Tim Robbins: politically outspoken, grossly underrated. Anyway there's news he wants to direct his own version of Orwell's 1984 which sounds like a terrific idea, the novel being more relevant today than it ever was (take a couple drinks for the World Wide Web). Spank me because I haven't seen the original with John Hurt, but with a deluge of shit remakes already littering our screens, I can't see this one doing much harm. This is all tentative though so read more here.