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If Ben Affleck’s a candidate, Matt Damon should be there with him. I can’t believe he’s getting serious roles now, the unconvincing baby-faced gimp.

Robin Williams – I always found him creepy even before Insomnia and One Hour Photo.

Hilary Swank – useful in rhymes, terrible in movies.

Any former models or wrestlers.

Crash is an excellent film. Kudos to it for getting across that racism is not just a one-way problem.

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overrated = helen mirren

well maybe not overrated. i think my gripe is that the excessive praise that's heaped on her seems to stem from a slightly misguided and patronising kind of sexism and ageism. i strikes me as unsubtle overcompensation.

her entire "first lady" aura come entirely from playing royalty and iron lady type characters (queen victoria, queen elizabeth, Q etc) but ask yourself really, REALLY how demanding are these emotionally barren haughty roles? what is it about playing them that makes her so fucking worthy? "a national treasure".

are we saying that by being a woman of a certain age still getting regular film roles she automatically qualifies for oscars? because if that is the case that's incredibly patronising i think. it seems to me to be entirely at odds with what feminism and equility should be all about. shouldn't be aclaimed on her not inconsiderable acting talents rather than the fact that she happened to play a kick ass woman boss in the james bond films? as if a kick ass woman boss is the stuff of fantasy and dame helen has come come to give hope to half the population opf the earth through her portrayal of a lady being in charge?

at this rate it won't be long till she's playing thatcher.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

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If Ian Curtis had lived, and enjoyed the ale…

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why does the world seem hell bent on rehabilitating the memory of thatcher at the moment

it's a worry

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Apparently the old gal's totally lost it...

She'd watch a dramatisation of the Falklands war and probably root for "that nice general bloke with the tache"

They like to remind us of Thatcher's policies in the hope that the general public put two and two together and notice the similarities between her and Blair, maybe.

That, and the fact that she'll probably pop her clogs this year.

ali osman anyone?