I know the family, and they are intelligent, level-headed, educated people.

Whereas a country like the USA where a presidential candidate can talk about punishing women who have abortions, thinks women should have to put up with lower salaries than men, and frequently describes women as fat pigs, slobs and dogs has absolutely no problems with women…no sireee…

With all due respect to the innocent Ms Knox, it sounds like you've gotten yourself a good woman there, Herder, speaking as another lefty, wishy-washy, grow your own denim, knit your own muesli, vegan who admittedly felt bias against Ms Knox (primarily because the Kircher family lives very close to me, and i was…

Being dragged into two illegal wars that resulted in the deaths of over 600 British servicemen and women, tends to have that effect.

Just like how hysterical the US press was during the Louise Woodward case.

It matters to me only so far as it's always great to see more black actors/actresses in lead parts.

It's a bad flick, but it still gets points for not being Mr and Mrs Smith.

Richard Kelly produced this?

Great comparison, and as with In the Company of Men, I actually feel more disgusted with the guy (in that case, Howard, in this case, Gamby) who really should know better.

In some ways that makes me more disgusted with Gamby because he has a semblance of a conscience and yet he persists in being a dïck, whereas Russell is clearly deranged, albeit smarter and more manipulative.

I really like this show, but unlike Kyle Fowle I think it's been pretty consistent from the start. Its virtue is its total lack of predictability and safe contrivance. It's not often that a comedy show allows two of its three leads (and do I really do think Kimberly Herbert Gregory's entirely sympathetic but…

There are a few ways Wonka can be played, but most strikingly as either a loveable, absent-minded and highly exuberant old eccentric, or the slightly more twisted, sinister moral-arbiter hiding behind a façade of, literally, sweet charm. I think Cummings could easily have played either type but he would have been…

He's a real blast, as are the rest of the cast, in the hugely underrated film version of 'Noises Off', as a well-meaning but pretentious 'what's my motivation?' actor absurdly applying The Method to a two-dimensional stage character in a facile off-Broadway farce.

Yes, I don't particularly rate Superman III overall, but there are nevertheless some real gems contained within the movie, including Reeve's 'evil' Superman. I especially love his sleaziness, and nonchalance towards a looming accident nearby, in the scene where he's more interested in seducing Lana than responding to…

It's a great performance from an expressionistic POV, in terms of symbolically capturing the venality and vacuity of the Beverly Hills milieu in which Faye Resnick exists, but hardly accurate from a physical perspective (I was surprised to discover the WASPy Britton was actually playing a Latino woman).

I would have chosen another Scot, Alan Cummings, for the part. Spy Kids demonstrated how he could easily play enticing yet creepy at the same time, as a Willy Wonka like kids' TV show host.

Exactly. Plus, the great thing about having a so-called 'definitive' portrayal of a character is that it arguably allows actors and filmmakers more latitude, in terms of audience goodwill, in redefining/subverting a given character later on.

John Hurt as Winston Smith in the appropriately-timed '1984' (1984). Even if no film or TV show has ever truly been able to substantially build-upon Orwell's completely-realised dystopia, Hurt is absolutely perfect casting as the ultimate everyman, his previous work in Alien, The Elephant Man and 10 Rillington Place,…

Christopher Reeve as Superman. Still the benchmark for comic-book movie performances as far as I'm concerned. For all his unfortunate and unfair lack of success in movies outside the Superman franchise, Reeve demonstrates immense range within this franchise, going from bumbling, self-effacing 'Daily Planet' Clark…

Is it wrong that I found Sarah Palin attractive the first time I saw her, at least until she opened her mouth?