I love Sayle's standup; virtually all of his routines in YO are taken from that.

Nepotism is the glue that keeps the NZ music scene together. Also, like glue, it has completely rotted the brain of said music scene.

It's operatic, a truly lunatic toast to some simulacrum of 50's Americana combined with thrusting adolescent lust. What's not to love.

Meat showed you didn't need to be some slyph-like leather-clad androgynous rocker to be sexy. Ironically I think he was somewhat proto-punk in that regard : fuck fashionability, this is passion.

River Queen, anyone?
She didn't like being up the Whanganui much, nor did folk there enjoy her stay, from what I hear

The movie had a dramatic effect on me as a kid. It was a bit disillusioning in later life to learn it owed more to Water's narcissism than any great artistic statement.

elsewhere in the Anglosphere
This is called "Banged Up Abroad". Guess that wouldn't work in the US?

@Renee Dumas - betcha took a while to find the perfect place for your post

Love the bit in the beekeeping scene -

My English is not perfect, but I have to tell you, your beer is like swill to us. Do I have that right? I am saying that only a swine would drink this beer.

SNPP can be a real shocker sometimes.

Hugh Jass
I just figured he never got the joke. People were always trying to mock and he flat-out missed it.

His autobiography mentioned a few of the titles dropped in this article. People always thought he was bullshitting.

Nothing Like The Sun, Dead Man in Deptford, and Wolfe.

licking frogs in the Simpsons
Oh heeeerrrrrreeee we go

Yet another vote for Animals.

I really liked the development of Moon Knight over the past few years, so this new one pisses me off. I don't like where it's going.

Hammers for everyone!

an old favorite
I have a soft spot for this movie, having watched it a lot in ww2 film studies. It is a misfire, but a very interesting one. The whole confrontational, Brechtian approach really undermines the actual satire. It is oh-so-English.

@Mister Sparkle: