That's one heck of a line-up, although I'd have swapped out Curse of Frankenstein for Quatermass and the Pit, as being more in keeping with the stiff-upper lip scientists and doctors theme (Andrew Keir is fine as Quatermass, but I love James Donald as Rooney to bits). And it's in black-and-white as well. Plus it…

In 1983 I was 19 and on holiday in England, having dinner at Fortnum's Fountain in London after seeing a show, when David Puttnam walked in. Chariots of Fire was my favourite movie at the time, and I'd seen Puttnam accept the Oscar for it, so knew who he was. All through the meal I wondered whether I should go up to…

The 'Baker Street' of the song is indeed the Baker Street of 221B - as in the home of Sherlock Holmes - fame.

I love it when Rick and Jann team up. They make a wonderfully snarky duo.

Carol managed to find somewhere to wash and shower between draping herself in walker guts and meeting up with the rest of the gang. So there's really no excuse for Rick and Daryl.

IT'S A COOKBOOK!

She's a completely believable character; light years from what she was in the first series, but her development has been consistent with what's happened to her and who she is as a person. I just wonder how the writers have managed that with Carol and with no one else in the series. Maybe McBride writes (or re-writes)…

Happened to tune in to a random few minutes of TWD marathon over the weekend, and saw (again) the scene where Merle and Carol talk, and he marvels at how different she is from when he knew her in the camp in the first series: 'A timid little mouse, afraid of her own shadow. You're a late bloomer.' And I thought…

I quote it all the time too; it's very useful indeed!

Jean Hagen in Singin' in the Rain is one of my idols.

I'm a straight woman, and - yeah, hard to disagree. Man, she's just sexy as all get out in that number, with legs that go on forever.

'If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as if our hard work ain't been in vain fer nuthin'.'

Looking forward to Strange Empire; the usually curmudgeonly John Doyle gave it a rave in the Globe and Mail this morning. And it was shot pretty close to where I live (BC interior); a friend who lives half an hour south of me does a lot of work as a film extra, and is in the series, and really excited about it.

Second or third or fourth all these. When I hear that music it means that Charlie Brown Christmas is about to come on, and woe betide anyone who interrupts, because this is my once chance to see it all year.

As soon as the Scottish unicorn and the Russian space gecko came out as mascots, I began laughing like crazy. Almost a day later I'm still smiling, thinking about it. I couldn't be bothered to go watch anything when the winter games were in Vancouver - 200 miles from where I live - but dammit, I'd fly to NYC in a…

Anyone else watching Downton Abbey? They can just give the Emmy for outstanding writing to Julian Fellowes right now, for the line in episode one where Lady Mary closes a conversation by saying 'I must go upstairs now and take off my hat.' I really, really hope that's a euphemism.

Yes and no. It cuts out a lot of the atmosphere that made me love the novel so much, and while Alice Krige is very good as Alma/Anna, her character is considerably diminished from what she is in the novel. On the other hand, the members of the Chowder Society are perfectly cast (great to see so many actors of a…

If you traffic in biting social commentary, it becomes rather toothless when the society being commented on ceases to exist.

Plus Bradley won a BAFTA for the role, so yeah, Nolte has his work cut out for him.

The Holmes films that came before the Gillette movie were one- or two-reelers (11 or 22 minutes long). Gillette's film, on the other hand, was a seven-reeler, so close to 80 minutes long. So yes, it's the first real Holmes film in the sense that it's what we understand to be feature film length, as opposed to what…