Bates, but you're quite right.
I quite like 'The Satanic Rites…' where The Count wants to destroy the world because he's had enough.

Hayley Atwell is amazing in that scene, totally convincing, and you're right; it comes out of nowhere, and is all the more devastating for it.

Spartacus (the film) is supposed to be a real blokes' film with fighting and stuff, but the last ten minutes or so when Charles Laughton kills himself, and Spartacus' wife shows him their free baby, wrecks me every time.

It's cool the way that Stevie Wonder's on this twice: contemporary Stevie is on harmonica, and there's a sample of Little Stevie's 'Say yeah!' from 1963's 'Fingertips pt2'

I agree with the review more or less, but I would have knocked it up half a grade, as (a) it's really funny (loved the gay pair who join because they're looking for something to do as a couple), and (b) the soundtrack is cool (Frankies, Bronski Beat) etc. The scene with West teaching the miners to dance was crap…

ADDITIONAL TRUE FACT: I know someone who appeared on it then went on to be a dominatrix in NYC.

The scene near the end when with Attenborough and Jackson in the field when Attenborough is saying how the escape had made him feel young again and then they turn around… absolutely devastating, especially after all the larkier stuff that preceeded it. Also 'Good luck.'

There's isn't a UK release date, inexplicably. Maybe it'll crop up in London Film Festival - the programme is announced Wedneday - and get picked up after that.
A bloke on twitter joked that he was doing his own start-up to release it.

You're in the UK too, right? Where did you see 'Snowpiercer', out of interest?

Ha-ha, I felt a bit of a smug git writing it. I did watch 'Battlestar Galactica' ('Exodus Part 2 where Galactica goes 'vooom!'), the new 'Doctor Who' and 'Orphan Black' series 1, as well, if that helps.