I don’t think this is quite true (Nolan and Spielberg also get absolute freedom and make movies they want to make), what’s notable is JC’s passion is technology so the Avatar movies have very basic plots and stunning visuals. Nolan (time, spies, thieves) and Spielberg (mothers) have plot fixations

Not even the biggest historical and factual absurdity in that post but just a reminder that India was founded with this speech

So Kylie minogue’s Christmas song isn’t on Apple Music apparently and when I saw it was no 1, I may have gone to look it up, not realised I was listening to an unrelated trap song by someone called kylie divine and thought kylie minogue had embraced hip hop for a solid minute

Isn’t this the reverse version of James Schneider complaining Corbynism focused too much on getting into government and not enough on setting up tenants unions? They don’t want to run a country they want to build “working class community” (organise neighbourhood block parties)

PSA that Sentimental Value is the most I’ve come out of the cinema levitating since… probably Anora?

Developing crankier beliefs to fit in in our new political landscape: putting both Chloe Kelly and Hannah Hampton in an FPTP vote for sports personality of the year is pro Lando Norris gerrymandering

I’ve got a genuine HP related question for @stephenkb.bsky.social! Given Disney and universal parks are by all accounts money printing machines and everyone’s usually obsessed with IP milking, why *is* Hollywood quite so willing to license their shit to universal rather than trying themselves?

“Babe are you sure you got the right size tree”

I’m sorry this is the greatest grift ever and anyone who invests in this frankly deserves to not be able to sue them

The argument that at the point of decision you are morally obligated to vote for the option even 1% better than the other I totally get and basically agree with. The implication you should hold back on expressing your ideal preferences based on polling is just so totally not how democracy works

The angriest I’ve ever seen a person about political messaging was my British Indian (non-practicing) Sikh dad getting a leaflet from Zac Goldsmith unsubtly bringing up Sadiq Khan’s religion and suggesting Labour would take gold jewellery away. It now feels like they’re doing this to white people?

Thing is, Chappell Roan was the last couple years’ biggest pop sensation, Game of Thrones was last decade’s biggest TV show, Oppenheimer won best picture and made a billion dollars, “desexed” media refers like, specifically and only to the Marvel movies and good god people just don’t watch them

He said that dumb shit about only making ten movies because being in instagram memes saying “Tarantino never made a bad movie!” is more important than creative risks or artistic growth, and now he’s lashing out and going on podcasts rather than make The Final Movie TM

Legally I’m sure this right, morally it doesn’t change the fact that the House of Lords’ very existence is an abomination

I’m honestly not sure why the diaspora is so Punjabi but I do know your average Australian Brit or Canadian (including of Indian descent tbh) wound be astonished to learn that India has more Christians than Sikhs

TalkSPORT commentary is like FIFA commentary, events just trigger a standard football cliche vaguely plausibly related to what’s just happened #TheFootball

Yeah all joking aside Owen is by far the most influential UK media figure sympathetic to this kind of politics and he’s not even slightly bothering to hide his contempt. It’s over. Finito.

I’m ngl everything about this party is hilarious but that’s an incredibly high turnout for a procedural vote open for 24 hours you had to go through an extra step to be eligible for

I’m a Gävlebocken truther, if it genuinely bothered them this much they’d put it inside, hire security 24/7 or make it out of metal

@owenwmichael.bsky.social @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social am I being thick or is this too many candidates?

One of Sultana’s major demands being letting 14 year olds join is tipping decisively into self parody lol

This is a mansion tax right? Ed Miliband vindicated AGAIN

Not the main issue but it’s just so… dumb? Like at some point surely the right could comprehend that ads are diverse to hit as many potential customers as possible. They’re supposed to be the ones in favour of capitalism!

Ngl I’m quite interested in the venn diagram of “potential buyer for the French Crown Jewels” and “can show off stolen goods which have Wikipedia pages saying they’re stolen without causing major difficulties for themselves”

1) I already bought a ticket for tomorrow already 😐 that’ll teach me to plan my holidays in advance 2) Very amused by the idea of the culture minister turning up at an active crime scene and trying to help somehow. Lisa Nandy just hanging out with the forensic team

Is this the second ever PL manager with a 0% win rate? Frank de Boer was one right?

I do find the way liberal religious people talk about the literal truth of god/heaven as missing the point a bit bizarre, as an atheist science nerd lol. A world with an all powerful sentient creator is different to one without! I don’t see how this is different to wanting to know how stars work!

So while I think this is correct my gut feeling is to draw a distinction between deeper analysis (very important) and intellectual tradition (who gives a shit)

I mean, she’s quite obviously right tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

Really is not discussed enough how England have, for a long time now, been an absolute machine in qualifying. This is not nothing! Very big teams have scares in qualifying! Italy have missed the last two world cups! We don’t even notice qualifying is happening because England never break a sweat!

Joseph Ratzinger turned 72 a few weeks after the Matrix came out

Teehee #ENGvWAL

Can’t believe this man. It’s the other side who are supposed to be the Republican Party!

I love living in a country where the probable next Tory leader calls the neighbourhood where my dad grew up and my grandma lives a slum because there are too many brown people. Just great.

0.57 Trusses, is that a record?

Apropos of Taylor album, the most brutal diss track is still Common People because it’s explicit that Jarvis never had a second date with that girl. It’s literally “here’s the most annoying person I ever met, no heartbreak or complex feelings, she was just a prick and I recognised that immediately”

I’m sorry, what

Also - have TfL somehow patented their contactless readers? Why are the ones in Cardiff but also Stockholm so slow and shit?

The most successful politician in England is Sadiq Khan and there is functionally only one reason we don't acknowledge that

I honestly feel a lot less bad about Anglo monolingualism after, on a train in Italy a couple got on, did the stereotypical Brit thing of speaking to everyone in English and when people didn’t understand just speaking LOUDER AND SLOWER And then turned to each other and switched into Swedish

PSA that One Battle After Another fuckin rules and you should go see it

This is good time to bring up my basic take that movies getting Oscar buzz are a pretty good guide to good but accessible films you should check out Except everything everywhere all at once which is the most boring movie ever made

Ed davey: i never thought id be defe defending british multicultural democracy with a green Zack polanski: what about a friend Ed davey: [chest expands] wait why did you do that

The bleakest cultural difference is that in The Bridge, the heroic cop reports her partner for extrajudicially murdering a criminal and he goes to prison and the show sides with her, in the UK/France remake the cops say things like “ the first duty of every cop is to stand by their colleagues”

Intervision is notable for exactly one thing which is it started before widespread home phones in the USSR and they used to make people vote by switching off their lights, switching them on when the act they were voting for appeared, and measuring the electricity demand

The reviews for One Battle After Another, after Sinners and Weapons, mean Zaslav’s WB is on an exceptional streak of acclaimed original movies from interesting directors, a very funny and baffling fact meaning we’re one step closer to @stephenkb.bsky.social confronting an actually good HP series

Yes this is the only kind of immigration the UAE has which is why no one knows anyone who’s moved to Dubai with their family

To avoid prejudicing legal matters she is unable to further comment.. about the question of who is or isn’t a member of the party she leads and what’s going to happen to a hundred grand of their money

So I’m not saying monarchy is good but I am saying a senior Australian politician once got a helicopter somewhere and people were so angry she seemed to be living a life of luxury the prime minister resigned for being friends with her. And that seems a healthier culture than France or the US.

I actually highly doubt Sadiq is running but tbh we should start talking him up bc it’s good for everyone if the way you do cynical careerism is to talk like this (slightly cringe poem optional, let the man use his arts budget)