Always been a big fan of Dolorous Edd. While reading the book I always pictured him as Nicholas Lyndhurst… Rodney from Only fools and horses.

Always been a big fan of Dolorous Edd. While reading the book I always pictured him as Nicholas Lyndhurst… Rodney from Only fools and horses.

Somewhere in that truly terrible clip you might be able to see the back of my head. I was right at the front. Ah well, not so ephemeral in that respect. Still, now that I have children, I'm unlikely to experience that ever again. Unless it's in bad, sad, embarrassing dad mode, which I believe will have its own unique…

Somewhere in that truly terrible clip you might be able to see the back of my head. I was right at the front. Ah well, not so ephemeral in that respect. Still, now that I have children, I'm unlikely to experience that ever again. Unless it's in bad, sad, embarrassing dad mode, which I believe will have its own unique…

I saw Hot Chip at the John Peel stage at Glastonbury in 2007. They were brilliant and the crowd was really into it. Nothing so special about that, but I then read or heard an interview with the main singer, who said that that was his favourite ever live performance, where everything clicked, both in terms of their…

I saw Hot Chip at the John Peel stage at Glastonbury in 2007. They were brilliant and the crowd was really into it. Nothing so special about that, but I then read or heard an interview with the main singer, who said that that was his favourite ever live performance, where everything clicked, both in terms of their…

It's nice to reminisce about something you enjoyed, regardless of whether others are interested. Plus, there's also the off chance that someone on this site also experienced and enjoyed it as well…. that would be pretty great wouldn't it? The fact that you shared a moment with some faceless avatar who, for all you…

It's nice to reminisce about something you enjoyed, regardless of whether others are interested. Plus, there's also the off chance that someone on this site also experienced and enjoyed it as well…. that would be pretty great wouldn't it? The fact that you shared a moment with some faceless avatar who, for all you…

I accept all these points from Scrawler et al. I know that's what Ishiguro was trying to do. Having said that, if you are going to choose a setting for your story, you have to abide by certain rules and parameters. This was a world not so different form ours, except for the cloning etc. The clones were all allowed out…

***definite spoiler***

I wouldn't have known it was Jerry unless I saw his name on IMDB. It was Stephen Graham's character, and he was fairly background. Had curly hair, wore glasses… Stephen Graham is a great Brit actor, also plays Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire. Famed more for playing hard working class characters, not upper class…

I thought Tinker Tailor was pretty good, but overall I think books lend themselves better to miniseries. Currently reading the Honourable Schoolboy, and it's interesting to see what they've done with some of the characters. In Tinker Tailor the film, they make Peter Guilliam out to be homosexual, but in the Honourable…

Interesting. I can't be bothered to watch the film, because I didn't think the book was that great.

Melting man is Morgan Spurlock

Not that it can be classified as entertainment at all, but Philip Gourevitch's book on the Rwanda massacres, 'We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families' is definitely sick making. Most harrowing thing I've ever read. Properly nightmare inducing.

Yep, exactly what John Semley said. That American Psycho stuff always stuck in my mind, isn't there also a scene where he opens his locker and it's filled with a bunch of vaginas he cut from his victims?

So… read the first one, based on AV Club recommendations. It was fun, entertaining etc if not groundbreaking… but I can't say I'm salivating at the prospect of reading the next two. Are they worth reading?

I don't get the Return of the Jedi hate. I can accept some teenagers might have been a bit jaded by the Ewoks when they first saw it, but were the children of the 1980s so sophisticated in their tastes that these furry creatures completely ruined the movie? I was about 7 when I saw it at the cinema and I thought they…

Two Fucks… you're obviously a nicer person than me, because I would have found their disappointment highly amusing.

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol… in terms of trips to the cinema, that was a real disappointment, especially since PA3: Back in Training, really blew my nine year old mind.