tfw you’re Gloria Estefan and you can’t remember whether or not you left the immersion on.

I have no strong opinions on this show one way or the other, but I was amused by this critic’s opening salvo: “RTÉ is releasing this EPISODICALLY? Like, one week after the other?! What next, are we to gather in the square to listen to the town cryer, translate Egyptian hieroglyphics, etc”

tfw you’re Gloria Estefan and you can’t remember whether or not you left the immersion on.

And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name and I guess it was pretty cool, but I started checking my watch and the beast was like, “Whoa pal, please, I put a lot of effort into this,” and I was like I

Nothing more pathetic than someone trying to cash in on the latest pop culture trend.

Our news should be banned from reporting on US news unless it directly involves us or affects us.

In more positive posts, myself and my podcast wife @willcollins.bsky.social had a good time talking about our favourite Robert Redford films for the next episode of Screen, Play out on Monday. Podcasting with him keeps me sane. I hope you'll give it a listen. linktr.ee/screenplaypod

It feels frankly insane to scroll social media and see people talking about inane shit in between the worst people in the world succeeding in destroying our collective decency. I know the solution is to unplug. But any time I glimpse online it’s all so dystopian. And the fact we all think this —

"All You Need is Death is a smart, at times very gruesome, horror movie" ★★★★ Matthew Tilt reviews this folk horror which is now available to stream to Prime UK www.midlandsmovies.com/review-of-al...

I’m a big fan of the antifascist subtext in *checks notes* SOLVENT GREEN.

"An American university launches an investigation into an archaeology professor suspected of being an “antifa” activist." 😂

Call this shit out immediately and shut it the fuck down. Show them that we don't operate on the US/UK rules where you can say any old bollocks without consequences. It's the only thing that will stop them getting a foothold.

Nothing more pathetic than someone trying to cash in on the latest pop culture trend.

Merci Marc!

Queen

In these trying times, at least there’s one thing we can all get behind… Jerry Seinfeld can get FUCKED (and not in the 17 year-old-girl-when-he’s-38-way, which the prick would clearly prefer).

THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE:

Damn.

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Waiting for the inevitable crossover with THE BEAR. screenrant.com/hannibal-fut...

I don’t know, you guys, but… if you are doing creative writing and using chat gpt for shit like this, you should probably consider a more fulfilling and better paid line of work, because I honestly don’t think you are cut out for this.

My parents grew up working in a bar/hotel respectively and whenever they heard someone say “Oh, I’m going to retire and open a bar!” they would

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Honestly didn’t know that BOSS BABY cosplay was a thing, but there you go, you learn something new everyday.

jfc america

Unrelated(ish) to westerns, but Michael Ondaatje’s book CONVERSATIONS (with Walter Murch) is one of the best books about film-making ever written, up there with Tarkovsky’s SCULPTING IN TIME, Harwood’s ADAPTATIONS and Goldman’s ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE.

Honestly didn’t know that BOSS BABY cosplay was a thing, but there you go, you learn something new everyday.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

So in the space of 48 hours, we’ve had Israel bombing Tunisia and Qatar, Russia sending drones across the Polish border and a prominent right-wing demagogue getting assassinated on camera in the US, cool, cool, lucky none of these things are potential powder kegs, yup

For no reason at all, I would remind people that the man who took a shot at Trump with a semi-automatic rifle was a registered Republican.

In these trying times, at least there’s one thing we can all get behind… Jerry Seinfeld can get FUCKED (and not in the 17 year-old-girl-when-he’s-38-way, which the prick would clearly prefer).

Nothing but respect for MY Batmobile.

Legit thought I found out about the downfall of the republic from the menswear guy.

Did any of them just write "happy birthday jeff"?

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More like Charlie PHWOAughie, amirite ladeez? !!!

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Sharing a piece I wrote for @writing.ie on writing and timing - being accidentally zeitgeisty, finding ‘the dead hour’, chaos vs order as a parent. Plus, the vital role played by my dishwasher in the writing of my debut novel, ‘Chaos Theory’! www.writing.ie/interviews/c...

Struggling to remember any presidential campaign in living memory that had so few viable candidates running for the job. (CMG is the nadir so far, which is saying something)

Everyone in Cork puts down their pint and stares at the newcomer who said that ANYTHING cannot be described as “savage”.

My sense is that soooo many people are treating this as a temporary bout of bad weather that will eventually clear. They feel they have no control over it, and they're just ducking and waiting it out. They're going to be shocked at what's never coming back.

Oh that poor man. TBF, who could have predicted such a thing would happen?

The last time I tried watching a movie on Disney+ was Michael Mann’s HEAT and I turned it off after about 10 minutes after realising the picture (which was weirdly fuzzy) was severely cropped (1:85 rather than 2:40, so - with all due respect - I will take this with a pinch of salt.