Finished it yesterday. I really enjoyed it. Thought it was very readable; the short, sharp chapters meant the book covered a lot of ground at a decent pace.

Just done both. Thanks for such a great show

I really enjoyed the first episode. It was very charming.

The Drama: Robert Pattinson does some truly terrible empty coffee cup acting in the first few minutes and then it’s downhill from there. There isn’t a single authentic human emotion in the entire film.

And then seeing Green Card for the first time in the cinema. My favourite 90s romantic comedy, but Peter Weir can’t hide his strangeness by making every small everyday sound intense and overwhelming.

Watching Fat City: with its yellow Cooper Black titles over a sentimental theme tune, the film could almost be a prequel for Cheers’ Nicholas Colasanto’s Coach…

A picture of the screen of William Hartnell from the newly return episode of The Nightmare Begins

HE IS RISEN! Hallelujah!

A copy of The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley

Great book from the best about art and integrity. And bonus points for a perfect summary of TNG on p. 173.

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

Sod Jesus. Today is my Good Friday! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Found a copy of this in an Oxfam a couple of weeks ago, so it’s on the pile. Your writing has made me want to read it sooner rather than later.

Absolutely. Top notch programming. And good audiences. Never had a bad time there… I’m just clearly not in sync with their stylist!

It’s an interior cosplaying as a place with a longer history than it has. It’s designed for your instagram rather than somewhere to sit and read a book whilst you wait for the screen to open.

Feels a bit Lynchian in places.

The interior is decorated as a nightmarish boudoir, the doors constantly stutter open throughout the film and everyone seems incapable of finding their seats…

… but the views of the smallish screens are decent, the sound quality is good and the films have interesting introductions usually.

I’m so glad you loved it. It’s funny, but it’s the unfinished pieces that have stayed with me since seeing the exhibition.

A painting of Audrey Hepburn in red

A painting I once did of Audrey Hepburn in red

Maybe the single greatest paragraph about England ever:

It’s the way she does it on the same page. Extraordinary.

A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor

Been fortunate to read lots of very good things recently, but this stood out. Taylor was exceptional at balancing wit and heartache, and she was so perceptive about both.

That interview is awful. I once stood next to Jane Campion after a screening on 35mm where two total strangers randomly and awkwardly invited her to dinner. In my mind the film is cursed with people asking inappropriate questions to those involved.

Blu-rays of Prince of the City, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and The Verdict; all directed by Sidney Lumet

I’ve been on a bit of a Sidney Lumet kick recently and have loved how deeply he explores how over time circumstance causes compromise.

A hardback copy of The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner

I knew I would love this, as I love all her books, but this crept up on me and bowled me over.

The first couple of chapters feel like a speed run through classic Brookner, but then it becomes a rich reflection on grief and how our lives can be suddenly upturned overnight.

It’s a book that has stayed with me in the three years since. It is a very special book.

She comes back to tell me she’s gone
As if I didn’t know that
As if I didn’t know my own bed
As if I’d never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead

Robert Duvall was an actor I’d choose to watch over any other. And I love that he knew his worth, refusing to participate in (and ruining) The Godfather Part III and filming Days of Thunder instead (an all-timer for me).

Like anything in the Portrait Gallery, it feels a little cramped. But it felt more satisfying than the last couple of London retrospectives of his work. It’s well worth a visit.

And on a purely technical level his etchings are exquisite, perfectly capturing form and shape. I really wasn’t that familiar with them and the exhibition gave new depth to an artist I love.

Lucien Freud: Drawing into Painting does a decent job of trying to capture the process an artist whose models could sit for at least 120hrs for a piece. There’s a sense of time passing in the gallery; an artist obsessed with the new.

The Criterion blu-ray of Love Jones

I loved the heart and intelligence of this movie. A very special film.

Absolutely. And great on telly once she realised it wasn’t an enemy to her career

A hardback copy of a biography of Celia Johnson by Kate Fleming

Read this after the umpteenth rewatch of Brief Encounter: even her daughter can’t capture why a very comfortable, conservative life led to such luminous performances.