Print isn't dead! A few of the magazines and programme books I edited this year, and some of the writing on the side 🧵

My final Best Of list has dropped (plus some bonus reflections on an art-filled year) carmencp.substack.com/p/the-best-o...

Our staff's individual top 10 lists of best films of 2025 is live! 😍 Here are 83 recommendations of best movies of the year from 28 of our writers! 🤩 Come back on Monday for the site's top 20! 🔥 loudandclearreviews.com/best-films-2...

I'm in this contributing a little blurb on Eephus!

I've had three different top 10 of 2025 lists published in three different film publications, and a fourth on its way, and NONE of them are the same

MJ's @carmenchloie.bsky.social shares her favorite watches of 2025 Check out our Staff's #BestOf2025 flick picks here: www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/12...

Back on the @broadsoundmag.com podcast talking about my top films of the 21st century! Give it a listen to judge my and my co-contributors' tastes pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

35 years ago this week, ASSASSINS premiered at Playwrights Horizons.

Editing one programme for layout, writing another programme note, and receiving a great submission for an upcoming programme are all great morale boosts in the pre-Christmas doldrums

Thrilled to have contributed to this list! Stay tuned for our final vote

I'm in this proudly stumping for Hedda and Final Destinations Bloodlines alongside other brilliant members of @theskinnymag.bsky.social's film team! www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion...

possible Bailey-Grande-Elliot Sunday in the Park giving me more motivation to stay on this island

Our film writers share their personal top tens from 2025 w/ contributions from @carmenchloie.bsky.social @louiscammell.bsky.social @emcletters.bsky.social @roryjdoherty.bsky.social @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social @iana.bsky.social @rafiews.com

In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.

Two time Academy Award winning editor Anne V. Coates, who cut LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, OUT OF SIGHT, and FIFTY SHADES OF GREY was born 100 years ago today. She made one of the most iconic edits in film history.

I am still thinking about Merrily We Roll Along days later and greatly enjoyed having the chance to go long on what I loved - and what didn't quite work - about it movieswetextedabout.com/merrily-we-r...

It's that time of year - @theskinnymag.bsky.social has released their top films of 2025 and I'm delighted to have contributed a short blurb on Nickel Boys www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion...

I saw three full-length musicls in the last six days and I'm still giddy

Carrie Coon nominated for The White Lotus not The Gilded Age...

Not every film can have the cultural impact of Annette

It's the last day of the Big Give so I'm shamelessly plugging a charity where a dear friend works who are SO close to their goal!! Every fiver helps!! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

"COVER-UP gets to the rotten heart of US journalism" @carmenchloie.bsky.social gives a ★★★★ review to an upcoming Netflix documentary about journalist Sy Hersh, by All The Beauty and the Bloodshed director Laura Poitras www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel...

I sometimes worry that I don't do enough freelance writing anymore but I did just put together an entire magazine in about 5 weeks at work so maybe I am living the writing dream

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

for the December issue of @theskinnymag.bsky.social, I reviewed Laura Poitras' COVER-UP. While it could interrogate the interrogator more, it's still a pretty necessary look at journalistic independence for these times www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel...

This is good and the more cool people who talk like this the better. Corporations love to think of themselves as cool taste makers and spend tons of money trying to appear that way, but they're not. It's just marketing. Works to a point, but like anything real cool can't be faked.

Losing Tom Stoppard hurts, an artist's artist, the theatre would not feel as adventurous today without his curiosity and creativity

thinking of her today

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I've been engaging in the dishonourable act of podcasting, but only with the best company over at @broadsoundmag.com - it was a pleasure to talk about my favourite Shakespeare flim adaptations of the 1990s, a subcategory with an abundance of riches podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

'Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud affirms the actor’s leading man credentials, and his ease with physical comedy is a highlight...' Benoit Blanc is back but JO'C steals the show in #WakeUpDeadMan, Rian Johnson's latest Knives Out mystery www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel... @carmenchloie.bsky.social

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

Shall we take a look at this again? Especially No. 6: 'an immigration system based on compassion and dignity'. So how did you become such a monster, Starmer? Mere weakness? '

All authors, please check to see if you're eligible for compensation over AI theft of your work. Let's see if a claim from every author who was robbed can really ruin #GenAI - an "industry" that can't survive while paying for its raw materials is just a fraud in posh clothes.

was looking at buying a smartwatch in the Black Friday sales but have spent the money on cheese, which is a good indication of how my marathon training is going

MJ's @carmenchloie.bsky.social says, "ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES is a modern parable of class and power, simply told and shot through with moments of cinematic beauty and human connection." #OneOfThoseDaysWhenHemmeDies

The fact that Tom Ford announced his Cry to Heaven film adaptation as I'm reading (and loving) the novel is something I'm choosing to interpret as more than just coincidence

Banning VPNs not only compromises privacy, but it compromises safety. Being forced to use public wifi when travelling without the option of a VPN to make that safe will just lead to compromised computers. All in pursuit of the so-called "Online Safety Act", which achieves the opposite of safety.

My last word on the matter

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Going on the record as a Frankenstein enjoyer. There's a lot of love and personality in the interpretation, even if making the Creature read Ozymandias is diabolical

The whole “resistance lib wine mom” trope is among other things ludicrously misogynist

Boosting for the weekday crowd if youre looking for something to watch! Also, my own mother texted me to say she loves hearing about presidential assassination history from me, which is one of the best texts I've received in my life

DEATH BY LIGHTNING is out on Netflix and I had a great time, even as someone who came into the show knowing way too much about America's strangest presidential assassination. Big recommendation from me! movieswetextedabout.com/death-by-lig...

TFW your MP sends you and your husband the same copy-paste response to a query that doesn't even addressed the concerns you raised 😑

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

No Joe Dante? Bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. We do not need that Chris Columbus schmaltz unmediated by a guy who thinks it's corny and tiresome

In January, Pacific Overtures turns 50! To celebrate, we are putting together a feature collecting stories, memories & reflections from performers & audience members alike. Would you like to contribute? More info here: forms.gle/ava8mmisqxca...

No one is having more fun in Death by Lightning than Shea Whigham (a show I thought was pretty great and could easily watch 6 more episodes of).