Anne Billson
@annebillson.bsky.social
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
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bodhi timeline cleanse 🫧
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
bodhi timeline cleanse 🫧
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I took a leap into the dark by purchasing the US rights to Dorothy Richardson's magnificent but woefully underappreciated autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage. Now that folks are reading our new edition, it's nice to hear that it was worth the effort. Available now:
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
February 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I took a leap into the dark by purchasing the US rights to Dorothy Richardson's magnificent but woefully underappreciated autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage. Now that folks are reading our new edition, it's nice to hear that it was worth the effort. Available now:
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
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Rose of Nevada - Official Trailer (2026) George MacKay, Callum Turner
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
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February 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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My bank's 1st level support is now an anthropomorphised #AI 'specialist'. Worse even than the old, voice-activated tape service. Without exaggeration, it's like cajoling someone with advanced Alzheimer's into getting dressed. For hours.
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
February 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
My bank's 1st level support is now an anthropomorphised #AI 'specialist'. Worse even than the old, voice-activated tape service. Without exaggeration, it's like cajoling someone with advanced Alzheimer's into getting dressed. For hours.
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
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@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social just finish Loss Protocol. Definitely going to have this one living in my head for the next few days. Like an eco-thriller penned by M John Harrison, and I cant think of deeper praise than that.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social just finish Loss Protocol. Definitely going to have this one living in my head for the next few days. Like an eco-thriller penned by M John Harrison, and I cant think of deeper praise than that.
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Thank you for the exotic powder - really nice.
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Thank you for the exotic powder - really nice.
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![[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.]
JOEL:
Honey… what are you doing?
BRANDI:
Can’t sleep
Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year.
While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition.
JOEL:
Brandi… you're talking strange...
BRANDI:
Dammit Joel.
It’s time you knew.
You're a Netflix character.
[Joel looks shocked]
BRANDI:
Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue.
Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the -
JOEL:
Stop explaining, Brandi!
[Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room].
JOEL:
So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and...
BRANDI:
Yep...
Warm/cool colour graded.
[Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]:
SECOND SCREEN
- A Netflix original -
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiaqlx75zejhvxpgq3f3k6mg2glczck3ooqjrgzzgfsf2xxo6fccwm@jpeg)
Better Tintin than The Smurfs.
Brussels Airlines launches new space-themed Tintin aircraft for its Belgian Icon series
Belgian boy reporter Tintin embarks on another globetrotting adventure thanks to Brussels Airlines’ new aircraft celebrating his lunar exploits.The timeless legacy of Hergé’s famous comic-strip charac...
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February 16, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Better Tintin than The Smurfs.
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SUCKERS (kindle or paperback)
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
February 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
SUCKERS (kindle or paperback)
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
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Chicken thief, but early.
February 16, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Chicken thief, but early.
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STIFF LIPS (kindle or paperback)
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
February 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
STIFF LIPS (kindle or paperback)
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
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But it’s a personal taste thing. Remember talking to @naomialderman.bsky.social about classical music, and having to admit I had a blind spot for the formal perfection of Bach. Which is maths. And I suspect appeals to precise / mathematical brains. I like stuff to be romantic and sweeping, splashy.
February 16, 2026 at 8:49 AM
But it’s a personal taste thing. Remember talking to @naomialderman.bsky.social about classical music, and having to admit I had a blind spot for the formal perfection of Bach. Which is maths. And I suspect appeals to precise / mathematical brains. I like stuff to be romantic and sweeping, splashy.
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Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
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Yesterday I watched Perfect Days. Wim Wenders' beautiful Tokyo story captures a yearning I think many of us feel for simplicity, routine, and the dignity of honest work - a kind of secular monasticism. Kōji Yakusho delivers the best "face acting" since Bob Hoskins. I loved every second.
February 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Yesterday I watched Perfect Days. Wim Wenders' beautiful Tokyo story captures a yearning I think many of us feel for simplicity, routine, and the dignity of honest work - a kind of secular monasticism. Kōji Yakusho delivers the best "face acting" since Bob Hoskins. I loved every second.
I would like to go to university and study the science of lipstick application and how one can achieve different shapes as the tube gets worn down (eg stub, spatula, spike, chisel) by varying the angle, amount of pressure, wrist action etc as you put it on.
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I would like to go to university and study the science of lipstick application and how one can achieve different shapes as the tube gets worn down (eg stub, spatula, spike, chisel) by varying the angle, amount of pressure, wrist action etc as you put it on.
Sandra Hüller for the win! (again)
‘Rose’ Review: Sandra Hüller Brings Blazing Vitality to a 17th Century Woman in Trousers in Transfixing Gender Performance Tale
Markus Schleinzer’s fine-grained portrait depicts a fictionalized composite character who passes herself off as a hardy male farmer, drawn from hundreds of comparable cases throughout history.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Sandra Hüller for the win! (again)
Isabelle Huppert plays a vampire.
The Blood Countess (2026)
The Blood Countess and her maid embark on a quest for the red elixir of life and a book that threatens the vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a police inspector, two vampirologists, a vegetarian ne...
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February 15, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Isabelle Huppert plays a vampire.
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Coiffure (2026) photograph by Anne Billson
February 14, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Coiffure (2026) photograph by Anne Billson
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THE EX: A Ghost Story (kindle or paperback)
"a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat" #Caturday!
"as if Harold Lloyd had strayed into The Omen"
"clever, creepy, wickedly funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845
"a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat" #Caturday!
"as if Harold Lloyd had strayed into The Omen"
"clever, creepy, wickedly funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
THE EX: A Ghost Story (kindle or paperback)
"a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat" #Caturday!
"as if Harold Lloyd had strayed into The Omen"
"clever, creepy, wickedly funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845
"a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat" #Caturday!
"as if Harold Lloyd had strayed into The Omen"
"clever, creepy, wickedly funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845
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Gets me thinking, whose version of Wuthering Heights would you like to see? I want Park Chan-Wook’s.
I haven't seen the new Wuthering Heights so I can't give an opinion on it. What I've seen doesn't make me optimistic, but it does make me think how much I would have liked Ken Russell to have done a version, ideally in his hey-day, around the time of The Music Lovers and The Devils maybe...
February 14, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Gets me thinking, whose version of Wuthering Heights would you like to see? I want Park Chan-Wook’s.
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Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
ok this is a long shot. Yesterday or the day before, someone mentioned a book, about film I think, and I saw it was available on kindle despite (probably) having illustrations, and stupidly, I didn't make a note of it and have now forgotten what it is. DUH. Fairly recent but prob not spanking new.
February 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
ok this is a long shot. Yesterday or the day before, someone mentioned a book, about film I think, and I saw it was available on kindle despite (probably) having illustrations, and stupidly, I didn't make a note of it and have now forgotten what it is. DUH. Fairly recent but prob not spanking new.
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BILLSON FILM DATABASE (kindle or pbk)
"Essential reading"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"I would love to argue movies with this woman in a bar that stayed open late"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
"Essential reading"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"I would love to argue movies with this woman in a bar that stayed open late"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
February 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
BILLSON FILM DATABASE (kindle or pbk)
"Essential reading"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"I would love to argue movies with this woman in a bar that stayed open late"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
"Essential reading"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"I would love to argue movies with this woman in a bar that stayed open late"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
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Anne Hathaway recently posted on her insta that more people should see her 2016 movie Colossal (available for free on Netflix in the USA or to rent from streaming platforms here). So I did. And she is right. boxd.it/d967Gv
A ★★★★½ review of Colossal (2016)
What starts as a strange tale of how a woman’s alcoholism in America appears to be connected to a rampaging monster in downtown Seoul becomes something at once darker, more surprising and yet sadly mo...
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February 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Anne Hathaway recently posted on her insta that more people should see her 2016 movie Colossal (available for free on Netflix in the USA or to rent from streaming platforms here). So I did. And she is right. boxd.it/d967Gv