Bob Hoskins on Super Mario Brothers: ‘I didn’t even know it was a game, my kids told me. ‘What are you doing next, dad?’ ‘Super Mario Brothers.’ ‘Oh, that’s a game.’ ‘What?’ And they showed me this thing jumping up & down. ‘This is you.’ And I thought: ‘I used to play King Lear.’

Ahh, false equivalence, my old friend

Tried to think of something witty to say but he’s just an ignorant prick so let’s leave it at that.

Funny that people once saw Dr Strangelove as improbable farce

‘Is he…dead?’ ‘No, I think he’s sleeping.’ ‘But he feels so, so cold.’ ‘Yeah, I think he’s dead.’ ‘Hard to tell.’

Wonder if they’re passing around Kool-Aid

Lincoln’s bust is so embarrassed

Kristi Noem’s first day as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas

Noem Alone (2026)

Next season of The Apprentice is going to be weird

Very enjoyable interview with the great Stephen Lang, covering his films with Cameron, Mann and, of course, Tombstone. pca.st/episode/2390...

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay

As it’s World Book Day, why not read Making Movies, Sidney Lumet’s superb book about his filmmaking process. Here’s a telling anecdote about Akira Kurosawa that shows how important pragmatism is in the creative process.

I’m not punching any baby orphans

I told my wife she had to read this. She told me to fuck off.

Post an iconic horror movie image.

‘It would be nice to trust the Commander-in-Chief, but if you can trust everyone else, then it should be O.K.’

Just call it Crown Court

We’ve noticed

We laughed at Ellis at the time but little did we realise that the Ellises of the world would end up taking over America & start a war with Iran.

Oh lord, I'd somehow missed the news about Paul Conroy. If you haven't seen Under The Wire (based on his book of the same name, I believe), you should. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Found this quote of his in a different piece

Remarkably stupid that people think there’s a cancel culture when you see who’s President of America

Beginning to think Mel Gibson is behind all this

Fifa: Challenge accepted

Never underestimate Dave

There won’t be any World Cup at this rate because America will be at war with most of the participants

I’m fearing the same about America

Sgt. Howie, who was visiting the town investigating a missing person case, was unavailable for comment

Wish I could have had the chance to fail upwards too. I’d be really good at it.

How I arrived on Bluesky

‘Somehow Khamenei returned’

He’s so whimsical!

It’s not art.

Operation Epic Fury Signifying Nothing

Trump calls it Operation Epic Fury but it’s looking more & more like The Glasgow Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience of wars

All the rich people in Dubai trying to escape is very Godfather Part 2 Cuban Revolution vibes

Much love going out to Bruce Campbell. Here’s a terrific story about Sam Raimi trying to direct a difficult Gene Hackman on The Quick & The Dead set. Campbell is such a wonderful raconteur. youtu.be/DcYr-clpLSQ?...

‘We’ve gone to war by mistake’

Written 38 years ago. Could gave been written this morning. youtu.be/w5R-F4-6Stg?...

‘You remember the politically correct wars, don’t you? You know them, the politically correct wars. They used to be everywhere, the politically correct wars’

Welcome to my extended middle finger

Daniel Craig is 58. This was a high point in his storied career.

He’s going full Harkonnen