Bloody delighted at the Villa tonight. Didn’t just win the final, they won it easily. Up the Villa! Onwards to the Champions League!

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: magic, comedians, dark futures and much more. Here’s what we’ve been up to… filmstories.co.uk/film-stories...

NEW EPISODE! A load of old #Hokum this time with @ajblack.bsky.social @angryscotsman81.bsky.social & guest Emma Arneil. 🎧 & subscribe on all podcast platforms: open.spotify.com/episode/6YAO...

London welcomes Tommy Ten Names' "patriots"

Quite moved to report that Fleming ends the entire Bond saga with A RECIPE FOR SCRAMBLED EGGS

Just don’t tell him what he can’t do.

At least jury member Paul Laverty, the Scottish screenwriter & longtime collaborator of Ken Loach, had something coherent to say about AI www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

NEW EPISODE! The great @markoconnell.bsky.social joins @ajblack.bsky.social to chat his great new book BOND, QUEER BOND in a chat spanning 60 years of the big man. 🎧 on all podcast platforms. open.spotify.com/episode/42On...

Slightly increase a band: Wingsspan

You know you’re British and of a certain age when you see this title, Gary, and in your head whenever you read it you hear ‘Gaaaarrry’.

Loved this chat with @markoconnell.bsky.social about his new book and how queer stories have always intersected with #JamesBond across 60 years. It’s a great book, out Thursday, and I think a damn good chat about it. Enjoy!

Reading the media the last few days, you’d have thought that Reform had swept to power across the country. The reality is they have less than 1,000 out of 18,645 seats and control just 12 of 369 councils. More or less the same as The Greens. Everyone needs to take a breath.

Best adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t—“ “Go to MoneySupermarket.com!”

Awful news. One of the greatest artists of all time for my money.

Mine has always been, and probably always will be, Blade Runner. I’ve tried loads of times. I just don’t enjoy it. Never changes.

Your top 15 TV shows without thinking. Go for it! The X-Files Lost Game of Thrones Millennium Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Babylon-5 Frasier Alias Succession Better Call Saul Peep Show Sons of Anarchy Westworld Hannibal Thunderbirds

A lovely Saturday afternoon treat just popped through the letterbox. A further addition to my extended Bond scores collection. Bonkers film, this, but one with a great John Barry score.

Great chat about a mixed bag of a film, disappointingly. Hope you (and your mummy) enjoy!

This week, @danowen.bsky.social guested on @angryscotsman81.bsky.social’s other podcast, @modernhorrorpod.bsky.social with @ajblack.bsky.social - there to discuss another monster who frequents sarcophagus’s. Listen to our thoughts on LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY ⚱️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Michael, is he beyond redemption? @ajblack.bsky.social and @rmuldrake.bsky.social discuss as we head into the final episodes of Season 2. #LOST open.spotify.com/episode/6NfR...

My parody movie podcast is back for a new series, every two weeks, and we start with one of my absolute all time favourites. Join us for some ridiculousness!

Dayum! This was fun to record, albeit about a really rather quite racist film now! Check out Dev and I chatting the first RUSH HOUR on @atthe90smovies.bsky.social too!

Okay, I might actually persevere with From now, despite getting to the end of a maddeningly inconclusive third season that made me want to put my head in the oven. If it’s getting a definitive ending, it might be worth pushing on with.

Well put. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Finally! A great podcast about Skinamarink… thank you @ajblack.bsky.social & @angryscotsman81.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

NEW EPISODE ALERT - On Episode 2 of The Nasty Cast we take a look at the BBFC - their origins and evolution over the years, their role in the Video Nasties panic, and how they've adapted to modern media trends open.spotify.com/episode/6Kng...

Loved this chat with Brian. We get deep into the Bond wilds about the body politic, reflections of Scaramanga, and he mounts an impressive defence of Die Another Day. Bond fans, really hope you enjoy.

Some writing today about modern #StarTrek, principally why Starfleet Academy—despite being the big new thing of the franchise—is over before it’s really begun. Check it out on @filmstories.bsky.social. filmstories.co.uk/news/starfle...

We aim to education on DON'T CALL US SHIRLEY: A PARODY MOVIE PODCAST! Re-join @mattjlatham.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social as they chat about spoof and parody movies. We return Friday 17th April!

Some writing today about modern #StarTrek, principally why Starfleet Academy—despite being the big new thing of the franchise—is over before it’s really begun. Check it out on @filmstories.bsky.social. filmstories.co.uk/news/starfle...

Great bit of analysis in this 🧵 of one of my favourite sci-fi films, an absolute staple of my childhood.

Scientists are still debating whether the first season of DON'T CALL US SHIRLEY: A PARODY MOVIE PODCAST actually happened. Re-join @mattjlatham.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social as they chat about spoof and parody movies. We return Friday 17th April!

Another great horror chat about one of the best British horror flicks in recent years. Still can’t get the ending out of my head. Hope you enjoy!

You know what *isnt* ending? DON'T CALL US SHIRLEY: A PARODY MOVIE PODCAST! Re-join @mattjlatham.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social as they chat about spoof and parody movies. We return Friday 17th April!

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

MOVIE FACTS WITH DON'T CALL US SHIRLEY: A PARODY MOVIE PODCAST! Re-join @mattjlatham.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social as they chat about spoof and parody movies. We return Friday 17th April!

Hugely interesting piece on where Bluesky is currently at, and more broadly the wider picture of social media. It’s slightly depressing reading but maybe we all need to have this in the back of our minds? Those of us who migrated from Twitter when it fell into the abyss especially.

This BBC News Online piece will be the most effective publicity my new documentary about Flight into Danger gets. So if you have enjoyed the programme, think you may enjoy it, or are just a kind soul, if you could please share this anywhere you think it may be worth sharing, I'd be very grateful!

This was great fun to discuss. Film is a mixed bag but the conversation was top drawer. Hope you enjoy!

The Bond Corner launches with two episodes. Firstly, @ajblack.bsky.social discusses the franchise at large, asking who 007 is for a modern audience. Then joined by @steelbookbluray.com he chats No Time to Die & the death of Bond. 🎧 everywhere: open.spotify.com/episode/73IH...

Huge fun popping in to chat another episode of Lost, this one talking all things Rose and Bernard.

Here we go. Two episodes kicking off a new voyage into the world of #JamesBond, one of the pieces of popular culture closest to my heart. Really hope you enjoy them and look out, look up, look down for new episodes monthly.

Hope you’ll be there for the beginning of my Bondodyssey.

Director Ben Wheatley designs the frankly beautiful Film Stories issue 59, on sale now. Here's what you'll find in its 168 pages: filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

Evergreen

My long long overdue James Bond podcast launches one week today. Prepare to be shaken and shtirred.

Anyone watched the new Louis Theroux manosphere documentary yet? Wrote some words on it for @filmstories.bsky.social. filmstories.co.uk/reviews/loui...

Anyone watched the new Louis Theroux manosphere documentary yet? Wrote some words on it for @filmstories.bsky.social. filmstories.co.uk/reviews/loui...

Look Academy, One Battle After Another is a great film, but there’s only one Best Picture of last year, and that was Sinners. Surely one of the most unsurprising set of #Oscars results ever by and large.