Among the 10 listed, the only one I’ve seen is Mrs Harris Goes to Paris. It’s a lovely film, and she’s great in it. Recently, she’s also been as good as ever in The Critic and Mr Burton. I’ve never got on with […]

Good choice, and a very good series. I was never a fan of our heroes breaking the fourth wall, but overall it was really entertaining and the finale was exactly how it should have ended. Spader doesn’t get […]

And let us not forget his unique delivery of “Antici……………pation.” He has always been a memorable performer who seems to give everything to a role – see his work under what looks like a tonne of […]

I agree about the last MI movie, which ended up being a bit too complex for its own good, but the stunts with the biplanes were astonishing. Even if Cruise did nothing else in his life, he should have a hearty […]

I’ve got a lot of time for him. He’s a multiple Oscar nominee and still a major movie star 40-plus years since he started. Fair dos to him. But what really won me over to his corner, apart from his actual films, […]

Cook later said it was one of the best sketches he ever acted in, and he wrote it when he was only 17/18.

Well said. No-one else in the role has come close. I recall someone online saying that the first time Reeve’s Clark Kent takes off his glasses, you basically see Superman appear out of nowhere – and all he’s done […]

True. Although whoever cast him as Snape in the Harry Potter films deserves a tip of the hat. As somebody who hadn’t read the books, I was incredibly moved by the end of Snape’s story, and a lot of that was down […]

Interesting idea for a thread. Here’s a few successful casting choices off the top of my head: Bogart as Rick Blaine – so much better than Ronald Reagan and George Raft, who, IIRC, were also in the running. […]

It’s Stephen King for me. Far and away my favourite writer. He has a knack of grabbing my attention from the first couple of pages, and then I must keep reading to find out what happens next. That is a sign of […]

As if Lonesome Dove wasn’t enough, he was also in Open Range, another great Western story. As you say, if he was in something it was probably going to be pretty good. Even when he wasn’t top of the bill, he […]

Indeed. I get the impression from the media that we/voters are all just waiting for Reform to step into the breach as heirs apparent and take their rightful place, if only Labour would get on with the humdrum […]

Admittedly I’m not a close follower of politics, as the current members of the House make me despair, but I would say yes, his days are numbered. Clearly the idea of Keir’s steady/dull hand on the tiller after […]

For one of our moves, we had a real-world (non-online) estate agent, but there always seemed to be an excuse why nobody was available to show round a prospective buyer. So we had to do it ourselves and still ended […]

Yes, me too. He has a lovely rural/folkish emphasis in his writing that I really like. Detectorists is of course perfection, and I would put the last episode – with the Witness-style gazebo-raising, silent and […]

I watched the show and found it entertaining and well done even if the music was definitely not for me. Maybe it helps if you can speak the language, but I found Bunny’s (Bad’s?) vocal delivery all a bit samey – […]

What empty, joy-free lives these people must lead. Imagine seeing all that excitement, talent, and joie de vivre, and thinking, to quote a well-known ecumenical figure, “Down with this sort of thing!” If Trump and […]

Very true. What an actor he is. Imagine being able to go from matey-chatshow-guest to Thomas-More-reciting-Shakespeare in just a few steps across a studio, and then keeping the audience spellbound throughout a […]

I agree re his intelligence, but I think he has either low cunning or a lot of luck. He fires off a blizzard of memes, tweets, etc., and for whatever reason, some of them hit home, either among his supporters or […]

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