Good calls! Especially the latter which also stars Lee Remick and Jeremy Brett. I love the scene where his PK powers bring down Westminster Abbey on the assembled Great and Good!!

Where’s the rest of his tie?

Is your name Sherlock? Do you tend to take no shit?

Very sad news! An actor who always made a film more watchable. His ‘Hurricane’ Dixon in One False Move is a classic.

They’ve each been promised a place as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Giuliani could be war or famine.

A very interesting addition to the interpretation of Ex Machina. It’s also worth considering that the adequacy of the metaphor of Mind as ‘inner’ and Body as ‘outer’ is called into question (or should be) in such films.

“Cannot be understated”. This is surely wrong —his role, central as it was, cannot be overstated.

You’re absolutely right! It is, however, a brilliant conceit written and (I think) directed by Nicholas Meyer who, apart from his Star Trek work, wrote two brilliant Sherlock Holmes stories: The Seven Percent Solution and West End Horror. In the first, Sherlock has a nervous breakdown after the Reichenbach Falls and…

Glengoyne is also very good — and an ingredient in Cutty Sark — one of my favourite blended whiskeys

Talisker is my favourite. A lovely distillery to visit.

And let’s not forget Eomer — “Theoden stands alone” “No, not alone” (I may have misremembered the words)

Great, now everyone in Europe hates us too! I wonder if North Korea is feeling this lonely...