It's one of those incredible Cinderella stories

It is Peter Cushing's centenary.

I would be watching Twins of Evil (1971) to celebrate, except that I spent an hour unpacking my DVDs on Friday and I couldn't find it anywhere. I am now afraid it got packed in with my CDs or accidentally slipped into a box of books, in which case it'll take me a full unboxing to find. This is what comes of moving before you've watched all the movies you own.

Happy hundredth nonetheless to an actor I'd watch in almost anything, and not infrequently have. My definitive Van Helsing, a heartbreaking Winston Smith, a splendidly amoral Frankenstein, a bank manager having a life-changingly wretched day. Not to mention the guy who personally destroyed Alderaan, which is where I met him first. (TARKIN VAN!) I didn't notice him for years and then I couldn't stop watching him. He got into my dreams and handful_ofdust's fiction. That's character actors for you. Nearly forty and a failure, take that.

Excuse me while I watch this slightly staticky transfer of The Abominable Snowman (1957) instead.