"Inside Out", I'm rather ashamed to say, was the only movie of this bunch that I saw. (I just don't go to/watch movies the way I used to, not to mention most of the last half of the year found me busy catching up with Peter Capaldi's run on "Doctor Who", which was giving me enough feels to distract me from other pop…

Somehow I don't think Bowie would be bothered by that one bit. :)

As an update, as of 9 am Eastern VH-1 Classic has tossed out its usual schedule for Bowie videos today. I still think it's a shame MTV and the like won't let this take precedence over "How I Met Your Mother" reruns, reality shows, and top 40 videos, but it's nice to see somebody care.

(Hugs for everyone) What great stories! I have a few of my own, but I won't bore you with them.

(hugs for Gwen) I didn't outright cry when I learned the news very early this morning, but that may have been because the circumstances surrounding the death — the new album, which I'd just bought yesterday; the stage play "Lazarus" which he co-wrote; his birthday; the fact that he was battling cancer for a…

Does it say something about my Bowie fannishness that I watched this montage a few years ago, and some of the interviews (including the Russell Harty one) in its entirety?

A lovely essay. I'd actually loved Bowie since I was 5, when I saw the "Modern Love" video on MTV and thought that there was the most handsome man in the world, but he really became important to me when I was a teenager. I had just been diagnosed as autistic, I had been bullied by peers for years, and was being…

The only tattoo I've ever had/have is David Bowie's name in cursive script on my ankle, simply out of being a fan, and I'll leave it at that.

I started on Terry Pratchett's "Wintersmith" this weekend, which is shaping up to be the most enjoyable Tiffany Aching book so far. I also watched and enjoyed the latest "Doctor Who" Christmas special (loved that ending), and was disappointed to find the Fathom Events cinema screenings of it next week are skipping my…

This is a challenging question. Series 9 — which does assume familiarity with the Series 8 arc at least — was almost Moffat's last one as showrunner (by choice), and does wrap up several season-spanning arcs by the time it's through (counting the Christmas show that just aired). The season-specific story arc is much…

I'd say this was another excellent Who review, and I enjoyed the episode. Silly, sure, but I rather liked it for being lighter after such a wrenching season. That said, I agree that it's the ending that's the real reason for its being. I was genuinely happy for The Doctor and River Song, and it will sweeten the…

I loved Capaldi's work and the Doctor's characterization in Series 8, but Series 9 is where the question becomes, to fudge a classic "Colbert Show" dilemma, "Great Doctor or the greatest Doctor?" (And I liked "Sleep No More" too, even if it was on the lower end of the scale for the season.)

He just might; "Heaven Sent" is so remarkable that even if you don't think the season's wrapup arc completely works, it's worth it anyway because you got "Heaven Sent" out of it. (It edges out "The Zygon Inversion" as my favorite episode of that season.) And I, too, have had to reconsider my longstanding choice of…

Hoodie dress! I love it! Get on this one cosplayers!

Not a lot of 2015 pop culture got through to me — though I actually like "I Really Like You" — but there were two things I thought I'd never get into that wound up shaking me to the core emotionally. One was "Inside Out", which I saw twice in two days. The other was Series 9 of "Doctor Who". It had been years since…

I wasn't totally surprised the "Doctor Who" specials were left off — for one thing, they're not hard to track down because BBC America actually airs them on Christmas Day, hours after the U.K. transmission. Heck, Fathom Events is doing "encore" theatrical screenings of this year's show next week!

Thanks for your concern! I was checking out some 11th Doctor stuff too ("The Doctor's Wife", "Closing Time") and they have their charms, but I fell so hard for 12 that I've been waylaid from checking out more. Heck, I haven't even caught up with all of Series 8 yet, setting some of the more emotionally heavy…

Yes, and a few episodes past that in fact. I bailed before getting to the really unpopular episodes of Series 2, "Love and Monsters" and "Fear Her". (At that point we weren't getting the day-and-date airings in the U.S. and I have a weakness for summaries and spoilers…) The ending of "Girl in the Fireplace" was too…

I'd fallen out of watching the "Doctor Who" revival midway through Series 2; it was good TV but didn't quite give me the "feels" the classic series, especially the Tom Baker seasons, did, and though I kept up with plot developments and these reviews, I hadn't felt a reason to go back to it. But I finally decided…

Just skimming over this article I can see some great ideas here. Here are some of mine: