Saw this on BBC, but while I really wanted to love it, in the end the plot holes were just too massive. The man that nobody could touch and he accepts this complete stranger into his camp and within days has him fronting shady deals with open access to everything, despite his olld friend Corcoran's misgivings. It…

There used to be a Museum of the Moving Image on the South Bank in London, and one of the exhibits was a big screen showing something very much like this, with stirring music that complemented the action. I remember it being really thrilling and, while I liked this, I didn't think it quite hit the spot. Not with…

Absolutely, and the photos of him back in the day and interview with him now were by far the most interesting part of the documentary, but I think if you're going to do something like this, you could at least be comprehensive about it and not airbrush everyone non-Collins out of the picture. I understand John Mayhew,…

But bloody well!

Apologies - I did mean Danny Kirwin. I also love Sunny Side of Heaven on Bare Trees.

Crikey, season FOUR?? I haven't even had the heart to tackle Season 3, 'cos I knew it would be convoluted - I loved the first two, but barely kept up with them. Oh, well, I'll take a look when I'm feeling brave, but my partner can't handle complex plots any more so I'll have to go solo.

The recent BBC documentary didn't - they assembled the "classic" line up in a studio to reminisce, but while Philips got a good nod (and an interesting interview, off on his own) apparently they had no drummer before Collins and no vocalist after him, either.

And The Final Cut, which he pretty much completed on his own having fired Wright.

Someone got me "Bare Trees" in the late 70s, and I didn't know what to make of it. It's subdued musings seemed so at odds with the brash, commercial sound that had rocketed them to fame, I originally found it dull and curious, but over the years I've grown to love it. Chris Welch's stuff is lovely, and the musical…

I saw this at the LFF back in October and loved it - I found it a bit over-complicated and over-wrought but deeplly imaginative and engrossing, even somewhat sinister. I think it's a film that bears repeated viewings, and I'm surprised at the disimissal here.

This only makes them sound as if they have speech impediments.

After my own father died, I found that there were parts of this album I just couldn't listen to any more - they actually made me cry.

Sometimes it feels it's so underrated that I think I must have dreamt it.

A variety of songs from Poe's brilliant (and massively underrated) "Haunted" album, which she made after discovering, after her father's death, a box of tapes of his voice - lectures, little messages to her, as well as old voicemail tapes with him on them. They're scattered throughout the album, including at one…

I'm a late convert, and am still on Season One, but I look forward to getting up to this season if only to see Cush Jumbo. She did a one-woman show about Josephine Baker at the Bush Theatre in West London a couple of years ago and was utterly fantastic.

I haven't seen Starballs for a while, but I remember not finding it very funny. Probably needs a revisit.

I love Airplane, but there is a problem not only with it being dated, but the - dare I say - provincialism of some of the jokes, especially the riffs on ads of the time ("Jack never has a second cup of coffee at home"). I saw this, for the second time, in a cinema in London with my brother. We'd both grown up in the…

"So, Mr Rivers, it seems you have become, how do you say, indispensi….ble?"
"Indispensible".
"Yes, that is what I thought".

Worth pointing out - if nobody has - that Bernard Fox is in both versions!

When I was talking to him he was cool, detached and aloof enough, with a patient smile on his face, for me to realise, even as I rambled on, that it was a huge mistake. The laughter as I walked away (he said something to the bartender who'd witnessed the whole thing, the bartender laughed) was a pisser, but I can't…