The Coens are very good at one-shot supporting characters, but they tend to be firmly (and joyously) in quirky mode. Which is why we love them: they add great levity to films like No Country. To go that route on TD would feel a bit to disparate for my liking. Its environment and people are in terminal decay. One could…

Skyfall's a good film. I'm not surprised there's a backlash against it - same thing happened with The Dark Knight. When something's that acclaimed it's inevitable.

I didn't think it was a particularly good trailer (the jokes just didn't hit for me) but I am rooting for the movie. In the conveyor belt world of Marvel this feels like something genuinely different for them and I appreciate the risk.

People's reactions to characters cheating is always a funny thing. us to think that adultery is the worst possible thing a human could do.

This show is quite good at turning me on.

"Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is terrible."
Don't listen to this man, American Partridge fans. The movie is slightly broader than the TV show by necessity, but it's still full of the subtle touches that made him one of the best comic characters ever.

The trouble with these kind of movies is they're too self-aware: they know they're making a so-bad-it's-good movie which defeats the point. When the writers/directors of The Room, Miami Connection and Samurai Cop made their movies they were really trying hard to produce something great… which is what makes them so…