A #Pointless round today. "Actors who have played Doctor Who villains". #DoctorWho

James Bond producers: "we can't do another bond film! he died in the last one! audiences will be confused!!" Rian Johnson:

The lads are looking for ways to explain the damning case against the BBC is 99% witless drivel, created by roaring wingnut cranks for the consumption of other wingnut cranks, but that’s not easy when all your colleagues have insisted saying so about these issues is unacceptable

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

TRIVIA CHALLENGE: The state funerals of three crowned monarchs of England occurred during Elizabeth II's lifetime. Who are they? #trivia #quiz

Again, not to go on about ai but I have a few thoughts. 1. I've genuinely never seen an actual creative get excited about using it. Someone who has actually made something before. Its people from marketing and finance backgrounds getting excited about a false sensation of making something.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

SILENCE WILL FALL WHEN THE QUESTION IS ASKED. THE FIRST QUESTION. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. THE QUESTION YOU'VE BEEN RUNNING FROM ALL YOUR LIFE:

Happy I got to write more stuff for Film Stories Magazine this year, and on such a wide and wacky range of movies... @filmstories.bsky.social

Spent most of today writing about this and James just... posted it!

Rightwingers are not 'forced to pay for the BBC'. But lefties really are forced to pay for nuclear weapons, religious schools and the royal family.

Zadie Smith.

◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit ◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley ◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas ...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

Last night's film - The Running Man. If this was edited like any other Edgar Wright film, it would be half an hour shorter and better for it. But then this is more of a cheeky action thriller than a comedy, which is fine, and even fun sometimes, but the self-serious third act is a slog.

At one point Michael Flatley (playing retired spy Victor Blackley) takes off one jauntily angled hat only to be handed another. This to me is cinema.

I see the centrists are having their wallets inspected by Wesley this morning

I am too tired and it is still too early in the morning to see that Wrong Buzz Lightyear-looking prick on BBC Breakfast smirking about The Traitors while promising he's doesn't even wanna be the next cunt who makes everything worse just before everything gets REALLY bad. It will always be too early.

All the big journo politics podcasts are like this: every now and then they’ll say something completely uncontroversial within their own circles that sounds insane to listeners, because the atmosphere is - we’re down the pub with our mates.

massive blazing foghorn noise to make sure everyone knows that Benediction – Terence Davies' final film, one of the best of the decade so far, not available to buy in any physical format beyond DVD anywhere except France for some reason – is up on iPlayer for a full year

…and James Bond, who did not die!’

What we’ve done is create a kind of Wanker’s Veto where nothing good or useful can ever happen, because MPs and the press will unite and destroy it. So the only things that will ever succeed even temporarily are projects that nobody likes or wants, except for said MPs and media figures.

suddenly finding out a lot of people are apparently emotionally invested in james bond. same thing happened on twitter ten years ago with wrestling. no one it gets harder to trust people every day.

"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together." – Kev Starmer, May 2025

"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"

I must not James Bond discourse. James Bond discourse is the mind killer. James Bond discourse is the little death that brings total obliteration.

NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right… Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...

Having attended 'a few' pub quizzes over a number of tears, and having written and ran them during student days, this properly irks me. It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.

Can only hear people claiming "Everyone's going back to Twitter" as Will Ferrell yelling "We're going streaking" in Old School.

One time in the gents at Isaac's in Boro, a bloke was pissing into the corner urinal, facing the wall like the end of Blair Witch, loudly chuntering: "WHOTHEFUCK IS IDRIS ELBA? NOT MY JAMES BOND! NOT MY BOND!" Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢

It's really weird that Casino Royale (1967) takes the piss out of there being multiple agents all called James Bond ("even the girls") two years before they recast the part for the first time. There are many reasons that film fails as a comedy, but in that sole regard, a bit prescient?

Fun fact: They never made that third Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law because there was no way to get Holmes and Watson back to Victorian London after they lived in 2010s London and looked like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. It would confuse the audience.

There is a moment in all of Moore's post Moonraker films, where Bond stops and thinks "Was I really in space? No, I can't have been in space. Fuck me, I was, I was in fucking space!"

It's actually worse than this - Prescott tried to argue that the BBC had inappropriately hidden the fact that a Trans woman in pro wrestling had been part of storylines where she "won" trophies against other women - a fictional sport he treated as if it was real.

lol at "I wouldn't be able to do it." I will get Bond out of that predicament with two lines of dialogue a la X-Men. "Weren't you dead?" "I got better." Done. Give me $250k.

Insane that anyone pretends like the James Bond from all the way back in Dr No is the one who died. I blame Skyfall.

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

doing my bit to combat the gender pay gap by bringing down the men's average

Heads up! David Lean's first film In Which We Serve (co-directed by and starring Noël Coward) is on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon (and hopefully iPlayer thereafter), and it is a *belter*. Been watching a lot of WW2 films this year and this is one of the very best. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

I wish I was in more of a position at the moment to celebrate this, but I think I'm still allowed to be a little bit chuffed. Film Stories has got to 500 episodes... filmstories.co.uk/film-stories...

The point is Panorama should have quoted Trump in full: "Look, we just have to accept it. I lost the election. This was a fair result, Biden won, and we must now have a peaceful transfer of power. You should all go home. I don't even know what you're all doing here. I certainly didn't invite you."

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

Me, giggling like a goblin, strapping myself into the BBC Boss chair, commissioning non-celeb sitcom & sketch show after another. High concept narrative comedies by women! 100 shows with writers rooms! Tell whatever celeb blokes are doing a travel show they can make their own way back from Bordeaux!

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

My BBC DG manifesto. 1. CBeebies and CBBC to get two hours on BBC1, from 4 to 6pm so old people get to see something that isn’t about property or tat in the attic. Because not everything has a price, Auntie Joan.

Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world. Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.

Whatever project is going on to undermine the BBC or why, there's a realy opportunity now to replace the hideous Tim Davie with a progressive and socially responsible director general. There's no reason a public service broadcaster should be anything less. Give us a BBC that serves not panders.