Mike McCahill
@mikemccahill.bsky.social
Film and TV journalist for the Guardian, Telegraph and Little White Lies. A child of Richard Marx and Rola Cola.
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On DRAGONFLY, PLAINCLOTHES and THE RUN [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
On Asif Kapadia's KENNY DALGLISH, now streaming: tinyurl.com/4jyzxc5m
On demand: "Kenny Dalglish"
After a pair of more experimental ventures - 2022's dance film Creature and 2024's environmental speculation 2073 - Asif Kapadia returns t...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
On Asif Kapadia's KENNY DALGLISH, now streaming: tinyurl.com/4jyzxc5m
My Telegraph obituary of June Lockhart, who died last month: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
June Lockhart, actress who found fame in Lassie and Lost in Space
Blue-eyed and red-headed, she radiated maternal warmth amid the vast cosmic void when Lost in Space transitioned from monochrome to colour
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November 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My Telegraph obituary of June Lockhart, who died last month: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
Tonight's prizes on New BULLSEYE: LED face masks, a skydiving "experience" and £250 of Wagamama vouchers #StarmersBritain #BringBackCliffLazarenko
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tonight's prizes on New BULLSEYE: LED face masks, a skydiving "experience" and £250 of Wagamama vouchers #StarmersBritain #BringBackCliffLazarenko
On PREDATOR: BADLANDS, now showing: tinyurl.com/49fs4sf6
Monsters inc.: "Predator: Badlands"
Writer-director Dan Trachtenberg eased his feet under Hollywood's table by finding the tools to unlock long-dormant franchises. His reward f...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
On PREDATOR: BADLANDS, now showing: tinyurl.com/49fs4sf6
Reposted by Mike McCahill
On DRAGONFLY, PLAINCLOTHES and THE RUN [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On DRAGONFLY, PLAINCLOTHES and THE RUN [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
Reposted by Mike McCahill
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
New on this very chart: Helen Love's marvellously sarky "Long Live the UK Music Scene" #totp
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Helen Love - Long Live The UK Music Scene
YouTube video by fabulae
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November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New on this very chart: Helen Love's marvellously sarky "Long Live the UK Music Scene" #totp
youtu.be/WFcu7gSt640?...
youtu.be/WFcu7gSt640?...
On DRAGONFLY, PLAINCLOTHES and THE RUN [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On DRAGONFLY, PLAINCLOTHES and THE RUN [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
Reposted by Mike McCahill
Legendary New Zealand Filmmaker & ‘Once Were Warriors’ Director Lee Tamahori Passes Away. Iconic New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori has passed away at the age of 75: au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Legendary New Zealand Director Lee Tamahori Passes Away
Iconic New Zealand filmmaker and director of 'Once Were Warriors' Lee Tamahori has passed away at the age of 75.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Legendary New Zealand Filmmaker & ‘Once Were Warriors’ Director Lee Tamahori Passes Away. Iconic New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori has passed away at the age of 75: au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Setting all of your excellent jokes aside, has that sign not just been put there because the Office's primary resident keeps wandering off absentmindedly?
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Setting all of your excellent jokes aside, has that sign not just been put there because the Office's primary resident keeps wandering off absentmindedly?
On Paul Andrew Williams' DRAGONFLY (opening Friday), one of those that may be more interesting to sit with than it is to sit through: tinyurl.com/yc5nw3jr
Small island: "Dragonfly"
A few years back, Ben Wheatley announced plans for a series of films that would take the pulse of the British nation post-Brexit - a project...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On Paul Andrew Williams' DRAGONFLY (opening Friday), one of those that may be more interesting to sit with than it is to sit through: tinyurl.com/yc5nw3jr
Reposted by Mike McCahill
Hats off to the BBC for restoring Peter Watkins' The War Game to the iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The War Game
Controversial drama depicting the consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain. The film was made in 1965 but not televised until 1985 as the BBC judged it 'too horrifying'.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Hats off to the BBC for restoring Peter Watkins' The War Game to the iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
New on this week's UK chart: varyingly explosive revelations from Lily Allen, Dave, Lewis Capaldi and Mumford & Sons.
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Week 44: October 31-November 6, 2025
Lily vs. Dave(s)
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November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New on this week's UK chart: varyingly explosive revelations from Lily Allen, Dave, Lewis Capaldi and Mumford & Sons.
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Reposted by Mike McCahill
On FRANKENSTEIN, HEDDA [below] and BACK TO THE FUTURE at 40, plus THE FIELD and KEEPER OF PROMISES on demand, and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
On FRANKENSTEIN, HEDDA [below] and BACK TO THE FUTURE at 40, plus THE FIELD and KEEPER OF PROMISES on demand, and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
Unseen breakers from this week's #totp '98 double-bill would include this half-forgotten Suggs track from Jeremiah Chechik's best-forgotten AVENGERS movie: youtu.be/d1Nov1Rg4Ec?...
Suggs - I Am
YouTube video by ohnoitisnathan74
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November 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Unseen breakers from this week's #totp '98 double-bill would include this half-forgotten Suggs track from Jeremiah Chechik's best-forgotten AVENGERS movie: youtu.be/d1Nov1Rg4Ec?...
On last week's UK chart - another hit for those Demon Hunters, plus Sam Fender and grandad, Tame Impala, Fred Sheeran and the Harlem Shake guy.
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Week 43: October 24-30, 2025
The 'mare before Hallowe'en. Plus: melancholia from autumn 1985
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November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On last week's UK chart - another hit for those Demon Hunters, plus Sam Fender and grandad, Tame Impala, Fred Sheeran and the Harlem Shake guy.
tinyurl.com/yeyjdub7
tinyurl.com/yeyjdub7
On FRANKENSTEIN, HEDDA [below] and BACK TO THE FUTURE at 40, plus THE FIELD and KEEPER OF PROMISES on demand, and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
On FRANKENSTEIN, HEDDA [below] and BACK TO THE FUTURE at 40, plus THE FIELD and KEEPER OF PROMISES on demand, and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN, now showing: tinyurl.com/2fvmdw2s
Creature comforts: "Frankenstein"
There's a degree to which you already know what you're getting from a Guillermo del Toro retelling of Frankenstein . Robustly storyboarded v...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN, now showing: tinyurl.com/2fvmdw2s
A brief note on Sandhya Suri's noteworthy short THE FIELD, streaming until Friday: tinyurl.com/wmhzkrc6
On demand: "The Field"
The reinvigorating short film Sandhya Suri completed for Film London in the decade separating her breakout documentary I for India from her...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A brief note on Sandhya Suri's noteworthy short THE FIELD, streaming until Friday: tinyurl.com/wmhzkrc6
For the Guardian, on the myriad disappointments of A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
A House of Dynamite is both political fantasy and major disappointment | Mike McCahill
Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix ‘what if?’ drama is the director’s most frustratingly assembled and visually flat film to date
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October 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
For the Guardian, on the myriad disappointments of A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
On CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC, now showing: tinyurl.com/3zaj9833
"Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc" (Guardian 27/10/25)
Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc ** Dir: Tatsuya Yoshihara. Featuring the voices of: Kikunosuke Toya, Reina Ueda, Tomori Kusunoki, Ai Fair...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
On CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC, now showing: tinyurl.com/3zaj9833
Reposted by Mike McCahill
On ROOFMAN, THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR [below], THE BAD GUYS 2 and JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH on demand, plus a Samantha Eggar obituary and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
October 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On ROOFMAN, THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR [below], THE BAD GUYS 2 and JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH on demand, plus a Samantha Eggar obituary and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
Playing checkers with God. On a semi-forgotten Palme d'Or winner, 1962's KEEPER OF PROMISES: tinyurl.com/y2bs37w8
On demand: "Keeper of Promises/The Promise/The Given Word/O Pagador de Promessas"
Should you seek a cinematic example of the difficulties of interpreting the godly Word, look no further than the multiple English-language t...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Playing checkers with God. On a semi-forgotten Palme d'Or winner, 1962's KEEPER OF PROMISES: tinyurl.com/y2bs37w8
On ROOFMAN, THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR [below], THE BAD GUYS 2 and JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH on demand, plus a Samantha Eggar obituary and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk
October 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On ROOFMAN, THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR [below], THE BAD GUYS 2 and JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH on demand, plus a Samantha Eggar obituary and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2atsxbkk