Going to be more ads in Prime movies

This guy’s going through more emotions in 50 seconds than Bob Hoskins at the end of The Long Good Friday

BREAKING: Autobahn have also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration.

Robert Fripp turned 80 earlier this month. When I was a kid, I never realised that he played on some of my favourite songs of the time. Case in point being his stunning guitar on this neglected Bowie track from Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) that I love to this day. youtu.be/38pAlti-dXE?...

‘I NEED YOU TO PERFORM AT FREEDOM 250 MILLI VANILLI HAVE DROPPED OUT’

Fleeing Nazis also saw it as an ideological fit

Watch Heat again

1. Shut the fuck up, Sting 2. 007 is about to abseil into your volcano lair

Is this some kind of Catholic only tournament?

Roland Gift is 64. Always true.

It’s Gordon Willis’ birthday. The Prince of Darkness had a sign on his camera that said ‘Actors think marks are German currency’. He lit so tightly that if an actor moved a foot slightly one way or the other they’d end up in darkness.

I was working in a restaurant when Bono rang to make a reservation for his wife, Ali. ‘With or without you?’ I said. The rest is history.

Hmm

I miss Talking Heads

I wouldn’t have been happy about Pep leaving my mum’s funeral

As it was Peter Cushing’s birthday yesterday & Christopher Lee & Vincent Price’s today here’s a few lovely pics of the unholy trinity. Had to include the great John Carradine in the last one…

The colossal prick who burgled your house now expects you to buy everything he stole back from him

It’s Levon Helm’s birthday so it’s time for this. youtu.be/Z2eTW8qZBtk?...

Problematic age difference: Mina Murray (22) Dracula (467)

It’s Peter Cushing’s birthday. His long friendship with Christopher Lee began on The Curse Of Frankenstein when Lee stormed into Cushing’s dressing room saying ‘I haven’t got any lines!’ & Cushing replied ‘You’re lucky. I’ve read the script.’

There’s a sledge with Rosebud written on it at the very back if you look hard enough

Tennessee Williams was so good in Hot Fuzz (1958)

I was handing out Of Mice and Men to my GCSE class when a student called me over to show me what someone had written in the inside cover. ‘George shoots Lenny’

Ian McKellen is 87. ‘Whilst making The Keep, Michael Mann said ‘You're playing a Romanian. So I went to Romania & learned how to speak with a Romanian accent. Then on the first day of shooting, he said he wanted me to speak with a Chicago accent. Well, I couldn't do that & it got worse from there.’

Eric Cantona as Alf Garnett in the short lived remake of Til Death Do Us Part (2023)

Charm itself youtu.be/loDMRzPiCic?...

Worst conga line ever

My favourite incarnation of Bob Dylan; charming, nervous, sarcastic, sincere, detached or drily witty depending on his mood from second to second: youtu.be/wPIS257tvoA?...

I’m currently a slow reader but I finally finished this slim, high-art pulp western and I adored it. Thank you mcnallyeditions.com for pushing it back into the light.

Roger Deakins is 77. Love this Empire of Light bts pic of The Deak with that great Long Good Friday teaser poster.

Alfred Molina is 73. ‘During Spider-Man 2, Rosemary Harris & I were suspended in harnesses 40ft above the soundstage floor & we were left hanging there for ages & ran out of small talk. At one point, Rosemary said quietly ‘I’m classically trained, you know.’

‘At least we’re not Widow’s Bay’

me today

Widow’s Bay eps 3-5. So difficult to make a horror comedy series without one overwhelming the other but this series is consistently avoiding that problem. A superb run with 4 a particular stand out as it pays homage to a horror sub-genre I particularly love and Kate O’Flynn is brilliant in it.

Bob Dylan is 85. I didn’t get him at all when I was a kid but then I heard this and that was that. The humour, surrealism and word play ignited my imagination as the song woozily barrelled along. I never tire of it. youtu.be/3kh6K_-a0c4?...

Bob Hoskins’ acting in the last scene of The Long Good Friday still hits me hard.

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

When my joke gets no likes

The thing about Jeremy Brett’s Holmes is that he is very, very funny youtu.be/3UOTIW83oXs?...

When you have Irish genes in a heatwave

Wasn’t exactly a fan of Gyles Brandreth but this interview with Fiennes is deeply moving. He listens sensitively to Fiennes opening up about his parents & regrets without interrupting needlessly. ‘Hello daddy’ had me welling up. youtu.be/yISF0iIYPco?...

Mission Impossible is 30. Famous for the Langley heist but also for another heist as Vanessa Redgrave comes in for about 12m & steals the movie outright. youtu.be/UTHVmd87QrY?...

Mission: Impossible is 30 This confused audiences but it’s superbly done - Phelps trying to trick Hunt into thinking Kittridge is the mole as Hunt pieces it together in his mind & realising it was Phelps. The movie was a fine blend of labyrinthine spy noir & set pieces. youtu.be/lTlvj6v6PnU?...

Starry starry shite

Morrissey is 67. He based an entire songwriting career on this Tolstoy diary entry.

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Mission: Impossible is 30. Here’s that time Ethan Hunt FLEW away from an explosion

When I was 8, my parents were shot dead in front of me by a mugger as we walked home from a movie theater

New Morrissey lyric just dropped