“For the Sake of Privacy Let’s Call Him Grattan A.”🇮🇪🇵🇸
@grattanaikins.bsky.social
I'm in Dublin most of the time, the rest of the time I'm in hell. I make and shitpost about films, I shitpost about but do not make music. grattanaikins.com.
I know I'm doing this well after the match ended but I am on cloud nine. Still absolutely cackling at Ronaldo's red card. What a bitch.
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I know I'm doing this well after the match ended but I am on cloud nine. Still absolutely cackling at Ronaldo's red card. What a bitch.
I saw All That Jazz for the first time this year and I've thought about it every day since.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I saw All That Jazz for the first time this year and I've thought about it every day since.
Corey is right that the best ending is a filmmaker ending their film about the shattered dreams of filmmaking with a beautiful ode to the magic of the movies he just picked the wrong one. The correct answer is Close Your Eyes.
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Corey is right that the best ending is a filmmaker ending their film about the shattered dreams of filmmaking with a beautiful ode to the magic of the movies he just picked the wrong one. The correct answer is Close Your Eyes.
Reposted by “For the Sake of Privacy Let’s Call Him Grattan A.”🇮🇪🇵🇸
Daily reminder that what they did to us on the flotilla was the red carpet, VIP lounge version of what they do to Palestinians
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Daily reminder that what they did to us on the flotilla was the red carpet, VIP lounge version of what they do to Palestinians
Me while watching Deep Red this evening.
October 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Me while watching Deep Red this evening.
New wave of blue sky entrants come follow me for a good post every two weeks at most
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New wave of blue sky entrants come follow me for a good post every two weeks at most
Spending today engaging with the most talked about music of October 2025 (going to see Billy woods play live)
October 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Spending today engaging with the most talked about music of October 2025 (going to see Billy woods play live)
A question I always want to ask people making the "trans rights have gone too far on sports and youth and we need to find the sensible centre" people is: imagine you get what you want...
Would be amazing to get a single piece of media on this topic centered on the right's firehose of bigotry and misinformation rather than "the trans rights movement's shortcomings"
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
June 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A question I always want to ask people making the "trans rights have gone too far on sports and youth and we need to find the sensible centre" people is: imagine you get what you want...
As someone who games quite a bit it's entirely possible I will spend less on video games this year than I will on my mubi go subscription, which only helps to limit my cinema spending by a bit.
Absolutely laughable to call gaming "one of the most expensive hobbies around" because a video game costs ten dollars more. Gamers are children and should be treated with distain.
June 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
As someone who games quite a bit it's entirely possible I will spend less on video games this year than I will on my mubi go subscription, which only helps to limit my cinema spending by a bit.
It's crazy that the new Mission Impossible movie is like the only mainstream outlet of any sort that will openly say Israel has nuclear weapons. Like I'm still trying to wrap my head around that.
May 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's crazy that the new Mission Impossible movie is like the only mainstream outlet of any sort that will openly say Israel has nuclear weapons. Like I'm still trying to wrap my head around that.
After Hours is one of the great nightmare thrillers and it's lead characters psychology is just "horny and wants to get laid"
and half the time those old thrillers didn’t need to be psychological at all, just a wrong man, because they got by on characterization through dialogue and performance, not traumatic backstory
April 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
After Hours is one of the great nightmare thrillers and it's lead characters psychology is just "horny and wants to get laid"
I think this is crazy to me for other reasons (those movies should've been nominated for sound design)
Since 1930, there have only been eight occasions when the ONLY Oscar nomination for a film was for Best Director. Two of those nominations were for David Lynch: "Blue Velvet" (1986) and "Mulholland Dr." (2001, the last time it happened).
March 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I think this is crazy to me for other reasons (those movies should've been nominated for sound design)
Feels like we went from 5 to 100 going straight from "we can have a few Taylor Swift gigs in Croke Park" to "the NFL is coming to Croke Park".
February 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Feels like we went from 5 to 100 going straight from "we can have a few Taylor Swift gigs in Croke Park" to "the NFL is coming to Croke Park".
Nurse: The cancer is in your sights! Administer the shot!
Doctor: I can't do it! I'm not woke!
Me (watching through binoculars): He's not woke. He won't do it.
Doctor: I can't do it! I'm not woke!
Me (watching through binoculars): He's not woke. He won't do it.
is it woke to want to end cancer?
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
February 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Nurse: The cancer is in your sights! Administer the shot!
Doctor: I can't do it! I'm not woke!
Me (watching through binoculars): He's not woke. He won't do it.
Doctor: I can't do it! I'm not woke!
Me (watching through binoculars): He's not woke. He won't do it.
Coming home late from a night out just gonna give a hell yah Doechii before I go to sleep
February 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Coming home late from a night out just gonna give a hell yah Doechii before I go to sleep
Been spending most of today trying to figure out why they included the Utah jazz in this deal. Like how the hell did that happen.
February 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Been spending most of today trying to figure out why they included the Utah jazz in this deal. Like how the hell did that happen.
The best band of all time and there's no way you'll get me to listen to strangers to ourselves again.
modest mouse is an incredible band because you can actively feel them shift from subversive indie rock into coworker music over their 30 year discography
January 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The best band of all time and there's no way you'll get me to listen to strangers to ourselves again.
Never really understood people having hard and fast rules on this stuff, this is always a how long is a piece of string question for me. I have cinema screens where I would never go near the first seven rows and screens where I refuse to sit in the back half of the rows.
do not understand people who like to sit at the back of the theatre
January 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Never really understood people having hard and fast rules on this stuff, this is always a how long is a piece of string question for me. I have cinema screens where I would never go near the first seven rows and screens where I refuse to sit in the back half of the rows.
Absolutely insane to me that we're getting the fifth year anniversary of Parasite winning best picture before we get Bong Joon Ho's followup to Parasite.
January 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Absolutely insane to me that we're getting the fifth year anniversary of Parasite winning best picture before we get Bong Joon Ho's followup to Parasite.
Unfortunately if someone I knew showed up eight months after I last saw them with an eye patch and Carl the llama I would fall instantly in love. I would believe that they were my soulmate.
Dating advice for straight women and girls is always like DON'T let him know you're interested DO NOT engage with him in any way DON'T make him aware you exist IDEALLY disappear in the middle of the night for six to eight months and return with an eye-patch and a llama named Carl
January 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Unfortunately if someone I knew showed up eight months after I last saw them with an eye patch and Carl the llama I would fall instantly in love. I would believe that they were my soulmate.
I am the only person alive who wants to see The Brutalist solely for Isaach De Bankole
January 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I am the only person alive who wants to see The Brutalist solely for Isaach De Bankole
I haven't been posting I've been sick
December 30, 2024 at 4:40 PM
I haven't been posting I've been sick
I am going to watch No Other Land tomorrow and then I am going to stop worrying about watching every 2024 movie before finalising my best of 2024 list that will be seen by at most 20 people.
December 18, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I am going to watch No Other Land tomorrow and then I am going to stop worrying about watching every 2024 movie before finalising my best of 2024 list that will be seen by at most 20 people.
One of these days Elon's gonna start the worst video game company of all time.
I am a conservative now, in that I think being a grown man spending eight hours a day publicly complaining about the hotness of video game women should be met with shame, contempt, and disdain by the rest of society.
The US's new Shadow President is one of the biggest gooners on the planet, as evidenced by these last 12 hours of posting and I'm sure it's fine
December 14, 2024 at 8:18 PM
One of these days Elon's gonna start the worst video game company of all time.
I don't have a problem with when year end lists are run but I do hate when a publication decides to include December releases in their year end list the following year, like when Pitchfork put SOS on their best of 2023 list because it came out in December 2022 after they published their 2022 list.
In the latest Ask A Music Critic, a reader asks a common question: Why do year-end lists run before the end of the year?
Finally, a chance to play one of my favorite games: Music Criticism Inside Baseball.
uproxx.com/music/why-do...
Finally, a chance to play one of my favorite games: Music Criticism Inside Baseball.
uproxx.com/music/why-do...
Why Do Year-End Lists Run Before The End Of The Year?
As publications roll out their best of the year lists, Cultural Critic Steven Hyden delves into the timing of list season.
uproxx.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I don't have a problem with when year end lists are run but I do hate when a publication decides to include December releases in their year end list the following year, like when Pitchfork put SOS on their best of 2023 list because it came out in December 2022 after they published their 2022 list.