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...

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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.

Huge fun discovering this film thanks to Colin and then discussing it - chatter about early Beatles, the 60s and my own family connection to all this. True story! Hope you enjoy.

Opposition to the United States' military action against Iran has risen by 10pts among Britons over the last week Support: 25% (-3 from 2 March) Oppose: 59% (+10) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Matt’s bookstore is kind enough to have my first book on sale there, surrounded by an amazing array of brilliant work. Please do support one of the best bookstores out there.

NEW EPISODE! @angryscotsman81.bsky.social @ajblack.bsky.social & guest @bazgreenland.bsky.social chat the brand new #Scream7 as well as films 4-6. 🎧 on all podcast platforms. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read. #c4news

Back on my 90s bullshit this week with @steelbookbluray.com as we chat 1995’s now largely sidelined THE USUAL SUSPECTS, thanks to two very suspect individuals. But does it deserve to be forgotten? I don’t think so. Hope you enjoy. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

At least the people who talked like this in A Clockwork Orange had the decency to kill you.

A brief yet heartfelt tribute to the late Tom Noonan and his mesmerising portrayal of Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter. filmstories.co.uk/features/in-...

NEW EPISODE! @ajblack.bsky.social @angryscotsman81.bsky.social & guest @jlwroot.bsky.social join forces to chat Ti West’s epic X trilogy - X, Pearl and MaXXXine. Join us and don’t accept a podcast you don’t deserve. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Thought + felt a LOT through highs and lows of Emerald Fennell's #WutheringHeights Reminded me of Orson Welles' great, derided film Macbeth - his sketches for it below. Echoes too of Jacques Demy films. It's thin at times, but thinking visually rather than in terms of literature or psychology.

Popped up last night on BBC Radio 2’s Midnight Mastermind after being invited on to chat a 90s movie and quiz the host on it. Got an @atthe90smovies.bsky.social plug in too! Listen in for what the subject is, then check out the rest on BBC Sounds here from 36:05! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A thing of absolute beauty came today. £90 and a very long wait but it’ll obviously be worth it. #Thunderbirds

Whistle is out in cinemas today and it’s bloody good fun. I chat about it with Hugh and Kat, who also chats to its director Corin Hardy, in a terrific little conversation. Hope you enjoy if you give it a listen. I fall down a manhole for some of it, if that helps?

Love love love this film and it was great to chat with Dev about it on AT THE MOVIES IN THE NOUGHTIES. We get into lots - Pitt and Redford’s careers, the Cold War, cheesy lines and more. Hope you enjoy.

A handy roundup to start your day of all the podcasts I produced/appeared on for January 2026, with some commentary. www.reliablenarrator.co.uk/podcast-roun...

A handy roundup to start your day of all the podcasts I produced/appeared on for January 2026, with some commentary. www.reliablenarrator.co.uk/podcast-roun...

Alien from Mars Attacks stuns in new look

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1785

For anyone interested in what I do on the writing side, I’m rebooting my blog a bit. Would be splendid and tremendous if you could give this a follow and hit the subscribe button so you get updates in your mailbox. Thanks if you read, either way. www.reliablenarrator.co.uk/coming-soon/

For anyone interested in what I do on the writing side, I’m rebooting my blog a bit. Would be splendid and tremendous if you could give this a follow and hit the subscribe button so you get updates in your mailbox. Thanks if you read, either way. www.reliablenarrator.co.uk/coming-soon/

Start your Saturday with me talking about this fun bit of Bard from the very late 90s. Hope you enjoy.

one of the reasons I think it's hard to believe Catherine O'Hara died is because she was this super rare combination of both poise and chaotic energy and so she didn't seem to have a physical age; she was just oscillating between 40 and 17 and 60 at all times.

An apesolutely great time chatting this simian scarer with Hugh & Kat, plus a nice little coup that we got the director in to chat too. Hope you have a pleasant fright.

I mean, as much as I’m very happy for Rachel and Stephen, because they played a damn good game, there is some very 2026 energy in The Traitors being won by the liars and cheaters. Maybe they should be given a place on the Board of Peace. #TheTraitors

Billy Wilder's penultimate film is an under-seen look at the end of old Hollywood. We take a glance...

Billy Wilder's penultimate film is an under-seen look at the end of old Hollywood. We take a glance...

Such a great chat to kick off another year talking horror with Hugh. We were joined by the ever excellent Kat to chew over The Bone Temple, which was such a mad riff on the zombie film. Hope you enjoy.

Exploring a bit of YouTube on @filmstories.bsky.social chatting #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy. Check it out if you prefer watching my mug rather than reading my words! youtu.be/TqbpprQFeBI?...

Exploring a bit of YouTube on @filmstories.bsky.social chatting #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy. Check it out if you prefer watching my mug rather than reading my words! youtu.be/TqbpprQFeBI?...

I’ll be reviewing the newest entry into the #StarTrek fold, #StarfleetAcademy, regularly for @filmstories.bsky.social. Very pleasantly surprised to report that the pilot, ‘Kids These Days’, was far better than I was expecting. filmstories.co.uk/news/star-tr...

I’ll be reviewing the newest entry into the #StarTrek fold, #StarfleetAcademy, regularly for @filmstories.bsky.social. Very pleasantly surprised to report that the pilot, ‘Kids These Days’, was far better than I was expecting. filmstories.co.uk/news/star-tr...

Ben Wheatley talks to us about making his sci-fi thriller Bulk with model kits and laser printers. Plus: his love of Star Wars knock-offs… filmstories.co.uk/interviews/b...

To use a popular culture analogy, America increasingly reminds me of Daenerys Targaryen. We always knew she was a wrong’un but we spent years hoping she was the good guy, before she finally went mad and showed her brutal true colours.

New episode! @bazgreenland.bsky.social and returning guest @ajblack.bsky.social discuss why season 6 of #GameofThrones is a great season of #television, their history with the show and its ending, and deep dive into episodes The Door & The Battle of the Bastards. open.spotify.com/episode/39aA...