Once the powerful woman in Hollywood and then ghosted from film and cultural history: Mary C. McCall Jr. , 3x president of the Screen Writers Guild (now WGAW). Screenwriter. Feminist. Blacklisted. 🎂 With Dorothy Arzner,1936. #skystorians #filmsky #WomenFilmmakers #Hollywood #screenwriter

Once the powerful woman in Hollywood and then ghosted from film and cultural history: Mary C. McCall Jr. , 3x president of the Screen Writers Guild (now WGAW). Screenwriter. Feminist. Blacklisted. 🎂 With Dorothy Arzner,1936. #skystorians #filmsky #WomenFilmmakers #Hollywood #screenwriter

Happy St George’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Grace O'Malley-Kumar's belongings were thrown out by Nottingham University after she was murdered by paranoid schizophrenic This isn't a failure of process -- it's a failure of humanity Universities must set clear standards of conduct & ethics to staff nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

Times obituary of theatre entrepreneur Robert Fox: he died..."at home looking out to his flower-filled garden on a glorious spring afternoon". You can't ask for better than that when it's time to go.

Alain Delon on the set of "Doucement les basses", 1971. #AlainDelonn #Delon #film

The same hunt that killed Mini the cat!! www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

And today’s top stories…. #armageddon #bbc

Every Sunday evening.

My happy place.

In the UK, the House of Lords (also called Peers 🤔) voted to pardon women who had already been convicted of illegal abortion and to expunge police records of those arrested. This comes after the gov't decriminalized women in June. The anti-choice movement is furious women can't be jailed anymore.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Save the UK Greenbelt from another US data centre: c.org/WBF4kmtv66 #banAI #fuckEquinix #greenbelt

Bill Evans by Roberto Polillo, 1965.

Michael Caine with 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers, A Platoon, C Company and at the 70th anniversary of the Korean War ceasefire. And playing Gonville Bromhead, VC, in Zulu. This year’s birthday film: The Whistle Blower (1986). 💝✌️🎂

« There is, she says, a small but reasonable chance that your boss is a psychopath, given that people with dark personality traits are over-represented in senior management. » 👇🤔

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), French painter, obtained a police permit to wear "men's clothes' as expected female fashions were so restrictive. She was so popular that girls were given dolls dressed in trousers to mimic Rosa’s unconventional style #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such a transgenerational link has been clearly established.

Celebrate Her Story this #WomensHistoryMonth. Discover the women who reshaped history—from diplomat Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to seismologist Inge Lehmann, from Lucy Diggs Slowe’s fight for equity to Mary C. McCall Jr.’s Hollywood power plays—and more. buff.ly/A2XI2HS #HerStory #WomenInHistory #STEM

#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it. Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood 🗃️

´I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it’s not that easy. Acting is what’s easy.’ —David Niven #BOTD 💖 🎥 🎂#FilmSky #writers

Petition · Stop the Proposed #TrumpTower Development on the #GoldCoast - Australia 🇦🇺 www.change.org/p/stop-the-p...

Used to be irritated the Criterion Collection snubbed Fred Zinnemann’s films (the only one of his they’ve reproed is REDES and he’s only got a codirector cred for that). But this 👇 makes me think he’d be fine with not being part of the ‘brand’… #Zinnemann #FilmCanons variety.com/2026/film/ne...

🧑‍🎨🎂“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.” Happy Birthday, Edward Gorey, who was never boring.

Some great, clear and accessible guidance is now available on how you can respond to the Government's open consultation on the BBC Charter Review. If the BBC matters to you then please get involved. The closing date is 10 March. britishbroadcastingchallenge.com

If you can see ALL MY SONS at Wyndham’s in London, go. It closes on Bryan Cranston’s 70th birthday. He, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the rest of the cast are phenomenal.

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/...

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.

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.