The Banana Splits show was a pretty big deal in Canada as well when it was made. I can (just) remember watching it when it originally aired, although was more familiar with it in reruns, when The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn aired during the show. The theme song is almost unbearably catchy and memorable, and is…

The scene where Liz goes to collect Mike from Dex’s place has a lovely interchange between Dex and Liz, and based on that I sometimes imagine the movie ending with Mike and Tracy getting married and Liz and Dex realising they’re perfect for each other. Not that I have any objection to the ending as it stands (and the…

Wish I could like this comment about Dinah more than once. Weidler is absolutely delightful and natural, and more than keeps up with the grown-ups around her.

He deserved an Emmy for The Terror, and wasn’t even nominated. Then again, you could have filled both actor categories with the cast of The Terror, and the series received zero nominations, which still has me shaking my head.

Knives Out sounds like a cross between Gosford Park and Sleuth (the 1972 original, not the crappy remake) by way of Agatha Christie, which means this is now at the top of my must-see list.

I’m an anglophone Canadian and I’ve always pronounced ‘genre’ the way Trebek does, as do most of the Canadians I know (not that it’s a word that comes up in conversation a lot).

Historica Canada has produced a lot of Heritage Minutes detailing events and people in Canadian History, including one about the Halifax Explosion, where telegraph operator Vince Coleman tries to warn people - including an in-bound train with 700 passengers - about the danger:

There have been five dedicated Spider Man movies since 2002, plus the character has appeared in at least six other films since 2016. There has been one (1) Little Women movie since 1994, so Hollywood has some way to go to redress the balance.

Because sometimes you can’t build a fish ladder because of terrain, or there’s a sudden landslide that blocks a spawning route. It just happened not far from where I live in the interior of British Columbia, where a rockslide was discovered in a remote and inaccessible part of the Fraser River near Big Bar. Spawning…

I live in the Interior of B.C., and am friends with someone in my small town who, as a child, was interned near Lillooet during WW II. After Pearl Harbour, Japanese-Canadians in British Columbia were also interned, and their property (mostly in the Lower Mainland in and around Vancouver) were forfeited. I grew up in…

Many years ago, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were doing a special episode of At the Movies in front of a live audience, and were asked what, in hindsight, was their biggest error of judgement in one of their reviews. Ebert replied that he had been dead wrong when, in his review of The Graduate, he wrote of the…

That “Four Seasons” medley is hilarious, when she’s telling the bandleader what she wants as accompaniment. His reaction is priceless. “Hear that? We just sort of follow along.

Not so fun Child’s Play fact: In 1993 two 10-year-old boys lured away and then murdered two-year-old James Bulger, who was with his mother in a shopping centre in Merseyside, England. I was living in Britain at the time, near Chester, which isn’t far from Merseyside, and the country was in the middle of the ‘video…

Agatha Christie saved lives. . . .

What’s more, cameras are constantly recording both inside and outdoors, including people who live deep in the forest and have cameras outside their homes.

They better cover Ogopogo.

Adjust thy monocle, for a new trailer for Julian Fellowes’ film adaptation of Downton Abbey has arrived, and, *gasp*, the Crawleys are “modern folk” now. “No maid, no valet, no nanny even!” cries Lord Grantham and we just...we couldn’t be more proud.

AJ (if I may be so bold), I loved your posts in the pre-fucking-Kinja days, and I love them now.

55-year-old mayor, award-winning journalist, and World Fantasy Award-winner (twice!) here. MAD was life from 8 through 13, along with ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes. It was SPY magazine that taught me to disrespect Trump.

Good on Ronan for expressing his appreciation for what he’d just heard!