151. We Bury The Dead (torrent, 2024 - Zak Hilditch) This was decent. A zombie movie rooted in grief and loss and the fact that zombies were people's mums and dads and partners. Daisy Ridley's accent was a bit approximate but she's an expressive, subtle actor. 1/2

That live bands you've seen thing but only those who can't be seen again: Low Sparklehorse The Fall Love Leatherface Dr John Go Betweens Misty's Big Adventure Broadcast Thin Lizzy

If anyone wants a ticket to tomorrow's Wrong Speed fest for nowt, holler. Don't want to see it get wasted 😕

🚨BREAKING | Burnham has abandoned his support for trans rights in his latest u-turn, backing EHRC guidance and the 2025 Supreme Court ruling. At a campaign launch, he said: "The time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling and the guidance and implement it" (Via @Telegraph) x.com/LeftieStats/...

Good morning Fuck the EHRC and fuck Labour

To the one true God above Here is my prayer Not the first you've heard, but the first I wrote Not the first, but the others were a long time ago There are two people here, and I want you to kill them

excellent youtu.be/B4xU3DSKEZI?...

Finally got round to picking up a copy of the Miller / Shill Moomins soundtrack ❤️ youtu.be/sVRt35oI2EM?...

This can fuck right off. Solidarity to UK trans people living through this vitriolic persecution. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Gnight folks youtu.be/qWBjlrYlajI?... (In the absence of any Hedgeling on YouTube, Woven Skull must suffice)

So hyped for this, from the title on down www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA5N...

150. Hokum (Tyneside, 2026 - Damian McCarthy) So underwhelming, so clichéd, so mediocre I can't even be bothered to properly slag it off.

149. The Christophers (Tyneside, 2026 - Stephen Soderbergh) I only bought a ticket to this to kill some time, and I didn't know that odious fuck Corden was in it. It turned out to be pretty much what I expected it to be: a hugging-and-learning odd couple redemption movie. 1/3

Having abandoned Orphan I have three hours to kill before Hokum so this was my least worst option. I didn't realise fucking Corden was in it. I'm feeling the rage setting in before it even starts 😕

Had to abandon Orphan because 90% of the subtitles weren't appearing (a Google suggests it's an issue with the incorrect ratio being screened). Annoying, because it looked like it was going to be great 😬

Well hello. There's a new version of Sense & Sensibility out in the autumn. I was saying just the other day, one thing we're missing these days is Jane Aus... FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF. FUC

Today / planning ahead

I reviewed Emmylou ❤️ narcmagazine.com/live-review-...

Although I know the song well, I'd never seen this clip before. Stunning youtu.be/r3pTaSe4c-s?... Long day. Gnight folks

Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels...

148. Mel Brooks: 99 Year Old Man ( HBO, 2026 - Judd Apatow) This is 3 1/2 hrs long. Could be longer. Yeh, he went off the boil after the 70s (except as a producer) + yeh, he could be a bit full on. But the man was a genius + a mensch. And every comedian and director is here to tell you why 1/2

I’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including: – Books that just missed out – Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out) – Best novelists – Alternative rankings – Weirdest and least-weird ballots mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...

🖤 youtu.be/1VeBhMvzdKA?...

Gnight folks youtu.be/3Wt4yQwMjYA?...

147. 45 Years (MUBI, 2015 - Andrew Haigh) Very much not my sort of film, and a lot about it irked me - especially the central plot device - but Charlotte Rampling's performance can't be denied. Amazing.

It comes back to this youtu.be/3TuGnNRT3v8?...

146. Radio On (BFI, 1979 - Christopher Petit) An ugly, grimy, Wenders-homaging road trip across a cusp-of-Thatcherism England full of awfulness - Troubles on the radio, a suicide, abandoned petrol stations, shitty pubs and cafes, Sting. Not much happens, slowly, but it's really compelling anyway.

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16. Vincenzo Latronico - Perfection (2022) A chilly, forensic look at gentrification, social media, anxiety, alienation, ennui. Poor Anna and Tom, looking for a place that doesn't exist (any more) and finding only honeyed floorboards, tropical plants, buttplugs, excellent WiFi. 1/2

'Gentrification, as they understood it, was something other people did.'

35 years! youtu.be/_VWIQzGs51w?...

Gnight folks youtu.be/zaP8NGML_QE?...

Boots! youtu.be/E_66gXXfrbA?...

Emmylou Harris was absolutely stunning tonight. A genuine honour

Lee Anderson has been made Chair of Reform UK. The chair.

Last minute Emmylou Harris gig tonight... youtu.be/2hY6CMvJ9Vg?...

Lazy Sunday With Stagger Lee is back on the Cumby terrace till the autumn* so join us every month for a few hours of soothing sounds for sunny days (* Weather permitting)

Gnight folks youtu.be/HC3AXQ8dPJM?...

145. Cabaret (torrent, 1972 - Bob Fosse) 'When the song Cabaret comes at the end, you realize for the first time that it isn’t a song of happiness, but of desperation. The context makes the difference.... 1/2

144. The Drama (torrent, 2026 - Kristoffer Borgli) This had a great premise and it started well. But the wheels came off and it just lost me. The direction was overly tricksy, it felt overegged. Plus I just don't seem to be able to take Zendaya seriously somehow... 1/2

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15. Benjamin Wood - Seascraper (2025) This is a curious book, it creeps up on you. An accretion of vivid detail, lives you don't often encounter in novels. Brief but affecting.

142. Nobody (torrent, 2021 - Ilya Naishuller) 143. Nobody 2 (torrent, 2025 - Timo Tjahtanto) Forgot I'd seen the first one of these and thoroughly enjoyed it a second time. Which made watching the second one straight after more disappointing. 1/2

141. Gram Parsons - Fallen Angel (YouTube, 2004 - Gandulf Henning) A standard rock biopic but quality nonetheless - access to the right people, made with love but not a hagiography. Plenty of focus on Gram's deeply fucked up but privileged background. Well worth watching youtu.be/SDRk_hs2dJ0?...

Between the FA Cup, Eurovision, a fascist march in the capital, a Labour leadership debacle and a row about a fucking Guardian book list, everything about today seems to be a targeted attack on my desire to engage with the outside world. I'll try again tomorrow

140. Grand Theft Parsons (YouTube, 2003 - David Caffrey) This has the makings of a great movie but this isn't it. It's a poorly paced, badly scripted shaggy dog story with a better cast than it deserves. I could imagine Paul Thomas Anderson doing a really good job of it

Happy birthday JoJo. 75 today 🖤

It's Eurovision tonight. You know what to do...