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Yeah that's definitely something worth pointing out. Picard as written is pretty stoic, reserved and dutiful which aren't particularly intoxicating characteristics for a main character in a sci fi, yet I love him, and that's pretty much all down to the performance.

Aside from Star Trek and X Men, which he was amazing in, I love him in I, Claudius. Utterly menacing.

Beyond gutted. Riveting actor, never once saw him phone it in, even during atrocious storylines in Star Trek. I sold him a coffee machine once. RIP

Hey look it's the guy from King of the Hill!

I've had 66 mince pies so far.

I've not watched either in 20 years probably, but as a kid both of them were equal in my mind. I love the evil painting dude, the slime, Ally McBeal fella from the second one. I suppose if I had to put a mark against 2, Dan Ackroyd doesn't get his cock sucked in it (that we know of).

Volcano Sad proof that you can't just put Tommy Lee Jones in a film and have him make it good. Truly stupid and boring. Shouldn't be called Volcano, but Slow Moving Lava. Deep Cover Laurence Fishbourne might have been the coolest looking guy in the world in 1992. I loved this. Got it's problems. The plot is a mess by the end and you're asked to believe that Jeff Goldblum is a psychotic hardcase because he's slicked his hair back, but he's so good in the first two thirds as a coked up bent lawyer that it's a net positive performance, Very stylish, Larry F in fine form. Not sure how I've never seen this, I used to listen to the Dre and Snoop track from the soundtrack all the time. Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann A man on a motorbike is accidentally transported back in time to the old west, and ends up becoming his own great-granddad. I think? I was certain this was a cheap Back to the Future knock off, but was stunned to learn that this came out a full three years before it. Despite the cool premise, this isn't great. The main character is so fucking dumb that he never realises he's time travelled for the entire film.

There was a guy called John Lewis on Twitter who would amusingly reply to people trying to complain about the shop.

Frank Leboeuf never won = fake award

Married to Dick Ebersol, of that weird series of SNL and Saturday Night's Main Event fame.

On a Spotify note, I love the smart shuffle mode that means that instead of just listening to the playlist you've put together on shuffle, it "smartly" will add in all the obvious songs you've deliberately avoided. Thankfully if you turn it off, it will helpfully just put it back on a few days later.

Yeah, I wonder what a dark version of that character would be like? I dano, I can't imagine it.

They will NEVER do another Riddler after Jim Carey, I GARENTEEE IT.

When I first started listening to podcasts, one of my favourites was Never Not Funny hosted by comedian Jimmy Pardo. He's married to Danielle Koenig, daughter of Walter. He would occasionally mention stories about Walter, the Star Trek cast (except Shanter, a twat, of course) coming to family events in a big group, including Nichelle Nicholls insisting on giving a speech at his wedding even though she didn't know Jimmy really at all. He always sounded like a super nice guy. Decent enough actor, and for a guy who was hired on the basis he looked like Davey Jones, he did pretty well.

Social media is about the only place you'll get a response I imagine. Try finding a company complaint phoneline in 2026...

I posted at the time I saw the film that he couldn't do Foghorn Leghorn very well, which is true, but I should have also said that he was pretty fantastic at all the others. A real loss.

My brother was at that show as well. I think I've posted about this before, but he's had no interest in wrestling his entire life, but started going to VPW shows in his fifties and really getting into them. He was very impressed with Zack Sabre Jr.

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer Pretty surface doc going over the basics of Herzog. It's probably impossible to make a boring documentary about him, but this really didn't go over anything I didn't already know, and I don't consider myself an expert. Having just watched the De Palma doc recently where they went over every one of his movies giving them pretty much equal weight, I was crying out for something like that. I want to hear his thoughts on Salt And Fire damn it! Better Off Dead Very daft comedy starring John Cusack in a rare non-irritating performance. You can tell this went on the influence the Wet Hot American Summer team, probably more the Zucker Abrahams Zucker movies. If a joke misses, there's another not far away that hits. Good stuff. The Fury More De Palma I'd not seen. Anytime I felt myself losing interest something absolutely insane or ridiculous would happen, whether that be a woman bleeding from her fingernails or a huge group of smiling Middle Eastern men in keffiyehs getting on fairground ride, laughing and waving. On the one hand it's not a classic, but it's got so much good shit in it.

Amazing, congratulations mate. Next interview I have, i'm going to go full Spud.

Chris Waddle?

Greetings A very early De Palma film. This one's shit. There's no plot, it's loosely centered on three men avoiding the Vietnam draft and we see various unconnected scenes featuring them. It's a comedy, it's also not funny in any way. Notable for being Robert De Niro's first credited feature film. He's fine, but it's not a reason to see this. Nearly turned it off a few times, but powered through, to my detriment. The Five Heartbeats A fictional biopic about a Motown style soul group, following them over 30 years. It's a good companion piece to That Thing You Do. I'm a sucker for films that have an epic scope, and while this is pretty cheesy in places, I was really invested. Interesting to see director and one of the stars, Robert Townsend, doing a non comedy. Great cast choc full of people you've seen in small roles elsewhere, shining here.

The wrestling move name thing probably comes from wrestling games I'd imagine. They always gave finishers names that didn't actually exist.