Dear God, Please let 2026 be the year when people stop using the word "liminal" in everything in order to sound like the highbrow-intellectual-artsy- type...i.e. a nonce. Yours faithfully.

RIP Ken Downie. End of Time - The Black Dog youtu.be/ICsyIXg37Rs?...

TGIF. Did a lil ambient mix for my personal campaign to bring back the club chillout room 🌬 www.mixcloud.com/GariaRoad/am... #ambient #downtempo #chillout

Such a great lineup but hope Drumsheds has improved... #djkicks

I'd sort of forgotten about Tori Amos for a while. Now revisiting her work and oooooof, Little Earthquakes is a STAGGERING album. youtu.be/2uaA23WOytc?...

Mister Señor Love Daddy is back 🔥 #samuelljackson #ntsdontassumeday www.nts.live/shows/dont-a...

Ghost Elephants, Werner Herzog's latest, follows a conservationist who has dedicated much of his life to finding an elusive, giant species of elephant in Angola. Could easily have become an exoticization of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Instead, this is respectful, warm & an urgent ode to the wild.

From one international film festival to another. Seated for Herzog's Ghost Elephants at the Vienna International Film Festival.

The man in front of me at airport security just had his cabin bags go down the second conveyor belt for a security check...The staff took out two big spanners from his hand luggage. Mate, seriously? #airportclowns

Here's my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of one of my other favourites from London Film Festival 2025 - The Chronology of Water. #LFF2025 #kristenstewart filmhounds.co.uk/2025/10/the-...

I really enjoyed No Other Choice. So many gruesome & wickedly funny moments to front the underlying indictment of the corporate environment. However, the best dark comedy of the London Film Festival 2025 so far goes to Bugonia. #LFF2025 #ParkChan-wook

Roofman was fun, a welcome bit of levity along with Bugonia, in what has been a super emotionally heavy set of films this festival season. #LFF

Ozon's adaptation of Camus's The Stranger: really enjoyed Ozon's take on Mersault, felt like a reinvigorated approach to the philosophical perspective with a highly aesthetic cinematic style. Puzzled why some folks are referring to the subject as existentialism...absurdists, the lot of them! #LFF25

Blue Moon, Richard Linklater's latest: dialogue-focused & it's sharp, fast and rollicking. Ethan Hawke's best performance yet - he plays American songwriting legend Lorenz Hart. Never seen Hawke so small and under 5ft! V different from all other Linklaters but that's his unpredictable style! #LFF

Yep it's a London Film Festival top favourite from me for Resurrection. Read my review here 👇🏾 #LFF2025 filmhounds.co.uk/2025/10/resu...

D'Angelo - "Funk is Black rock'n'roll." youtu.be/3OEzt6Y2oRU?...

Absolutely devastating. A super talented soul, we were lucky to have his voice, his art in this world. Rest in peace, D'Angelo. 🕊

Rocky start today scrambling around the house looking for things I needed to pack my bag, forgetting my headphones, dealing with smarmy waiters & running late. Then had a Wagamama & to see a film adaptation of a disturbing book based on absurdist philosophy. Can confirm I now feel right as rain.

Frankenstein: Guillermo Del Toro, true to his track record, has created another hot monster feature (Elordi might be too much here, though?). Fabulous world-building, so emotive and captivating. However, pacing seemed a little off. Could be a little more concise. #LFF #Londonfilmfestival2025

Only on Earth: an immersive documentary by Robin Petré which explores human-animal coexistence in one of the most wildfire-prone places in Europe - Galicia, Spain. Stunning & really hits home that we live in a world increasingly ravaged by the effects of climate change. #LFF #londonfilmfestival2025

My full review of Anuparna Roy's Songs of Forgotten Trees from London Film Festival 2025 #LFF: filmhounds.co.uk/2025/10/song...

Sentimental Value: Joachim Trier does it again. He leads you down the garden path with humour & sharp dialogue with this look at two daughters & their relationship with their filmmaker dad. Then unexpectedly, he hits you with a tenderness that has more staying power the more you think on it. #LFF

Bugonia: Yorgos Lanthimos' most cohesive and accessible film to date! Just a whole load of fun with a surprisingly touching end. #LFF #londonfilmfestival2025

Yesssss...Kraftwerk tickets acquired!

Resurrection, Dir: Bi Gan - what a beautiful, beautiful mindfuck. #LFF #londonfilmfestival2025 #BFILFF

The BFI Press booking system is too much for my ADHD brain. You have to be on the app bang on time to book ahead, keep up with the daily bulletins by email every morning, check the website for 10am public screening releases and somehow deal with all the glitches on the system at the same time. #LFF

Songs of Forgotten Trees - Anuparna Roy's debut feature, seemed promising at first as it delicately laid out the intertwined lives of two flatmates in Mumbai - one a sex worker and one a call centre agent. But an undernourished script quickly made this film forgettable. #LFF #londonfilmfestival2025

Clint Bentley's Train Dreams: a story of finding glimmers of joy in the abyss of grief, against the backdrop of early 20th century rural America. The film burns slowly but steadily, with sprinkles of something metaphysical; a subtle telling of what space and place means. #LFF

Chronology of Water: Kristen Stewart delivers a film that leaves you in immediate need of several glasses of wine & a quiet place to sit and process. The heaviness becomes too much to bear at times, but the ethereal sequencing puts you in the same dissociative state as the protagonist. #LFF

You can listen back to my NTS radio Brummie mixtape here: www.nts.live/shows/roots-...

Was selected for the NTS supporter radio season and the theme is 'roots'. So I chose to focus on where I was born, bred and buttered...a potluck of Brummie-only tunes 🤘🏾🐮 Tune in tomorrow 1st Oct at 10am BST, Channel 2 on NTS 👇🏾 #Birmingham www.nts.live/shows/roots-... #Birminghammusic #NTSradio

Read my latest review for @filmhounds.co.uk here: filmhounds.co.uk/2025/08/gent... The Courageous. Dir Jasmine Gordon.

Enjoyed reading this article which centres around the Danish ban on Korean Buldak noodles. 🌶 open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

Listen back to the second episode of my show Tala Tapes for Aaja Radio. All South Asian music emerging from a different theme each month. Ep 2 is centred around the MONSOON ☔️. Featuring artists like Jaubi, Ganavya, Nitin Sawnhey. Second half of the set is a rain raga from Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. 🙏🏾

Just had a music PR person DM me on other socials calling me Paula. That's it, I am so done with today.

It's nearly that time of the year 🎥! I have press accreditation for London Film Festival 2025 so if any outlets would like coverage from me - let me know! DMs are open.

Listen back to the first of my show Tala Tapes, for Aaja Radio. Theme for this one: Beats of Defiance. Featuring Asha Puthli, Fun-da-mental, Mahi G, Swet Shop Boys amongst others. on.soundcloud.com/IqqYuq01pBm1...

TGIF. An ole classic from Joan Armatrading – Love and Affection. youtu.be/sBohO1zr7jw?...

Anyone else having mild palpitations while clicking on Bluesky's new age verification thing which uses a facial scan to estimate your age? Was half tempted to dunk my face in a bucket of ice beforehand...

Never seen this many people wearing bucket hats at King's X station, on the Met Line platform. And then remembered Oasis are playing Wembley today.

The first of my show Tala Tapes airs today at 2pm on Aaja Radio over on Channel 2. Each month, I’ll curate an hour of South Asian music rooted in a different theme — from classic and contemporary film soundtracks, music inspired by monsoons, to rave-ready tunes. aajamusic.com/radio/

Ozzy's been part of my intro with many people I've met throughout the years abroad, who had no idea where Birmingham was when I told them where I was from. Their faces would light up at his name when I explained it's the same place. Thank you for the Brummie pride. 🖤 youtu.be/fLOb4KVS-S8?...

My latest for @filmhounds.co.uk is about a folk drama tinged with the macabre – Harvest. I wanted to like this more than I did. filmhounds.co.uk/2025/07/harv...

TGIF. Tonstartssbandht - What Has Happened youtu.be/EPDqH9lv-Q0?...

Just leaving this here... David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans #🇵🇸🕊 youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?...

A reminder of this eternally relevant song and his pioneering contributions. Rest in peace, Sly Stone. ☮️🕊 youtu.be/PACU8arEoNA?...

Laurent Garnier at Womb in Tokyo last weekend:

TGIF. Discovered this one in Tokyo: Shintaro Sakamoto - By Swallow Season youtu.be/zaSwGfCouMM?...

Easy to miss 'Universe' listening bar in Kyoto as it's up some inconspicuous stairs, which takes you to a bar that probably fits 10 people but the intimate size is perfect for solo folk. Takashi, the owner, introduced me to 70s Japanese band Tulip + more! Good vibes, closes late & diff sakes to try.

TGIF. Obongjayar - Sweet Danger youtu.be/Q5hZRrci8h4?...