Both of these people are extremely nice #factoftheday

M. Audiard and his amazing translator after the showing last night of his wonderful Emilia Perez at Picturehouse Central. Hates musical comedies, apparently.

Spectacular Festival of Light in Amsterdam

Salad oil and the Workers’ Party get the same stylish treatment at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Vote Red!

I was cast in an Alan Clarke film but had to turn it down when it came to costume-fitting

Genuinely worried about the folk who bring rubber ducks into the Eurostar loos

Nuns have been a heavy trope in horror movies for a while now. But the scariest nun in many a moon is Emily Watson’s chilling Mother Superior in the quietly devastating Small Things Like These.

This morning's before-the-world-has-woken-up watch

A wine clearly so vile that even a street wino can't finish it

Watched this for the second time last night. What a wonderfully resonant, emotionally shattering piece of work. In a just world, this would have cleaned up at the Oscars.

Ooh look what's coming up on @indicator.bsky.social! And guess who's written an essay for the new blu-ray...

I've just taken out a new mortgage to see Jake Shears' penultimate performance in Cabaret next week.

It’s still summer here in Los Angeles. So not only are you constantly aware of the climate crisis but there are these little delivery robots running all over the place to reinforce that the future is actually now.

This time next week I'll be jetting off to the States to finish research and conduct interviews for my new writing project. Belle Rosen will be with me in spirit.

So disappointed that the Q&A this Sunday with 'scriptgirl extraordinaire' Angela Allen has been cancelled. I've been lucky enough to meet her a few times but was looking forward to hearing her stories of Huston, Hepburn, Marilyn and the rest.

So you see, there was this tornado and somehow I landed up in a wonderful new Technicolor world