Snowbeast isn’t all that bad, and makes a decent stab at making the relationship between Bo Svenson and Yvette Mimieux interesting. Although why the mother of the Winter Carnival queen didn’t just put her truck into reverse when the beast was approaching, instead of blaring the horn and screaming, is beyond me.

I didn’t realise how much I wanted to see Charles Dance as Prince Philip - and how great that would be - until right now. Bring it on.

Olivia Colman is one of those actors who manages to be distinct in everything she does. The fact that you’d seen her in several things but couldn’t identify her is a testament to how much she immerses herself in each role, rather than playing the same character over and over.

Someone made a comment about how their parents love chain restaurants, because when they’re travelling to unfamiliar places they know what they’re going to get. That’s a valid enough point; but these days it’s easy to go online and find ratings for local restaurants, so you can tell in advance if they’re good places…

I grew up with the Paddington books and Peggy Fortnum’s wonderful illustrations. I’m sure the movie is great, but Fortnum fixed Paddington’s appearance in my mind, and this - isn’t it.

As someone who has read more books about the Franklin Expedition than is probably entirely healthy, and enjoyed Simmons’s ‘The Terror’ a great deal (I did a long interview with him about it for a magazine I was publishing at the time, and managed to meet up with him at a signing at the University Bookstore in…

Same with me; no really awkward moments with my parents (especially my mom, who is the sweetest, lovingest person on the planet and absolutely loves horror movies; we went and saw stuff like The Shining and Halloween in the theatre, and she was thrilled when our local video store got the original Texas Chainsaw…

I’m Canadian, but thanks to years of watching NHL games I know all the words to ‘The Star Spangled Banner’. I’m also a municipal council member, so I can say with some confidence that I’m better qualified than the short-fingered vulgarian to be POTUS (apart from the whole ‘not born in America’ thing).

Agreed. Eva Green deserved a ton more awards notice for that show than she got (which was zilch), and she and Rory Kinnear deserved nominations for the episode ‘A Blade of Grass’ alone (quite apart from their stellar work throughout the rest of the show). Genre shows just don’t get the love.

‘Sherlock Holmes scribe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, for example, shared his most famous creation’s love of the drink’

My then 18-year-old son worked on the set of the final Maze Runner movie in spring 2016, when it was filming just outside our small town in the Interior of British Columbia. One day he texted me from the set and asked if I’d ever heard of an actor named Aidan Gillen, who had just arrived on set (yes, I had). He also…

For a very un-John-Williams score, check out his beautiful soundtrack for 1979's ‘Dracula’ starring Frank Langella. Williams said at the time that he’d never seen a Dracula movie and so had no preconceived ideas about what the score should be, and the result is lush, romantic, and eerie by turns, completely unlike any…

‘Scandal’ was brilliant, and John Hurt’s performance as Ward was heartbreaking.

I know you wrote this review late on Christmas Day - and thank you for that - but David - not William - Bradley plays William Hartnell.

Just saw this article in The Guardian about a lost painting of Villiers done by Rubens has just been found in a National Trust property in Glasgow. It was thought to be a copy until an art expert spotted it and thought it could be the real thing.

Head over here, for Jay S.’s ‘Jeopardy’ recaps, What’s On Tonight, and more (plus lots of AV Club commenters).

Well, as a pre-teen in 1976, there were very few avenues available to me to find others who shared my passion. I don’t mean to sound snarky, but the difference between the 1970s and the 1990s - in terms of knowing what’s out there and how to find it - is pretty vast. I know; I lived through it. As a case in point:…

Unfortunately, as a 12-year-old girl in a Vancouver suburb in 1976, I had no idea of the existence of mailing lists, where to find them, or how to get on them. The existence of fan publications was also unknown to me. Maybe if I’d be in my twenties at that point I’d have had an easier time finding out these things;…

Sorry, got mixed up between ‘His Last Bow’ the short story and the collection of the same title. The story is the last chronologically, taking place on the eve of WW I, but the collection is the second-last one; The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is the last published collection.

I think, with the Holmes stories, the best way is to go through the novels and collections as they were published, starting with A Study in Scarlet and ending with His Last Bow. That way you get the experience of watching as Conan Doyle creates the now-iconic characters of Holmes and Watson, fleshes them out in the…