War Horse at the National Theatre is every bit as moving and magical as it was when I first saw it staged there nearly 20 years ago, left in tears again. #theatresky

Any week that contains not just one, but two Divine Comedy gigs, is a very special week indeed 🤩 Fabulous support from George Houston too. @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social @aylesburywaterside.bsky.social @southbankcentre.bsky.social

Archduke at the Royal Court theatre - a dark farce of radicalisation, nationalism, misogyny, toxic masculinity…it’s all so 1914. Es Devlin’s set design is outstanding.

Wishing a happy birthday to Neil who is 72 today! Photo: Chris #PetText

It’s the 30 year anniversary of Pioneer Soundtracks by Jack, one of the best albums you’ve, maybe never, heard. Criminally overlooked back in the mid-90s, its timeless magnificence has not faded. #musicsky youtu.be/agQaQV98ek8

Time to take my mind of the weather and crack on with that retrospective article I've been commissioned to write on ... oh ...

Another lovely day for a matinee at the #Almeida, I went out of the sunshine to see Under the Shadow. A really well staged adaptation, all the more chilling for how horribly timely it feels. #theatresky

The first day of dev production on my new game. Adapted from my illustrated industrial folk horror novel “Coal Face - The devil in the smoke.” The art style is in keeping with the book and the era of the setting. Lots of original gameplay surprises to come! The journey begins. More news to come!

A swelteringly hot night of jungle blues with the great CW Stoneking at Islington Assembly Hall #musicsky

ANNOUNCEMENT. The LOST REELS ALL DAY FILM EVENT is on Sunday Sept 13th at The Cinema Museum! FOUR films that exemplify the Lost Reels brand: • Missing in Action • Forgotten Classics • Special 35mm Presentations • Midnight Movies More details coming soon! HOLD THE DATE!!!

Fantastic line-up for @cineredis.bsky.social 2026; Dante's THE MOVIE ORGY + MATINEE, new restorations of LEAVING LAS VEGAS and Buscemi's massively overlooked TREES LOUNGE, a Burnett, two Tarkovskys, and a strand of non-superhero comics adaptations - to name a few! www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

It was a great honour to meet the one & only Guillermo del Toro during his #BFI Fellowship tour of the Archive this week and show him a reel of our nitrate print of The Magnificent Ambersons, one of his favourite films 🤩 Photos by Tim Whitby.

Just finished reading The Gate by Natsume Soseki. A melancholic, beautifully written story of static lives and changing seasons, with some lovely moments of humour. Thanks @jacquiwine.bsky.social for the recommendation, it really was like reading an Ozu film. #booksky

Sir David Attenborough… on your 100th birthday, we thank you. For a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with such grace and wonder. Generations have fallen in love with nature because of you. Happy birthday, Sir. 🎉

At #BFI Southbank today for Hunted on #35mm. Dirk Bogarde stars in this terrific man on the run thriller, hiding in the noirish shadows of postwar London & the Scottish Highlands, with kidnapped child in tow. Screening again with Humphrey Jennings’ A Diary for Timothy on 11 May. #filmsky

Strolling along Upper Street on a sunny Saturday afternoon and watching a brilliant play at the Almeida will always be one of life’s little pleasures for me.

This - which appears to speak to me on many different levels - looks incredibly interesting...

Finally got to watch Sirat last night. Impressive tension building & a couple of horribly shocking moments that actually made me swear out loud 😱 Think Wages of Fear with ravers & a sad dad. Incredible sound design, so glad I experienced this large & loud at Odyssey cinema St Albans.

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction: Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis has led the Internati...

Genuinely unpredictable set of rarely performed album tracks & B-sides at last night’s #PetShopBoys gig at Electric Ballroom. Ranging from singalong favourites to rediscovered gems, this was a very special night where I felt lucky to be ‘One of the Crowd’,(not on the setlist unfortunately) #musicsky

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

A lovely Easter weekend in Cambridge. Visited the beautiful house & art gallery, #Kettle’sYard, a place to dream & enrich the soul. Was fascinated to see so many works by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, whose biopic, Savage Messiah, I had watched earlier in the week, (Kettle’s Yard gets a credit). #artsky

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" ― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.

I have an aversion to hype, being a naturally impressionable sort who has been stung too many times, but the BFI’s noisy recent championing of the largely forgotten British B movie, Strongroom (1962), is totally justified. Banger.

I do love a good dacha drama, so I had a great time with Summerfolk @nationaltheatre.org.uk A vibrant adaptation, fabulously staged and performed to perfection by a wonderful ensemble. #theatresky

Some good news! I’m curating / introducing a #PreCode double bill of Scarface (1932) and Female (1933) at the Chiswick Cinema on April 8th. All shares appreciated. Tell your friends! Etc. #PreCodeApril

Love to see it!

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

MFC Chicken rockin’ the joint at the Crooked Crow Bar in Leighton Buzzard last night. These guys are dynamite! I don’t need to know the question, chicken is the answer. #musicsky

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.

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.