By the end I was working out letters by process of elimination - so close to getting it!

Yes! Absolutely loved this show and frustrating not to know how stories were resolved.

Loved watching him. He is an absolutely crucial presence in the first two Godfather films. A word also for Open Range and Lonesome Dove.

A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.

One of the great films

Was thinking this earlier. One of the great runs.

Honestly, this is a genuine classic. Bowled over whenever I watch it.

Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.

The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
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Adored Stoppard. Left theatres after watching Arcadia, The Real Thing and Rock ‘n’ Roll completely inspired, while Leopoldstadt was devastating. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Shakespeare in Love are films I rewatch all the time. What a loss.

On This Day, 1991: Lime Grove Studios remembered On 26 August 1991, the BBC broadcast a series of programmes marking the closure of Lime Grove Studios a month before.

Apropos of nothing, on 26 August 1991 BBC2 turned over its entire schedule to mark the closure of Lime Grove studios and it really was glorious www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/h...

Pauline Collins, star of Shirley Valentine, dies aged 85 Her family said she died peacefully in her London care home having had Parkinson's for several years.

Sad to hear about Pauline Collins. Fantastic in Upstairs Downstairs and Shirley Valentine was a film I loved, with a magic script by Willie Russell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90 Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working

Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

It’s not really my genre,but four 10/10 horror films for me

1. The Leopard Man

2. Night of the Demon

3. Night of the Living Dead

4. The Wicker Man (1973 version)

Not only was she beautiful she was a superb actress, a genuine icon and as classy as they come.
Claudia Cardinale RIP

Robert Redford was the last simple beauty Robert Redford, 1936-2025.

The most beautiful of film writers on one of the beautiful Hollywood stars. You may not agree with David Thomson (I’m not sure I do), but the writing is sublime www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...

What can you say about the impact of Robert Redford? Not enough. One of the icons. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (obviously), All the President’s Men, Sneakers, and, as director, A River Runs Through It are my personal favourites.

He never got old
RIP Robert Redford

An almost perfect screenplay written in very far from perfect circumstances.

I think they are doing a Brave and the Bold film with Batman and Robin, with characters doing a crossover with Superman down the line, and idea is that Reeves Batman exists in a different universe.

Not to mention Leaving Las Vegas, Crumb and Babe. Weird thing was the Oscars lineup after this year was very weak! Constantly go back to Before Sunrise and Heat.

Carter is great!

I told you we’d be back

Think this might be one of the strangest seasons I can remember.

Hitchcock Top 5.

5. Rear Window
4. Shadow of a Doubt
3. The Lady Vanishes
2. North by Northwest
1. The 39 Steps

Cheers | Every Time Norm Peterson Enters the Bar YouTube video by Peacock

A supercut of every time Norm entered Cheers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...

George Wendt 1948-2025 RIP

When I started writing Pictures at a Revolution 20 years ago, I wanted Robert Benton to be in the first sentence--which he is--because there would be no book without him. PAAR was my first book; I had no track record as an author, and desperately needed interviews. Benton was the first to say yes. >

They sell fans in Rymans?

The Paw Patrol dubbing is also very strange.