Colman has already been in Doctor Who in 2010. It says a lot that even though she was well on her way to becoming a national treasure by then, they threw her away in a nothing part.

“and Captain America (with a swastika tattooed on the back of his head)“

*cough* Florence Pugh *cough*

Beckett’s dead so he can’t sue.

Fun fact: Jason Connery’s version - who plays the aristocratic Robin to Praed’s peasant - is slotted into a fictionalised take of a genuine noble/royal family of the period. At one point it’s casually mentioned that this Robin’s uncle is King of Scotland.

Enya wasn’t the lead singer and wasn’t involved in ‘Robin of Sherwood’.

“Did she die in vain?”

The irony here is that ‘Prince of Thieves’ swiped a whole bunch of stuff from ‘Robin of Sherwood’ that it didn’t realise was invented for that show, including the now standard “Saracen in the Merrie Men” trope.

Lincoln grayne - corrupted over time to become “Lincoln green” - was a shade of red.

And not a single mention of the scene where the prince swears revenge on the Scots while throttling a pair of swans, which almost - *almost* - makes up for Stephen Dillane’s King Edward not chewing nearly as much scenery as Patrick McGoohan did in the same part.

‘Berberian Sound Studio’ wasn’t Peter Strickland’s feature debut: that would be ‘Katalin Varga’ (2008).

“Wagner and Ezquerra’s work was too violent and brought in a different writer and artist”

“In her first scene, she calls the whole relationship “a by-product of my inexplicable obsession with emotionally distant men,” not the sort of line you hear in too many superhero movies.”

What’s wrong with Duckman?

The Batman actor turnover rate is already quite high.

“Captain America and The Fantastic Four both got hokey and ultra-cheap adaptations, movies that are near-unwatchable by today’s standards.”

The short story is adapted fairly faithfully as the first 10-15 minutes of the film; the rest of the film is “what happened next”.

The scene with two humourless scumbag gangsters getting more and more stressed and impatient as Candi introduces a complete stranger to her unique worldview is a) hilarious and b) a perfect pre-emptive metaphor for clueless viewers who somehow imagine that the purpose of a narrative (and ‘Twin Peaks’ in particular) is…

It wasn’t dumped on BBC2 - it was made specifically for BBC2, which was created to show the more challenging, less populist stuff that couldn’t get onto BBC1. (These are relative terms obviously, but even 18 years ago BBC1 was acheing mainstream, and the main difference between then and now is how much BBC2 has been…

‘Walk Like a Panther’ was made by Fox International Productions, so technically it’s not a British film. And I suspect it only got a UK release because they were hoping to cash in on the success of another film with the word “panther” in the title.