Given the casting for Sue, I would bet a shitload of money I don't have that the casting process involved a lot of discussions about whether people would accept an interracial relationship in the movie. I know it's 2014, but Hollywood studios are big and timid beasts, and the world is full of pricks.

That's one of the most harrowing IMDb headshots I've ever seen.

It always fascinates me how much of our 'knowledge' of classic Gothic texts comes from the films made of them. When I was young an English teacher gave me a book by John Sutherland called Was Heathcliff a Murderer? which addressed some of the ambiguities in classic novels. It was the first time I found out that…

I found The Hurt Locker less bothersome than Zero Dark Thirty, definitely. But I'm still not sure I'd describe it as anti-war. Both of the films have this little grace note at the end about the toll war takes on people, but I'm not sure that makes up for the rest of the film. The characterisation of the Iraqis in TH…

Strange Days absolutely rocked my socks. HERESY CORNER: I like it much better than the serious shakycam vaguely right-wing war films Kathryn Bigelow does now.

I heard it was her clitoris, which probably explains why it took a whole movie for Joseph Cotten to find it.

If they have a child after the Oscars (where they will probably both win) that child will be a Best Supporting Actor and a Best Supporting Actress winner by descent. I think that's how it works, by bloodline, like the British aristocracy.

It's OK - now everyone knows it's a sled, they're not too fussed about keeping their secrets.

He was barely working when he signed up for them, though. Charlie Hunnam at least has Sons of Anarchy and Guillermo del Toro to fall back on; Pattinson had a small role in one of the Harry Potter films and some TV movies.

The breast cancer line always does it for me. I really fear that one day I'll be watching a heavyweight drama where somebody like Jennifer Connelly or Nicole Kidman gets breast cancer and I'll burst out laughing at the memory of it.

I must admit, watching Shia LeBoeuf do his schtick apocalyptically badly is making me come back round on Franco.

I feel really, really awful for not believing her, but the way she just brought it up as a casual aside in the middle of a generally insincere interview makes me side-eye.

Off to the comments section on the Affluenza article I go! Stay strong, you're fighting a noble cause.

Good to know, thanks! I like that line.

I can feel them on the paragraph quoted; it is always depressing when something revolutionary and principled becomes a commercial product. But it feels a bit assholish to criticise people who've just got out of a Siberian prison for being too focused on prison reform. If I'd been in there, it would probably be…

Tom Sizemore says that he was wrong about Elizabeth Hurley fornicating it withPresident Clinton, and that what had actually happened was that he was drunk.

He's the textbook equivalent of failing upwards, isn't he? I was puzzled when he brought out those (clearly edited after the fact to make him look better) diaries after he was sacked from the Mirror, because who's going to want to read the life story of someone who is primarily famous for insider share-dealing,…

Oh, I'm pretty sure it's canon that the devil is gay:

It may sound fucking stupid, but it is fucking magnificent.

I love how this has become a "favourite blasts" thread. Two of my favourites from The Guardian: Alexis Petridis on Vincent Gallo's solo album...