Paul Scofield at the West End?

I strongly disagree with your statement that Rogue Male 'is very similar in tone to' Ministry Of Fear.  Rogue Male is very like Day Of The Jackal in that its focus is a spartan/samurai on a mission assassinate a political leader.  The former is concerned largely with the main protagonists efforts to escape after the…

He's not all that.  NIN were always bollocks.  Some of his film score work has been okay, but nothing more than high-end sound design.

The score to the featured excerpt is nauseating.  I was surprised to find it was by Mark Mothersbaugh, who is normally reliable.  That was way too schmaltzy, it made me think of Thirtysomething.  Does Enlightened occupy the same emotional ground as Thirtysomething?  That clip is just horrible.  I never want to watch…

This review is way off the mark.  I would point out the many ways that Zack has got it wrong, but I just don't have the time.

This episode of Archer was like the two-handers you get mid-season on Breaking Bad.  Keeping the action to interiors and with no guest characters keeps the episode cost down, allowing them to spend more on a spectacular action sequence later in the series.

the use of marilyn manson's 'sweet dreams' at the end of the episode pretty much summed up everything that had gone before it - cliched and soulless, ersatz menace.

whereas watching a black man being ordered to gouge another black man's eyes out, or watching a black man beg for mercy as his black wife is brutally whipped, or watching another black man beg for mercy only to have two enormous dogs rip him to pieces, now THAT'S going to bring holiday cheer aplenty!

whereas watching a black man being ordered to gouge another black man's eyes out, or watching a black man beg for mercy as his black wife is brutally whipped, or watching another black man beg for mercy only to have two enormous dogs rip him to pieces, now THAT'S going to bring holiday cheer aplenty!

Music for Airports.  Movies for Aeroplanes.

Music for Airports.  Movies for Aeroplanes.

She's a doll.

She's a doll.

I already know what the resulting movie will be like.  And so do you.

I already know what the resulting movie will be like.  And so do you.

This is all fine just so long as you natives are aware of how parochial much of this is.  I might as well be reading the forum on TV Guide dot whatever.

This is all fine just so long as you natives are aware of how parochial much of this is.  I might as well be reading the forum on TV Guide dot whatever.

Hugh Laurie reconsiders position following phone call with Bryan Cranston.

Hugh Laurie reconsiders position following phone call with Bryan Cranston.

I keep this book in the drawer next to my toilet and it has prolonged many a poo over the last month or so.  The anecdotal material is never less than interesting (occasionally mind-boggling) and it is all beautifully written.