"Setpiece" might be putting it a bit strong, but the scene in Dressed To Kill where Angie Dickinson discovers something awful in the desk drawer of the stranger she's just had sex with had me in hysterics. (The subway scene is a great setpiece though.)

Was "Magic Carpet Ride" as ubiquitous in late-90s cinema as I remember, or did I just watch First Contact and Go too many times?

It certainly made the punch land harder when Daniel mentioned him to his mother in the season 3 finale.

The dub cast looks like a pretty good one - Fred Armisen, Jared Padalecki, and Vincent D'Onofrio as The Man With The Broken Face!

Bran's sole other purpose (other than telling Jon about his parentage) at this point is to take out the White Walkers by warging into Dany's dragons, surely? I suppose he could teach Arya and Jon how to do it, but eh…

You beat me to the Zone Troopers recommendation! Bilson & De Meo's work for Charles Band's Empire Pictures were some of the most fun films from that period in general, especially Trancers.

I've only seen this film once, screened from VHS in a bar here in London three years ago, but I flat out loved out. My friend who put on the screening tried to get an interview with Vanity for his accompanying zine, but she'd only oblige if he donated hundreds of dollars to her psychic phoneline.

I'm intrigued, what "political reasons"? That it was a consolation for not winning the Director's Fortnight as they awarded that to another director posthumously?

Internet anonymity means I can report back on my few days at Cannes without concern of representing my employer - hooray!

Surprised to see no mention of Robert Bloch's Psycho 2 (1982), 23 years after the original. It bears no resemblance to the film Psycho II released the following year.

It is an image from the actual film - there's occasional 're-enacted" shots of people in costumes hanging around a film set.

McKee had a one-two punch of bad experiences following May - he made The Woods for MGM, where they apparently second-guessed him at every turn, and then he was replaced as director of Red (not the Bruce Willis film) midway through. He got a second wind with The Woman, and has been happy to stay in the independent…

Do I get to be the first non-snarky comment? Hurrah! This is probably my favourite Clint Eastwood film, a really twisted, subversive slice of Southern Gothic. It doesn't really need a remake, but there's potential for Coppola to do some really interesting with it. Seek out the original in the meantime!

Great shoutout for Mercury Fur, which is really shaping up to be a classic of contemporary theatre. I've seen three productions (technically two, one being transferred to the West End) and it's been an amazingly nightmarish experience every time. Will always be gutted that a late train prevented me from seeing the…

The one and only time I've seen Shellac was at The Breeders' ATP in 2008, where they were billed as the "house band". An hour before their set, my mother called me to tearfully tell me that she had been having an affair for the last six years and that she and my dad were separating. I was shellshocked and had no…

The film you're talking about is Never Too Young To Die, an incredible piece of 80s trash (you forgot to mention the Robert Engl cameo!) that I bafflingly unavailable on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Uh, Total Recall is 25 years old.

I've just been watching season 6 of 24 (the one with Jack's evil dad), and what you've just described sounds more credible than anything in this ridiculously dumb season that I dearly hope is the show's lowpoint.

*sigh* I wish I could join in the snark here, but no. Quaid is (well, was, I guess) a terrific actor who gave great performances in some of my favourite films. The Last Picture Show, The Last Detail, Parents, Freaked…seeing him go deeper and deeper into drug-addled idiocy is just deeply, deeply depressing.

Also, as a younger man, Critters and Critters 2.