It's clearly Madeline. She's trying to throw us off the trail with this article.

I also thought of our current government when reading this. Iain Duncan Smith's already made some comments that strike me as skirting very close to eugenics territory.

Objection! I saw Michael Fassbender's helmet in Shame and it looked nothing like that.

This is an Australian film. No way is there going to be a paucity of violence!

Her script reader seems to be doing a hell of a job steering her towards the best roles. Maybe they could diversify? Colin Farrell isn't blind as far as I know, but he sure as hell needs someone to read the scripts he's interested in beforehand.

That's appalling, although I am weirdly impressed that he did a sting on corrupt Wall Street traders as well. You'd have thought joining in on the progressive pogrom against our benevolent masters would have disqualified him from the Republican party.

"Tonight on NBC! Joe tries to stop John nagging him by cancelling the filibuster, but John has tabled a motion to cut off funding - to Joe's wallet! Can Barack sort it out before the flatmates hit a debt ceiling?"

It's true! It's a nightmare for all the alligators living down there.

I absolutely love Tideland, but I think the thing that makes me love it is also what makes other people hate it; its tone is so mixed and ambiguous that it's often hard to see what Gilliam wants you to take away from it. For me, I like the hard work, and I love the direction and the lead performance so much that I'll…

And he lost his job because that's what he was doing. David Vitter proves that conservatives can ignore any amount of hookers if you're the right kind of reactionary, worker-crushing, woman-hating scumbag.

The Bible lists a whole bunch of things in which we as humans shouldn't do, but for some reason homosexuality is always the most controversial.

I love this bit. You can just see him starting to corpse...

In fairness, it's much easier to be a fully actualised sexual being with a very natural, giving relationship with their G-spot if you have literally nothing else that's more urgent to do with your time.

Would recommend! It tells a difficult story in a way that's warm and charming without short-selling any of the pain at its centre. And Dench and Coogan make a wonderfully unlikely screen pairing.

That movie was No Country for Old Men. Unless it was Skyfall. Or it could have been The Counsellor.

June Squibb was brilliant. I think Sally Hawkins should get a bit more love too, she was brilliant in Blue Jasmine.

I was hoping Adele Exarchapolous would get in there as a wild card. I forgot Meryl Streep did something this year which no-one really liked but, eh, it's Meryl Streep.

This is brill. I haven't seen Her yet - it isn't out in the UK for another few weeks - but some of the things you've written reminded me a lot of Robot and Frank, another (terrific) movie which ignores the overworked 'machine gains sentience' plot in order to explore the slippery territory between AI and pure…

People describing what Benedict Cumberbatch looks like is always funny. The best ones I've heard so far are "a Golem made of curd cheese" and "like Sid the Sloth from Ice Age, but in a sexy way".

It got more than I was expecting to, actually - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor is not a bad set. I was expecting it to be the major snub of the year given how it's gone over with some of the older Academy members.