I do a script-to-screen comparison of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME! What they left out, changed, improved! The different ending! The title was originally used in the dialogue! Check it out! #JamesBond #007 tremblesighwonder.com/2021/04/08/t...

Berlin

The Doublet in Glasgow

Archive poster chat for the BFI from me here: www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...

💀 'They're not staying down there, anymore!' 🎬 "C.H.U.D." (1984), directed by Douglas Cheek! #CHUD #16mmInferno #Horror

@neilkbrand.bsky.social Great show @bfi this afternoon. Good luck with the national tour.

A perfect Sunday awaits celebrating 100 Years of Laurel and Hardy with @neilkbrand.bsky.social.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=VkBL... Saw this tonight. Rather enjoyable.

I see it is already new year in Helmetstan, based on the amount of fireworks 🎆 going off round here.

Happy Hogmanay to all those who celebrate.

The nights are fair drawing out.

This is just…jaw dropping. Literally awesome.

It’s my friend and collaborator, Dave Thomas’s birthday today. He’s the senior parter in our “Due signori in giallo podcast and can be heard on the new Hammer release of Whispering Smith Hits London. Happy Birthday @realdavethomas.bsky.social.

And here’s #KinoQuickies podcast as companion, in which @domdelargy.bsky.social @norloll.bsky.social & I discuss the film & its genesis: www.kinoquickies.com/episode/12-s... #Scrooge #SeymourHicks #Scrooge1935 #AChristmasCarol #Dickens

The new Great British Railways livery is so extreme, reform voters will probably try to shag the trains.

Watching my first Fellini film tonight.

Looking forward to joining this panel at #BFISouthbank on Sun 23 Nov, to discuss Gainsborough Melodramas: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau... With double bill of The Wicked Lady & Madonna of the Seven Moons. #MargaretLockwood #JamesMason #PatriciaRoc #StewartGranger #PhyllisCalvert #BFITooMuch

The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥 Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.

I ❤️ Viz

Ah noooooooooooooo

Remembering today the late 🇺🇸American actress #HelenHayes #BOTD in 1900, seen here in her Academy Award winning role as the loveable elderly widow and habitual stowaway Ada Quonsett in the air disaster drama "AIRPORT" (1970) dir. George Seaton 🎬 Universal Pictures

🎥 filmsky 🎬 My ★★★★ review of A Private Life on Letterboxd boxd.it/bk0xkh

This is worth a watch, and despite its director, producer, writer and half the cast suggesting otherwise, is not a Carry On. There’s an unexpected amount of subtext here as well. Filmed in Bracknell, it’s full of comments about low crime rates and spacious housing: NEW TOWNS ARE GOOD, FOLKS!!

Jodie Foster in London tonight at the BFI London Film Festival

Going to see Jodie tomorrow at the Curzon Mayfait. Hope she comes.

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

Dave takes me to Hong Kong to see the Shaw Brothers giall it up. What it lacks in Kung Fu, it makes up for in maggot ridden corpses. And did you know that 1920 Chinese police cars look remarkably like modern day black cabs..?

Your crumpled correspondent proudly plugging SHORT SHARP SHOCKS VOLUME 4 - out very soon on BFI double disc Blu-ray. A plethora of peppery peculiarities are contained herein! Don't miss it.

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Happy 81st Birthday to #MichaelDouglas, seen here with co-star Karl Malden in the opening titles to ABC television crime drama "THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO" (1972-1977) 📺 Quinn Martin Production 🌉

Was listening to some of the people involved in this work earlier today. It really is an incredible thing to pull off and it'll save so many lives. www.bbc.com/news/article...

IMDb: Lilian Harvey in The Only Girl (1933) www.imdb.com/title/tt0024... BFI Projecting The Archive, Nov 25 at 18:15.

Windsor, England, is preparing for the second state visit of the President of the United States.

I was doing so well...up until I had the shortbread.

Been to the Downton Abbey exhibition today, at Bonhams in New Bond St. Well worth a visit before Sep 18.

A time for new adventures, I think.

In the distance, if you look closely, the United Kingdom from the Isle of Wight.

Hocus Pocus. “Focus.” 1973. The Midnight Special. “Would everyone love to hear some jazz flute?” “OK I guess I can play a little ditty… keep the cymbals splashy.” #musicsky #hocuspocus

As I sit here at 1542 in the afternoon on Wednesday 30th July 2025, I don't have a care in the world. Long may that continue....

This looks like a good one.

Did some writing. My latest article, ‘“The Delight of Real Boys”: Male Role Models in the Silent-Era “Boys’ Cinema Weekly” Fan Paper’, is out now in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @iamhist.bsky.social

RMS Empress of Britain being built at John Brown's Shipyard, Clydebank in 1931. Torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat 70 miles northwest of Ireland in October 1940.

Chip Shop of The Day: McMonagles, Forth and Clyde Canal, Clydebank. First opened in 1992. Pic: Johnny Durnan.