Great film! I never want to watch it again! But you should!

bought tickets to see Ramin Karimloo in Sweeney Todd last week and just now saw the Meow Meow Mrs Lovett casting news, everything is coming up Carmen!!!

UK people, please do this consultation before tonight

I used this guide to fill out the consultation which was useful bc it's purposefully not very clear and also biased! do it before midnight tonight please www.gov.uk/government/c...

I'm so excited to be running the Belfast City Marathon in May (a great excuse to go back to one of my favourite cities!) with the goal of raising £500 for Refuweegie, supporting new Glaswegians in this wonderful city www.justgiving.com/page/carmen-...

The UK government has launched a consultation on 'earned' settlement with the aim of making immigration more difficult and, if you wish, you can tell them what you think of those plans before 11.59pm on Thursday (12 February). www.gov.uk/govern.../co...

Ooo, this is very incorrect, @apnews.com. You may not have to get permission from a long-dead composer, but you absolutely do need permission from the people who own the specific recording you’re using, which is generally not in the public domain yet.

the news I was waiting for! Only a month and a half to go 🥲

For this week’s Silents Sundays I wrote about when HUAC came for Charlie Chaplin after he spoke up about fascism.

CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER IT IS WORKING CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN

Had some thoughts on new year's resolutions (possibly) working carmencp.substack.com/p/new-year-s...

this is because Dolly Parton is the equal or better of most strung- instrument players you can name, a fact often obscured by the vocabulary of iconography sometimes used to discuss her work. thanks for coming to my presentation this’ll take about half a hour

my thoughts about Barbican Sunday - - The leads are *excellently* cast - It's not a bad thing an entirely new audience will be introduced to one of Sondheim's (imo) trickiest and most beautiful works - If said new audience misbehaves, it's war

Girl Scout cookies don't ship internationally (a tragedy among all the others) but Americans wanting to treat themselves really ought to order from here

"The world of the B-movie, of scientists gone mad, is a very interesting place" Ben Wheatley is changing track from directing mega-blockbusters like Meg 2 to micro-budget sci-fi indie BULK – read @carmenchloie.bsky.social's interview

A treat to speak to Ben Wheatley on his latest film BULK and making the art you want to see in the world! www.theskinny.co.uk/film/intervi...

Huge news!!

Every character in Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins"

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...