I had a friend who wanted to go to a movie with her parents one Christmas. She mistakenly left it up to her mum to choose what they would see, and her mum chose Shortbus by John Cameron Mitchell. My friend and her dad sat there horrified for the whole movie, but her mum seemed to enjoy it. At the end she turned…

We need more deets about him being a dick to his girlfriend! Jezebel commenters cannot live by Beyonce discussions alone.

The world wasn't ready for you. Don't worry, I'm going to take your suggestion to a new, wider audience! Just sign here, please.

I mean, that wasn't what I was saying, but now you've put it out there, it's what I'm going to be saying.

It's definitely worth it! The bits about Donna from Elastica's heroin habit are absolutely bloodcurdling - ending up in crack dens with your record advance in your pocket and things like that. That just wouldn't happen now, they probably employ interns for that sort of thing.

Truly, it was the golden age of upper-middle-class Camdenite junkies.

Have you read The Last Party by John Harris? It's a great work of pop music social history, but more importantly if you lived in Britain through the 90s the "Oh, so that's what was going on" factor is sky-high.

This is particularly funny when you've just finished reading Bad Vibes by Luke Haines, in which the author talks about wanting to record indie rock music because it seemed to be part of a genuine countercultural scene that existed outside the stupidity and vapidity of the mainstream industry, and then making it just…

"I'm going to keep on having children for no reason other than spite and bloodymindedness, while complaining about how immigrants breed like rabbits!"

I think he has naturally blond hair, basically like the colour in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but curlier. I first saw it when he was presenting a BBC documentary about Terence Rattigan and I was startled - the dark hair looks so natural on him.

I do wonder if he ever got out of fights in the playground by telling people his mum is the Fendahl Core.

Yes, I agree this is a quandary. I don't want Turing ghettoised as "gay genius Alan Turing" - he should be a hero to all of us. But at the same time a lot of gay people in history have had their sexualities airbrushed away, and it only makes homophobia easier to perpetuate when people can pretend LGBTQ people have…

Pictured: George Condo's troll face.

The production company and Matthew Goode have both denied the film shows Turing as anything other than gay. Whether his homosexuality will be as prominent in the film as it deserves to be, we won't know until we see it. But the rumour seems to have started because someone who worked at Bletchley Park said Keira…

Somehow, I have never wished for sleepovers at Ellen Page's house. But now I know she spends Boxing Day watching Robert Altman movies, I'm on board for it.

Yeah, you'd think she'd have some people around who could say to her "People are calling you racist - let's have a weekend where we think about ways to respond to that". I know her image is very carefully crafted to suggest she has no handlers or management and she's just Miley bein' Miley, but that's bollocks. Her…

You can't be the real Armond White, I agree with you!

For a moment I thought this post was about Ralph Fiennes's The Invisible Woman, which probably will be the best movie ever, not least because Tom Hollander will have this beard:

Here's a bit of observational comedy for you: you ever notice how people who complain about feminists, anti-racists, etc. being oversensitive are the whiniest, thinnest-skinned motherfuckers who ever drew breath? "Waaaaah, someone complained about a joke! Waaaaah, I must post 1000 times registering my disgust! Boo…