It actually charted.

I guess she did lose her heart to a starship trooper after all.

And then when people were all "Oh, so the medication is making you gain some weight? That's terrible! Are you going to try another kind?" I was all "Nope - I'm just thinking about how great it is I haven't tried to kill myself lately".

The filmmakers wish they could remove him too. Rooney's typically been an asshole about it when it's discussed in interviews, but on one of the special edition DVDs the filmmakers went on record that if they could change anything about the movie it would be Yunioshi.

Similarly, a while back I was on a fair few different antidepressant medications, and the one that finally worked for me was also the one that contributed to a noticeable weight gain - it wasn't just the meds, but they contributed. People worry-faced at me and sometimes spoke to me expressing concern at my visible…

Bridget Jones was a major pop culture cognitive dissonance moment for me. I love/loved the books, and loved how part of the humor was that she was not at all heavy, just hilariously neurotic and obsessed over every fluctuation from pound to pound, and the one time she reached her goal weight she was SO PROUD, but it…

It's amazing how easily a jury, burdened with the responsibility of deciding the fate of another human being, can be encouraged to confuse "beyond reasonable doubt" with "beyond absolutely the smallest molecule of the faintest suggestion of a hint of a doubt - and you weren't there in the room to watch with your own…

Hitler did some quite okay watercolours.

Professional writers also write sequels or adaptations or new spins on public domain texts (the gajillion and one Pride & Prejudice sequels, phonebook-sized short story anthologies about Dracula or Sherlock Holmes, etc, etc) and earn royalties from their work. Do you feel the same about that? (Not being snarky,…

You're not getting into the spirit of things! Half the joy of movie watching is sitting in your comfy seat pointing at the screen and sneering "Oh, they should have just done such-and-such, any fool could see that."

True. But then again I can't 100% guarantee that if I went through a ship sinking and landed up in sub-zero water I'd think with absolute objective rationality either.

It's okay, I unironically like this movie too.

And Michael and Shakira Caine.

Nope, that's prejudice. Racism is prejudice plus power.

The only boardgame movie I could get behind would be another 'Cluedo' movie, just because I think the casting could be great.

My mother never drinks. I can't even use alcohol in cooking - if she knows there's as much as a spoonful of vermouth in a sauce she insists that it's got her tiddly. She was hella strict with us kids but it backfired in that as teenagers two out of three of us binge-drank like there was no tomorrow, partly out of…

I know some people say that when random celebrities pipe up about having eating disorders or how hard they have to work to look so good, some people say they're just jumping on a bandwagon or attention-seeking. But I always admire it. There's so much pressure to maintain the illusion of effortless perfection,…

Oh okay, and I take it the fact that the department had known about these photographs before she was hired, but she was - lo and behold - dismissed just before being eligible for tenure was all a big you know, um, coincidence.

I'd never looked properly at this picture, and just kinda assumed they both had their arms wrapped around each other. Now I can't stop seeing her arm brought awkwardly up between their bodies, and the way he's basically got her in a headlock. It's totally obvious now that it's not two people in a passionate two-way…

Agreed. Every time I look at a clothing store mannequin, I think about how surely the reason people feel like the clothes never look so good on them as they do on the mannequin is that human bodies, even the most hardbodied slender, pared down and toned, still the odd soft or wobbly bit. Because of, you know, the…