Was this around the time Lee Daniels was attached to the project? Because that would make a whole lot of sense.

Did anyone read the excerpt of this in Harpers the other month? It was an imaginary film festival of movies he wishes existed. His listing for Terrence Malick's Blood Meridian with Brando and Gene Hackman was such a wonderfully plausible thing. "The meteor showers that open and close the film are real."

*Kevin Smith angrily gets up, realises he's out of breath already, sits back down*

Haha, yeah, if it's anything like Guardians of the Galaxy it'll obviously bomb, because general audiences totally share your antipathy to that movie.

Look, whatever you think of the actual movies, it's actually completely sensible to say the Avengers couldn't have succeeded if Nick Fury, Black Widow, Thor and Loki hadn't already been introduced. What's the alternative; try and cram their introductions into the same movie? Because that seems to be what you're…

It's the worst of both worlds: a historically inaccurate story that doesn't have the fun of an unapologetic myth.

The Counselor was definitely smaller-scale, and I actually liked that. Say what you want about it, at least it wasn't a half-digested miss-mash of incompatibly different drafts as a seemingly endless army of writers try to animate the same corpse like the rest of Scott's recent work.

It was a great year!

Offering writing ideas in the writer's room is not "interfering with the writing process". It's what you're there for.

That seems like one of the least disagreeable points it is possible to make. How many groups do you think are more privileged than rich, powerful white men in the United States?

I don't agree with this - I think art can exist for its own sake, where its only meaning comes from its context in society. But Sorkin's art absolutely is designed to carry a message, and criticism of that message is fair play.

And Network was making actual critical, substantial, anti-establishment points. If Sorkin thinks he can subsume it into his standard "sit down, everybody, a rich white man has arrived" attitude, he's grievously misunderstood that film.

Section 31 was one of the most interesting things about that movie for me - the idea that they'd emerged in the Abrams-Trek universe long before they appeared in the main Star Trek universe, presumably as a result of the events of the 2009 movie. Starfleet saw Kirk and Spock blow Nero away and realised their ships…

The Eminem line is so true. I feel like he got a pass for years because everyone was so convinced he'd mature as an artist, so convinced, in fact, that it took years to notice he was just getting even more whiny and petulant.

Hello Nasty is a big favourite of mine. 'Can't, Won't, Don't Stop', or whatever they retitled it to, is absolutely perfect.

It's rare that you get to feel sorry for a company doing as well as Marvel, but it must burn watching Fox and Sony fuck up sure-thing villains like Doom and the Green Goblin while they're working overtime to try and make Whiplash, Malekith and Ronan interesting.

You're the real superhero.

Orphan Black.

Oh, for Christ's sake. It is actually possible to enjoy intelligent television and not like Aaron Sorkin's work. Why, some of us don't think his high-handed "HERE ARE TODAY'S THEMES" didacticism is particularly intelligent!

Oh man, Adeel Akhtar as Smee is the first thing that's made me want to see this movie. He's terrific.