On Richard Linklater's NOUVELLE VAGUE, now showing: tinyurl.com/yc6x6ej3

Had to rewind and check whether that was actually his name.

On IS THIS THING ON? [below], NO OTHER CHOICE, THE HISTORY OF SOUND, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB and DEVO, plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

On IS THIS THING ON? [below], NO OTHER CHOICE, THE HISTORY OF SOUND, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB and DEVO, plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

The time is almost here! Tune in to the 46th London Critics' Circle Film Awards on Sunday, 1 February via our YouTube channel. youtube.com/@criticscirc...

Obvious breaker omitted from this week's #TOTP 1999 repeats. Did Dominique Swain end up having a bigger music video career than she did a movie career? youtu.be/hG9C0VwruXE?...

Somewhat overshadowed amid all the MELANIA brouhaha: the Paris Hilton doc (sorry, "visual memoir") that also opened yesterday. youtu.be/_Xw4uTMbVCA?...

My Guardian obit of the actress Jayasree Kabir, who died earlier this month: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

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CITIZEN KANE TOPS NEW CRITICS’ CIRCLE POLL OF GREATEST FILMS ON BFI PLAYER. criticscircle.org.uk/citizen-kane...

On Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE, now showing: tinyurl.com/4xxpxu6e

Knowing what it's like to help my grandad with computer stuff, if we make him take the AI training we can probably get the AI to kill itself.

"Three more from Sex Hiatus before the end of tonight's programme."

New on this week's UK singles chart - Jeff Buckley lives, while AI revisits the Rwandan genocide: theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-4-jan...

Art is everywhere if you know where to look. Just wash your hands.

On Oliver Hermanus's THE HISTORY OF SOUND, now showing: tinyurl.com/5n8wy9hu

On Kaouther Ben Hania's Oscar-nominated THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, now showing: tinyurl.com/4934854m

Is the episode of GIVE US A CLUE currently being repeated on Talking Pictures TV the last time two highish-profile Keiths (in this instance: Barron, Chegwin) appeared together on the same UK TV show?

On 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, SKETCH [below], THE ADVERSARY, HEDDA GABLER and KABHI HAAN KABHI NAA, plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

Seems an apposite moment to point out that SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is now streaming: cinesthesiac.blogspot.com/2025/11/sisu...

On 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, SKETCH [below], THE ADVERSARY, HEDDA GABLER and KABHI HAAN KABHI NAA, plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

Overheard in hospital waiting room: "I haven't finished Nigel off." (I'm fine. Nigel may not be, though.)

New on this week's UK singles chart: theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-3-jan...

On 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, now showing: tinyurl.com/3ht2wzuj

... followed at 12.55am by... /2end www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tonight on BBC Two at 11pm... /1 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, HUMANS IN THE LOOP and LABOUR OF LOVE [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

On A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, HUMANS IN THE LOOP and LABOUR OF LOVE [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

Please join my campaign to make The Decemberists happen anew in 2026. On this week's UK pop chart: theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-2-jan...

I see the Amazon legal team have been busy.

On HAMNET [below], GIANT, MARTY SUPREME, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SARVAM MAYA and BLUE VELVET at 40, plus a Béla Tarr obit and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

On HAMNET [below], GIANT, MARTY SUPREME, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SARVAM MAYA and BLUE VELVET at 40, plus a Béla Tarr obit and the weekend charts and picks: tinyurl.com/2j8jvurk

And if you missed Nuts In May yesterday, it's now available on the BBC iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This song has haunted the remotest batcaves of my memory for 33 years; tonight, I finally learn what it's called and who it's by. Almost certainly the only David Coleman/QUESTION OF SPORT-inspired pop record out there. Remarkable.

This was the week in 1999 when Engelbert Humperdinck prevented Frank Sinatra from having another Top 40 hit #cuttingedgesounds #totp

If you're looking for a little laughter and joy amidst all the horror, our new 2-part documentary #MelBrooks: The 99 Year Old Man! premieres on HBO and HBO Max January 22nd.

Prosecuting individuals who participated in this regime includes anyone who bought Hillbilly Elegy.

On the first UK pop chart of 2026: theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-1-jan...

To those masochists who claim to watch Safdie films more than once, I ask: *how*, exactly? On MARTY SUPREME (now showing): tinyurl.com/3wzw5rpx

My Telegraph obit of Béla Tarr, who died yesterday: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

What's up with cinema thermostats at the moment? In the past week, I've sat in a sauna and in an igloo. Cinema staff, I beseech you: you're never going to tempt folks back off the couch if you're making your clientele watch movies in the Sahara or the Arctic.

A Knight's Tale is getting a 25th anniversary 4K restoration and re-release on 20 February.

Lynch last year, Béla Tarr this: we are losing those who've guided us through the darkness of this world at exactly the moment we most have need of them. (Can't some of those *responsible for* the darkness disappear into it?)

On the current Top Ten hit SARVAM MAYA, now showing: rb.gy/tabshp

"Turns out I'm the bingo now." First episode of S2 has more original and inspired comic ideas, images and music cues than anything else around. Heaven knows what the BBC is playing at, but in days of yore they would recognise and celebrate (and, y'know, *broadcast*) these things.

Missed opportunities in the contemporary cinema. Frank Skinner on Elphaba and Prince Fiyero's kiss in WICKED: FOR GOOD: "I would have given the maker of that film fifty pounds if they'd pulled back and he was covered from head to toe in green paint."

On the final UK chart of 2025, and the singles of the year: theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-52-de...

Upset annoying acquaintances by commenting "AI slop" under pictures they share of their children.

On Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE, now showing: tinyurl.com/ytk265mr