A birthday weekend of wonders! - Wes Anderson Archives, Design Museum - Into the Woods, Bridge Theatre - Starling murmuration, Tring reservoir - Natural History Museum, Tring

An evening of beautiful music at the Barbican last night in the company of Andrew Bird & the Britten Sinfonia performing The Mysterious Production of Eggs.

Left cold by the production of Man and Boy at the National. Couldn’t get on with the staging at all, it was just actors jumping on and off tables for 2 hours. Sorry, but not for me. #theatresky

Dirty Business has made it crystal clear - it's just UNACCEPTABLE for our water to be run for profit for shareholders and creditors In public ownership, Thames Water could be accountable to households, workers, anti sewage groups, local councillors 👇 weownit.org.uk/blog/what-co...

Excellent, more of this sort of thing please 😃

Second play at the #RoyalCourt was Guess How Much I Love You? I’d been looking forward to this one, so it was disappointing that Rosie Sheey couldn’t perform today. A very moving & honest play about a painful subject, which still finds moments of humour. Robert Aramayo excellent. #theatresky

Having a 2 play day at the #RoyalCourt theatre. First up, The Shitheads! Plays out like a state of the nation satire that happens to be set in prehistoric times, tribalism dragging everyone back to the cave. A unique, ambitious debut featuring some fantastic puppetry, loved it. #theatresky

Suede were on top form in Cambridge last night. Love the live tracks from the new album. Tons of energy.

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

One week left to see Lee Miller at #TateBritain An essential exhibition showcasing an incredible career, from fashion and surrealism to war photo journalism. During yesterday’s visit, the lights went out in the room displaying her photos taken during the blitz, to unintentionally eerie effect.

Fantastic read, and I hope 28 YEARS LATER 3 ends up happening and it plays out like this.

Oh, #WonderMan is on Disney+ now. I was very charmed and impressed by it. Two phenomenal leads in Yahya Abdul Mateen II and Ben Kingsley, a clear love of film and television, and a fun and sweet story about navigating the machinery of fame. A really good time.

Today is the 80th birthday of DAVID LYNCH. A day to celebrate the birth of an artist who forever changed the world of art and culture. And our lives. Thank you for everything. Long live The Greatest.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE. Delusional, psychopathic cult leaders and rage fuelled nationalism as zombie psychosis - welcome to 2026. Left the cinema feeling emotional, thinking of how much has been lost since the first film was released. Also, Ralph Fiennes, total fucking legend 🔥

As much as I love this song by Jarvis Cocker, I’d really like there to be a time when I don’t have to play it anymore… youtu.be/deiWnZK-duM

Knit your own Boris Johnson fright mask, anyone?

“Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.” — David Lynch One year on and we continue to miss your darkness and your light.

David Lynch died a year ago. I miss his artistry but I really miss him making me laugh.

Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline (1971)

The weekend starts here… in NFT2 for Out 1. Think I’ll relax in the #BFISouthbank Black Lodge during the intervals. #filmsky

I’m not saying that *everyone* should do #Barbanuary - where we all watch Barbara Stanwyck movies all month - but I AM saying that her three best movies are currently on BBC iPlayer (Double Indemnity), Amazon Prime (Ball of Fire) and Channel 4 (The Lady Eve), respectively.

#lastfourwatched courtesy of a free week of @shudder.com #letterboxd #filmsky

Another January, another wonderful film director gone. The Turin Horse and Werckmeister Harmonies are two of the most bleak & hauntingly nightmarish films that I’ve seen in the cinema, which is high praise indeed.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Joachim Trier, 2025). What a beautiful, layered, deeply moving film this is! So much is left unsaid (or simply not shown) in Trier’s portrayal of the complex relationships between a film director father & his two adult daughters. I hope it picks up some awards this year. #FilmSky

Went for a fabulous snowy walk in Tring Park, like stepping into a fairytale

#Letterboxd most watched 2025 - Lynch & Bobby Peru #filmsky

This is easily the best thing I heard in 2025. Song of the year from the album of the year ❤️ @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=amMj...

My fave films released in #2025 #filmsky #letterboxd boxd.it/Csxp8

Favourite theatre of #2025 Intimate Apparel & Dealer’s Choice @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social The Line of Beauty & A Moon for the Misbegotten, at Almeida. Inter Alia @nationaltheatre.org.uk #theatresky

MARTY SUPREME. This plucky underdog rocks up in the last week of 2025 and steals the film of the year crown. An exhilarating ping-pong ding-dong. #filmsky

My favourite rep screenings of ‘25 #filmsky #letterboxd @letterboxd.social boxd.it/CL1WW

Finally had the chance to watch One Battle After Another in 70mm at #BFIIMAX. Quite possibly the best film I’ve seen there, an unmissable experience, it’s what IMAX was made for.

RIP Rob & Michele Reiner His movies gave me so much happiness. He directed the funniest movie I’ve ever watched and provided wonderful straight man support to Christopher Guest in its funniest scene: youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?...

I call that a pretty, pretty good week of movies #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky

#RIP Udo Kier. One of those utterly unique actors who turned the act of ageing itself into a work of art.

I got to meet TOM CRUISE when he visited the #BFI National Archive recently, (he was lovely) 🤩🤩 www.bfi.org.uk/news/tom-cru...

Letterboxd Video Store. Coming early December 2025. 👀 More info: boxd.it/2OU

It’s One Night Out After Another…tonight being PTA & DiCaprio in convo at #BFI Southbank 🤩 #filmsky

Spent this evening watching Stereophonic (AKA the Fleetwood Mac story). Sporadically entertaining with some well performed songs, but a bit one dimensional & (like the album they’re recording) desperately in need of some editing. The sound engineer guy steals the show. #theatresky

Wishing a very happy birthday to the matchless Martin Scorsese. ❤️❤️❤️ A director who has not only spent decades making some of the greatest films of all time, but has been an indefatigable cinephile dedicated to expanding the horizons of movie lovers around the world! ❤️❤️❤️

So pleased have curated a film tribute to the late Peter Watkins with ICA London. First up, 22 Nov, his film Privilege, a swinging 60s artefact which hobbles the swinging. At its centre, a rock-star-as-empty-messiah, played by Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones. More soon! www.ica.art/films/peter-...

The BFI National Archive appeared as a photoshoot location in October’s issue of Vogue, featuring the Rizwan brothers. We had fun doing our own version for the #BFI Insta. I am wearing: shirt - secondhand, tank top - knitted by Mum, trousers - vintage Topshop, trainers - Converse 😎

The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition. 🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/

God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. Legend of Japanese cinema.

Visited the @realgdt.bsky.social #Frankenstein exhibition yesterday. It always blows my mind when I get to see up close the incredible collaborative craft & artistry that goes into filmmaking. The Magic of The Movies! #filmsky

Loved The Line of Beauty at the Almeida. A funny, moving dissection of 80s England; class & politics, love & sex, excess & ugliness. The cast is flawless. #theatresky

#DRAGONFLY is released in select cinemas this weekend. What starts out as a touching, social realist drama, slowly builds a horrible sense of unease and gets very dark. An under the radar Brit gem with superb performances from Brenda Blethyn & Andrea Riseborough. #filmsky

We made a John Crops for Halloween! Maybe he’ll come alive and sing us a sad song.