I see people complaining about John Lewis ripping off Aftersun when we should be promoting this kind of arthouse theft! Imagine Le Chimera but a Tesco Ad, Kevin the Carrot in a Gasper Noe film, Marks & Sparks does Michael Haneke!

I launch The Planter's Daughter tomorrow evening. A little nervous, but excitement is taking over. I'm going to bring this baby into the world :) :) :)

Going to the ballet this evening

Made quite the shoebox discovery today!

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

Nicholas Meyer:

Don Bluth had a vision and that vision was the kid friendly version of the horrors of 20th century Russian history.

Congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social, winer of this year's Goldsmith Prize for 'We Live Here Now' publsighed by Melville House Press. Good work Chris!

Not only the best stealth Fantastic 4 adaptation but maybe the best Watchmen one too

I mean, if anyone can be called the "Live, Laugh, Love" president

There is always a funny moment in biopics of artists where their most famous work is inspired by an offhand comment or a really obvious image. It's always groanworthy but also people might be alarmed by how much real life inspiration can come from simple, movie ready, moments.

I know musical biopics can be very literal but even I was surprised by the twenty minutes where Bruce Springsteen hunts down and explodes the chicken man. Surprisingly gory!

The best thing about the Wallace Shawn in Young Sheldon thing is that he so truly run the gambit of low to highbrow, you can give the high hat to anyone's answer. "You know him from My Dinner with Andre? Pssf, if you want to take a break from the popcorn bucket, I recommend A Master Builder."

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It's wild that the Bruce Springsteen biopic and the movie that inspired one of his most beloved songs are in the cinema at the same time.

It is a possible sign of how much Fetterman undone the appeal of the more casually uniformed politician that Mamdani won while consistently dressed like the more expensive undertaker in town.

Just had a lovely woman in our shop in Donegal, searching for her lost twin sister. Appreciate it if my Irish followers would retweet this. Thank you.

The main lesson to be taken from Mamdani's victory is that politics needs more aloof spouses. Perhaps wandering from room to room, their expressions completely opaque.

I'm just reading the news and hang on, there's a NEW York?

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

Watching Hail, Caesar! and while I'm enjoying it, the period details are a lot vaguer than I expected.

Mmm this would be more exciting news if there was more than one good Mummy movie.

JOHN LEWIS GOT MASHED IN 2025

Excited to welcome visitors (temporarily) back to @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social for staff-led behind-the-scenes tours of the empty building! Crawford Uncovered from 25 November. Reserve your free ticket: crawfordartgallery.ie/crawford-unc...

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If anyone happens to be wondering why the UK translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk uses that spelling of “plow”, here’s the reason.

The fun thing about online library reservations is that I often will request a book, it becomes available a few weeks later and I have no memory why I ordered it. A little recommendation from a past self.

Reading reviews for Bugonia and I feel like people are very often using "Nihilistic" and "Dark sense of humour" interchangeably.

And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, Husband of Aloof Wife; Look on her Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Wish I lived in this imaginary Ireland where the debate isn't almost entirely dominated by violent arsonists and the people inexplicably pandering to them

Asleep at the wheel stuff here.

Doing research and just read a very wistful description of death as ‘being let out of school … and allowed to go home."

Christmas preparations in the shops starting in November is perfectly fine. What else are you going to this month? Write a novel?!

Unexpectedly the new John Lewis ad has handed me a new weapon in my "Aftersun is just arthouse schmaltz" hot take, so an early gift for me!

Is the New York Mayoral Election still going? It feels it started with the Mayflower

Ah so they still haven't solved the "successive shots connect to each other" problem.

It still make me laugh that a month before Laura Dern appeared in Jurassic Park, Diane Ladd played the lead role in Carnosaur. Mother and Daughter dinosaur pictures!

Loved Bugonia, a movie with the weird sad comedy of a Philip K Dick novel.

A fun ad for a Star Wars novelisation from when there was only one Star Wars

There is a diagram going round of all the AI companies essentially being stuck in a massive loop which seems bad but I'm not going to lie, I thought that's how most of the economy worked.

Does anyone ever actually do this?

Me replying to your post:

It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"

I mean mine is probable "Wallace Shawn from Clueless"

Godzilla represents a desire in all of us for our reputation to shift from being seen as a villain to a good guy while changing our behaviour in no way, shape or form.

According to a medieval Irish legal text on cats called Catslechtae (Cat-Sections), if a cat is able to purr and to catch mice, it’s worth three cows and if it’s only able to purr, it’s worth one cow and a half.

I love Stephen King but he pretty much says the same thing for every adaptation of his work that isn't directed by Stanley Kubrick

Trump complaining about each individual late night chat show host like an AV Club commenter in 2009.