Ben Smith
@mrbensmith.bsky.social
Books, Comics, Films, TV. Still stuff for when you're sitting down.
Ahem, we have a 60s super spy already.
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ahem, we have a 60s super spy already.
Congratulations to David Szalay, but there is only one Flesh.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Congratulations to David Szalay, but there is only one Flesh.
Boo, this film has failed to come to a cinema anywhere near me. Sounds exactly like my kind of film too.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Boo, this film has failed to come to a cinema anywhere near me. Sounds exactly like my kind of film too.
Hello stylish Croatian editions
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Hello stylish Croatian editions
Still waiting for Kelly McDonald to be announced as Edna O'Brien in a biopic.
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Still waiting for Kelly McDonald to be announced as Edna O'Brien in a biopic.
HUGE news. The first non-2000 AD Apex edition from Rebellion is a doozy. treasuryofbritishcomics.com/news/announc...
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
HUGE news. The first non-2000 AD Apex edition from Rebellion is a doozy. treasuryofbritishcomics.com/news/announc...
Have you read producer Michael Deeley's book, Chris? On Bladerunner, the Italian Job and much else. It's v up your street.
October 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Have you read producer Michael Deeley's book, Chris? On Bladerunner, the Italian Job and much else. It's v up your street.
Anderson stands for all of us as she reacts to 2025?
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Anderson stands for all of us as she reacts to 2025?
It's v odd though that he credits these guys with changing so much, but doesn't mention the contemporaneous French directors of the cinéma du luc, who were also pursing this heightened visual style and were accused of no substance too.
October 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's v odd though that he credits these guys with changing so much, but doesn't mention the contemporaneous French directors of the cinéma du luc, who were also pursing this heightened visual style and were accused of no substance too.
Outages now include HMRC
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Outages now include HMRC
It would appear we're getting a good example of what happens when one supplier takes too much of the market, so that when things go wrong for that supplier, AWS, the impact is global. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
October 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It would appear we're getting a good example of what happens when one supplier takes too much of the market, so that when things go wrong for that supplier, AWS, the impact is global. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
If only Microsoft had tried something like this before and learned if people wanted it.
October 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
If only Microsoft had tried something like this before and learned if people wanted it.
Oh man, the licensing costs alone. Andy Capp is still massive business in the US y'know. However I think these pics prove your canny business sense. Nowhere pictured is there an Andy Capp's Donut...
October 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Oh man, the licensing costs alone. Andy Capp is still massive business in the US y'know. However I think these pics prove your canny business sense. Nowhere pictured is there an Andy Capp's Donut...
This one goes up all the way to Extinction Level Event.
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This one goes up all the way to Extinction Level Event.
I am excited to read this Coppola adaptation. What are the chances it comes out the exact same time season two of Megatropolis comes out in the Judge Dredd Megazine?! bsky.app/profile/2000...
October 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I am excited to read this Coppola adaptation. What are the chances it comes out the exact same time season two of Megatropolis comes out in the Judge Dredd Megazine?! bsky.app/profile/2000...
Thank goodness we're past all that old time misogyny.
October 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Thank goodness we're past all that old time misogyny.
Ezquerra and Rennie's Cursed Earth Coburn too.
October 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ezquerra and Rennie's Cursed Earth Coburn too.
@westonfront.bsky.social 's Spider commissions are suitably intense
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
@westonfront.bsky.social 's Spider commissions are suitably intense
Read this comic, looks great. But also, I now need Ghost Labradors for Halloween.
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Read this comic, looks great. But also, I now need Ghost Labradors for Halloween.
There may be something to Robin Hood being under served by his logos. Here in the UK we went a little minimal, red on yellow became clean white
October 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
There may be something to Robin Hood being under served by his logos. Here in the UK we went a little minimal, red on yellow became clean white
As the self-censorship begins I wonder, would last year's The Order even get released now? Feels doubtful. 1980's neo-nazi's probably as off limits as 2020s neo-nazis. Awful times.
variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
As the self-censorship begins I wonder, would last year's The Order even get released now? Feels doubtful. 1980's neo-nazi's probably as off limits as 2020s neo-nazis. Awful times.
variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
variety.com/2025/tv/colu...
I may have watched both Thomas Crown Affairs this weekend. I'm a fan of both films which have different strengths and are both outliers in their directors' (Norman Jewison, John McTiernan) filmographies. But Haskell Wexler's cinematography and Alan Levine's costume dept win the day for the '68 flick
September 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I may have watched both Thomas Crown Affairs this weekend. I'm a fan of both films which have different strengths and are both outliers in their directors' (Norman Jewison, John McTiernan) filmographies. But Haskell Wexler's cinematography and Alan Levine's costume dept win the day for the '68 flick
Watched Point Blank again for the first time in a long time. Still all kinds of amazing.
September 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Watched Point Blank again for the first time in a long time. Still all kinds of amazing.