I like it; I love it for the reconstruction, as an added feature, of the now lost 'spider pit' sequence from the original film.

And that Max Steiner score: wow. As you say, the 1933 Kong was made only six years after sound was introduced, and moviemakers were still trying to figure out how to integrate music and sound effects into films. Watch most pre-Kong talkies, and you realise that almost no one had a clue how to get music (soundtrack)…

I first saw the 1933 Kong when I was about eight (in 1972 or thereabouts), and was blown away by it. My son first saw it when he was about seven, so in 2004 or so, and loved it too; to the point where, after we had gone to see the 2005 Jackson version in the cinema, he said coming out 'It was good, but not as good as…

Great. A guy screws up and a woman takes the hit with him.

I've said it before, but rather than do their own In Memoriam segment, AMPAS should just pay TCM something and use 'TCM Remembers', which is vastly superior.

I watched all of the first season, picking out Vancouver landmarks I knew (hi there, Pacific Coliseum; I saw quite a few Canucks games there!) and then watched - with increasing ennui - the first half of the second series. I didn't miss it at all during the hiatus, and when I started seeing ads for the second half of…

This week in journalism (small town Canada edition): our deadline for ads is 3 p.m. Friday (we go to press on Tuesday and publish Thursday), and ads aren't even my job (as editor/sole journalist, but I tend to get copied on ad stuff after hours).

Fun fact about A Bridge Too Far: When composer John Addison (who won the Oscar for Best Score in 1963 for Tom Jones) heard that Richard Attenborough was going to be doing a movie about Operation Market Garden, he asked if he could do the score - in large part because he was a tank officer during WW II who took part in…

Just read the Wikipedia page. Fascinating story; and I'm going to have to track down Loving Miss Hatto, in part because Rory Kinnear is one of my favourite actors.

It should help; he showed a true spirit of Sherlockian diligence and application to solve a problem.

Totally unrelated, but . . . Around 2002, when my son was five, we were visiting a store that sold antiques. There was an old (c. 1940s, I'd guess) rotary dial wall phone on the wall, and my son was fascinated by it. After a few minutes he came running up and tugged at my arm.

But you're missing the point. If America was great again, there'd be no need for foreigners to come work for NASA; there would be no shortage of qualified Americans.

'Naderi, meanwhile, is a veteran of NASA who in his time there served as director of Solar System Exploration and held other ridiculously impressive jobs.'

Another Psychoville fan! Didn't realise the Get Out played Tea Leaf as well.

I've said before that I'm not shipping Carol and Daryl - as Zack says, they have a more brother/sister feel to their relationship than anything else - but damn, it was good to see them reunited. Melissa McBride is, I think, the best actor on the show, and she and Reedus have an easy chemistry that sells all their…

Or you can just have your teenaged son install an ad blocker on your computer and not have to worry about it (thanks!).

If you look at Lansbury in her first movie role - 1944's Gaslight - it's hard to believe she was only 18 when she made it; she looks much older than that. The same holds true for most of her roles for the next 30-odd years; she always looked older than she actually was. Then, around the time of Murder She Wrote, she…

According to the credits, series writer/creator Daisy Goodwin played the Duchess of Inverness; which explains why the character came across as somewhat stilted in her limited screen time.

Yes, I thought the whole scene on the tower was a set-up for him getting killed, especially since the look on his face showed he'd found some solace in what he read in the Bible, and because Fancy Boots was clearly watching him. Any thoughts on who Fancy Boots is? I don't read the comics, and don't mind spoilers (just…

Did anyone else think, as Gabriel got in the car outside the gate and drove away, that someone sat up in the back right side passenger seat of the car? When he got in the car it was just him, but I'm sure I saw someone else sit up behind and to the right.