Nope I DIDN’T hate 28 Years Later, just bits of it. The first half is a folk horror, fever dreamt masterpiece… read here, and SUBSCRIBE! Purlease and thank you culturetrash.substack.com/p/when-good-...

I went to see 28 Years Later and now I’ve got the RAGE open.substack.com/pub/culturet...

The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig. @francescasteele.bsky.social reviews The Ballad of Wallis Island, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

I want to talk to you about horror (stay with me!). And blenders. It’s my first proper Substack post. Please do subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/culturet...

Guys I did a substack open.substack.com/pub/culturet...

Have you been to the full moon party in Thailand? Send me you anecdotes good and bad pls! Can definitely be anonymous

I am looking to speak to people who have moved back into London (or another city) after moving out to the country for years. Esp if they’ve moved back for retirement. Please get in touch!

Your favourite Agatha Christies, go!

For a film critic I have a shamefully high tolerance for crap TV. Will Meghan get me in the end? Stay tuned!!

There is a man in my co-working space who taps his foot ALL the time and it is slowly driving me utterly, utterly round the bend

In a reading funk - I want to read something clever but also fun and light, domestic fiction probably, am thinking Such a Fun Age, Pineapple Street, that sorta thing. Any thoughts?

LOVED interviewing the supa Dog Man author Dav Pilkey for @thetimes.com about writing his way out of trouble as a kid and why parents should chill out about comic books. The very enjoyable Dog Man film is out this Friday fyi 🐕👮‍♂️ www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

🎞️ From Cameron Diaz to Keira Knightley, a flurry of high-profile actresses are making their comebacks 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film...

Just meeeeeet meeee at the… apt apt apt apt apt apt apt apt

Back on here after a hiatus, hoping madly for things that are the opposite of did they didn’t they Nazi salutes

It’s fine don’t panic it’s just me having a mild midlife crisis in @thetimes.com Hair dye, tattoos and learning guitar in your 40s. Sad or VERY COOL? www.thetimes.com/article/f0f7...

★★ 🎥 We Live in Time, starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, too often leans on cliche - and its underlying message is startlingly regressive 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 trib.al/ZnXhTnv

Truly, I am sorry inews.co.uk/culture/spli... @inews.co.uk

Do I know any party planners on here? 🎈🥳🍾

Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you - have never published anything - have no readers - didn't write anything this month - didn't write anything this year - can't articulate words anymore - can only float and mournfully wail - were murdered ten years ago on this very spot

H delighted to meet the marvellous @cressidacowell.bsky.social this morning, and tickled by the idea of training his viking in her excellent-looking new short story collection

Still not sure how I feel about the assisted dying bill but I found this piece by @hugorifkind.bsky.social profoundly moving and articulate on an aspect of it that is usually described in vaguer terms www.thetimes.com/article/5050...

Engagement is just generally better on here, even though numbers are so much higher on there. I’m looking forward to the inevitable long read picking apart the weird and subtle “vibe” reasons some socials succeed

Finally got round to seeing Gladiator 2. Some thoughts: It would be quite hard not to enjoy the Big Cinema Spectacle of it all. Sharks in the Colosseum! Yes! Wide screens of Paul Mescal’s thighs! Yes! But…

★★★ 🎥 While #Moana wowed adults and children alike, the new sequel lacks the original’s fearless spirit 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film...

Oh now listen About Time is REALLY worth a rewatch but also saying sexy pyjamas to your brother is not cool

I couldn’t even enjoy hate watching the new Cruel Intentions. It is very very bad. 1 ⭐️ from me in @inews.co.uk inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

No one unrelated to M&S employees can ever get hold of an actual irl Christmas Colin the Caterpillar, and that is an incontrovertible fact

So pleasing and true from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social -this please *is* like a twinkly winter pub (for now) www.thetimes.com/article/da26...

Do we have a verb for messaging on BlueSky? Or will we just forever call it Tweeting? @bsky.app

Morning BlueSky! Here is my co-working desk, which I’ve only recently acquired because it turns out working at Costa and off your sofa for three years isn’t great for productivity. I like mess. And coffee and biscuits and books.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

★★★★★ 🎥 The long-awaited film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Wicked, about the backstory of The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, is a candy-coloured, fantastical treat 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film...

I love love loved the #Wicked movie, which is gorgeous to look at and listen to but also very, very funny inews.co.uk/culture/film... @theipaper.bsky.social

Truly few things I like less than helping my son with his maths homework

It’s fine it’s just me looking 105 standing next to Ariana Grande #wicked

What are your best journalist starter packs, people? Also I want to be in one, can you put me in one please? (Maybe I’m already in one, how would I know?)

What is bluesky going to be like when we all stop talking about how great bluesky is?

What immediately feels good about this place, very noticeably, is that it feels like the algorithm is working for me not against me

A very personal story today from me and Lexy Topping about friendship across the parenting divide. What happens when kids arrive for one of you and not the other www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It’s weird to be back somewhere people are… enthusiastically, politely chatting?

I so enjoyed speaking to Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, as the film Joy (about her extraordinary conception) comes out this week. What an unusual and interesting life www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11... #IVF #joy #netflix

No disrespect to John Krasinski, but I think we all know the actual sexiest man alive in 2024

What’s up bluesky is it better than threads over here?