My top films of 2025. Though no particular order, my absolute favourite was Rental Family with Hamnet a close second. Also my themes and microgenres for the year are pretty on point. My reviews here boxd.it/QUloa 🎥 filmsky 🎬

how the fuck do the Flintstones know about Christmas

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this is how i found out Paddington died

CBS really Bari'd the story huh.

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Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

NEW EPISODE! Dave and I go in pursuit of a Santa serial killer in 80s London, but the real mystery is how many directors this film had. Welcome to Don’t Open Til Christmas, where the content warning is longer than the transcript. One thing’s for sure, it slays!

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Dropping slightly later than advertised due to work being a bag of dicks yesterday. For our Christmas special we find an unwelcome gift left over from the 1980s at the very bottom of Santa's sack. It's Don't Open Till Christmas. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

jimmy fallon's gotta be the closest thing we have to a real-life renfield

Time for a midweek mood check! Using a GIF, pic, or vid share how you are feeling today 🖤

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If I was being hard on myself I'd say the theme of my 2025 was 'Making the present not much fun due to an anxious yearning for a safe future.' But I suspect the truth is more along the lines of 'Ex-publishers took my money and almost trashed my career and I fought like fuck to not let it defeat me.'

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy. "And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.

Hope

Everyone thinks GHOSTBUSTERS is a libertarian fantasy about the triumph of business but it's actually a cautionary tale about how the 80s antipathy towards government & push for privatization results in dangerously incompetent bureaucrats & a private sector exploiting natural disasters for profit.

Deep Red Taste of Fear The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh Perfect Blue Dressed to Kill

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

Nice try, Herod, not falling for that one.

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1984 Fleer baseball style...

ICE shipped my kids to CECOT and I’m going to die because I followed the CDC recommendation to treat my pneumonia with ivermectin. But at least now there won’t be any black mermaids in the next Disney movie.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

A jolly festive treat, Mark Gatiss and Ben Mansfield discuss this year's Ghost Story for Christmas, E.F. Benson's The Room in the Tower, which is rather smashing.

The invention of glue: "I've been boiling various animals for a week and the horse is getting sticky."

Nice one, Spidey.

Catching up with first episode of Pluribus and HOLY SHIT that was amazing.

As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not

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I was lamenting the fact that my cats get tired of one brand of food after two days then I tried to think of it in a different way and asked myself "What if YOU ate salt’n’vinegar crisps every day?" then realised I do that already and that my cats should shut the fuck up and stop acting so entitled.

[12hrs into my ice interrogation] agent: in 2021 you posted “they should call him matt hardcock am i right fellas” can you explain that? me: do you know who matt hancock is? a:… [43mins later] a: he had his own app? for parkour? me: no the parkour was a separate issue

Sinners (dir. Ryan Coogler)

“"Are you ready for Christmas?" If by that you mean am I poised to do all I can to avoid shops and the gormless lying face of festive celebrity capitalism then thank the Goblin Animist Gods that these dispiriting mopwater days are […] lighter then yes, you bet, I am absolutely 100% fucking ready.”

Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄

Only a few days until I perform 'Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. Friday night only has 3 tickets available, and there are a handful left for Saturday night! www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/hau... #EdithNesbit #guildfordlife #ghoststories #theatre

It’s a beautiful Tuesday to go to the movies! #WakeUpDeadMan is in theaters nationwide and drops on Netflix on Friday. See my pinned post for a theater finder link

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

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

Jesus, and I cannot stress this enough, fucking Christ.

I spent years telling people they were wrong and Condorman was a good movie. Well, fuck that. Though it kinda tracks that Woodrow Wilkins would be MAGA. Makes racist jokes and dates a younger hot Russian who's a spy? Totally tracks.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

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