Muppet James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia. With Fairuza Balk as Elizabeth Short. Everybody else is a muppet

This morning's chaos is being soundtracked by Simon Panrucker's new album Ridiculous Songs For Kids. I've been a massive fan of Simon's for years so this is a thorough recommend. Available on streaming and Yoto card

There’s a fire in my brain and everyone’s invited

There’s a fire in my brain and everyone’s invited

🧵Here's a quick thread of awkward men.

WELL, ANN DOWD IS HERE! We celebrate Dano's birthday by launching season 13 with Philadelphia with David Trumble, chatting Dowd's range, Springsteen, the 90s being THE time for stressed out lawyers, controversies, Demme's trademarks and the incredible storytelling economy of this thing. Out now!

Help us pick the actor we’ll cover on season 14 of the show!

A perfect shitstorm of promoters charging insane amounts for concert tickets, and record labels encouraging unhinged “super fandom”. Thanks, I hate it

Help us pick the actor we’ll cover on season 14 of the show!

Records the next podcast episode months ago Edits the next podcast episode weeks ago Uploads the next podcast episode 2mins before episode drops

#NowWatching Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965). This one features Mikio Narita as the titular Chess Expert. Always weird when he's not rocking up as a suited and booted yakuza

Rounding off our Scary Movie coverage and just in time for Toy Story 5, our latest episode covers our Top 3 Fifth Entries in a Franchise. And yes, there is some Star Wars contention. Thanks @mattbrothers.bsky.social from @ispauldanook.bsky.social for joining us! open.spotify.com/episode/74og...

Holy shit Switzerland

Last month I listened thru the discographies of Erik B & Rakim, and The Sisters of Mercy. This month it's Kate Bush. Two albums in and I'm really struggling. I get why she's a huge deal, and I respect her artistry but it definitely ain't for me

In the Earth (2021) Directed by Ben Wheatley

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

For anyone keeping score: 1: Kid’s got nits. 2: Power outage… again. 3: I just found a decomposing bird wedged between the gutter and the drain just outside the kitchen window. If the universe could serve me a Win rn I’d appreciate it because I’m getting twitchy here

Need to see GenZ and GenX reviews of Toy 5tory because GenY cannot be trusted with that shit

Guy from property management came and changed our main fuse which had blown. 24hrs later the power’s out again 🙃🫠🤡

Electrician: You’ve blown a transformer Me, wiping energon from my bottom lip: I can assure you sir, I don’t know what you’re talking about

Microsoft have 1 more console in them. Everything they’ve been doing this last year smacks of Sega’s downward spiral in the Nineties

How old will today’s mid-teens be next general election?

Having to explain to my folks that I don’t want them bringing my sister round if she’s off her meds again. It might sound insensitive but I don’t need that loaded gun anywhere near my kid

Had no electricity in the flat since 8 last night. Energy provider won’t come out unless we can access our meter, which we can’t. Property manager won’t come out unless the problem is affecting more than one property. Letting Agents who also have a key don’t clock on for another ten minutes.

i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.

Kid’s got nits ffs

Finishes watching Zatoichi’s Revenge. Immediately starts watching an episode of The Incredible Hulk

The #fascists

#NowWatching Zaoichi’s Revenge (1965) because I got nine films into the Criterion box set a few years back and it’s high time I continued

I typically don't write about gaming, but I think Nintendo touting a thumb-wrestling game for its $450 console pushed me over the edge a little bit.

SURVIVE STYLE 5+ 4K restoration coming to UK cinemas Sep 10 – London @princecharlescinema.com Sep 11 – Newcastle Sep 11 – Birmingham Sep 11 – Manchster @cpxmcr.bsky.social Sep 11 – Bristol @wshed.bsky.social Sep 13 – Nottinghm @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social More thirdwindowfilms.com/films/surviv...

As always: - WipEout - WipEout 2097 - WipEout 3

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

Keep thinking maybe Microsoft would’ve sold more copies of Indiana Jones and The Great Circle on the PS5 if it wasn’t still full price 18-months in

Need to see GenZ and GenX reviews of Toy 5tory because GenY cannot be trusted with that shit

Well, Ann Dowd will kick things off later this month with Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993)! Joining us for the first time since season 3 is returning guest, animator and story artist David Trumble. Friday 19th June (Paul Dano's birthday, as is tradition) #wellanndowd #philadelphia #anndowd

Katsuhito Ishii's THE TASTE OF TEA 茶の味 is playing on the big screen in London on June 30 at the Genesis Cinema! genesiscinema.co.uk/event/109768

“Mealworms are the Realworms”, Edith exclaims as she grabs a fistful out of the bag. I watch in awestruck horror as she shovels dried beetle larvae into her mouth

AI writing my Bluesky posts? Fools. You have no idea of the iridescent brilliance that slumbers in my drafts.

Where's my Monarch: Legacy of Monsters renewal ffs?

When someone asks "does your art use Generative AI" I don't want the answer to be "well we utilized it at an early stage of development trained on ethical datasets internally used by our team of VERY respected human employees" I want the answer to be "No."

Gives me the false hope that if I just peace-out of a Teams meeting nobody would notice.

East Finchley by way of Belgium

“It’s like Google Drive but for soup!” “It’s like “It’s like MS paint but for gyroscopes!” “It’s like Ceefax but for knees!” “It’s like Netflix but for plankton!” “It’s like Tiktok but for Joseph of Arimathea!” Fuck are you talking about

Every few months I'm going into the apps settings on Google Drive and removing whatever new AI fuckeries they've shovelled in there that's slowing everything down

Oh, you'd better believe I spent the whole evening watching every short film and music video on the bonus disc.

I'd love to see a Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat spin-off game where the tournament roster is only fighters who have been playable in a single game in the franchise up to that point. You know. The B-sides and rarities of fighting games.

There's a whole bunch of tiny blue tits, robins, and sparrows going crazy for the mealworm in our bird feeders. It brings me so much joy watching them flutter and dance about in the HEY TOWN PIGEON. GET OUTTA THE WAY YOU MANKY-LOOKING FUCK

I'm begging you, folks. If you're in any way involved in anything creative and sending me AI-written outreach emails, just don't. AI marketing services presumably keep suggesting people contact me with AI emails and I can't hit delete fast enough.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital