We know from Olivia Colman during her acceptance speech that she’s one of the attendees who appreciated the sandwiches. . . .

I watched them film a bit of A Dog’s Way Home in my small town in the British Columbia Interior in (I think) early fall of 2016; they filmed the scene of the dog running down a street with a white, domed building on the left (it’s at 1.20 of the trailer; we don’t have that many mountains in the background). The…

‘Randy just lay there like a slug. It was his only defence.’ is something I saw often about the larger and more sedentary of our two cats. (His name isn’t Randy, but the rest fits.)

Sounds like this would make a great double-bill with the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Hound of the Baskervilles (1978), which starred some of the funniest actors in Britain (besides Cook and Moore, there are Kenneth Williams, Joan Greenwood, Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Penelope Keith, Prunella Scales, Denholm Elliott,…

I spent so many Saturday nights babysitting with The Love Boat and Fantasy Island on in the background. . . .

I love the John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together soundtrack. Denver and Rowlf the Dog’s rendition of ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ is my favourite version of that song (sorry, Judy), and when I was emceeing the local choir’s Christmas concert at the weekend I stole Denver’s spoken intro to…

I was prepared for The Terror’s shutout at the Globes, because of it failing to get even one Emmy nod, but that doesn’t make me any less disappointed. I thought it was one of the most brilliant things I’ve seen on TV in years, with outstanding performances, cinematography, direction, music, and writing. The fact that…

And don’t forget the wonderful Ruth Hussey as Liz. I don’t think the movie would work nearly as well without her down-to-earth character as a neat counter-balance to Tracy. One of my favourite scenes is the one with Hussey and Grant where they talk about Stewart; Hussey and Grant clearly have a boatload of chemistry,…

I loved it years before I played Aunt Abby in a production two years ago.

According to the Stratford Festival, which Rain co-founded in 1972, he died of natural causes in Stratford, Ontario.

Carol, on the other hand, has been one of the consistently best characters so I can get behind locking her down if the show is going to continue on

Fun fact about A Bridge Too Far: When he heard that Richard Attenborough was planning on making a film about Operation Market Garden, composer John Addison - who had won an Oscar for Tom Jones - approached Attenborough and asked if he could score the film. The main reason? During WW II, Addison had been with the…

(British Columbia also throws fireworks into the mix, because why not?)

Karen’s death scene in ROTLD is way, way more affecting than it has any right to be, largely because of Karen’s acting chops.

I’ve loved this book so much since my Grade 5 teacher read it to our class way back in *cough1973cough*. I immediately got a copy (through the Scholastic Book Club, natch) and still have that dog-eared paperback. I loved the wordplay, the characters, the premise, Jules Feiffer’s illustrations; everything. And I grew…

Sorry, I meant the 1963 film version of Jackson’s novel, The Haunting. The House on Haunted Hill is something else entirely; I think he’s seen the remake with Geoffrey Rush but not the Vincent Price original.

I let my son watch Shaun of the Dead when he was eight, and Psycho when he was 10. I’d been reading him classic ghost stories since he was four or so, and he’d seen films like the original King Kong and The Haunting of Hill House (in the case of Shaun, he was already watching Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and Blackadder…

Jamie Lee Curtis and Melissa McBride both rock that short, spiky haircut look. And someone needs to cast them in the same project; they could easily pass for sisters, but seeing them together in any context would be awesome.

It’s also nice that Enid has grown out of the ‘mopey teen’ phase. As for the complaints about ‘She was in a wheelcahir last episode and she’s not now’: it’s clearly established that on the show, a month has passed since the last episode, so you’d hope she’d have recovered from whatever injury she had.

The only (legal) pot shop in British Columbia that will be ready to open its doors on October 17 is an hour down the road from me in Kamloops, so I expect it to figure pretty heavily on the newscasts.