This was so, so, SO good. Like into my top 20 films of all time good. I don't even like Neil Diamond but this was GOOD. Plus, I had an extra large popcorn and sat in my favourite seat. 😃

Our tree fell over, smashing three of six rare, old and emotionally significant baubles we always carefully place on the tree. I'm going to be positive and say at least three have survived... 😭😭😭

Victoria Coren Michell's attempt to host Only Connect in boxing gloves is really tickling me.

Panto time...

Had a job interview. Was having a bad week. F*cked the interview. Interviewers were great, and really tried to coax a good performance out of me but I still f*ckd it. Not surprisingly, I didnt get the post. Decided Im going to make mince pies, watch a movie and get festively sozzled.

Bingo

Furry friend

I love this town. Of course Santa is driving round on a disco fire engine...

In case you were wondering how that ceasefire was going… Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today We will never forget.

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

Sunday dinner

One of my favourite things about the run up to xmas is me & my brother spotting, photographing & sending one another pictures of VERY heavily decorated houses. We affectionately call it 'tacky wrongness' I'm not keeping up my end at the minute... I need to find some. This is what he's sent me. 😍

Very pleased to be introducing a screening of the 4k restoration of this classic at the Phoenix cinema in Leicester on the 27th. #imreadyformycloseup

Furry friend

A couple new @newbeverly.bsky.social Halloween shirts! Can be ordered online here: district.net/newbeverly

Lovely end to the week, working with Philippa, the Widening Participation team and a whole bunch of really energetic and engaged year 11 students, discussing genre and narrative and then pitching horror films. 🎃 👻 🎬

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

@mrjamesob.bsky.social presumably youve seen that you can now buy these beauties on etsy?

Pleased myself all day. Paddling, ice cream, and reading in the sun. Lovely.

Bratmobile at The Belasco

El Coyote

Research ready...

Double bill (before phones were turned OFF)at @newbeverly.bsky.social

Monarch butterflies EVERYWHERE!

Market strolling

Harvesting, ready to go visit family

Went to the Tail O'the Pup (of LA Story fame and one of the last remaining 'ducks' in the city) and then on, through a *secret door,* (squeals with excitement) to the glorious Lucky Tiki cocktail bar. #LA

Excited for the roundtable discussion with the curators of the upcoming #Jaws exhibition at @academymuseum.bsky.social ##HWC2025 #Hollywood

Katherine Fusco's paper on Hal Roach's female comedy duos. #HWC2025 #hollywood #filmstudies

Really enjoyed Noura Alaboudi's paper on the accusations of communism made against Hazel Scott and Lena Horne #HWC2025 #hollywood #filmstudies

Huge auditorium (we are sat half way into the room) and a packed audience for the 75th anniversary 4k restoration of Sunset Boulevard. Exciting stuff. I'm ready for my close-up... #THC2025 #Hollywood

#hollywoodconference kicked off with 3 SUPERB panels...

Convo with aca friends re what academic conferences should offer included: 🎓pool party 🎓Karaoke and/or disco 🎓nap room with gong bath 🎓bouncy castle or trampoline 🎓plant/seed exchange 🎓Crochet/crafting/lego corner 🎓creche, obviously. Any other suggestions?

Day 1 #DWFTH. Shelley Stamp: Female Audiences and The Noir Aesthetic Dimini Kulkarni: 'Cinema Reception as History: Women Audiences in Early Post-Independence India' Monia Acciari: “Waste” that matters. Pictures in the gravel and Bottom-up histories of women entrepreneur in peripheral India.

Wrote a piece for the THE

This was me, my Grandpa & my Grandma at my graduation. Having a degree entirely changed my life & prospects. I didn't think a degree was for the likes of me. I didn't understand it. I didn't know what a seminar was, or a First. But once I got onto the course (a miracle in itself) I realised...

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What is this madness? Turns out they are delicious!

There was a time when I checked in on the Edinburgh Zoo penguin cam every day. Then they stopped the live cam. Imagine my joy when today, I discovered it has been reinstated. www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/animals/webc...

Glorious weather today for a solo stroll by the sea

Our friends at the BFI are creating an archive of online videos – from the dawn of the internet to today. If you have something you’d like to recommend or submit, you can do so here:   www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-national...

A pair of buzzards over the allotment and my fellow digger. Glorious. Just glorious. 😍

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... It's the Rocky Horror Picture Show/The Room all over again! Not fun to clean up after, but clearly great fun to be part of. Cinemas are struggling in the wake of streaming. They often look to offer experiences, maybe this is worth the carnage?

This run of nice weather is making it very hard to get my marking done.