I will defend Scrooge (1970) with Albert Finney and Sir Alec Guinness to the death.

I liked the Ringer’s picks for ten best shows of the year, also I miss when these lists were all on a single page.

I started watching this tonight and it’s pretty good! It’s no Vertigo (my favorite movie ever), but a fine movie for anyone who likes watching a middle-aged woman bathe for seven minutes, and then cut onions for another seven. In general I wish American film had more of a French aesthetic.

cast Katy Manning or Sarah Sutton in this thing and I’ll be there on opening night.

I keep asking people if they’ve seen or heard of Yellowstone, the most popular show on TV, and so far no one has.

We need a Studio Ghibli movie about *him*.

John Malkovich is one of the best-ever Fagins

Even dumber were the random appearances of Urkel - he turned up on Full House (after blowing through the Winslows’ roof in his jet pack just a few minutes before) and in the second episode of Step by Step. My sister and I were watching Family Matters a few weeks ago and Comet wandered onto the set for approximately…

I saw someone say the other day that Coraline was a character invented for the screen by Tim Burton, apparently forgetting that it was a Henry Selick movie based on a (wonderful) Neil Gaiman book.

we need a spinoff series about the big alien who says “he said I just had to stand here.”

I kept wondering why Defiant God had the audacity to ruin the festival for all the other bands.

one of the best episodes of television ever.

I’m thrilled not to be the only person who thinks he looks like Paul McCartney.

my sister and I have a theory that J. K. Rowling was inspired to write Hagrid as a sort of jolly Ghost-of-Christmas-Present when she saw Robbie Coltrane in this role.

This must have been Classic Who from the ‘70s. I wish we’d had a class where that was all we watched; I adore the Third Doctor. In my high school biology class we viewed Remember the Titans and The Sandlot about half a dozen times each. This was in Texas and the teacher explained on the first day that she couldn’t…

Hallowe’en Party is one of Christie’s worst Poirot novels, easily, and it’s not even set in Venice!

I love Andor but I see your point. The original Star Wars was first and foremost a myth, and the people in charge of making Star Wars nowadays don’t know how to do myth.

one day Belle & Sebastian will play the half-time show and we’ll all don our cardigans and pet our cats in tribute.

Book of Boba Friend is the canonical name now.

I remember as a kid having a nightmare that they finally showed the Nanny’s full body, and she was revealed to be some kind of eldritch horror. It was such a vivid dream that for a long time I remembered it as being an actual episode.