Your mum – summa cum crazy graduate from the Institute of Snap!thology.

Bright Star – achingly beautiful
In The Loop – second the AV Club contention that it is our generation’s “Dr. Strangelove”.

Full Disclosure: I actually saw both these movies about a month ago and not over Christmas but nobody has mentioned either of these yet and they are fantastic and should be watched over and over again.

His fantasy also seems to be about being reaaaaally misogynistic as well. Or was that just me?

Tarkovskey, Dominik and Herzog – oh my! Be still my film nerd heart.

I don’t want to sound all book-snob-literature-is-a-higher-artform-no-adaptation-ever-lives-up-to-its-source-material because so not true, but seriously, Yate’s book is a zillion times better than Mendes’ movie. I wanted so badly to love the film because the book is utterly devestating and brilliant but the film fell flat for me.

Thank you! Finally the perfect visual depiction of my post-”Primer” brain.

I guess this whole thing is an Untouchables reference but still surprised no-one has pulled out a Connery reference yet. It’s a Christmas miracle!

She’s not emotionless, it’s just that her people are Nordic.

But seriously, I think January Jones does a fabulous job as Betty. Betty is a mess of (most of the time) repressed emotions and the way that Jones lets glimpses of the pain and frustration and sadness and bitterness and emptiness flit across her face or seep through into little piece of business is pretty awesome.

I haven’t really been following this because, well, ugh. Ever since Sommers started his insane mutterings about how the nation NEEDS “Hey Hey” back, I’ve been living in a perpetual state of ugh. “Hey Hey” was never the good timey wholesome pure hearted beacon of family entertainment that Sommers has retrospectively been trying to cast it as. It was crude, racist, sexist and homophobic 20 years ago and I guess nothing much has changed. I’m guessing because nothing could entice me to actually watch either of the specials. But anyway, where is the baying for blood a la the furore over The Chaser’s Make a Realistic Wish sketch? Is this the lesson we are actually taking away from this? Black humour doesn’t fly but blackface does? Oh man, I fear for the fate of Saffran’s new show.

Yes! Not that everything needs to be a reference to everything else (refer to my comment above … Self zing?) but I really really loved the Officer Jim from Magnolia delivery of his to camera piece about Leslie.