To put it in British terms, the Republicans will be the Labour party, the Tea Party will be the Conservatives, and the alt-right nationalist party will be Ukip.

Plus if you watch the director's cut of Aliens, you learn that while Ripley has been 'frozen' six decades have gone by, and her daughter - who would have been a little younger than Newt when Ripley signed on for the Nostromo's run in Alien - has died aged sixty-something. So Newt is, in some ways, a stand-in for the…

Okay, another 'Boy, I'm sure old' post, but I remember seeing this when it was first released and being blown away by it. I happened to catch it on TV a few weeks back, and the special effects certainly stand the test of time. There's something about good practical effects (see also Carpenter's The Thing) that just…

I've never run across anyone saying that Carrie Henn's Newt was a gaping hole at the centre of the film, and can't understand why anyone would think that. She turns in an amazing performance for a) a non-actor and b) a 10-year-old, and plays Newt perfectly; after all, this girl has seen her entire family, as well as…

No; is the NT showing it in a live broadcast? (looks it up quickly) Ohmigod, they are! And - mirabile dictu - it's actually going to be at the multiplex closest to me - an hour away - on October 15!

Toby Jones
Rory Kinnear
Eva Green

Liked for over-all good taste, and especially for Anton Lesser.

I could have put that more clearly. Her first thought, when she saw something moving across the field, was that it was a cow or horse. Then she realised it was walking on two legs. She was a ways away, and in a moving car, and it was dusk, but she could tell it wasn't a person; too hairy. And bears don't walk upright…

I dimly recall the TV trailers as being pretty creepy; I think that's why my mom wanted to see it (as I said above, she loves scary films, whereas my dad, a retired Mountie, doesn't like them at all).

Um, no. I don't study the subject; it just interests me. I still have a shelf-full of books about Sasquatch (and Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster, etc.), but they're mostly from when I was a lot younger.

Yes, I often feel incredibly old around these parts.

My mother took me to see this in 1972, when I was eight, largely because I had just started going through a huge Bigfoot/Sasquatch phase and was reading everything I could get my hands on regarding the subject. I don't think my mom knew much about the film beyond the fact that it was about Bigfoot in some way, and…

Anyone know why a clip of each of the nominees in Best Leading Actor in a Drama was shown, before their names and shows were read out and the winner announced, while there were no clips of the Best Leading Actress in a Drama, just their names read out before the winner was announced? Maybe it was a rebuttal to the…

Stayed up until 1.30am PDT to watch The Revenant on cable. Stunning cinematography, but the 'feel-good' film of the year it is not. For people who felt that The Road was too light-hearted.

Anyone who's a fan of the novel (or movie) should read Kinsella's short story 'Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa' (from the 1980 collection of the same title). It's just about the narrator getting the 'If you build it they will come' line, creating the ball diamond in his field, and talking to Shoeless Joe when he…

The success of the Camel Corps (which used one-humped, or Arabian, camels) inspired the formation of the American Camel Company, which made the mistake of importing two-humped, or Bactrian, camels. When the camels came close to other pack animals, their mean nature and overpowering stench caused the mules, horses, and…

Thanks! It's been a while, like I said. . . .

My balogna has a first name
It's O-S-C-A-R
My balogna has a second name
It's M-A-Y-E-R.
Oh, I like to eat it every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way
With B-O-L-O-G-N-A.

I'm hanging on to mine for dear life. They made something that did one thing and did it brilliantly, so of course they stopped making it.

Next time pick 'veneer' for your drinking game word.