Brand new episode out where we discuss our favourite shows of 2025 (and Heated Rivalry), our top three films, and highlight our most anticipated releases for 2026. www.bestbitspodcast.com/screen-play

Very good article on this writer realising exactly what a good editor does, and crucially, why.

I know there’s more important things to be worried about but jesus fucking christ

Those leaked NUDE PHOTOS of POTUS are SHOCKING but oh wait, no never mind

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Those leaked NUDE PHOTOS of POTUS are SHOCKING but oh wait, no never mind

If you’re looking for an icy tale of ghosts and guilt this holiday season, may I humbly recommend THE DAMNED aka L’INVERNO PIÙ DURO, available to buy, rent or stream now!

Do. You won't regret it. One of my best cinema experiences of 2025.

If you’re looking for an icy tale of ghosts and guilt this holiday season, may I humbly recommend THE DAMNED aka L’INVERNO PIÙ DURO, available to buy, rent or stream now!

“Sir, the metaphor readings are… indescribable…"

Salsa de bravas o queso de cabrales.

It’s that time of year again, where Jamie has slaved away on a PIPING-HOT festive playlist to soundtrack your fractious/heart-warming/mambo-infused/Run-DMC Christmas dinner: open.spotify.com/playlist/4xt...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… WE GOT HIM.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… WE GOT HIM.

Early drafts of THE DAMNED featured quite a few references to the Yule Lads (the film *is* set at Christmas, after all) but they got cut out in the natural course of development. Anyway, here’s a pic from when I was trying to do revisions in a cafe in Isafjördur and this guy sat down beside me.

These two stories are somehow connected. Apparently, if you lobby tirelessly for more pollution & ecological wreckage, that’s exactly what you get.

This, alas, is 💯

Every single word of this Also, writers now have to have multiple projects in development at the same time in the hopes that *something* will see the light of day eventually at the heat death of the universe

I’ll suffer for my art, but if you want me to suffer for yours, you’d goddamn better well pay me for it.

Delighted to hear that WOLFWALKERS (script by @willcollins.bsky.social, directed by @tommcartooner.bsky.social & #RossStewart is getting a limited cinema re-release (in selected cinemas): variety.com/2025/film/ne...

real Lunar spacesuit designed by the British interplanetary society. I think it would be perfect for a comic, (it even has a cape!!!!)

A stupid #Pluribus #StarTrek gag that I came up with in the shower.

A stupid #Pluribus #StarTrek gag that I came up with in the shower.

The loneliest man in the world.

Oh man, you think you got it bad? I’m on the John Matrix Persuasion squad and every day we don’t get our necks snapped is a day to savour.

The pride and joy of my badge collection

PREDATOR fans (PRED-A-HEADS?) will enjoy Irish screenwriters @kevinlehane.com & @willcollins.bsky.social going through the PREDATOR films, from 1987 up to BADLANDS. open.spotify.com/episode/08C8...

I'll point once again to one of my favourite pieces of writing about writing, which is distinctly snarky: "9. All short stories should be 3,000 words long." owen-booth.com/2017/10/24/2...

tfw you go to the wrong shop for anarchy

Always good to seem some love for the under-appreciated PREDATOR 2.

If it involves romance, fantasy and time travel, would that make it chronomantasy?

PREDATOR fans (PRED-A-HEADS?) will enjoy Irish screenwriters @kevinlehane.com & @willcollins.bsky.social going through the PREDATOR films, from 1987 up to BADLANDS. open.spotify.com/episode/08C8...

Maybe I am vain, Carly Simon, but I still think the song IS about me.

Maybe I am vain, Carly Simon, but I still think the song IS about me.

halfway through @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN and my overriding way is that tech-bros are terrible fathers

halfway through @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN and my overriding way is that tech-bros are terrible fathers

If there was even a shred of truth to this (which I doubt), I would be very angry at how dumb people can be and still be paid for it.

Ah Gort,still got it

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I'm starting to form a theory about eyebrows

Oh man, I came on here to say RIP to Tchéky Karyo and heard Peter Watkins died too! PUNISHMENT PARK really is a masterpiece and EDVARD MUNCH is one of the best films about art and artists out there.

I like Bluesky, but the desktop app (and, to a slightly lesser extent, the iPad app) is the buggiest piece of shit that I have come across for some time.

Every day I doodle something on the kids’ paper napkins for their lunchbox, take photos when I remember to:

🎃 🎃 🎃

Lots of familiar parish faces on this list, great to see 🎃:

I think the very earliest version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST I remember was a fairy tale book illustrated by Victor Ambrus and that probably coloured my thoughts on all subsequent adaptation!