Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

10:40pm TODAY on @BBCOne The 2015 #Romantic #Drama film🎥 “BROOKLYN” directed by John Crowley from a screenplay by Nick Hornby Based on Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel📖 🌟 Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Jessica Paré

He’s got a point. Particularly for story of the week shows. But also true of anthology shows. The audience are on diminishing returns with something like Inside No. 9 for example. But also true for platforms, who have the chance to build word of mouth via linear TX. www.comedy.co.uk/tv/features/...

He has nukes. He is a damaged fool. Stop him. Remove him.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

open the fuckin’ strait ya crazy bastards

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

"It’s entirely possible—as well as moral and popular—to refuse this project." Whatever industry you're in, if like me, you refuse to a) use AI and b) accept it as inevitable, then read this by @bcmerchant.bsky.social. You'll feel considerably less alone. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/its-open-s...

"The Robert Redford classic is a reminder of the national integrity we’ve lost."

I look back at All the President’s Men, released on this day 50 years ago. During production, screenwriter William Goldman said, “Expectations are so high on this movie that if the film is only good, it won’t be good enough.” If only he was here to see how powerful it still is: More @ Esquire…

25th Amendment. Articles of Impeachment. Now. What the hell else do you gutless, partisan fools need to see happen? What elze does he need to say? What else?

Happy Ēostre! Prints of this comic (and others) available in my shop - link in bio

I will never stop being sad that Phillip Seymour Hoffman is gone

An absolute stinker from Leo’s early years; a doc whose subject was more interesting than its execution; and 2 absolute masterpieces on rewatch to revive my faith in cinema. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Quick morning shout out to all the other freelancers who didn't even know it was the bank holiday, the whole concept having become utterly irrelevant to their lived experience.

being a creative person is not something that can be optimized & it makes certain people’s cooked brains lock up. sometimes you follow a tangent or find yourself at a dead end. But every single moment that you spend on the work, even when you’re flailing, it can lead to the place you’re meant to go.

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

You did not write a novel.

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

I'm gonna start chatting shit about politics on Instagram, pivoting to video a mere decade after it became popular. Follow here if you're into it www.instagram.com/reel/DWln9nE...

Jane Fonda is 88. When she goes who are the young American celebrities willing to put their careers and images on the line to be the next Hanoi Jane? www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Reading about the making of John Boorman's Deliverance and you know that scene where Lewis (Burt Reynolds) somersaults into the waterfall...?

I’m telling you now… if this new US condiment giant starts messing with the Marmite recipe… y’know adding sugar or ffs corn syrup… or… removing salt… anything… there will be… consequences… serious serious SERIOUS consequences… 🤬🤬🤬 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

No. Just no. Fuck off with that shit. Instead - why not trust human beings? Let creatives create? Take risks? Follow hunches? Why not support the new, the unknown, the innovative? Just, once and for all, fuck this AI shit all the way off. Thanks. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Sad news. Mary Beth Hurt was such an interesting, spiky actress--it was always a pleasurable jolt when she showed up on screen. I would recommend Interiors, Chilly Scenes of Winter, or The World According to Garp as starting points. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

Baffled by who the audience for AI-tainted classic films is. If you're into old movies, you're probably also into the mythology of old movies, which means that the ones left unfinished, studio-butchered, or lost are bittersweet warnings to you, not objects waiting for a saviour technology to arrive.

Men in the industry are always rewarding fellow men for being super nerds and I’m yet to see it result in something good.

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

The morning after Hannah won I was asked time and time again about this. There was no evidence for it. Instead the establishment media fuelled the fire. It was Islamaphobic. And it's because those in power are scared of us ending rip off Britain.

A slow week of films that promised much and didn’t quite deliver… always fascinating and enriching to see films that don’t quite work and examine why and how and appreciate the magic of films that do. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #filmsky

For anyone who doubts the importance of upholding copyright law in the fight against AI scraping the work of writers without permission or recompense, just ask a writer who received a payment via @alcs.co.uk this week how they feel… 😁😁😁😁

Thanks for everything you do for us writers @alcs.co.uk 🩷

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Headline in today's Broadcast "Gary Barlow takes Jason Manford to New Zealand for ITV Travelogue" feels like the last straw. Stop telling us there's no money to make TV when you're sending dull millionaires on free holidays. FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Who is watching this shit? *eye twitch*

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

I don’t have Sky, didn’t watch SNL UK and don’t plan to - at least this week… But I’m wandering round the house singing - “WHAT KIND OF IRISH IS YOUR GRANDDAD??” - on a loop. Make new things. Make more new things. And then make more. TV thrives when we make new things. #SNLUK

Brits - your cut out and keep guide to when to expect Reform Rage.

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!

Breaks my heart that my 5‑year‑old is learning in school about all the ways he can protect our planet... While decrepit old fuckwits are dropping tons of bombs poisoning soil, air & water for decades to come for millions of us ...but sure, you recycle that bog roll little one.

In a shrinking TV industry, the vital importance of #WaterlooRoad as a training ground, locally sustainable employer and socially conscious prime time drama for all ages and demographics cannot be overstated. Long may it continue and let’s have more shows like it!

Huge hat tip to the folk at ALCS. Just had a look at my statement and that small, but beautifully formed amount will go towards May’s rent.

Petrolheads are seen as just another group of hobbyists. In truth, they're a danger to society. The accidents they cause, the pollution and noise are just part of it. There's also an associated politics: toxic, selfish, macho, climate-denying, often far-right. For their "fun", everyone suffers.

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.