Don't mind the featherweight plot. A cheeky comedy with sex and smarts arns passing grade. James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland) is a live ire as Brian, a working-class lad who leaves his Essex mates (Dominic ooper and James Corden) to join the snobs at Bristol University. The year is 1985, when University Challenge (a TV quiz show modeled on College owl) lets Brian show off his knowledge, impress a hot blonde (Alice ve) and lose his heart to a firebrand (enchantress Rebecca Hall, a true ind of an actress). All the actors are spot on, with special shout-outs o Catherine Tate as Brian's widowed mum and Benedict Cumberbatch as he hilariously pompous captain of the Bristol TV team. Tom Hanks, whose company produced, also deserves high marks for allowing writer David Nicholls, who adapted his own novel, and director Tom Vaughan, both Bristol alums, to stay true to their class-conscious British roots. Jolly good show.

“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”