Impressionists. It’s hard to know whether to laugh at them or kill them by strangling them with their own vocal chords.

Alas, they’re not all idiots. Some are rather good and inventive with it. Of course, most aren’t. Most are jarring nincompoops.

However, one chap has an A-to-Z of celebrity impressions and, while some aren’t too hot, some are really, really great.

In the alphabet of impressions, you’ll hear George Clooney, Matt Damon, Eddie Izzard, Patrick Stewart, Ron Howard, Kevin Spacey and a very, very splendid take on Quentin Tarantino and John Malkovich.

Unless you hate impressionists.

Then you’ll obviously hate this video so hard that it’ll actively give you energy and you’ll stomp around and beat your fists on your head with blind rage.

Or not.

Who cares? Watch this mildly distracting video and make your own stupid mind up.

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Warning: Brace yourself for a sickening display of cinematic affection.

As far as movies based on lunar missions go Moon is up there with the best of them. With only one man and a computer voiced by Kevin Spacey, this is a film that blows the dust away from the sci-fi genre.

This is movie that not only pays homage to the likes of Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey but also turns expectations and marks itself as a visionary exploration on what it means to be human.

It is helped in no small way by Sam Rockwell, here playing the aptly named Sam. The film relies completely on his performance and if you are familiar with Rockwell then it comes at no surprise that his enigmatic screen presence makes Moon not only absorbing but also completely believable. Dealing with agoraphobia, mortality and paranoia, Rockwell never falters in his portrayal, and further cements himself as one of the best ‘oh, I recognise him from something’ actors out there.

What helps the film is its sheer restraint to be anything bordering on mainstream. One time Zowie Bowie (son of David) Duncan Jones directs the film with care and passion. Not relying on computer generated effects – something that has become a prerequisite of modern sci-fi – and instead using practical methods of creating an environment that not only looks startling (and not just in crisp high definition) but also adds a layer of authenticity often lacking in today’s cinema.

This method also helps you feel connected to the environment and helping to add to the unsettling nature of the picture. When Sam falls deeper into the mystery surrounding an accident, we are never sure what is real and what isn’t. Can we truly believe a narrator who seems to be both mentally and physically deteriorating before our eyes? The film constantly makes you question what is going on, leaving the audience constantly in the dark – a brave decision in an impatient age.

As the pieces of the puzzle fall into place then it becomes clear that each twist and turn has been clever crafted and the story forms together to create something truly memorable. It may be compared to the likes of Blade Runner but as far as intricate storytelling then it is on a par with recent directional debuts such as Christopher Nolan’s Memento and Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko.

Much like the aforementioned it takes the genre to new levels, often by making the ideas big and the storytelling simple – Something that Hollywood seems to have forgotten to do.

The Blu-ray release delves deeper into the process, featuring commentaries with Duncan Jones, Q&A sessions and behind the scenes footage. The only thing it lacks is major input from Rockwell. Still, you can’t ask much more than a high definition package that makes a visionary film truly visually spectacular.

Hecklerspray rating: 4/5

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Kevin Spacey is a well-respected theatrical artistic director. This is mostly because all the films he's made lately have been cack.

It's true – look at K-Pax, Pay It Forward, The Shipping News, Fred Claus. Kevin Spacey can't even make a Superman movie these days without everyone thinking it's a bag of stupid donkey pubes.

But, hey, look at this – Kevin Spacey is in 21, and 21 is the number one movie at the US weekend box office this week. And 21's success is definitely because Kevin Spacey is in it, not because loads of attractive young folk hint at scenes of graphic rumpy-pumpy in the trailer. No sirree.

21 is the number one movie at the US weekend box office, and it's surprising not just because it's a vaguely successful Kevin Spacey movie. We're surprised that 21 is the top movie at the weekend box office because it's a movie about card games – an internal pursuit that's notoriously difficult to get right cinematically. And we're pretty sure that it's the cards that made people go and see 21. Because it definitely couldn't be the constant insinuation that you'll get to see Kate Bosworth's sweater-potatoes. Here's the US weekend box office top five…

1 - 21 (Honestly, we're stumped as to why 21 has been such a box office draw. We've seen Casino Royale, after all, so we know that movie card games only work when there's a bearded French policeman whispering a patronising step-by-step commentary about what's going on during the games. And we refuse to watch 21 until one of those has been digitally inserted) $23,700,000

2 - Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Riding high in the weekend box office for the third week running, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is now officially the second most successful movie about an elephant that can hear dust after that dream we had once when we were off our shit on over the counter decongestant medication) $17,425,000

3 - Superhero Movie (Forget that it's a critically-massacred, badly thought-out, oddly-timed 15th-generation retread of Scary Movie, the poor performance of Superhero Movie means that its producers have to face the ultimate humiliation – it hasn't even done as well as Meet The Spartans. People have thrown themselves off bridges for less) $9,510,000

4 - Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns (This is a shock – a Tyler Perry movie that hasn't crashed in at the top of the weekend box office. Perhaps the wheels have fallen off the 'black actor dressed as an elderly woman' trend. If that's true then it spells certain financial ruin for Tyler Perry. On the other hand, though, it means that Big Momma's House 3 is less likely to happen, so we're probably OK with it on balance) $7,760,000

5 - Drillbit Taylor (So the first post-suicide attempt Owen Wilson movie has been a bit of a flop. Still, now he's back on his feet we're sure his next film will propel him to the top of the Hollywood pile agai… what? It's going to be a romantic comedy? About a dog? Co-starring Jennifer Aniston? Dear lord, hasn't the man suffered enough already?) $5,800,000

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