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· Jan 6
The stats for lists on Letterboxd delivered me a little image that feels like an ideological statement on my part.
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Bond writers being stuck because he was blown to pieces shows how good Looney Tubes writers were because Wile E Coyote was always being obliterated but came back for more
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Bond writers being stuck because he was blown to pieces shows how good Looney Tubes writers were because Wile E Coyote was always being obliterated but came back for more
Genuinely thought this was about Tottenham, because I read 'Victor Wanyama' and got extremely confused.
The last time the Spurs were 8-2 after 10 games, Victor Wembanyama was an 11-year-old basketball prodigy in France.
That was in 2015.
That was in 2015.
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Genuinely thought this was about Tottenham, because I read 'Victor Wanyama' and got extremely confused.
Watched a game between two non-league sides in the FA Women's National League Plate at the weekend. Both sides were playing out from the back to their centre halves at goal kicks, then trying to bait the press. We’ve definitely reached peak Pep-ball and counter-Pep-ball in the pyramid.
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Watched a game between two non-league sides in the FA Women's National League Plate at the weekend. Both sides were playing out from the back to their centre halves at goal kicks, then trying to bait the press. We’ve definitely reached peak Pep-ball and counter-Pep-ball in the pyramid.
I think the to-which-side-is-the-BBC-biased discussion is just fatally flawed. There’s clearly a conservative bent in the news and political programming, and a more socially liberal one in the entertainment and comedy areas. Any analysis that ignores that dynamic is fundamentally lacking.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I think the to-which-side-is-the-BBC-biased discussion is just fatally flawed. There’s clearly a conservative bent in the news and political programming, and a more socially liberal one in the entertainment and comedy areas. Any analysis that ignores that dynamic is fundamentally lacking.
The way MacKenzie pops up from time to time is indicative of some deep fucking rot in the UK media. Nothing about the man's career before or after 1989 suggests his view on anything merits being sought. Why is anyone in 20-fucking-25 at a story as a producer and thinking "Let's give Kelvin a ring"?
Why has BBC News Channel put former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to react to the BBC Director General / BBC News boss resign?
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The way MacKenzie pops up from time to time is indicative of some deep fucking rot in the UK media. Nothing about the man's career before or after 1989 suggests his view on anything merits being sought. Why is anyone in 20-fucking-25 at a story as a producer and thinking "Let's give Kelvin a ring"?
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
One thing that confuses me about this BBC 'scandal' is that it seems an abysmally poor editorial decision — they 'edited two parts of the US president's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021'? You needed to *edit* the speech to convey that?!
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
One thing that confuses me about this BBC 'scandal' is that it seems an abysmally poor editorial decision — they 'edited two parts of the US president's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021'? You needed to *edit* the speech to convey that?!
Given the recent election results in the USA, this Democratic Party strategy in Congress is even more mystifying to me. I’m all for working across the aisle to keep a functioning government, but only when all sides aren’t insane. At some point you need to grow a spine and get some fire in the belly.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Given the recent election results in the USA, this Democratic Party strategy in Congress is even more mystifying to me. I’m all for working across the aisle to keep a functioning government, but only when all sides aren’t insane. At some point you need to grow a spine and get some fire in the belly.
I know the Little Kickers classes for ages 3.5-5 are not exactly going to be a bellwether for interest in women’s football, but it’s still pretty stark my daughter’s Saturday morning class consists of 3-4 girls (including her) and 20+ boys. What is going on there?
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I know the Little Kickers classes for ages 3.5-5 are not exactly going to be a bellwether for interest in women’s football, but it’s still pretty stark my daughter’s Saturday morning class consists of 3-4 girls (including her) and 20+ boys. What is going on there?
I finally got round to watching Powell & Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) back in January, which I loved: great performances and the filmmaking is infused with such love for the medium. There’s a transition from top hat to train funnel which made me beam.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I finally got round to watching Powell & Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) back in January, which I loved: great performances and the filmmaking is infused with such love for the medium. There’s a transition from top hat to train funnel which made me beam.
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“ANEMONE is fortunate in [possessing] Daniel Day-Lewis’s first film performance in eight years. Although Ronan Day-Lewis garners a performance of simmering intensity from his father, their co-written script is flat & opaque to the point of tedium.” - @jimgr.bsky.social’s #LFF review: buff.ly/Xl44ZuI
Anemone | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025
ANEMONE is fortunate in being able to call upon Daniel Day-Lewis’s first film performance in eight years. Although Ronan Day-Lewis manages to garner a performance of simmering intensity from his…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“ANEMONE is fortunate in [possessing] Daniel Day-Lewis’s first film performance in eight years. Although Ronan Day-Lewis garners a performance of simmering intensity from his father, their co-written script is flat & opaque to the point of tedium.” - @jimgr.bsky.social’s #LFF review: buff.ly/Xl44ZuI
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"If Shelley’s novel can be considered the dense and sprawling sheet music for an orchestral symphony of ideas, then Del Toro’s arrangement here is sparser. However, [...] the tune of FRANKENSTEIN [...] harmonises with the full version." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews from #LFF: buff.ly/q41kjL9
Frankenstein | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025
If Shelley’s novel can be considered the dense and sprawling sheet music for an orchestral symphony of ideas, then Del Toro’s arrangement here is sparser. However, even if the result lacks some of…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"If Shelley’s novel can be considered the dense and sprawling sheet music for an orchestral symphony of ideas, then Del Toro’s arrangement here is sparser. However, [...] the tune of FRANKENSTEIN [...] harmonises with the full version." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews from #LFF: buff.ly/q41kjL9
Not sure how we ended up with Predator: Badlands being a better expansion of the Alien universe than Alien: Earth…but here we are.
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A review of Predator: Badlands (2025)
Not sure how we ended up with Predator: Badlands being a better expansion of the Alien universe than Alien: Earth…but here we are. Maybe a bit VFX and CG heavy for my liking, but I thought this was de...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not sure how we ended up with Predator: Badlands being a better expansion of the Alien universe than Alien: Earth…but here we are.
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Ahead of seeing Predator: Badlands, I caught with my only gap in the Predator franchise. Prey was pretty neat.
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A review of Prey (2022)
Quite easily the best Predator film since the original, which I haven’t watched in at least 20 years. Some of the human drama is fairly predictable, but they at least give it time to build some charac...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ahead of seeing Predator: Badlands, I caught with my only gap in the Predator franchise. Prey was pretty neat.
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boxd.it/bD15xb
Interested how Edgar Wright’s The Running Man turns out. I rewatched the 1987 Arnie vehicle for the first time in at least 25 years, and it’s…fine? It’s fun enough and doesn’t overstay its runtime, but it’s all a bit toothless and sub-Verhoeven. Not even the best Arnold film of 1987. boxd.it/bCIC8l
A review of The Running Man (1987)
Quite possibly the quintessential 80s Arnie film? Within the first ten minutes, we've already had several one-liner quips and a "To hell with you!", not to mention the opening credits might be the mos...
boxd.it
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Interested how Edgar Wright’s The Running Man turns out. I rewatched the 1987 Arnie vehicle for the first time in at least 25 years, and it’s…fine? It’s fun enough and doesn’t overstay its runtime, but it’s all a bit toothless and sub-Verhoeven. Not even the best Arnold film of 1987. boxd.it/bCIC8l
They’ve changed the headline now, but I’ve actually read the transcript piece, and I have to say this summary is pretty accurate. There were sections that made my brain shrivel up. WTF is going on at the NYT?
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
They’ve changed the headline now, but I’ve actually read the transcript piece, and I have to say this summary is pretty accurate. There were sections that made my brain shrivel up. WTF is going on at the NYT?
You know, I love Iannucci’s work, which has had a profound effect on my humour, but this…just feels like the wrong way to engage on this, to me? You’re not going to beat finance wankers at their own game, creating a country that seems to know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.
At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
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At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
You know, I love Iannucci’s work, which has had a profound effect on my humour, but this…just feels like the wrong way to engage on this, to me? You’re not going to beat finance wankers at their own game, creating a country that seems to know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
What I’ve seen of Zohran Mamdani, politics-wise, I like, but - to be superficial for a moment - it’s also delightful that nearly everything in the ‘Early life’ section of his Wikipedia profile seems designed to get bigots on the right frothing at the mouth.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What I’ve seen of Zohran Mamdani, politics-wise, I like, but - to be superficial for a moment - it’s also delightful that nearly everything in the ‘Early life’ section of his Wikipedia profile seems designed to get bigots on the right frothing at the mouth.
I do find the “don’t publish bad reviews” discourse that flares up hilarious. Firstly, the notion is nonsense, especially if you’re taking more of a criticism approach. Secondly, every time, the film or arts scene seems to think it’s the only one that’s ever had to encounter this asinine notion.
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I do find the “don’t publish bad reviews” discourse that flares up hilarious. Firstly, the notion is nonsense, especially if you’re taking more of a criticism approach. Secondly, every time, the film or arts scene seems to think it’s the only one that’s ever had to encounter this asinine notion.
This may sound absurd, but I really don’t think we appreciate Back to the Future as much as we should. Sure, it’s a well-known and popular classic, but I don’t think we appreciate how well made it actually is, and how much it’s juggling near-effortlessly.
Yeah, it’s always thought of this special effects sci-fi blockbuster but it’s just a comedy about a kid getting to see how his parents acted at his age.
It's amazing how Back to the Future has the skeleton of many other comedies like Freaky Friday or Home Alone, but the dynamism of the direction, the music and the clever dialogue twists the genre into feeling like you are watching an epic adventure movie like Indiana Jones.
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This may sound absurd, but I really don’t think we appreciate Back to the Future as much as we should. Sure, it’s a well-known and popular classic, but I don’t think we appreciate how well made it actually is, and how much it’s juggling near-effortlessly.
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Every time you say "actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist" you're just replicating his damnable act of disavowal and abandonment that drove his creation to murder but okay
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Every time you say "actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist" you're just replicating his damnable act of disavowal and abandonment that drove his creation to murder but okay
Look, I’m sorry, I try to be a non-judgmental person…but if you’re paying for Xitter Premium at this point? I’m going to judge you a bit.
November 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Look, I’m sorry, I try to be a non-judgmental person…but if you’re paying for Xitter Premium at this point? I’m going to judge you a bit.
There’s been a theme this week…and they’ve all been good.
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
There’s been a theme this week…and they’ve all been good.