I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

Electric State merchandise was already on clearance by August, at least in British seaside arcades.

TERRY AND DUNE

The press conference will last a minimum of 12 hours while Cameron reads all 1,000 pages of script. Also, the doors will be locked from the outside. www.avclub.com/james-camero...

Our post-Christmas podcast dissection of F1: Da Movie, in which Brad Pitt cheats and endangers lives on the road to racing victory.

The original script for Ballerina was even more bloodthirsty than this year’s finished film, with a death count of over 1,400... filmstories.co.uk/features/bal...

Cool, we broke Google AI

Making a nice big lasagna. And for a bit of added festive fun, I'm hiding the odd pound coin in between the layers.

Last call for this week's episode. Perfect listening for while you're stuffing your face with Christmas leftovers.

A trending videos box has appeared in my Bluesky feed. Oh no.

I didn't have to wear glasses until I was 30. Within minutes of walking out of the optician's with my first pair, I was walking past a row of houses when someone screamed, "Speccy twat!!" from a first floor window.

Rewatched Die Hard for the umpteenth time and was struck by the last line - "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's" - and it still surprises me that the sequel didn't follow up on that. No Argyle, no NY.

Avoid interacting with your family over the festive period for at least half an hour by listening to this instead...

Elvis was born in Presleyhem

"If I can change, then we can all change! Rooorrrgghhh!" Words so moving that even Gorbachev gave him a standing ovation.

An appropriately nerdy festive haul. Happy Christmas, everyone

DUNGERS: MESSDAY

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

The latest edition of Film Stories magazine, featuring boxing drama Giant, a 16-page Moon making-of special, and lots more, is available now. filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

Eating a packet of crisps.

We're coming for you, Top Gear... (Ok, so they haven't published a new podcast for over a year but still)

It's the Baby Forces Sale Christmas week special, where we celebrate Christmas by barely mentioning Christmas. There is a lot of chat about some old Ford motor cars, though.

HELLDICK

An administration so disorganised and filled with panic that it's still redacting documents after they've been released feels like something Joseph Heller would have come up with.

HELLDICK

If you love movies, history and movie history, watch the documentary Breakdown: 1975 on Netflix. It's ace.

If the assassin off of Kill List had been in this flight, then the strumming would have ended very suddenly.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Durutti Gollum

The world needs more Ezekiel gags like this.

huge wheel shaped thing covered in wings and eyeballs: be not afraid!! me: really gonna need you to sell me on that

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

Interesting to revisit this in light of recent news stories.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

Reading this, it makes it sound a lot like the decision to finally cut ties with the leering creep only happened after his sales dropped.

“Be sure to set me to ‘delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”

"At least fifty quid per bollock. And don't get me started on the price of the bag to keep them in."

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

How Hollywood's nice guy, Rob Reiner, created one of 1990's most talked-about horror moments: filmstories.co.uk/features/mis...

Oh my god. I can't believe I have to wait almost a year before I get to see the full thing.

I dig into the trailer for Spielberg's Disclosure Day, its nods to UFO lore, and its possible parallels with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. filmstories.co.uk/features/dis...

I'm bored so here once again is the greatest Christmas title sequence in TV history

This has everything you need on a poster: a big explosion, a helicopter, and a chimpanzee in a top hat.

I dig into the trailer for Spielberg's Disclosure Day, its nods to UFO lore, and its possible parallels with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. filmstories.co.uk/features/dis...

This is interesting. The version doing the rounds at my school was: Jingle bells Batman smells Robin flew away Wonder Woman lost her bra On the M1 motorway

When's-a your Disclosure Day?

SILHOUETTES ARE BACK

Yes please Mr Spielberg.