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Rian Johnson absolutely understands.

Happy Hundredth, Dick!

Thing is as Nepo parent, you’re in a bind, you aren’t going to hinder your kids professional progress to make a political point. But surely you just say yes, their background helped.

There’s something hilarious, and a bit sad, about Robbie Williams announcing a handful of smaller low-key gigs in venues with a bit of cred (I mean by ‘smaller’, places like the Barras — hardly the back room of a pub) and then going “that’ll be £140 please”.

Jack White brings out Eminem

Look, I’m not anti-toilet break but: “Screening as one film for the first time ever” “There will be a 10 minute interval between the two films”

As someone who loves Suspiria, Blade, Bacurau, Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves etc etc, why is it when I think of Udo Kier this is the first film that comes to mind? What a career and what presence though. RIP.

Ah’m no fae Yoker, I’ve got nae business being here.

Like the world’s coolest tourist, I went to both these places today.

You can definitely count me in the pro-Alpha camp. Many layers to unravel but I was totally immersed. And luckily came with a fascinating, wide-ranging Q&A with Julia Ducournau and Tahar Rahim, at once both touching and with scintillating nuts and bolts technical insights.

I’d absolutely go to a tour of The Killers just singing Warren Zevon songs. youtu.be/tWrdK1MZEW0?...

Me watching Lily Allen on March 2nd, 2026: “Wait, a *what* palace? I thought I was visiting a dojo.”

Oh, he’s beautiful!

How is this city even real? This is walking through the centre just after 9pm on a Friday night.

Off to a solid start in that respect.

Seemed like it was going to be nearly impossible to get Angelfish tickets — amazingly, their first hometown gig! — but somehow managed.

Good week to be a Hyams guy.

A rock solid day of ticket buying.

Tonight I experienced for the first time in many years the thrill of seeing a finished Stewart Lee show without having seen it in various incomplete incarnations beforehand. Absolutely would recommend – especially with this one. Was even lucky enough to get a bonus Glasgow treat.

“Where was the gig you went to tonight, Ross?” “Right there.”

The Allan & Allison double act take to the stage one last time to celebrate the inimitable, inspirational Allison Gardner as she retires from her reign as CEO, making @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social and @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social the most inclusive and community-focused place and event around.

@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social When booking LFF tickets I selected the seats I wanted/needed then saw this. Can we just have the seats we booked? I don’t want to have to get there super early for the right seats at every screening.

Cinemas still putting on screenings of The Room 15 years after it was in the zeitgeist is the lamest shit imaginable.

I went to see Tarkovsky’s Nostalgia at the local indie cinema in Sheffield tonight. The guy who put it on kept checking his phone throughout the showing and even took photos of the screen. We had a chat on Instagram…

If you’d given me a thousand years, I don’t think in my wildest dreams I could have concocted something that sounds less appealing than this.

Fantastic time at the recording of @nicolameighan.bsky.social’s A Kick Up the Arts with Barbara Dickson at @standcomedyclub.bsky.social yesterday. Have been on a Barbara Dickson kick since. If you get a chance to go to the remaining recordings — including with Grant Stott today — absolutely do!

Nia DaCosta speaking honestly but respectfully about her Marvel experience and steadfastly refusing to be drawn too much on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Though she promises her vision is crazy in entirely different ways to that of Danny Boyle’s recent instalment. #EIFF25

Very much enjoying the second annual Edinburgh Thelma Schoonmaker Festival.

Nice try, Plex.

Overjoyed I did get Oasis tickets because three nights of this *FROM INSIDE MY FLAT* 10 minutes from Murrayfield would have been unbearable otherwise.

Believe the hype about Weapons. The layered structure that starts as a slow burn investigative chiller and then blends in elements of John Wyndham, Roald Dahl, the Brothers Grimm and outright comedy, wrapped in modern horror sensibilities, is sublime in a way you rarely see.

Absolutely raging that I just spotted this autocorrected en plein air to en plain air.

Had no faith in the process of getting last-minute production tickets for Oasis at Murrayfield and, even if I did, I was preparing to get cheap restricted view (or even behind stage) seats. But somehow got the face value standing tickets I wanted in the first place a year ago 🙌

You SHALL go to the ball.

Can now cross having seen Brian Cox on stage off my bucket list.

Nice day to be heading west.

AI-written slop slung at me on Facebook with a very funny summary of the circumstances surrounding Oliver Reed’s death in a piece entitled ‘6 Celebrities Who Died During Filming’

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Fun, definitely-not-ominous day out on the Scottish coast

Find yourself a director like Whit Stillman who’ll come out to do a Q&A after a 35mm presentation of one of his films and open by trashing celluloid for poor image and sound, then later move on to criticising over-laughers in the audience. My king.

Nothing beats seeing a song from the sixth instalment of a horror franchise performed live.

As is yearly tradition, picking up @mhairim.bsky.social’s latest becomes one of the highlights of my summer. And in a Manchester-set romance, who could resist a reference to the finest erotic wordsmith the city ever produced?

Still thinking about how All That is the platonic ideal of a perfect song to end a concert with and it feels like it must have been around forever, rather than just 5 years. You were perfect, @sparksofficial.bsky.social

Tonight I saw the face of God.

YASSSS. For a while it looked like it wasn’t going to happen but I’m delighted to say that tomorrow night I’m going to watch a concert by the musicians whose albums I adored in the mid 90s and I can’t quite believe it’s happening.

I’m on Afternoons with @nicolameighan.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland where I’ll be lumbering on just after 3.30pm to roar about dinosaurs, premiers in peril and drama in the sun. Tune in!

Oh hi actual train carriage from Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One now operating as a Thai restaurant in Highland Perthshire.