Sean Young and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982).

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Guess what.

The many, many flags cable-tied to lamp posts are starting to look dirty, bedraggled, limp and threadbare, who could have predicted this

The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Updating our #silentfilm live events listings again tonight including kicking off a 2026 page. So much to see already!! Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

Updating our #silentfilm live events listings again tonight including kicking off a 2026 page. So much to see already!! Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.

BBC: "While President Trump has not disclosed any legal cause of action against us, we wish to apologise unreservedly to him, lick his boots, cancel shows that he doesn't like and which we never had any intention of broadcasting, and give him all our licence-fee payers' money by way of settlement"

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Buster Keaton comedy College (1927) may not be as well known as some of his other work but it's certainly worth a look. And if you use the Promo code SILENTFILM30 you can get 30% of when it screens in Highgate on 5th Dec. Details at www.ticketsource.co.uk/hicmf/not-so...

REMINDER: Beggars of Life, starring Louise Brooks, screens in the UK on November 6. Details at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/10/begg...

Another substantial updating of our #silentfilm live screenings listings tonight. But its not just numbers, there are some real rarities coming up that you just can't afford to miss. For details see silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

Another substantial updating of our #silentfilm live screenings listings tonight. But its not just numbers, there are some real rarities coming up that you just can't afford to miss. For details see silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

Lillian Gish klaxon! I am introducing this screening of WAY DOWN EAST on 35mm at the BFI on 16 December. Give yourself an early Christmas present! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Updating our #silentfilm live screening listings tonight. Lots of new additions and lots more to follow soon. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

Updating our #silentfilm live screening listings tonight. Lots of new additions and lots more to follow soon. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

Badenoch: "I make sure that when I announce something I think about how it is going to impact people." Badenoch is asked where the 750,000 people she proposes to deport will go. Badenoch: "I'm tired of us asking all of these irrelevant questions ..." Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor. I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.

Another half dozen #silentfilm screenings added to our listings tonight. Soooo much to see. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Busy week this week - get along if you can, folks! Tomorrow at Bradford, three Sherlock Holmes shorts www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/silen... Thursday at Newcastle for trams - thecommonroom.org.uk/event/trams/ Sunday at the NFT for Thief of Baghdad. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Pleased to say that silentfilmcalendar.org is now back up and running and we've just added another 20 #silentfilm screenings this morning. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/whats-new/

Every word of this!!!!

Happy to say that silentfilmcalendar.org is now back up and running. Almost 80 films added this morning, all due to screen before Xmas, something for everyone and lots more to follow. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/live-screeni...

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Happy to say that silentfilmcalendar.org is now back up and running. Almost 80 films added this morning, all due to screen before Xmas, something for everyone and lots more to follow. Details at silentfilmcalendar.org/live-screeni...

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Pete Hegseth says the Trump administration is restoring the name of Department of War because the US "hasn't won a major war since" it was renamed the Department of Defence. These people are breathtakingly stupid.

'The Conservative party, whose leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly pledged to fight for “free speech”, has banned Byline Times from attending her party’s annual conference' bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Maybe Eric Cantona’s trawler statement was actually an attempt to warn Man United about Grimsby

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Sorry folks but silentfilmcalendar.org is having to take a bit of a break. We may be back later in the year!

Politics can be complex, but every so often it’s pretty easy to tell which side of history you’re on. For example, if you require the police to arrest elderly ladies for peacefully protesting against genocide, that’ll probably be the wrong side.

Reading @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s latest Rivers of London book and musing why we are spending to much time looking for sapience in whales and dolphins when urban foxes are clearly only a couple of generations away from stealing mobiles and using them to arrange Deliveroo deliveries

Spare a thought for the IDF today. They were out all day yesterday shooting innocent people trying to get bags of flour, and when they got home they had to find out the heartbreaking news that some people at Glastonbury don't like them. That cannot be good for your mental health.

politician hypocrisy latest - via Politico email

Starting to look like a major Ukrainian offensive. Now explosions have been reported in Severomorsk, where the Russian Northern Fleet, including subs with nukes, is based. #explodey

Robbie Gibb - BBC board member overseeing news output - was an ardent leaver and Theresa May’s head of communications… This old shite won’t work anymore with a quarter of Leave Voters now deceased without seeing the Sunlit Uplands of the Brexit Fantasy. Sad old dreams of whatever.

Keir Starmer immitates Reform in his divisive speech. Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”. Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs. Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.

Travesty!! An absolute mess of a film. Almost unwatchable!! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Great decision by Westminster Council.