Went up a mountain today (well, a Munro), then watched Sherlock. Spoiler-free assessment: It could have been a lot worse, bits of it were pretty good, and then I hated the ending with a fiery passion.

No, it's a Risk-style game for really hardcore boardgamers.

She's pretty and looks good in black with absurd hair.

Bad Santa, Die Hard, and The Muppet Christmas Carol are my personal trifecta.

You need a room lined completely with mirrors, at least four people capable of walking on their hands (any less and it's just a menage a trois), and a DeLorean with the Flux Capacitor optional package.

Henry Cavill may be Superman, but he'll always be the asshole in Neil Gaiman's Stardust to me.

She can do all the Downton she wants, Michelle Dockery remains a pretty good choice to play Susan Sto Helit to me.

I don't want to be a killjoy, but kidney transplant surgery does not seem like something you should do competitively.

The Woman In Black?

It's the hard work. And given that he's apparently too smart to even need daily briefings, he'll probably find presidenting just effortless.

Cats are suppressing all information about themselves in order to ensure humanity is helpless when the time comes.

A colleague of mine who reads the Daily Hate website unapologetically tells me it's claiming that they're secretly engaged.

How is Tori Kelly not a porn name?

1. Natascha McElhone

I know little about musicals, but I know Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is great fun, and Jane Russell is awesome.

What is with American sitcom characters' obsession with close-harmony a capella singing? I mean, I spent six years at choir school (I wasn't in the choir), I have friends in Wales, and I've never met anybody who felt the need to go out and sing at strangers even for fun, much less competitively.

*Croikey!

Hobo Hobbits?

England's bastard name is Crumpets.

There's a very long list of reasons. But Elektra's training montage of stabbing bags of sand while Wake Me Up plays is one of that film's absolute lowest points, and it has a lot of low points.