Yo random fan I'm happy for you and I'm gonna let you finish, but Richter in Total Recall had the best platform fall of all time! Of all time!

I was 25 and, by curious fate, a new-minted journalist. From the moment I arrived at the newsroom that morning, until well into the evening, I don't think I sat down for more than five minutes. It was my task to prepare a briefing on Bin Laden, and I remember it was the first time I really made use of Wikipedia,…

The British army in the Sinai/Palestine Campaign during WW1 made extensive use of camels. There were two companies consisting of New Zealanders, producing one of the rarest and most sought-after cap badges in Kiwi militaria.

Best opening titles ever.

On a somewhat related note I stumbled onto the article for the man who killed John Wilkes Booth recently, and boy howdy was he a character.

The Rachel Papers for me.

"Is that a fucking e-cigarette?"

"Federal bastards shot me in the ass!"

LITTLE BASTARD SHOT ME IN THE ASS

How come everybody want to keep it like the Kaiser?

May I recommend Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures, which is like the anti-Crocodile Dundee.

I'm Mike Moore, welcome to Frontline

Thank you Mario! But our Olympics is in another country!

There's a very readable book I like called The Long Gray Line which looks at the West Point Class of 1966; one of the featured individuals is Arthur Bonifas, who was one of the two murdered American officers. It contains a very memorable rendering of his final day.

Yes I know the city like a lover
Good or bad it's hard to love another that I've found
(This is no mean town, no mean city)
City life is strange you take your share of the good times and bad times
Always something playing on your mind
(Playing on your mind)
It's the only place that I'd be willing to die for
It's the only…

In its own indirect way a thread of this madness made its way into the Grand Theft Auto series. Rockstar Games is a Scottish company, and they have regularly included ice-cream-truck-drugdealer-turf wars in several of the GTA games.

Stunt cameo from Meryl Streep.

So how about a Great Lakes Avengers adaption then? Alexander Skarsgård as Mr Immortal, Jon Hamm as Flatman, Rachel Nichols as Big Bertha, and Blair Underwood as Doorman.

Playing a skinhead used to be considered something like a rite-of-passage for an actor, as if it asserted a more mature talent than you'd find in another role. Russell Crowe (Romper Stomper), Tim Roth (Made in Britain), Ryan Gosling (The Believer) and Ed Norton (American History X) are all notable examples. I can't…

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