Paul Franklin
@paulfranklin.bsky.social
Filmmaker, 2x Oscar winning visual effects designer, Inception, Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy, various Harry Potters, Venom etc. Creative Director at beloFX. Filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291518/
Mesmerised by Bad Bunny's extraordinary Halftime Show - put me in mind of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, nitro-turbocharged with powerful thrilling Boricua energy, every detail lovingly, meaningfully considered. 🇵🇷 💪
February 11, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Mesmerised by Bad Bunny's extraordinary Halftime Show - put me in mind of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, nitro-turbocharged with powerful thrilling Boricua energy, every detail lovingly, meaningfully considered. 🇵🇷 💪
The Southbank Centre in London provided all of the concrete textures we used to help create Limbo City for Inception
February 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM
The Southbank Centre in London provided all of the concrete textures we used to help create Limbo City for Inception
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE continues to show throughout Feb, March and April - and it just keeps selling out at the PCC, this one is really resonating with audiences. Why not catch it with Trier's other modern classics, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, OSLO, AUGUST 31ST AND REPRISE.
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🎟️: buff.ly/bYdXvmJ
February 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
SENTIMENTAL VALUE continues to show throughout Feb, March and April - and it just keeps selling out at the PCC, this one is really resonating with audiences. Why not catch it with Trier's other modern classics, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, OSLO, AUGUST 31ST AND REPRISE.
🎟️: buff.ly/bYdXvmJ
🎟️: buff.ly/bYdXvmJ
The best
Next Saturday, January 31st, from 11.05am BBC2 is showing a brace of Powell & Pressburger masterpieces - first, the absolutely gorgeous restoration of I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING followed by the incredible A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH... #FilmSky
January 25, 2026 at 11:44 PM
The best
That old friend who you’ve been meaning to call for ages, but never get round to doing it? Call them now.
January 23, 2026 at 8:37 PM
That old friend who you’ve been meaning to call for ages, but never get round to doing it? Call them now.
@mariephillips.bsky.social - you might like this! My old boss worked on the movie as an effects animator
January 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
@mariephillips.bsky.social - you might like this! My old boss worked on the movie as an effects animator
Love this podcast - informed and entertaining discussion about one of my favourite subjects. Think “The Rest is History” for telly nerds - bliss!
Once again, thanks to everyone who listened to and/or watched the World of Telly podcasts in 2025. There’s much more to come in 2026, but in the meantime you can dip into the back catalogue wherever you get your podcasts, or at youtube.com/@worldoftelly. See you next year with UFO.
World of Telly
Join John and Neil as they watch every TV show ever made, in no particular order.
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December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Love this podcast - informed and entertaining discussion about one of my favourite subjects. Think “The Rest is History” for telly nerds - bliss!
Predator: Badlands is great fun, really gets going once Elle Fanning shows up (who gives top value in dual roles). Excellent creature effects all round and surprising scale to the world (not evident in the trailers). 10/10 on the Weyland Yutani customer service scale.
December 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Predator: Badlands is great fun, really gets going once Elle Fanning shows up (who gives top value in dual roles). Excellent creature effects all round and surprising scale to the world (not evident in the trailers). 10/10 on the Weyland Yutani customer service scale.
I picked up Brent Spiner’s hat and handed it back to him after he dropped it on the baggage carousel at LAX
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I picked up Brent Spiner’s hat and handed it back to him after he dropped it on the baggage carousel at LAX
@world-of-telly.bsky.social I'm a bit late to the party with my Fantastic Journey trivia (thoroughly enjoyed the podcast by the way), but the silver building inhabited by the Atlanteans is the Hotel Bonaventure in Los Angeles, opened 1977.
December 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@world-of-telly.bsky.social I'm a bit late to the party with my Fantastic Journey trivia (thoroughly enjoyed the podcast by the way), but the silver building inhabited by the Atlanteans is the Hotel Bonaventure in Los Angeles, opened 1977.
Map of London from around the year 1000. I live on the southern edge of Gronewic, just west of Liofshema :-) londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
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December 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Map of London from around the year 1000. I live on the southern edge of Gronewic, just west of Liofshema :-) londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Being so taken with the robot Santa and his Meccano tree, it takes a moment to click what’s going on with the “regular” Santa in the background. Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller - an artist whose career spanned from the golden age of sci fi all the way to the era of computer graphics and digital animation.
Ed Emswhiller’s Christmas cover art for Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1960.
December 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Being so taken with the robot Santa and his Meccano tree, it takes a moment to click what’s going on with the “regular” Santa in the background. Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller - an artist whose career spanned from the golden age of sci fi all the way to the era of computer graphics and digital animation.
I chatted with writer/director Ali Cook and VFX producer Dasha Sherman about their wonderful short film The Pearl Comb which has been shortlisted for an Oscar. If you get a chance to see the film do check it out
youtube.com/watch?v=0lKP...
youtube.com/watch?v=0lKP...
Q&A with The Pearl Comb Director - Ali Cook, VFX supervisor Dasha Sherman and Paul Franklin.
YouTube video by Ali Cook
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December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I chatted with writer/director Ali Cook and VFX producer Dasha Sherman about their wonderful short film The Pearl Comb which has been shortlisted for an Oscar. If you get a chance to see the film do check it out
youtube.com/watch?v=0lKP...
youtube.com/watch?v=0lKP...
Tonight we decided, after watching it at the BFI, that The Terminator is Christmas movie - there’s definitely a Christ child metaphor at the heart of it, and Arnie’s red eye is clearly an Xmas tree decoration.
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Tonight we decided, after watching it at the BFI, that The Terminator is Christmas movie - there’s definitely a Christ child metaphor at the heart of it, and Arnie’s red eye is clearly an Xmas tree decoration.
At London Bridge station this morning on my way to work, love the new clock with its “second hand” that forms the classic Intercity logo twice every minute.
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
At London Bridge station this morning on my way to work, love the new clock with its “second hand” that forms the classic Intercity logo twice every minute.
@neilkbrand.bsky.social hi Neil! My son is coming with his school to the BFI tomorrow to see Sunrise with your accompaniment - he’s in for a treat, he’s really looking forward to it!
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@neilkbrand.bsky.social hi Neil! My son is coming with his school to the BFI tomorrow to see Sunrise with your accompaniment - he’s in for a treat, he’s really looking forward to it!
The Godfather is one of those films which you’ve seen on a TV and thought “this is brilliant”, but until you’ve seen it in a cinema, you ain’t seen nothing.
THE GODFATHER is a Christmas film. Come spend the holidays with the Corleones. Yes.. the all-timer returns to our screen next Wednesday 3rd December, showing from a gorgeous 4K restoration — and it’s still one of the greatest achievements in filmmaking.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Godfather is one of those films which you’ve seen on a TV and thought “this is brilliant”, but until you’ve seen it in a cinema, you ain’t seen nothing.
Happy Doctor Who day! Wearing my Gallifrey t-shirt to mark the occasion, hand made for me by my eldest son a few years ago :-)
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Happy Doctor Who day! Wearing my Gallifrey t-shirt to mark the occasion, hand made for me by my eldest son a few years ago :-)
one for @scarredforlife.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
one for @scarredforlife.bsky.social
@world-of-telly.bsky.social Long drive down the M6 today - very much enjoyed several eps of your podcast, especially Moonbase 3, which I remember watching, aged 7, with my parents on Sundays in 1973. Pretty sure there was a feature on Blue Peter about the programme's SFX, possibly with Matt Irvine?
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@world-of-telly.bsky.social Long drive down the M6 today - very much enjoyed several eps of your podcast, especially Moonbase 3, which I remember watching, aged 7, with my parents on Sundays in 1973. Pretty sure there was a feature on Blue Peter about the programme's SFX, possibly with Matt Irvine?
I love the Nancy comics, this one is funny on so many levels
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 04,1954
November 04,1954
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I love the Nancy comics, this one is funny on so many levels
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Recently, I have used various LLMs as a Google search substitute because they're easier to query and the answers are presented in a seemingly coherent manner. But last week, when asking a simple question: "can I travel between these two London train stations using contactless payment?" (cont)
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Recently, I have used various LLMs as a Google search substitute because they're easier to query and the answers are presented in a seemingly coherent manner. But last week, when asking a simple question: "can I travel between these two London train stations using contactless payment?" (cont)
Tough day, amused ourselves by getting ChatGPT to make stupid ads for old cars.
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Tough day, amused ourselves by getting ChatGPT to make stupid ads for old cars.