Frederick Wiseman showed us the world and its institutions in all their cruelty and humanity. A prolific and essential documentarian, he will be missed. RIP, 1930-2026

Young Dirk Bogarde.

I’ve seen two TikTok’s this week with authors saying “I have to promote my book or no one buys it, sorry for being annoying” and I feel like it’s a good day to echo that sentiment.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

When does this madness end?! endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/investigat...

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fellowship Opportunity! Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

Remembering Jean Muir, actress and educator, #BOTD in 1911. Blacklisted because of her support for feminist and civil rights groups… Here she is as Helena in ´A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1935), adapted by her friend Mary McCall Jr.

Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

The Border Patrol agents lied. They always lie. And they lie to destroy other people's lives for fun. www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

The misogyny in that diseased, rotten country knows no bounds. 👇

Read our latest article - protectthewild.substack.com/p/protesters...

Save the Colonel. He’s been served with an ASBO/ Noise Abatement Order for crowing— thanks to a neighbour’s anonymous complaint. Consider signing this petition to stop South Norfolk Council persecuting him and his owner. 👇👇 c.org/gKchYNFKMQ

What when drunk, one sees in other men, one sees in Ronald Colman sober. #FilmSky 🎂

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

Every Sunday evening.

PIPE DREAM Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons in the Soviet (Lenfilm) Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, 1981). Probably the coolest Mrs Lyons in any filmed version of Sherlock Holmes' most well-known novel.

‘Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world.’ — James Dean Except when the actor is with his dog. Dean and Tuck, 1955.

Masterful filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer was born on 3 February 1889. Single frames from his films speak to us.

I’m introducing another generation of students to JULIA (1977) today… I love you, Vanessa! Happy birthday! 🥳 #Redgrave #Fonda #Zinnemann #AlvinSargent #LillianHellman #Julia

AI is killing the arts, academia, literature, music, photography, film and the internet. I wholeheartedly detest it.

‘A Room of One’s Own’ with my favourite actress Eileen Atkins as Virginia Woolf— from 1991. Like many feminist film and television productions, it is difficult to find on DVD these days… m.youtube.com/watch?v=NFxr...

Says the man who has spent his whole life killing animals and said he'd leave the country if fox hunting was banned.

’Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.

This is Alex Pretti.

As Holocaust Memorial Day approaches in Britain… #HMD2026 #WindermereChildren Holocaust survivor: I would leave Britain if I still had my youth www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

Tom Baker and John Leeson with fans during "The Stones of Blood". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

📣 Call for Papers! Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library. Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners. Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Deadline: 29 March 2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

(REPOST due to low res photo) Today is Rutger Hauer’s birthday! He would have been 82 years old. He is very much missed here, but his legacy endures. 🎥 🎬 Jan. 23, 1944 - July 19, 2019 #rutgerhauer #celebritybirthdays #filmsky #moviesky #actorsky

When your birthday is on a Wednesday and you have to go to work and have nothing to wear… Paul Scofield, actor, #BOTD, who made a leather coat over silk pyjamas look good. 🖤

📣 SAVE LIVERPOOL STREET STATION! 🚂 If you haven’t objected to Network Rail and Acme’s plans since June 2025 you still have time ⏳ 💻 Even if you signed the petition to Save Liverpool St Station on change.org, you must please go online to make your objection on the City of London planning portal 🧵

GO GO GO! SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Happy Birthday, Timeless One. 💝 #TomBaker

60 years ago #OTD, Paul Scofield was bringing down the house in Gogol’s stage comedy ‘The Government Inspector’. Paul was a great comic actor, but these days we tend to remember him for his more serious film roles… #RSC #PeterHall #Scofield

"We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink." Albert Camus. (Photo by Loomis Dean)

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Happy Birthday, January 13, since 1905.

“Do you know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes look like, they're still the same, piss-holes in the snow.” #BornOnThisDay British star Ian Hendry (1931-1984) seen here in the great British gangster film Get Carter (1971). #BOTD #FilmNoir #NeoNoir

Another cheerful read for 2026. 🤫Why you may never have a private conversation again www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3060b17...

if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Actor Paul Scofield with his best friend. He turned down million-pound film roles with David Lean to spend quality time with Diggory. ♥️ #2026goals #work-lifebalance #dogs

I love Ricky Gervais youtube.com/shorts/1rmIo...

Time for the Graham Greene Cocktail to celebrate Carol Reed’s birthday. 🍸

RIP #BrigitteBardot 🕊️🖤

I thought I'd had enough of 2025, but there's a lovely review by Emilie Raymond of my 'captivating biography' of screenwriter and labour leader Mary C. McCall Jr in the latest issue of the JAH (@oah.org). academic.oup.com/jah/article-... @columbiaup.bsky.social

Five-star #DoctorWho... You could watch an omnibus edition of Genesis of the Daleks #OTD 50 years ago. Photos of Michael Wisher as Davros and Tom Baker as the Doctor taken by Don Smith in February 1975 for @radiotimes.bsky.social www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...

We need your help to become a CiC (community interest company) We’d love to provide mindful & educational programmes & raise money for sanctuary land Do you know anyone who could support us in fundraising for the start-up costs? gofund.me/327a6dea0 Thank you 💚 #rescueanimals #animalsanctuary