Woah!  Anybody who got that reference before it was explained must be feeling on top of the world right now.

It’s a low bar.  I’m happy with their efforts to make it feel like Star Wars, but it’s not too much of an exaggeration to say the storyline was just a beat-by-beat retread, which makes no sense in a sequel.

It felt like a remake.

The original trilogy should be heavily represented at the top of the list, but disappointing as Phantom Menace is, that’s a great scene, and definitely worthy of the top spot.

“...falls far short of having any real emotional impact or meaningful place in the story.”

I bought a dog from our blacksmith last week.  We’d only had him home 5 minutes and he made a bolt for the door.

The second one is pretty good too. But I don’t know what this trilogy is of which they speak.  They absolutely did not make a third film replacing Rachel Weisz with a different actress.  That absolutely did not happen.

Yes - it’s a mix of some improvements and some pointless reworkings. But Lily is the standout improvement for me - a song that didn’t really register when I listened to the Red Shoes but is now one of my favourites of all her work.  She opened her 2014 concerts with it, which I was lucky enough to see.

They did a very good “Gateways to Geekery” article on her in 2011.

And yet I’d probably rank it bottom of my personal favourites list.  If you like Lily, you should try the version on her Director’s Cut album.

The album Hounds of Love is an all-timer. One side of radio-friendly hits, and another side as the best mini-concept album you’ll ever hear.

Good call on Vienna in 13 Going on 30.  During that scene I looked down at my 7 year old daughter, and she was in floods of tears.  She’s 24 now and it’s still one of her favourite songs.

Nice to see her shout out for striking nurses, after years of people writing her off as a Tory because she once said something nice about Theresa May.

See How They Run is a really fun movie. I had the pleasure of seeing it at a local Wallingford Theatre, close to where Agatha Christie once lived. This prompted many chuckles in the audience when a local location was featured, but converted from its actual size (large-ish, but with a front door just a few yards from…

Brits of a certain age and sensibility still fondly remember the week in 1979 when Top of the Pops had the Specials, Selecter and Madness on the same show.  Ska-tastic.

A sad day.  It feels like all the clubs have been closed down.

Did you skip the headline as well? 😂

This can be confusing terminology for us Brits who use the word “series” to mean the same thing as “season” does to an American.

So true. I think everybody who has seen it was surprised at how emotional it was watching, not just the central characters but also the peripheral ones, standing in the voting booth with a piece of paper that could change the direction of history. And they did a brilliant job of showing the moral trauma involved in…

OK - I give up.  Big Boys is brilliant. Even though I’ve never seen it.