The James Bond franchise faces a big problem: me, the viewer, has been shot at the start of the movie through the barrel of my gun, and I'm dripping blood over my own eye balls (they're in the gun)

This does rather betray that Reform’s ultimate plan is to steal the chaos emeralds.

The new Apes movies are all quietly pretty good (though I’m weird and like the first and last ones most).

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

I saw it on the big screen ~two weeks ago so I’d just like to take the opportunity to say I came by my “I don’t get the big deal” honestly.

As the legends foretold?

Dress for the job you want (in my case, Pokémon master).

I do fondly remember people getting inordinately angry at Tony Leung being referred to as “a Marvel actor”.

This whole thread is delightful.

"Person who just bought toilet paper, only to find that there was none left in the supermarket restroom (based on a true story)" x.com/dailyportalz...

there is no debate to be had about integration in the UK. The debate should be about what we do about the way we indulge delusional people by pretending their arguments are not bad faith.

Our November programme has landed - and it’s one of our biggest yet. Over 150 films fill both our screens this month, from autumnal favourites and rediscovered gems to cult deep cuts and 70mm epics. Expect the kind of eclectic mix that makes the PCC what it is. 🎟️: tinyurl.com/5b935zfe

This reminds me of the fond memory of me and the man who went on to be the best man at my wedding (because of this moment?) having to sit in the dark for a few minutes after Fast and Furious 7 because we were both quietly weeping.

It’s been… well, since release that I’ve seen this. I’m due a rewatch.

The reason this doesn’t track isn’t *just* because it’s a misreading of Tolkien. Robinson isn’t a ‘hard man’ - like Musk, he’s a shit-stirring little weasel. He’s Gríma Wormtongue.

Please kill me

Gotta say, the idea that my home life is an invention of “propagandist marketing“ is faintly amusing/fucking revolting.

Obviously fuck The Sun but this from 20 years ago is quite funny.

Farage is a Quisling. Everyone supporting him should be asked a simple question - are you a rube or a traitor?

They’ve got to finesse the message in case they accidentally imply immigrants are people worthy of dignity or respect or that their own voters have opinions worth listening to.

Given Lam's appalling comments, the UK government needs to make it free for those with permanent leave to remain to obtain British citizenship, to promote people making the change, and to make it quicker. They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.

The @libdems.org.uk and I have written to the Conservative leader urging her to condemn the comments by one of her MPs who said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

RIP to my >15 year old Oyster card. Finally stopped reading.

I’ll be the last champion of modern cinema well past the point it remains reasonable but I don’t think this is entirely fair on either the health of the industry or the selection available. A quick glance at my local cinema’s listings, for example:

I think after a while you should stop pretending this stuff is a serious policy proposal and just call it for what it is: racist bullshit.

A lot of the responses to this are like, “I, personally, don’t believe in kicking puppies.” No, duh.

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

This article is absolutely bizarre. And what a disappointment Jonjo is.

The greatest, hands down.

Incredible restraint for this not to be referenced in 28 Years Later.

Missing the five minutes where Keir Starmer says something vaguely reassuring, then an aide whispers something in his ear and he’s like, “Well you tell those fuckers it’s *double*-banned!”

Milano Parco Nord Park(o)run parkran. At the end, an English volunteer asked me in English how it went. I was so locked into Italian/exhausted mode that I just yelled “Bene! Grazie!” and ran away.

Bonded with a nice chap at the bus stop over peeling off some fash stickers. “They’re real wankers, aren’t they?” “They really are.”

Ethnicity is a cultural and political category, as evidenced by Matt Goodwin doing a complete 180 within the space of half a year.

Don’t see what’s ”incoherent” about the government’s line of: “These are our neighbours, our friends, our spouses, our careworkers, the people who keep Britain ticking [dark look, clenching fists, veins bulging] and we’ll make the fuckers pay dearly for that privilege.”

If I were a producer for the new Harry Potter TV series, with a duty of care towards the three child actors playing the leads, I’d find the way Rowling treats the leads of the last screen adaptation to be hair-raising, to put it lightly.

Feel like this an impossible captcha: Select all boxes of a country having a normal one.

The developers of Mario's Early Years for DOS customized the game for three of their children. Inputting hidden codes at the start of the game can launch it in a personalized "Marissa", "Ali" and "Josh" mode whereby the in-game voices address the child by name.

free your mind from Shareholder Disease! I cannot think of a less joyful use of brainpower than sitting in a theater wondering "How could this possibly be profitable for WB?"

I know everything seems awful right now, but this is an INCREDIBLE breakthrough and such good news.

"Jack is 30, a barrister's clerk, newly engaged to Chloe and has taken part in research at UCL to turn his diagnosis into a positive." "But he'd always known he was destined to share his father's fate, until today." Wow.

Reading the news until I’m red in the face from impotent rage.

itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b... Did you know we ran a public sector deficit of 5% of GDP last year, a figure which adds up to £150billion? The public finances are in a far worse state than anyone admits to even before you consider public works backlog, gaps in defence & public services

It’s a little sad just how much a win buoys my mood. #CAFC

Nothing to do with Gervais per se God I hate irreverent ad copy so much. “Because why not.” So your product is unremarkable and you’re not fussed about selling it? Great.

family story: when my dad was 18 he went to Hong Kong to work in a children's home for a year, and there was one little girl there who - unlike most of the kids - was a foundling with no known family, and also a corrected cleft palate that meant it would be very hard for her to be adopted in HK.

If you were doing Taskmaster, you’d want a winter series so you got an outerwear variant.