MISERY exists in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY exists in MISERY. Welcome to the Reinerverse.

Update on the “telling doctors I don’t feel too bad” strategy: I THINK IT WORKED! After 20 years of being seriously unwell, it seems ridiculous that saying “I’m not too bad” got me some help. But I’ll take it. Another CT scan tomorrow. I’m going to glow in the dark soon.

White House backs out of the UK-USA “tech prosperity deal”. Surprise. Constantly told we’d have great USA trade deals post-Brexit. When will Starmer realise that DJT is not our friend, and our best trading partners are across a much narrower stretch of water 🇪🇺 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Killers Of The Flower Moon is coming to the Criterion Collection in March. www.criterion.com/shop/browse?...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

After a bad experience last week, I was just texting with a friend on the subject of doing gigs, and I might have come up with a useful reality-check for anyone playing or working on live music shows. Assuming they haven’t figured this out already:

On the DVD, they have an in character commentary (very funny). At the part where Nigel quits the band and David says “in six months I can’t see me missing Nigel any more than I miss Ross MacLochness,” David on the commentary immediately says “*God* I miss Ross MacLochness.”

A run of fantastic movies. Reasonable to remember these on one of the most awful weekends I can recall. RIP Rob Reiner.

Thing is Nikita, X is done. We left and we’re living happier lives because we left. It was an abusive relationship which we did well to escape. And suddenly you think we’ll come back if you ask nicely? You haven’t changed. If anything you’ve got worse. So let me think about it no.

"Heard you've got a donut"

After years of the steelbook selling out, showing up on eBay for $$$$, restocking months later, selling out again, repeat until bored… It seems there’s FINALLY going to be a standard-cased 4K Blu-ray release of Lawrence Of Arabia. 🤷‍♂️. I made my own a year ago, very happy with it.

Yep, quite impressed again with this Sony XW6100 projector. Mind you, I’m only throwing a 95-inch image - any bigger would be oversized in this small room. Limiting factor is the white surfaces here. Wonder how quickly I could redecorate…?

This is hysterical. All of it.

Was trying to explain to my mum who Tom Holland is, so showed her the Lip Sync Battle thing. And for the first time I also saw Zendaya’s performance (as Bruno Mars) in the show. And no, it’s not as huge or daring a production… but was it… better? She was on it there.

My first proper brush with the TV industry in the 90s is what made me persue this career - crew and talent were so friendly and fun to be around, it was hard to tear myself away. Some of the psychotic behaviour I’ve had to fend off recently has me wondering if I just got lucky that first time.

After months of waiting, the “forgotten David Fincher movie” has arrived, on 4K Blu-ray of course. Whoop. I’ve got my own panic room. It’s this damn kitchen.

A bit of projector testing this weekend means I need a temporary surface to project onto. Happened to have an old used Grandview 106” 16:9 screen which I picked up for £50 just so I could nab the screen material inside. Got the tools out, threw it up, and surprise, the motors work!

Seems that the more sick you are, the more that doctors tell you you’re not. Next time I see them I’m telling them I feel fine. Maybe then I’ll get some help.

2025! The traditional end-of-year collage! Available as a 1000 piece jigsaw, limited edition art prints and tea towels! 👇👇👇👇👇 www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...

As a US citizen, who left the US in 2016, I will not, in my lifetime ever return. There is no way, in the decades I have left, that they would be able to fix the damage and loss of civil liberties, even after the regime falls. Civil rights are hard won, and once lost, even harder to get back

Recently struck me that it’s not the AI-slop videos we should be mad about. It’s the videos where we can’t tell it’s AI. Not easy. Be careful out there.

After such a mad day, it’s reassuring to tune to BBC 6Music on the way home and run into an archive interview, with John Peel talking to Jarvis Cocker. And for a short while, all is right with the world.

Just arrived. I suppose this is my “film-cred” set of Black Friday Blu-ray pickups. Thanks BFI and Curzon/Artificial Eye. Gradually getting that wishlist ticked off. One more set to come.

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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

Spending a week programming my Yamaha Montage has reminded me why I never got into programming my Yamaha Montage. I described it to someone as “An amazing keyboard once you’ve programmed it, a nightmare if you haven’t”. Unfortunately the programming is also a nightmare. I need a lie down.

A reminder: Great movies are great, and they’re worth seeing well if you can. Thanks for posting this.

If anyone wanted to set up a small high-quality live sound company in London right now, they could clean up. All you’d have to do is be competent and professional and not answer the phone with “Yeah, what?” It’s un-bloody-believable.

EBay. All the serial numbers removed. Yours for £5k. Not suspicious at all 😳. Seller is near me. Wonder if it’s the one I had stolen?

This year continues to be rubbish. Thank you for being such a legend Steve. RIP.

Need an instant 70s political thriller night-chase thru city streets soundtrack? Piano. Major triad, root at the top, in a high-ish register. Then add the SHARP root directly underneath. Eg C# E G C. Move it up and down a whole tone at a time. Add groovy percussion and bass part. You’re welcome.

Pro-tip for anyone making cables: I’ve just realised that a standard-sized 76-note keyboard is almost exactly 1 metre long. A tape-measure is obvs more portable, but when you need to know NOW and you have a keyboard in front of you…

Just in, some sale-week Blu-Ray pickups. I’d say left and right about balance each other out.

STARRING JULIANNE MOORE ❤️ Coming tomorrow! Boasting one of the most compelling and adventurous filmographies of any actor working in Hollywood today, Julianne Moore has made consistently bold choices in a career that has moved easily between blockbuster hits and art-house passion projects.

The message I’m currently getting from Pluribus is: “If you carry on trashing science and scientists you’re going to miss them when they’re gone.” Altho, it was scientists that got the Earth into that mess, so that too.

God it took me a long time to figure out what #AT40 meant. It’s described as “internationally syndicated” but I can tell you, we have zero awareness of the “American Top 40” show here in the UK.

During the evacuation of animals in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, volunteers of the Animal Rescue Kharkiv organization became a 'taxi service' for Ukrainian Defenders. One of the soldiers jokingly said he'll be an air defense, and that's what actually happened -

6 year old me wants to wake up and find this set under the tree on December 25th. As does 44 year old me.

Fixed it for you.

Finally started investigating BlueSky’s “custom algorithm” feeds… Mainly to save me from the Discover feed’s inexplicable love of cartoon soft porn.

Mike Flanagan + Scarlett Johannsen + The Exorcist = this could work 👍

Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin. He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S. Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed. Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.

It’s not a peace plan. It’s a surrender plan.

Devastating news. Playing drums, playing guitar, or just playing’, anyone that knew Bean knew he was the best. 💔 reel360.com/article/jell...

When you’re temporarily camping out in an old house… that doesn’t have a kitchen… and the Ikea workshop shelving isn’t helping… it’s one cheap sheet of plywood, some leftover varnish and sticky-backed felt, and EMERGENCY CARPENTRY TO THE RESCUE 😳 Desperate times…

I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday - It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself. One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend Love you Mani x x Never to be forgotten

It’s good to raise funds for charity, but ** AI slop alert **. Yeesh. Seems AI hasn’t a clue what the back of a Strat looks like. We truly are racing to the bottom.

I have learned not to trust anyone that wears that kind of pinstripe.

The 🇺🇸 American pre-Code  musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933 🎬 Paramount Pictures

Love Film Stories. Live show in London next week, see below. Plus superb interviews on the podcast recently (inc Kevin Smith and Dan Trachtenberg) and the story behind my all-time favourite, The Prestige. @filmstories.bsky.social .