Oh lads, I absolutely loved Blue Moon. What film-making. It basically takes place in real time. Ethan Hawke is wonderful. The script - ditto.

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Richard Murphy.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Train Dreams is now on Netflix and you should watch it. It's beautiful and moving. That is all.

When I worked in a hotel restaurant, we had background elevator music year round, that was fine, multiple CDs of it. Once December hit it was the same 2 cd Xmas compilation over and over and over again. 💀💀💀 I did once manage to get Kind of Blue on.

This is funny, but the fact to note is he was coming out of George Osborne's place. Because, you know, politics is just sport isn't it. We shake hands at the end and have drinks with the guy who ruined the country. Maybe the News Agents team popped round as well.

The WASPI women thing is sending me absolutely over the edge.

First world problem here, but hey, we live in the first world. Booked Daniel Kitson work in progress tickets for some tiny arts centre near Norwood Junction. They have an "add to Google wallet" function. But apparently this is completely beyond the capability of the BFI.

This is tremendous.

Very much enjoyed I ❤️ LA, which is a new HBO comedy from the wonderful Rachel Sennott, first episode written by her, with her in the lead. Apart from at the beginning, when she asked her boyfriend to choke her during sex. Would say we shouldn't normalise that.

Is someone sitting on all these Mr Mountbatten Windsor emails and drip feeding them out? Well played if so. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The original version of The Running Man was 100 minutes long. The new Glenn Powell/Edgar Wright version is... 133 minutes. 💀 What are we doing here? Who is looking at that & thinking what audiences want is another half an hour? A film like that should simply not be that long. 1h45 & let's go home.

People now say stuff in interviews that in years past would have come out in some recording of a party event or newspaper sting.

Shouldn't the lobby pick stuff like this up? (Just a little joke.)

One for the people talking about the "I've never had a curry or kebab" lady at the weekend.

I'm not saying American podcasts are too long but one film podcast has put more stuff behind a paywall, and the preview, for one film review, is 40 minutes long. A British podcast could cover the week's new releases in that time pretty much. I reckon 40 mins is about right lads tbh.

A simple fact, that doesn't get nearly enough coverage. Money now spent on rent and mortgages was spent on eating out, tickets, holidays, coffee and a million other things previously.

Strong London Film Festival for me. Hamnet the clear highlight.

Not saying I'm disorganised, but yesterday I was eyeing up sold out Saturday screening of The History of Sound on the London Film Festival ticket website and I thought "I wish I'd booked that" and then realised later that's the very filmed I'd booked to see today.

When you see the second tweet as well, it becomes massively obvious she's doing it tongue in cheek and I've not seen a single person take it at anything apart from face value. She must have been laughing all day.

I didn't go to the Gala, but I saw it yesterday and it hit my like a ton of bricks. ***** Must see. Tears likely to be shed.

@hannahfearn.bsky.social Have the government just invented Home Information Packs?

Dogs have to go everywhere now. This wouldn't have happened 10 years ago. "Can we bring our dog to your wedding?" "Obviously not, no. It's a wedding..."

Just catching up with that Young Tory article everyone was enjoying this week and walked straight into some nonsense.

I don't understand the line of questioning here. "Oh David Simon, he'll definitely be into AI, let's take that as read and proceed from there."

Blocking traffic in Soho... 🥴🫠 Lads, the people still doing "immoral" things in Soho are unlikely to have driven there.

I find he sometimes comes over a little self involved.

Not saying it's going badly for the US but the big story is DeChambeau coming back from 5 down to 3 down.

Jack Whitehall part of this apparently. Muggy little git didn't even make the poster.

That diner is not wrong. And I can't be bothered with it all, so it's just somewhere I don't go. (Also, if you live in London, you go easily go to much more interesting places, I'd rather take the kids to some new Pizza slice place.

Aziz Ansari a particular blow for me here. Always liked him.

They were going to call it The Britcard, and then Justin Timberlake said to lose "the" as it was cleaner.

Having recently moved, this one hits pretty hard.

Seinfeld voice: Why do they have a separate button to lock the door in the train toilet? Have you ever been in the toilet on the train and thought "no, I'm fine, happy for someone to walk on in."

I think it was @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com who said it went wrong when the internet stopped being something you had to sit down in front of a computer to do and instead was with you everywhere. Hard to argue.

I often think about the person on Twitter who told me in about 2016, that Trump was, (not a typo) think skinned....

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

Went into Town today. Central line, Covent Garden, Soho. You wouldn't have known there was a protest going on. Leaving earlier or walking 10 minutes down the road and it would have been a different world.

Out of the 3 of us looking to go to Radiohead, 2 of us have reject emails and the other has nothing. I'm choosing to take that as a good sign.

The ticket gods shined on me and I was 3000 odd in the queue for London Film Festival, was in by 10:30 and booked 10 films. Lots of rear stalls and down the front at the BFI but LET'S GO. (Next up, the stress of trying to get tickets to Radiohead.)

Was up late trying to chart a path through London Film Festival. Had to make a couple of sacrifices, and let's see what tickets are available, but I did manage to crack it.

Genuinely slightly confused that the tube strike isn't leading the news. Guys, people in London are battling to get to work, LONDON! Had to go to BBC London to get my hit of news about people using Lime Bikes to get to work etc.

Trebles all round in Fleet Street today. They hated Rayner, wanted her out and they've done it. Depressing.

I know what you're thinking. What is the surprise film at London Film Festival? Well, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 on this list of Oscar contenders are showing already. It's 1 and 11 will be out already. It's not Wicked 2. That leaves Marty Supreme as one obvious candidate.

Just asked the guys at Walthastow station if there was a toilet and they looked at me like it was silly to even ask. I know, the end of the line, a tube station and an overground station, why on earth would you have a loo. Ended up paying £1.80 for a drink I didn't want to use the loo somewhere.

I'm hearing some breaking news that there are other issues in the UK apart from immigration. This is obviously a developing situation and more news is coming in. More on this unlikely story as we get it.

What confuses me is that I understood Labour wanted to have Reform as the opposition, have an election where they could use thread of Farage to get undecided/LDs/Greens back to Lab. OK, but that will involve opposing Reform and giving up on the voters they seem desperate for...