A cup of coffee You what? She told me that she wanted a cup of coffee. My mum. She was 65. She drank it. She said you’ve not put any sugar in. That’s the last time I saw her. That’s why we do this. That’s who we are.

There are so many speeches in this series. It’s speechsville UK.

I enjoyed Legends by occasionally shouting “this is supposed to be a high class bureau di change”

I had a great time talking to Writer and Film Critic, John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com about A SHARED CINEMA by #MichelCiment ! Stay tuned. @stickingplacebk.bsky.social #FilmCritic #FilmBook

Everyone keeps saying Starmer’s a decent man. Is he? For a human rights lawyer to criminalize protest against a genocide makes me feel like he might be better described as a cunt.

Slightly increase a band The Thompson Triplets

@www.johnbleasdale.com Finally followed you over here. If you're interested I finally posted the last two parts of my little Sisters monograph all of which anyone can read for free, starting here josephaisenberg.substack.com/p/sisters-un...

I feel that today it’s obligatory to have an action sequence as an ending. A shoot out. Rewatching True Confessions Or The Conversation Your film can end dramatically without a gun being fired.

“★★★★★… if you’re down for a trip, Sirāt is The Wages of Fear meets The Vanishing on shrooms; startlingly original, jarringly hilarious and deeply disturbing.” John Bleasdale, Time Out @www.johnbleasdale.com Sirāt screens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Tuesday, May 12th, at 7.30pm. #Sirat #wffa2026

Two thoughts occurred to me today coming back from doing exams: 1. My rushing days are over. If I miss the train, there’s another in an hour or two. 2. No student deserves to get their mark from someone wearing a Rick & Morty t-shirt. Do better, Johnny.

Gonna tell my kids this was Steptoe and Son

The problem with the centrist position and people who identify in this way is that their actual policies don’t survive scrutiny. Kier Starmer might say he’s center but his policies are anti-migrants, no reentering EU, criminalizing protest and facilitating genocide.

Out now. The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk @plumeriapics.bsky.social By David Hughes plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

New episode of Cinema Italia Lina Wertmuller’s Seduction of Mimi 🇮🇹 podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/c...

Watching Legends on Netflix. The Wire meets The Sweeney feel. Then in episode 2 a pal of mine shows up who I didn’t even know was in the show. Numan Acar.

Jamie Lee Curtis was never a great actress but she is now unwatchable.

May 10th 1975 - Taxi Driver Travis Bickle, wrote in his diary. 📽️📅 Taxi Driver (1976)

Connery, Selected works. Making concept sketches for John Bleasdale’s book ‘Connery’ made me fall in love with this face. I’d always held him at arms length slightly, but that nose is amazing, the curl of the bottom lip, the creased cheeks, the mascara black eyelashes. Eyebrows that say it all

Sunday morning Lies Movies Tell: 12. Getting Shot Is Fun open.substack.com/pub/jbleasda...

Sunday morning Lies Movies Tell: 12. Getting Shot Is Fun open.substack.com/pub/jbleasda...

Best adaptation of the Odyssey, wrong answers only

True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard, 1981)Robert Duvall, De Niro, Charles Durning and Burgess Meredith. Screenplay by Dunn and Didion. Gets the Black Dahlia and 50s LA better than Ellroy. Music by Georges Delerue, one of the most underrated composers of film music. This is just a 5star film.

On TCM tonight at 9:45 Salvatore Giuliano - admired by Martin Scorcese. Also the great Italian director Francesco Rosi has two fine films available to stream via rental from Prime: The Mattei Affair and Illustrious Corpses, which have been unavailable for ages. www.imdb.com/name/nm07429...

Best adaptation of the Odyssey, wrong answers only

Best adaption of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

Best adaption of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

How can they vote for Trump TWICE is now matched by how can you vote for BREXITEERS twice! The center cannot hold.

Liverpool Jesus.

Happy birthday Albert Finney

Morning

Ok. Here’s something that pisses me off. Vomiting in films where you can say they’ve already got a mouthful of vegetable soup or whatever they are using for a good while before they spew.

This might be the darkest story I ever wrote THE SLAB open.substack.com/pub/jbleasda...

I’m halfway through but not sure about this. I don’t like the idea that the worst thing about Nazism was that the servants got uppity.

Oh & I should add that pal Chadden Hunter winded up working with Attenborough for years youtu.be/JRRUkqm0NZs?...

I think the UK should stop using Italy as the paradigm for political chaos. That ship has kinda sailed.

A friend at university was studying apes in Ethiopia & ended up with David Attenborough coming out to film them on the high plains. He turned up late at night with a rucksack. The rucksack was filled with bottles of fine wine.

There is this idea that if you say we’re going through a dip in quality in terms of US film, people will get angry & insist Tis not so. But history proves there are periods of troughs. It’s not a plateau of peaks, is it? There are reasons - industrial, cultural etc - but I think Hollywood …

Wonder when we’ll see the back of the present trend of rich people making themselves richer by gulling poor people into making themselve poorer.

Do you remember when the music press went crazy for Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine?

New Writers on Film JG Ballard Adaptations With Dr. Brian Baker podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

Was reading a very good book by Richard Overy yesterday on the bombing of Japan in the Second World War (Rain of Ruin) and at a certain point I just stopped. I’ve read enough books about concentration camps & serial killers & evil.

This is how we create an unreal story. Everyone who doesn’t get attached to AI romantically don’t get in touch with us. The story then becomes 100% of people are ker-azzzeeee.

New Writers on Film JG Ballard Adaptations With Dr. Brian Baker podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

They steal everything and then they steal the language of the oppressed.

For research would you fuck Frank TJ Mackey?

For research… Would you fuck Frank TJ Mackey

Tail off (John Woo, 1997)

I know everyone has holes in their film knowledge so what do you have. I have none so I can’t give you an example.