After their excellent piece on Penda's Fen a few weeks ago, @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social turns its attention to the Midlands' other great slice of celluloid history. Time for another showing, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social?

Is that a promise or a threat?

"Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?"

NOT NOW, OUT-OF-TOUCH RUSSKIE CANNIBAL ANTS!

I miss him so much.

Pleased to report that my mum hooted with laughter throughout the Dungeons & Dragons movie. Ideal Christmas Day fare. youtu.be/fQoEHpM3OZE?...

It's my first Xmas without Coraline, in 14 yrs, & while there is much that brings me Joy, I miss her so very much Just want to say that if you, too, are doing your best & are grateful for Things but still feel the absence of someone keenly & your heart is filled w love but also loss I see you 🖤🫂

christmas day means Fellowship of the Ring and it's always a win when someone new discovers the horse that says "Benny Hill"

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Winter Sale! Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas! store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

Really looking forward to tonight. We follow the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð, literally 'Christmas book flood'. Rather than watching regrettable repeats on TV, you give each other a book and then settle down with a nice hot chocolate to read them. It's fab! 📚 adventures.is/blog/iceland...

"And Tiny Tim, who does not feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead"

New on my blog: An MR James-esque ghost story that came to me in a dream earlier this year. (I woke up and wrote it down). A Christmas treat for you all, you have until New Year to read it. The Fourth Door underthreehundred.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Tiny Tim implies the existence of Enormous Tim

Your Christmas Eve viewing sorted: here are all the ghost stories you can watch tonight... 👻🎄

o shit Biehn and Cameron together again www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vEY...

If you're at a loose end, why not write a gushingly positive review of ‘Intervals of Darkness’? It's stalled at 26 reviews. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY

chris evans shouts "no! i won't go back, you can't make me. i said i was out!" from all around him, a disembodied voice booms ɪᴛ ɪꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴ ɴᴏ ʟᴏɴɢᴇʀ evans screams and clutches at his arm where his mickey mouse tattoo suddenly burns. ʏᴏᴜ ᴀᴄᴄᴇᴘᴛᴇᴅ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɴᴅ ɪɴ ᴇxᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴍᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟɪᴛʏ

The Weissand Effect, if you will.

The Christmas decorations in this National Trust are a bit Wicker Man.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyartchallenge #art #paintings 20) Good Girl by Jakub Rozalski (Yes I know this is a digital painting. Those still count)

"And why they don’t put out the movie again with more of his very, very strange and wonderful scenes?"

I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

Marked the shortest day with a rewatch of To Fire You Come At Last, a proper ghost story for Christmas: youtu.be/4oiKn_QAn-o?...

Literary license: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/aq...

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

In The Dead of Winter I made sure the monied family had one of those monochrome colour-coordinated John Lewis Christmas trees, which frankly warrants their supernatural punishment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol

James Cameron, maybe do not have a character saying "I really need to take a leak" TWICE halfway through your THREE AND A HALF HOUR MOVIE.

What’s all this??? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/diane-...

James Cameron hiring two stunt people, a water tank and New Zealand's top hypothermia expert to disprove the "Jack could've got on the door" Titanic meme is the level of pettiness to which I aspire. youtu.be/qSbBg56k4HA?...

NEW FICTION: The Stray Dog “The incoming air had a faint but unusual scent, not entirely wholesome, as if something had been left out of the pantry and was beginning to turn...” precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/12/20/f...

A streamer scared for his life while a guy wearing Polymarket trunks beats his ass is too perfect

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Are you fucking kidding me, he’s doing the fucking Hunger Games?

IYKYK.

"They're turning the fogs gay." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This photo of Marco Rubio, from Vanity Fair, questioning every life choice that has brought him to this point, is my new favourite thing. "Why won't you say anything?" he pleaded with the lamp.

‘A festive tour de force’: Guardian writers on their favorite underrated Christmas movies

Here he is pitting an AI actress against Milla Jovovich

First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day 👀 In theaters on June 12, 2026.

With Christmas drawing near, it's time to share my annual thread of Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve... 👻🎄❄️ Starting, somewhat self-servingly, with my own THE DEAD OF WINTER, which is now available to watch on Amazon Prime as part of this ShortsTV compilation: watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...

James Bond's obsession with eggs is sadly underrepresented in the screen adaptations. EGGS. EGGS FOR JAMES BOND. 🥚🥚🥚

Adam Curtis would reject this clip

Bought this a couple of weeks back - an original poster for 1971's See No Evil (aka Blind Terror), which was shot in the town where I grew up...

New xmas tree ornament, bought at the @celluloidscreams.bsky.social market in October!

"The raccoon that barged into a Virginia liquor store, smashed bottles of booze and passed out drunk in a bathroom this past Black Friday has at least two other break-ins under his belt, a local government official has revealed." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...