@katherinepiper.bsky.social Hi, important question re the Norwegian refusenik if I may? Did the Vikings use sailboats or rowing boats or both?

@footballweekly.bsky.social If slow motion and freeze frames aren’t supposed to be used in VAR reviews, why does the technology provide them? Just turn that function off. The whole thing still feels thrown together.

@footballweekly.bsky.social @maxrushden.bsky.social Can’t believe you’ve left us to cope with no pod for a whole day. Not even a bridge.

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social I’ve never felt so special

@footballweekly.bsky.social Can the king get on the phone to Gianni and get that red card sorted?

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Thanks for that, it was super fun!

@helenlohara.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I really enjoyed your Cyrano de Bergerac piece. I saw it at an impressionable age, in retrospect maybe not the ideal model for my own romantic endeavours.

@atomcrowley.bsky.social Hi, just wanted to say thanks, that was excellent!

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I just saw The Christophers and your analysis was spot on. Particularly the comparison to Black Bag - another movie where incredible performers have roles they could play in their sleep.

@mistressalicex.bsky.social Feels like you might be able to put The Big Coat away for a while.

@atomcrowley.bsky.social Yes to The Apartment! My number one, by a margin. A rare movie that shows people as they are not how we’d like them to be.

@samadams.bsky.social Oh, and if you’re after more shipwreck action (frankly, who isn’t?), this for me at least worked much better than The Wager. www.foyles.co.uk/book/madhous...

@thehighsign.bsky.social Bollocks to the rules! But the rules are all we’ve got!! My (amazing) English teacher showed us the 1990 movie where they’re all US army cadets just to laugh at how rubbish it was.

@samadams.bsky.social Fascinated to hear you mention Midsomer Murders (which I unashamedly love). It slightly baffles me that it’s seemingly not well known over there, it’s precision tooled for the Downton Abbey crowd.

@rebeccaonion.bsky.social Bollocks to the rules! But the rules are all we’ve got!! Glad to hear you got to enjoy LotF too! My (amazing) English teacher showed us the 1990 movie where they’re all US army cadets just to laugh at how rubbish it was.

@thehighsign.bsky.social Just thinking back to this week’s Gabfest, The Stranger has some absolutely top tier movie smoking (and is, in my humble one, also generally excellent)

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hey, I wrote a little thing. I hope it’s ok. specialpurposemovieblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/c...

I was also asked how I found the book. Short answer is Alex’s (another excellent history storyteller, as it goes!) History’s Heroes programme. I think what sparked it for me, however, is that I’ve always been fascinated by how fiction dealt (for better or for worse) with the possibilities of (1/2)

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Well that was….wildly successful! We end the meetings by going round the room and giving marks out of ten. Every score was between 8 and 9.5, I’m not sure we’ve ever had that degree of (positive, at least!) consensus before.

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hi, thought this might be of some interest….there’s a whole corridor of them at Leytonstone tube station.

@thehighsign.bsky.social You were objectively correct re Project Hail Mary! Who’d have thought Sandra Hüller was so funny?

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Anzac biscuits ready for tomorrow!

@scientits.bsky.social Who’d have thought Sandra Hüller was so funny?

@thehighsign.bsky.social Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?!! Amy from Chicago’s 10 year old is the absolute boss.

@naomialderman.bsky.social Can report that How to Make a Killing is….fine. For a Kind Hearts and Coronets fan, however, primarily interesting as a demonstration of what worked so amazingly well in that movie and cannot be replicated.

@gralefrit.bsky.social Hi, just saw How To Make A Killing. It’s not awful, but as a Kind Hearts and Coronets fan primarily interesting as a demonstration of what works so amazingly in that movie and can’t now be replicated.

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social This month’s cake and next month’s book!

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hi, just listened to the ‘are movie theatres cool again’ bonus and it struck a chord. A cinema near me just had a pre-code season and I was consistently struck by how full the screenings were but more by how young the audience skewed.

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Exciting news! We’ve picked The Facemaker for the book club at Nomad Books on 30 March. Expect a small sales spike in the Fulham area!

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you and a propos of nothing at all, but I’d read the hell out of anything you have to say about Shakespeare. I kind of came late to him (Henry V at school, then went off to a science degree) with a transformative experience of The Tempest in Stratford…

@gralefrit.bsky.social This could….go either way? m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcQ...

@rebeccaonion.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I really enjoyed your thoughts on the ‘pop culture syllabus’. I was particularly struck by your rec of The Day After. Not something I was familiar with, but it immediately put me in mind of Threads letterboxd.com/film/threads/

@thehighsign.bsky.social I find myself wondering whether, were I to meet Steve, my love of Shallow Grave would in any way make up for my lukewarm reaction to Local Hero.

@theamynicholson.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you. Just wanted to say I enjoyed your ep on the Top 100 comedies and was interested by Kind Hearts and Coronets (#45) not being discussed. Do Ealing Comedies have less cultural footprint there (I’d imagine so, they’re very rooted in Britishness)?

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I just re-read your Wake Up Dead Man piece after watching the movie and it’s spot on. Way better than I expected (Glass Onion was not for me) and particularly I was impressed by how seriously the content on faith was treated (1/2)

@geofflemon.bsky.social Is Weatherald (to use the Australian vernacular) filthy with Travis right now? Feels like a lack of concentration from him at the very least.

@johnrain.co.uk @jnraeside.bsky.social Christmas can now begin. #arseholemagnolia #fuckthehelp #anewwankerineveryscene shows.acast.com/smershpod/ep...

@geofflemon.bsky.social @maxrushden.bsky.social Hi both, not sure if you’re taking listener thoughts re Ashes Weekly, but re the interview today with England’s mind guru(?) it would be lovely if we could stop comparing playing any sort of sport with fighting in a war? (1/2)

@geofflemon.bsky.social Wait. What? Actually not in the top 50 at all?

@pamhutch.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I really enjoyed your vamp talk tonight

@beefanddairy.bsky.social World’s gone mad

@alexvont.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I really enjoyed the Nellie Bly episode of History’s Heroes. Got me wondering whether she might have been the inspiration for Shock Corridor?

Beef and Dairy Live today was hilarious, joyous and at times genuinely disturbing. Huge thanks to @beefanddairy.bsky.social @benpartridge.bsky.social and all involved!

@johnrain.co.uk PLEASE WATCH AND THEN TALK ABOUT CREED 2!! It’s way better than it needs to be and if you love Rocky 4 it really delivers.

@theamynicholson.bsky.social Yes! Please talk about Nightcrawler. High up on my list of great movies I never want to watch again and Gyllenhaal is amazing in it. I think I also read that it was based on The Cameraman, which is nuts.

@christinalefou.bsky.social I went to see The French Connection today (which still absolutely slaps) - it reminded me of your excellent intro to Serpico a while back. 70s cope movies really haven’t been bettered.

@maxrushden.bsky.social I trust @jonawils.bsky.social has thanked you for digging him out of his Igor grave?

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I got a bit emotional reading the chapter on Buster’s drinking. Don’t think I’ve ever read anything so human about that part of his life, every other biography seems to treat it as just a blur to get past not part of a life lived.

@thehighsign.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say I’m midway through a Camera Man reread and I strongly agree with you re Steamboat Bill. Maybe not that it’s my favourite (that’s choosing my favourite from several things I love unconditionally!) but on the business with the bread

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Hi, sorry to bother you, just wanted to say thanks for that, it was super interesting! I slightly showed up under false pretences because I haven’t read the book (became aware of you through your radio show on Gillies) but I shall rectify that!