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You know me well (It's October 1415 and things aren't going to deviate from the script, buddy) - bog off Bill, I'm talking to my man with the Chainsaw.

I like your mum already - and my conversational American is just about good enough to translate the above. Quarters are money not fractions, comic books are, well, comics; soda is pop (not bicarb or God forbid the caustic stuff you use to clear drains, and candy is sweeties. Other than that...

Great film and, OK, one that calls my bluff elsewhere that e.g. Rear Window would work even if Hitchcock had taken the setting back home to London. Hard to imagine a Cary Grant going home to squelch around the Norfolk Broads, or a grand finale dangling off Big Ben. Oh wait, Robert Powell did...

@chainsaw_metal1 Evening, sir! Thanks for that heart - I only wandered back on here at the halfway point in Ken Branagh's Henry V and found the place buzzing... Shakespeare can have a cup of tea and a biscuit till I'm good and ready to go back. Oh Muppetry! Our posts overlapped and I'm being a...

Life happens while you're planning to read good books (as John Lennon sadly never got round to saying). And lots of TV, some of it also good.... Oh and the bravo I just added is because you're a VIP - congratulations!

And that's one I haven't got round to yet! I love Neverwhere, Good Omens and Sandman of course...and after American Gods its sequel Anansi Boys - he is such an amazing writer that the quality is always beyond imagination and the quantity hard to keep up with.

Which one? They're all great as far as I know, but it would be interesting to know which one got you started!

Turn sound down. Instant silent retro classic. Or expose yourself to increasingly large doses of Midwife to get into training.

You've seem more than me by the sound (or silence) of it! Couldn't you just imagine the East End version of Rear Window though? (anyone who needs to get a visual/ atmospheric update, find some Call the Midwife clips on You Tube). Same claustrophobia, paranoia and nosy neighbours - more fog, less...

You've made my day, I can hear you chuckling from here! Have you seen any of his London-based early work though? I've only ever seen extracts of The Lodger but all of Blackmail - you can take the man out of the Smoke but you clearly couldn't take the Smoke out of Hitch/

Initially curiosity after the old IBDb boards closed - I'd read them with interest for quite some time without ever wanting to join, because of how often it seemed interesting conversations were hijacked by ill-mannered yobs and interesting people were insulted by them. Not sure how and why that...

£5 could make you the toast of the town on Saturday night back then - see Python's Yorkshiremen sketch for details! I think I was on 2 shillings pocket money, if that, back then. (Old money: 20 shillings to the pound) Just enough for a Superman comic and a quarter of wine gums - luxury...

It's a film I'd really love to see on the big screen, like the Birds, I'm sure I saw it way too young to make full sense of it but think I got the overall point.My favourite piece of Psycho trivia is that it's the very first on screen appearance of a toilet bowl in American cinema, and it took...

Thank you kindly, same to you. A fun thing was happening on the radio when I woke up yesterday morning - BBC radio's usual Sunday breakfast Godslot was featuring inter alia cheerful pagan music requests and blessings for Beltane celebrations. First time I've heard them do that that - a little...

It's started already? Great news - guess it'll be a while till I get round to accessing it in some shape or form, but that sounds seriously promising. I think I never did get my copy back from the friend I promised would like it - seems that he did.

Dearest Mr Metal - if THAT is your party trick I'd say the human race has vast untapped potential that needs investment, big time AND I'd pay good money to see that. As for your Jock friend, when his ex-Jock knees pack up on him and the steroids deliver on their promise of impotence he'll have...

Hi Amyghost...and it's the countdown to this year's Eurovision already, plenty more where that came from...

Same here - we could sponsor own own, alien, slightly-less-annoying Von Trapp Adipose singers

@michaellevenson You cad! You got me! I came here expecting discourse on the Cliff Richard film and just had my socks blown of by rancid nostalgia for this instead! Bravo!

Quite right too, those dibs are all yours, petal! To my shame I have an unassembled bookcase gathering cobwebs in its box since the house-move before last, so in theory am as bookshelved as I deserve to be. I would cherish a chunk of Tardis coral to grow up into my own new one - I have quite...