Have you tried E45 for those cracks? It’s the only thing that really works for me.

“I can’t wait to watch Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood again!”

When you say boot polish, are you meaning...blackface? (I only ask because this is DW Griffith we’re talking about, here)

Battles were all fought a few yards from home. 

My special popcorn coconut oil went off. Five years I’ve scraped coconut out of that gigantic tub, I thought I’d be using it forever. It didn’t get mouldy, or look different in any way. But it suddenly started smelling like pumpkin! Is that what happens to coconut when it goes off? Well, I’m sure not using any funky…

I love how much you can feel HItchcock straining to get across what the scandal actually is in The Skin Game, because it’s so dirty you just couldn’t say it in a movie back then.

I love “Foreign Correspondent.” Even that early in his career, Hitchcock knew how to have fun with genre conventions (and damned near self-aware characters like ffoilot) without sacrificing a story’s tension.

Sweetcorn as a snack as you describe it sounds delicious.

Cloves: The undoing of many...

I love Cushing. He was just always enjoyable on screen, whether he was a baddie or a good guy, and seemed to commit to even the worst script. 

We’ve been rewatching TNG, and my 3 and a half year old son has been watching it with us. He likes it! I’m definitely a Picard gal. I like my starship captains to be capable of delivering a Shakespearean soliloquy or two :)

The good thing about truly wretchedly totally-bad Trek episodes is that they eventually become happy memories. By the time you’re done with your binge you’ll look back on it with weirdly happy memories, like a family trip with lost hotel reservations and running out of gas in the middle of Nebraska.

Have very much enjoyed Your Jean Cocteau film reviews these last couple of weeks. Please recommend a few of his films to start with for the uninitiated. Thanks in advance :-)

The strike finished before the season started, so its biggest effects are probably on the earlier episodes, besides shortening the season a little.

I don’t live in Minnesota so I can be hot! Above 80 is unfit for human existence. Summers here are beautiful but short, thankfully. I love to go for long walks in the afternoon, but when it’s hot like this outside I just can’t do it. By the time August rolls around, I’m ready for the six months of the year where we…

Season two was the year of the writers’strike. That is why it’s nigh-unwatchable, probably why they did the clip show, and it’s why no one would blame you for skipping ahead to the next season. S2 is just wretched. Stop torturing yourself!

I envy your love of the heat! I start to sweat if the temperature gets much above 72 degrees! I hate taking a shower and getting dressed and looking and feeling great and then going outside and turning into a wet rag mop. It’s like “Why did I even bother? I could have just rolled out of bed and gone outside and I’d…

Do you live in the northeast? I lived in Jersey for most of my life and the winter weather nearly killed me. It’s not the cold or the ice or the snow. It’s the constant grey skies and never seeing any light or blue skies for months on end. I now live in Florida. And while Florida has about a billion and one problems…

Glad to hear it! I will duly amend my post to “Hope things start to look a bit brighter (weather-wise) soon.”

Ah yes that is a problem, hence why I'll put on something I've seen dozens of times, but haven't watched for a while.