They’re rarely well done

65.
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates. Finally got round to reading this important work and noticed halfway through Equalizer 2 that Denzel was reading it so I’m in good company

Cannot hear any normal way for that ‘Ohh…’ at the beginning to work

We let him cook, but his players couldn’t pass.

@coldwarsteve.bsky.social ?

19.
Vue Westfield Stratford
🎥🎥🎥

One Battle After Another (2025)
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

Should have called this shopping centre Eastfield, but I braved it to tick off a new cinema to watch this movie and I’m glad I did. An absolute ride of a film, from start to end.

64.
Lanny - Max Porter. A village is turned upside down when an eccentric local boy goes missing. Kind of like a broken mirror reflecting different views of England

63.
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. The story of a neurodivergent woman who finds herself working a routine retail job. Deadpan and very relatable the way she struggles to relate

It’s a bit Inspiral Carpets (with the Car- and -al)

62.
The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett. Wise post-apocalyptic old-west sci-fi about a finding a hidden city that retains the banned scientific knowledge after a nuclear war, written by the screenwriter from Empire Strikes Back.

61.
The Passion of GH - Clarice Lispector. A wild book that pulls apart every moment despite its fabula being short and sweet: a woman finds a cockroach in her maid’s room…

Treating the far right moment in the UK as a manifestation of displaced economic concerns or social media radicalisation - these are signs of a country that still refuses to fully come to terms with the history, depth and breadth of its ongoing racism problem.

60.
Memoirs found in a Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem. In a society without paper, these mysterious notes are found which may reveal the truth of what happened to the paranoid bureaucratic world before. Perplexing and circuitous but amusing and clever

59.
The Transition - @lukekennard.bsky.social Social satire on a near-future prison alternative that offers to rebuild the lives of middle class crims. Well-observed, surprisingly tender and of course very funny

18.
Royal Festival Hall
🎥🎥🎥🎥

The Mastermind (2025)
🍿🍿🍿🍿

Slow-burning beautifully-shot turn on a bungled art heist including a brief Q&A with Kelly Reichardt and Josh O’Connor beforehand.

I second this. Build the house before you worry about painting the guest bathroom, so to speak