Director Iain Softley and Fisher “The Plague” Stevens on stage at the @princecharlescinema.com last night for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers

In a packed @princecharlescinema.com waiting for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers!

Holy hooting heck - 30 years today since this baby was released into the world. This is where my career in feature film VFX began. Hack the planet!!!

It's the 30th anniversary of Hackers - the mighty @princecharlescinema.com screens the movie on Thursday 18th Sept, with an in-person intro by director Iain Softley. 35mm sold out, but still tix for the digital screening. My first feature film VFX job! princecharlescinema.com/film/6780863...

Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR orbits back to the PCC from Fri 19th Sep on 70mm. Few films demand the grandeur of celluloid quite like this one: a sweeping voyage across galaxies, black holes, and the limits of human endurance. 🎟️ : tinyurl.com/f5w59x96

SHOWING TODAY 🎞️ - PSYCHO - EASY RIDER - TWO-LANE BLACKTOP - THE TOXIC AVENGER UNCUT - DREAMS - VANISHING POINT - UN FLIC - THIS IS SPINAL TAP princecharlescinema.com

@dirkmaggs.bsky.social lovely to find you on here, Dirk!

The deep 3D animator geek within me (actually not that deep) wants to point out that this is a dodecahedron, not a tetrahedron

So I was turned on to the smart Apple TV series Murderbot by my friend David Dastmalchian, who's in it, and found it to be a bright spot in current sci-fi programming. It's very clever and unique and well worth a visit. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEio...

Long day at the Vfx coal face. Winding down with TNG’s The Measure of a Man and a glass of wine. What an episode - @melindas.bsky.social wrote a truly brilliant script and the cast knocked it out of the park and into orbit. Pretty soon this is going to be reality.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

The London A to Z. Before the internet/smartphones *everyone* carried one with them. Mine would slowly disintegrate in the bottom of my bag, requiring an annual replacement.

Post a kick-ass woman! (The brilliant Tove Jansson)

After a busy week for us, #SundayMorning has crept up on me unexpectedly! Here's our usual start to the day: this is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. The subject of the painting was Corporation Buildings. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums.

Godzilla 1954 sketch for a painting. Idea would show blue radiation in cracks, and trilobites, etc and wreckage.

THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

This is soooo good - a must watch for fans of classic British TV horror, and anyone who appreciates great writing and a stellar cast.

What's beyond a supermassive black hole? Say hello to the "stupendously large black hole" - 200 billion solar masses. There's not enough boggle left in my mind for this.

Sky at Night - BBC 4 tonight at 21.50 - celebrates the 350th birthday of Royal Observatory Greenwich, and we get to talk about time and black holes. It's genuinely a great episode - please watch. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I've discovered a nifty way to add camera shake to clips in Premiere without all that messing around in AfterEffects, and now I'm going crazy making all my animatics look handheld - wish I'd know about this years ago.

I see a lot of miseryguts comments in my timeline about the Doctor Who finale. I had a joyous time watching it last night with my (big) kids in a packed Leicester Square cinema. Anyway, somebody sent me this - I guess it was inevitable.

As an aside, London has a murder rate of approximately 1.1 per 100,000 people per year, which is why it isn't on the table

As it would be the birthday of #PeterCushing today, I feel obligated to tell this story of one of the nicest men in horror.

Was rooting through my photo library, came across some images from the miniature stage on The Dark Knight Rises. 1/5th scale Bane's Lair + Tumbler at New Deal's old Marina del Rey facility, January 2012. We used the miniature for the shot when Bane blows the charges and the Tumbler drops through.

Want a Dugga Doo? My Katy is handmaking and painting these little guys to order, from lightweight air drying clay. £5 UK inc postage and packaging. DM me if you want one! #DoctorWho

We've had a few days away during the past week, so it has taken me a while to realise what day it is, but I have concluded that it must be #SundayMorning ! So, here's "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929 from the collection at Brighton Museums #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup

At De Martino in Fitzrovia, London, celebrating Dickie Bain's VFX BAFTA win for Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 2!

As well as his powerhouse performance as Darius Jedburgh in Edge of Darkness, Joe Don Baker played a baddie in The Living Daylights and was back for more - this time as a goodie - in Goldeneye & Tomorrow Never Dies, threatening to overwhelm Bond with charisma on every occasion.

This is such great interview with Shirley Manson - inspirational.

BBC Radio 6 Music Journeys In Sound Shirley Manson of Garbage shares the songs that have sound-tracked her life and how her experiences and emotions are woven into her own music.

One for @rogerhighfield.bsky.social :-)

Hell's bells! From the savagery of the rabbits to the grim squalor of Dickie Attenborough's serial killer and so much more - that is one serious downer of a film season, the perfect antidote to the joys of summer!

Spacecraft hits asteroid part 2

Spacecraft hits asteroid

Delighted to discover that Amazon Prime in the UK has both seasons of the original Outer Limits, in a beautiful HD restoration

The moon tonight

Watching the London marathon get started out on Blackheath this morning.

I love this man

When Ludwig Wittgenstein said "If a lion could talk, we could not understand him" he obviously hadn't seen The Lion King. Happy birthday Ludwig 🎂 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

Interesting article on how the tariff war is affecting US to Asia shipping. Learnt a new term: “blank sailings” splash247.com/scale-of-bla...

Sinners is an absolute blast - don’t walk out on the credits. Half the cinema (including the twit texting all the way through next to me) missed the payoff scene.

Crikey! Imagine this showing up at the bird feeder in the morning. (Yes, yes, I know that pterosaurs weren’t the ancestors of modern birds).

First trip through the new Silvertown Tunnel on the (also new) electric Superloop bus.

Repost with a photo of seafront/shoreline/beach that you took.

Just watched Children of Men again - still astonishing. That film just gets more and more relevant with each passing year.

London today, Tate Modern 2 blazing in the sun between the clouds

Great day at the @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social reviewing the new MA courses.

HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!

The days of "Don't be evil" are long gone. Youtube removes "gender identity" as a protected status and allows people to call trans people mentally ill.