Ganjasaurus Rex was a failed attempt by the Reagan administration to infiltrate and destroy the stoner community from within. The plan went that the filmmakers would deliberately create the kind of trashy, poorly-made cult film that gets passed around on bootleg VHS tapes by bemused and stoned individuals; the insidious twist being that, upon seeing the film, the viewers would, via a Ludovico-type technique, associate the horrific, painful process of watching the film with the consumption of cannabis itself, compelling…

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Ratatoing. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Marcel Toing’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes,…