B.(L).D.E.* *big last day energy

I’m directing a movie right now. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Making a feature film…

Directing a movie, a real feature length one that I wrote for my dear friend to star in, in a month. In Portugal. Fucking excited. Finally. Can’t wait to share the cast and crew with you all.

Can’t believe I get to work with one of my favourite actresses of all time!

I’m directing my debut feature in 7 weeks time. Can’t believe it.

So WILD that the soundtrack by @emmablowgun.bsky.social to a film I directed and wrote is just like, casually up on Apple Music and Spotify etc and even you can buy it on Vinyl. I’m driving through Ireland and I can just… play it? Awesome.

It was an anti-gay hate crime. Period, full stop, and it needs to be reported as what it is.

@benmckenzie.bsky.social Hey Ben, will you be at the SXSW London Premiere of EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY next week?

I can’t imagine Ncuti Gatwa WANTED this, seeing as Who was his dream job… and the proof in the pudding that he’s clearly the best Doctor in years… Everything about this leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. Fingers crossed Gatwa goes from strength to strength.

Why do people always have knives out for any Superman movie since 1980? This looks great. Doesn’t look like a TV show. Seems to have personality. Gunn has a good track record. Yet it feels like it’s gonna bomb hard? Why?

This wasn't my favorite day on Bluesky, but it all worked out okay, and I am ending it with real gratitude for the many people here who read my story and engaged with it in good faith. Many thanks to you!

Sharing this again because it’s in theaters in certain cities this weekend, and I truly believe it should be seen on a big screen

Feels like, if Labour want to make some in-roads into the defection of voters to Ref*rm, then they need to consider reinstating the Winter Fuel Allowance (or a version of it) to all OAP's - even if it's frustrating that many don't need it, they'll bitch and moan all the same.

It’s almost like so many people in the UK are so broken they think they want a Trump of their own. Terrifying.

David Lynch

Give DYING FOR SEX all the Emmys. Williams, Slate, Spacek, Delaney and Rasch. And Merriwether and Murphy!

NORTH OF NORTH is exceptional.

It’s wrong that more Popes have died in my lifetime than Trumps.

Remember when the Post Office was mostly just for Post? Those were nice times.

Here's a list of today's best April Fool's stories that I've seen: Same time next year.

This is ridiculous “journalism”. Zegler is great in the film, actually Gadot’s a blast as well. But… overall the film just isn’t good! It feels really cheap, most of the new songs don’t work and the entire supporting cast feels like am-dram actors pulled from the Iver Heath Dramatic Society.

Ngl, the day Trump dies, there will be celebrations in the US the likes of which haven’t been since Thatcher rode the highway to hell here in the UK

To think there are dozens of war relief funds flooding my social media timeline every single day as we navigate this goddamn awful world and people will give thousands of dollars to this instead… A deeply depressing state of affairs

Picnic at Hanging Rock or Flirting.

Out today, Sister Midnight, a cine UFO which you can read @antbit.projectedfigures.com repping for here: lwlies.com/reviews/sist...

Making my IGN debut with a review of one of the best TV series of the year so far: the Netflix mini ADOLESCENCE, which examines the ramifications of a juvenile crime in four single-shot/real-time episodes. Tough subject, but the presentation and performances are riveting. www.ign.com/articles/ado...

I am very happy that Dwarf Story will continue its festival run screening among a great selection of indie films at the Folkestone Independent Film Awards. If anyone in Folkestone or nearby wants to come say hi, it's FREE at the Old Cigar and Olive at 4.30pm 24th March.

The thing about Anora is it is actually genuinely very very good.

I thought Conclave was tons of fun and the cast was great but I don't quite understand all of the hype and Best Picture momentum behind it. Even Fiennes, despite being excellent in it, has a lot of other better performances, I think.

So many reasons to love GODLAND (Hlynur Pálmason, 2022) - tonight, 22.40, BBC Four/iPlayer. Shot on 35mm and in Academy ratio; epic Icelandic landscapes; a priest with a crisis of faith; amazing sound and editing; seeing a photographic image developed with silver and albumen - and the dog!

My debut novel Woodworking is out in just 16 DAYS! Today's pitch: Bluesky hometown pride. I have promoted this book almost exclusively on this platform, wagering it will be better for book sales than other social media platforms. Prove me right??? Buy here: bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

Directing my first feature this year. Can't wait. Hell of a cast - announcement soon.

Is it just me, or do Amazon.co.uk never have ANY blu-rays in stock anymore?

Not sure what the big deal is with Brady Corbet using A.I. as. tool to enhance an existing performance. Like any computer program. No different from DI to remove a vain actors wrinkles or dubbing an actor who can’t sing with someone who can. Using A.I. to CREATE, that’s the evil.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

How come DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA seems to be coming out everywhere but the UK??? We got the first one day and date, and I want all 2hr24m of it in my brain NOW! www.imdb.com/title/tt8008...

Finally reading this article "Casual Viewing" on how Netflix supplanted studios, and doesn't care about quality as much as "eyes," after seeing it all over my feed. A sobering read! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is a helluva movie. A large part of that is Juliette Gariepy’s incredible performance. Her poker face continually leaves us wondering about her motives. It also has plenty to say about our thirst to seek out the worst stuff online just to be part of a conversation.

Last Four Watched:

RIDICULOUSLY stacked year, but let's have a go: 1) Radhika Apte - SISTER MIDNIGHT 2) Nell Tiger Free - THE FIRST OMEN 3) Alycia Debnam-Carey - IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE 4) Vic Carmen Sonne - THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE 5) Ariana Grande - Wicked: Part 1

I’ve spent 30 years not giving a fuck about Wicked and I’m sure as shit not gonna start now.

On Friday, I will be a.... BETTER MAN!

Arts funding

Well I fucking loved My Old Ass. Maisy Stella is wonderful as Elliott in Megan Park’s bittersweet coming of age dramedy, while Aubrey Plaza brings the goods, as ever. It straddles that fine line of funny with a sincere edge without ever being melodramatic. One of my favourites of the year

UK cinemagoers - please can you share this far and wide? I'm doing a survey of behaviour in cinemas. Is it getting better? Worse? Thanks in advance!