Watched 'Party Favors' with my husband last night. It was a gut punch first time round, and even worse when I knew what was coming. This show certainly didn't regard any character as 'safe', something a lot of other shows could learn from (yes, Walking Dead, I'm looking at you).

Re-watching this (I've convinced my husband to give the show a try), I thought that if Pietros had stayed around for one more episode things might have been very different for him.

I'm sure I don't know everything, but my son talks to me pretty frankly about a lot of stuff, so I think I'm safe. Plus I have a pretty good idea what he's up to, as when he's not at school, at work, cutting neighbours' lawns, teaching himself Russian, or binge watching Supernatural he's at his computer just off the…

This might be a controversial statement, but this show has the stupidest fucking teenagers on television.

As someone watching it from Gini's perspective, the whole 'Do I have to keep sleeping with you?' exchange doesn't come across as either creepy or funny, touching, and sweet; it comes across as the latest in a (probably) long line of situations where Gini is having to deal with what, precisely, her partner…

Rated PG for violence and coarse language, according to the Cineplex website. For what it's worth, the Helen Mirren film The Hundred-Mile Journey also has a violence and coarse language warning, but is rated G. No wonder parents are confused about what the ratings system means.

I love the movies TCM picks for the Essentials Jr. series. Imagine thinking that kids are smart enough to appreciate films like To Be or Not To Be, The Maltese Falcon, Lifeboat, the original Cat People, and Bringing Up Baby!

I loved Meet the Austins and The Moon By Night when I was a kid; read them over and over. Vicky was a wonderfully believable protagonist, and I can still recall incidents from the books as vividly as I recall some of my own family experiences.

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The opening scene, with Nora replacing the groceries for her family, was heartbreaking; I've never been through it (thank God), but I can imagine that must be the way it is for some people who've lost loved ones, keeping things in a permanent limbo because they might come back; not just keeping their rooms the way…

I thought exactly the same thing: that the scene was amazing, that Carrie Coon deserves a nomination for every award going (and to be known better), and that Wayne went from being a sort of "Yeah, whatever" character to someone truly interesting (and I'm really glad of this, because Paterson Joseph is an amazing actor…

Ellen Datlow has been saying this on the 'Year's Best Fiction' panel at every World Fantasy Convention I've attended (my first was 2005, and I've only missed one since). Maybe one day it'll be true, but I'm not holding my breath.

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I wondered that too; Williams didn't die until 1988. That said, I wonder if it might have turned into something a bit too Julian and Sandy-ish if it was Paddick and Williams together again. Not that I'd have minded seeing that, but it probably wouldn't have done the episode as a whole any good.

As a longtime fan of the mid-1960s BBC radio series Round the Horne - of which Hugh Paddick was one of the stars - it's always a delight to encounter him in 'Sense and Senility'. The first time I saw the episode, though, it was difficult to adjust to seeing Paddick, rather than just hearing him.

I'd already watched Gods of the Arena by the time I watched series 1, so knew that Batiatus was pretty ruthless when it came to getting his way; but seeing just how ruthless he could be, in this episode, knocked me sideways. When paired with Barca's death (which meant that much more, having come to know him in the…

Because there might be more people like me, who came late to the show and recognised how awesome it is, but who were disappointed to find that the AV Club only reviewed episode 1 of series 1. For belated reviews, gratitude!

"the film is the first step in a previously announced plan to tie all of the studio’s classic monsters—Dracula, the Wolf Man, that blind dude from Bride Of Frankenstein—into an Avengers-style mega-franchise."

I liked Jackson's King Kong well enough, but it was a bit of a letdown after all the expectation. Where the 1933 version doesn't waste any time getting the back story out of the way and getting to Skull Island, the remake faffed around for what seemed like forever. My son was 8 when the Jackson version came out, and…

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