Brick actually isn't a bad film at all, mannered, pretentious and laboured though it is. See it.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death…

Well, I described a lamp as 'oriental' the other day and I was told that was racist now.

Then why don't you shut up?

If you think that's the point I'm making, you're a cretin.

Sam Adams isn't exactly Pauline Kael.

Because everyone loves JGL. Even I do, and I fucking hate actors, those frauds-for-hire.

"I can’t help but fear may occasion blowback once the film finds its way to less bohemian audiences."

He was just a humble fatty telling it like it is.

Candace and Toni and immortal comic creations.

I forgot this bit - it's not a song but it is a dazzling use of background music:

I thought the 'Cleveland Rocks' credits of that show were a great set-up for the show itself.

Very good choice. The striptease that isn't.

Ian Holm. The Greatest of All Napoleons. Even greater than Steiger.

" (I'm not actually that fond of the film, but it's a good moment)"

Why not the current one? I'd love to see him booed off stage having first been pelted with two litre plastic cider bottles full of biker urine.

Seacrest is a transcendant genius.

Her inability to converse with him suggested psychological issues. I mean, beyond the fact she's a hermaphrodictic clown with manic depression and shoe problems. Ryan saw that too. Did you see how he tried to detach himself from her? If he'd backed up any further he'd have been in Lake Michigan. He knows danger when…

Are you saying she's drunk again?

Don't refer to yourself in the third person. You're not Caesar.