"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Not maybe the most substantive of observations, but Lesley Manville's do in this movie is a multifaceted miracle of modern hairdressing. youtu.be/FeD_KEGIU_Q?...

I can sorta understand an actor, fight choreographer, cinematographer, editor or director reacting this way to this slopshit. But dude, if the discovery that a robot can write the words "Tom Cruise fights Brad Pitt" freaks you out, it was over for you as a writer a long time ago.

Just contemplating the number of original films that could be made with the however many bazillion dollars they'll spend on this total redundancy.

Putting on University Challenge while I do some pre-festival housework and alternating between bellowing "Get a clue, moron!" when someone doesn't know an answer I do know, and "Get a life, loser!" when they know something I don't.

I've watched this movie – one of the greatest romantic comedy capers of all time – at least 15 or 20 times and never realised that Johnny Williams is John Williams. I do tend to be a bit score-stupid but jeez, Kiang, get it together. 2nd-last track a particular era-summoning banger.

Not to suggest I'm at all concerned about the weather in relation to next week's Berlinale opening ceremony, but I did just search for "red carpet crampons"

Read Carlos Hernández's posthumous words of sorrow, anger, compassion and resilience, and resolve to try in whatever small way you can to re-illuminate a dark world made even dimmer by his death. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now we just need Timothée Chalamet to save bookstores and Chappell Roan and/or Zendaya to launch a print daily and then all we'd have to do is sabotage a few cryochambers and wait for these shitbird billionaires to die.

A bit late posting this because every time I look at it I pass out or go temporarily blind. I think we can all agree the whole phenomenon has now peaked and nobody ever needs to walk a red carpet again.

Read the fantastic review that Paul Thomas Anderson namechecked as one of the best things he's read recently, while accepting the London Critics Circle screenplay award last night. (I also strongly endorse it, but I'm perfectly willing to second-bill myself behind PTA.)

Only 1/3 in, but the new Ian McEwan is so good? Brilliantly summons our current, prelapsarian moment from a speculative future that treats us with scorn and awe. Perhaps the iceberg that sank the Titanic was not as significant to posterity as the beautifully manicured arrangement of its deckchairs.

Super excited to finally confirm LIGHT PILLAR, the 14th film in our absolutely banging Berlinale Perspectives lineup: www.berlinale.de/en/2026/news...

It's a very specific klaxon, but we need one for Frank Dillane being cast in the new Justine Triet movie. His turn in URCHIN, (alongside Harris Dickinson as director) was one of my biggest revelations of 2025.

Yep, and also newly enshittified gmail is now upchucking hundreds of promo and newsletter-type mails (not priority but also not spam) into my main inbox. Then each time I try to move one back to its proper tab they ask me to "share" it? Greedy little slop-merchant fuckers can fuck all the way off.

I'm sorry but if you can't turn an honest-to-God ancient Venetian curse involving gay sailor murder and famous rock band deaths into a unique bonus feature that adds several more million to the asking price, you're just not a very good estate agent.

RAGING about SINNERS being totally shut out of Best Documentary Short. Time we called out this category's bullshit systemic bias against films that are not documentaries or shorts.

stop threatening me with a good time. stop warning me about the possibility of cake. stop admonishing me to alter my behaviour lest there be, at some point in the future, joy.

Several terrible omissions, at least 1 terrible inclusion, 3 movies that were 2024 for me, a wonky ranking and just when I thought I'd never have to hear Firework again... yet STILL here I am pimping David's fab supercut as the most fun 25 mins you could spend online today.

Awful day yesterday. So first, all these assholes get on the wrong bus

ok so build more cinemas

Rare to come across one of these where I immediately think "this lady and I would be friends "

Dizzying new heights in the "quiet part out loud" movement reached.

What a delightful prompt. Off the top of my head: Val mouthing "Sorry" to Rhonda after she winces while he applies iodine to the scratches on her legs in TREMORS.

Still marvelling over an imagination so cramped it can only think to rename a previously well-functioning, proudly trivial social media app to "X". So much the equivalent of a spotty teen putting the hazardous waste symbol on his bedroom door in the suburbs. What a fuckin dweeb.

I'm guaranteed to be enraged by AT LEAST 8 of these picks and to disagree profoundly with the doubtless indefensible rankings. But bless him, David tries so hard with this each year, we should all throw him a bone. Also, it's an exceptionally good cause.

these men are very clearly horny for the skeleton who, to be fair, is putting out some potent bedroom vibes

Been staring in slackjawed awe at this headline for half an hour.

This is so wonderful, full of proper jokes and profound despair.

Exactly this. But also fuck AI for making me, a hitherto proudly irreligious bastard, resort to concepts like "your immortal soul" when trying to express what's at stake here.

-6 and feels like -13, I should get out of my cosy bed why?

A little dose of wholesome for the day. Also had no idea Bhutanese food looked so good.

JFC Heinously underreported that these 3 young people have a) been held without trial for an unacceptably (illegally?) long time and b) all 3 have now passed into the potentially terminal phase of their hunger strikes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

RIP Béla Tarr whom I never met but who is a magnificently irascible fixture in several of the best festival encounter anecdotes I have ever heard.

The only time I really miss the reach of Twitter is on snowy mornings like today when a whole host of people are discovering for the first time that ABATTOIR is not accepted by Wordle.

More Wyatt Russell in things, please.

Shut up and deal

Breaking: outrageously cute kitten now outrageously cute cat.

Unable to get dog, cross and sea in same frame, dammit. Anyway, this was New Year's Day on Bray Head.

Took 4 adults 25 mins of constant baffled scrutiny to see what was going on in these diagrams. [After Eight included for size reference]

Nah, he was blacklisted with the best of them. He only blotted his copybook years later with that unpleasant business regarding the hooker who fell off Warren Beatty's yacht.

Will do my level best to never find out what the man I, and so many of us, hate said about the man I, and so many of us, loved. RIP Rob Reiner, whose early career achieved the still-never-beaten GOAT record for consecutive-movie greatness.

Excellent Booker panel for 2026. I cannot but imagine Jarvis Cocker and Patricia Lockwood getting along like a house on fire.

Thanks to the Wordle people for distilling my essence so perfectly on my birthday.

My favourite Sirk is now on Mubi. Check out the creamiest Technicolor ever achieved! (And the least subtle phallic model-oil-rig)

Jesus fucking Christ would you ever just fuck off.

Good morning everyone

As a quote unquote film industry professional I guess I am supposed to feel some sort of way about this news. But nope, got nothing.

Obscurely proud of this

forever weird to me that Spelling Bee accepts "captcha"