Gonna have to repeat myself here and plug the latest season of INVINCIBLE again. It's just one of the smartest, most dynamically written shows around at the moment, funny and thoughtful and constantly surprising. I will stop going on about it when it stops being brilliant

Friends in or near CANTERBURY - it’s the final week of this excellent production of Hamlet I’ve been touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Come along to the Marlowe Theatre and say hello if you can. It’s been a blast working with such a prestigious company and lovely people

I may end up regretting this, but, dare I say it... from the trailer, I think they might actually have made the best possible film they could, given the inherently silly source material. Been playing the games since 1987, gonna be sat in the cinema Day 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4X...

I took a little convincing to go and see the new film THE DRAMA, but my skepticism was misplaced - it's a thoughtful, complex movie with some of the cringiest social awkwardness I've seen in years. Plus a new candidate for worst wedding speech of all time. Well worth watching x

THE BOYS is back for its final season, and you should all be watching it, mainly because of how accurate this meme is. It’s been wild watching this show transcend its fun but juvenile source material and become THE eminent social commentary of our turbulent times

Admitting to genocide before you even do it

Look, I know it's a cartoon. I know it's (on the surface) about superheroes. But if you're interested in great writing, performances, visuals and overall storytelling, you should really be watching INVINCIBLE on Prime Video. The most recent episode has kind of blown my mind

Crazy to think I've been listening to banging tunes from ROBYN for four different decades now, from showing me love in the 90s, to dancing on my own in the 00s, to missing u in the 10s. Digital dance music with a heart and soul. Her new album SEXISTENTIAL has plenty more on it x

People in the UK can finally watch the new medical drama THE PITT, and believe the hype - it's truly excellent. Brilliantly staged and filmed, with a tremendous cast, a sharp political sensibility and an inspired setup (each episode is a real-time hour of a single hospital shift)

This week, the terrific production of Hamlet I’m doing with the Royal Shakespeare Company will be showing at the rather grand Theatre Royal in NEWCASTLE. Come say hello if you’re nearby!

Day off yesterday, so I watched the new Pixar film HOPPERS. Definitely their funniest feature in quite some time, even if talking animals is an easy swing. And the thing is, even a standard Pixar movie is still better than 90% of other films out there, animated or otherwise

Had the pleasure of watching the outstanding new film PROJECT HAIL MARY in the cinema last night, a truly excellent adaptation of the wonderful book. Smart science coupled with an extraordinary sense of humanity and empathy, emotional, funny, everything you want from a film x

Nobody should ever, ever attack ambulances. Anywhere in the world.

Managed to catch up with the new season of INVINCIBLE on Prime Video, which even after superhero fatigue has set in everywhere is still by far the most interesting deconstruction of the genre. The amount of emotional weight they've earned in this show is extremely impressive

Friends in NOTTINGHAM - the excellent production of Hamlet I’m in with the Royal Shakespeare Company is playing at your gorgeous Theatre Royal this week. Come say hello! X

A long train ride means I've caught up with the second season of the live-action ONE PIECE series on Netflix, which remains as goofy and fun and kind of remarkable. I always insisted that the strange tone of anime would never work in live action, and this show proves me wrong

Oscars predictions

With the Oscars coming up on Sunday and an afternoon free, I watched the Spanish film SIRAT, which was... quite an experience. Desert ravers trying to avoid landmines while extremely high. It's intense, deeply strange in places and an expert example of how to ratchet up tension

Violence begets violence. Whoever the victim is, whoever the perpetrator is. It solves nothing, and sows the seeds of future atrocities. There is always another, peaceful, option. Look for it x

Friends in NORWICH - this excellent production of Hamlet I'm in with the Royal Shakespeare Company will be playing at your very own Theatre Royal this week. Come and say hello if you're about! x

This week, our terrific production of HAMLET with the Royal Shakespeare Company is playing at the beautiful Alhambra Theatre in BRADFORD. Anyone nearby come and check us out!

At last, some political hope. Labour lied and lied and lied about this election. Shame on them, and congratulations to Hannah Spencer x

Friends near TRURO - we are performing a wonderful production of HAMLET this week with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Come and say hello!

Had a much-needed day off yesterday, and was able to catch the new Sam Raimi film SEND HELP. It's a lovely reminder that he's a very unique filmmaker and has had a very unique career, and the way he's stuck to his guns and style and interests is pretty crazy. Recommended x

Now would be a good a time as ever to buy a copy of NOBODY'S GIRL, the memoir of VIRGINIA GIUFFRE, one of the many women abused by Jeffrey Epstein and specifically by the former Prince Andrew. She never saw her abusers face justice, and took her own life before it was published.

Had a long train ride yesterday to lovely TRURO, so I watched the new documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR on Netflix. Kind of a perfect summary of the litany of institutional failures that is crippling any idea of justice in America. The weaponisation of fear will claim more victims

Some unexpected time off today, so I've been able to catch up with A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, the latest Game of Thrones spinoff. It takes a little while to get going, but once it does, it's everything that made GOT great - the small character moments, humour and heart

Finally got round to watching the new Brazilian film THE SECRET AGENT yesterday, a strangely paced but very timely and chillingly topical epic about widespread state corruption. Wagner Moura is genuinely incredible in it, and deserves any awards coming his way x

Battersea, right now. Hope everyone is okay

McSweeney

I watched 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE over the weekend, which was a massive tonal shift from the previous films. Thoughtful and surprising, it does the thing that far more sequels should do - tries something different. Just let Nia DaCosta direct everything from now on please

It got snubbed by the Oscars this week, but the Korean film NO OTHER CHOICE is out in UK cinemas this weekend, and comes highly recommended. Parasite vibes from the director of Oldboy and The Handmaiden, it's hilarious and terrifying and a warning about where we're all headed x

This is a reference to “Which Way, Western Man?”, a notorious antisemitic neo-Nazi book from 1978. From the official White House account.

Next up, at the Royal Shakespeare Company:

Went and watched the new film THE HOUSEMAID in the cinema last night, which was an absolute scream - a completely trashy thriller which used to be ten-a-penny back in the 90s and simply doesn't get made any more. Utter nonsense but weirdly kind of pure and nostalgic

Okay, so the best show on TV right now is HEATED RIVALRY, which has only recently started streaming in the UK. It might sound very trashy (two rival ice hockey players have a secret romance) but it's unexpectedly funny and romantic and remarkably well-written and performed

I jumped the gun on this a few weeks ago, but today the film adaptation of HAMNET is finally out in UK cinemas. Highly recommended, it's a beautiful distillation of the five stages of grief seen through the lens of art and why we make it and how it can help us through the dark x

Managed to watch MARTY SUPREME in a good old-fashioned American movie theatre, and it's got the same weird, propulsive energy as Good Time or Uncut Gems. I get how these films are divisive, not for everyone, but they work for me, this one in particular. Chalamet is the real deal

Saw some Warhol and Liechtenstein and Basquiat yesterday at the Broad Museum in downtown LA

Caught up with a couple of old friends at the Academy Museum