Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

Lots of reasons to boycott Spotify, but running ice ads is especially sinister. Screw them!

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

If you think there’s nothing new to say about Wuthering Heights, you’d be wrong. #booksky 📚

I’m fascinated with how films fail and after reading this I really want to watch Alfred the Great.

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

and a few from me too! (including the William Castle cover story)

This article just published, open access - come for the David Hemmings personality coat-hangers, stay for my searingly insightful film promotion analysis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They made a date... 🗡️ with murder! 📽️ COVER GIRL KILLER (1959) 3:15pm stars #HarryHCorbett #FelicityYoung #SpencerTeakle crime drama #TPTVsubtitles

Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own

FUCK YEAH! cstonline.net/defending-th...

I am thrilled beyond compare! ❤️

1908 in cinema

why did the crab go to prison crimes

One of my favourite first watches of this year. Newton is terrific, playing a cuckold who embarks on an elaborate, extended scheme to murder his usurper. Better than De Palma’s Obsession (1976), and arguably superior to Visconti’s (1943) too…

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

A story in three parts

we're surrounded by media all the time. How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day? Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there? Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?

Every now and then, a gif comes along that really speaks to you... www.tiktok.com/@tcm/video/7...

Contrasting headlines

This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable. Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Passed a house with Christmas decorations up this morning.

Miriam Kent joins me for a chat about Black Widow, a fun yet thought-provokingly challenging movie that was dogged by delays caused by everything from lockdown to boardroom politics and tedious men crying about 'woke', and has since been almost forgotten... timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...

Absolutely delighted with this chat I had with @gracedent.bsky.social about Bagpuss. It took us both back to early childhood and I had no idea it was going to get so deep and profound. A truly great show and a great person to talk about it with. timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...

what a great bit of programming! a nicely mixed bill

So come on, did anyone else - apart from @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social - try to bounce off the sofa cushions in a bid to emulate the opening titles of Jamie And The Magic Torch? timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...

Happy birthday to one of the greatest series and *the* greatest title sequence.

With @janehill.bsky.social on Blue Peter, @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social on Jamie And The Magic Torch, @mrphilnorman.bsky.social on Pipkins, @unamccormack.bsky.social on The Children Of Green Knowe and @gracedent.bsky.social on Bagpuss. timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...

Tomorrow is the final SUPAKINO #bombaymix of the year. And it’s a corker! Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of BLOW-UP (1966) and JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983) SAT SEPT 27th 2025 www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...

Really looking (or 'leica-ing' - sorry 😞) forward to this photographic double bill this Saturday, programmed with panache by @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social

📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸 Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025 tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

OfS is a disgraceful regulator, actively hostile to the institutions over which it has jurisdiction. It wields its blunt instrument, "TEF", as though at an amateur broadsword contest.

It’s still shameful @salforduni.bsky.social

I will miss the adorable, jug-eared mini grass. Ruhe in Frieden, letzter Mann. #TheThirdMan

Shameful from @salforduni.bsky.social.

Tagged 4 days ago and still not a dickie bird from them. But if they think my query is just going to evaporate into thin air without a response, I'm afraid they've got another think coming

The things I’ve heard here and from others is absurd. My uni purchases ticket, hotel, etc. in advance for candidates. Candidates work w/ dept admin to set up the travel times, etc. Requiring reimbursement from a job candidate for travel is unethical.

I don’t wish to know how old any of them were here. #totp

We are beginning to hear from a number of #FilmNoir friends that actor Herbert Halbik; best known for playing little Hansel in Carol Reed’s classic #BritNoir The Third Man (1949), has passed away… Halbik was the last surviving member of the cast.

If you can't handle me at my worst (eating a microwaved lasagne wearing just my pants) you don't deserve me at my best (same but with a hat on)

Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

The question bears repeating: why are the establishment UK news media continuing to claim that mass anti-migrant protests are erupting across the country when they are simply not?

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

BFI fun last night, thanks to everyone who came!

Just exclaimed ‘fuck me, size of those dahlias!’ if anyone’s looking for guest presenters on Gardeners World.

Re-upping this for the Friday crowd: My piece on Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service and the reimagination of postal work in the wake of privatisation and digitisation. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x