"He had broad shoulders and this incredible thick neck, and, and blue eyes so deep you wanted to bathe in them and... no, YOU'RE gay"

My favourite verse in the New Testament is when the disciples marvel at Jesus’s shredded abs but not in a gay way

The national treasure:

Pick up the latest issue of @filmstories.bsky.social and relive the summer blockbuster showdown of 1991 with an epic smackdown between Terminator 2, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, and Hudson Hawk. store.filmstories.co.uk

I dreamed that the latest manosphere trend was to believe that every true man has a guitar hidden in the walls of his house. Lots of videos came out where guys were tearing their walls apart looking for the secret guitars of men

Wrote this about Microsoft's vandalism of the games industry - all so it can shovel more money on the AI bonfire.

Still locked today

Wrote this about Microsoft's vandalism of the games industry - all so it can shovel more money on the AI bonfire.

In a world where Generative AI is stealing hard working journalism do something. Sign up to a print magazine like Film Stories. Give your money to someone who works for their art. Thanks to @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social for the tip off. Looking forward to reading my first issue.

This is absolutely hilarious. Vin Diesel implies he's on the set of Fast Forever, when in fact he's making an ad for the World Cup. Top flight trolling. filmstories.co.uk/news/fast-fo...

The creepy doll thing from Dario Argento's Deep Red! Fun fact: the original prop was created by Carlo 'E.T.' Rambaldi.

Wildcat on Amazon Prime. Cockney heist comedy thriller thingy with some of the most jaw-dropplingly forced dialogue I've heard since... War Of The Worlds on Amazon Prime. Bravo.

Yeah but he pretends to like ale which means he's just like us common folk.

A Scanner Darkly is 20 years old today. To mark the occasion, I spoke to Richard Linklater, producer Tommy Pallotta and its lead animators to find out how they made a cult sci-fi classic. Exclusively in Film Stories magazine: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...

Good god would it be amazing if this backfired on him.

A Scanner Darkly is 20 years old today. To mark the occasion, I spoke to Richard Linklater, producer Tommy Pallotta and its lead animators to find out how they made a cult sci-fi classic. Exclusively in Film Stories magazine: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...

Unless Farage has announced that he's quitting so he can spend more time flying light aircraft, I'm not interested.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Richard Linklater is but one filmmaker who’s tried to adapt Philip K Dick’s Ubik. There’s still a small chance that a movie version might emerge… filmstories.co.uk/news/ubik-th...

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

This is the inherent problem with Capitalism: Hyper Turbo Edition - simply making a profit is never enough.

New issue of Film Stories is very, very good. Great articles on A Scanner Darkly, the music of 2001, T2, Roger Deakins, David Koepp, Spielberg + more. @filmstories.bsky.social @ryanlambie.bsky.social @filmsonwax.bsky.social

Another happy customer!

Thoughts and prayers for the gen-AI users frustrated at the rising cost of tokens...

Independence Day came out in US cinemas on this day in 1996. Here's the story behind its exploding White House - a shot that made studio execs rather nervous: filmstories.co.uk/news/indepen...

Happy 40th to Salamander / Life Force 👾 ⁌ ⁌ ⁌ ⁌ €

If you missed our evening with legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, fear not: you can still read our in-depth interview in the latest Film Stories magazine - and with our special bundle deal, get a signed copy of his new book. Order yours here: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...

imagine becoming a serious print journalist in the 90s thinking you'll just have to publish one piece a week without any real pushback and now you have to be on video all the time doing ad reads for ball shavers and VPNs with like ten thousand people hating on you

Writings from me on the parallels between Steven Spielberg's A.I. and this year's Obsession.

It's... it's art. A true work of art.

I wrote this.

The animated classic Kiki's Delivery Service is to screen in UK IMAX cinemas - the first in a planned string of Studio Ghibli re-releases. filmstories.co.uk/news/studio-...

It's the oil rig workers I feel sorry for filmstories.co.uk/news/the-int...

I find it horribly difficult, even embarrassing, to promote my own stuff, even after doing the same job for 16 years. Bah.

Writings from me on the parallels between Steven Spielberg's A.I. and this year's Obsession.

A fast, antique Volvo! Another crap Chrysler! All this and more in the world's finest podcast about cars for sale on Facebook.

Never in doubt

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

After Cannibal Holocaust, the survivors moved to Nuneaton.

After Cannibal Holocaust, the survivors moved to Nuneaton.

Another excellent article. In a similar vein, the story of how the script for a movie called Nottingham ended up as Ridley Scott's Robin Hood is grimly fascinating.

In the early 90s, a pair of students wrote a spec script, Last Action Hero - and watched as it morphed into an infamous Hollywood flop... filmstories.co.uk/features/las...

I honestly don't know what Google's endgame is with this approach. If websites cease to get enough visitors, they shut down. The fewer websites left, the less data there is for Google to steal. Eventually, it'll be repurposing Reddit posts as fact and nothing else (which it already does - a lot).

Looks as though Elon Musk will be beaten to Mars by a much smaller cockroach

And it's out... amzn.to/4v3Gzrw

My wizened, pathetic brain

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

Omg www.vinted.co.uk/items/927614...

It's my daughter's sixth birthday today. She spotted Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was on TV and said she wanted to watch a bit of it. I've never seen her so captivated by a film. I'll never forget the look on her face when the first alien ship appeared. Absolute astonishment.