Er - no, it doesn't, really. But thanks anyway!

Yes, and it makes me feel very old.

I was doing some research into the 1945 Ealing film Dead of Night back in the mid-1990s at the British film studio where the Ealing archives were (are?) stored, and after I had finished my research (by being led into a Raiders of the Lost Ark-looking warehouse piled high with stuff, and told to take my time), the…

Not the favourite, but a favourite. The favourite would have to be It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, or the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, with an honourable mention to the woefully underseen and underappreciated A Child's Christmas in Wales starring Denholm Elliott.

One of my favourites is Charles Addams's poster for 1976's Murder by Death (I have a copy downstairs). I love Addams's rendering of the main characters, the trademark 'haunted house' behind them, and the fact that if you look carefully you can spot Truman Capote's Lionel Twain character in at least two different…

'They're coming to get you, Barbara' is the sound alert I get when my husband texts me. Since my given name is Barbara, it's especially fitting (although a bit odd when I'm attending a local government workshop and my phone goes off because I've forgotten to mute it as happened recently).

If anyone here was ripping the unendorsers, it's because many (most?) of them seemingly had no problem endorsing Trump despite his hateful/racist/xenophobic/demeaning comments about Muslims, Hispanics, women, the Khan family, African Americans, and the disabled; it was only when his comments were seen as potentially…

Watched Vera and Hinterland on PBS. Together the two police shows make for some fairly bleak viewing, the former being set in and around Newcastle on the northeast coast and the latter being set near Aberystwyth on the Welsh coast; neither are renowned as beauty spots, let's just say.

It could be worse; you could be a middle-aged suburbanite who goes to Walmart. At least Costco values its employees and pays them a decent wage.

I'd recommend 'Northwest Passage' anywhere in Canada. The prairies is good: 'Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again /

Just to tie this all together, here's a video of the song 'Unloveable' by Babybird, directed by Johnny Depp, which is basically 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' if you disregard the lyrics and just focus on the video. It's actually a pretty good four minute version of the story; very nicely shot and framed in…

I don't think Mr. Stevens' look in this scene is adoring so much as it is longing, which is quite a difference. As he gazes down at Kenton, he appears to be seconds away from trying to do something - touch her hair, stroke her face, kiss her - which is, it seems plain, what he wants, but is too afraid, to do.

But - where will I be able to watch endless repeats of the Jaws movies and Lara Croft: Cradle of Life???

Spy was the second magazine I ever subscribed to (after Twilight Zone).

Would footage (audio or visual) of Trump using the N-word really mean anything at this point? I mean, with all he's said about Hispanics and Muslims and women and disabled people and African-Americans, it took him confessing to sexual assault on (I presume mostly white) American women to get (some) people to say he'd…

'USA Today' and 'real journalism' aren't usually seen in the same sentence.

He's the one who owned the company that made baked goods, right? Him and his wife Dolly.

'It was weird to be in a movie that’s very clearly a period piece, but
that’s about a time that’s within my own memory. That’s really weird.
And conscious memory, not just vague, you know'

The end of days! Cats and dogs, living together!

When Trump mentioned how bad the Canadian health care system is, I thought my husband was going to punch the TV (he just yelled something very rude at Trump instead). He (my husband) had a quintuple bypass in March and an aortic aneurysm repaired last month - both within a very short time of being diagnosed - here in…