A source familiar with lunch

Revisiting the comparative text this evening (Anthony Mann’s greatest film)

Just fyi

Watched some Father Ted with my old man last night. Good times

Have said this before, but once when I had surgery the ICU nurse had learned English as a second language & kept using "perv" to mean "look" eg "my colleagues and I will need a quick perv under those bandages" "let's have a perv how you're healing" etc

His performance was absolutely incredible. It's stayed with me all these years later.

I'm obviously rewatching it tonight. It's such a performance, especially that first episode. That coiled anger, horror, sadness, hatred. Feels like he barely says a dozen lines of dialogue and yet you still end up feeling like you know every thought he's had since he was born. A masterclass.

Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...

There’s a sign inside saying ‘Gin O’clock’

Hovis advert going hard (Illustrated London News, 1896)

So much of the centrist approach to politics has devolved into "How do we trick people into supporting us like the right has done?" where talking sincerely about policies that might help ordinary people's lives is for naïve schmucks who don't understand the glorious theatre of it all

sorry I've added a "Controversy" section to your wikipedia article while you were asleep

These are all really good ideas and I think he should do them all.

Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.

5 November 1960: The death of Mack Sennett. The birth of Tilda Swinton.

you guys have GOT to watch the whole thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

Centrists have unfortunately already decided what lesson we must take from Mamdani: he is good at social media.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

His delivery of "LEAVE IT!" at the coroner's, after nearly a whole episode of stony silence is etched in my mind.

Just watched Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451… and KEVIN ELDON is in it!

It's an incredible performance. So much of it is internalised, yet you feel his agony, his unassuaged grief. It's almost unbearable as a viewer, never mind actually *acting* that.

Soot-Covered Prince Andrew Begging On Street For Child To Molest https://theonion.com/soot-covered-prince-andrew-begging-on-street-for-child-to-molest/

Rewatching Edge of Darkness. Doesn’t get any better than this, does it? Ferociously strange but utterly rooted.

How is this not profoundly libellous

For the new @theskinnymag.bsky.social, I met director Julia Ducournau (TITANE, RAW) and actor Tahar Rahim to discuss their heightened family drama ALPHA and the logistics behind the fear-driving, fantastical epidemic that haunts its characters. Issue available across Scotland now.

She doesn’t sound very aloof

Can’t see anyone in these two images.

Stanley Cortez literally hiring a circus strongman to carry the camera for the shot he needs in The Magnificent Ambersons:

I love David Beckham far more even than the next man but come on m8

Rewatching this on iPlayer (even though I own it on BluRay - shut up) and it is always funnier, darker and more abstract and ambitious than I remember. It’s not perfect but it’s partly the imperfections that make it beautiful and unique.

Wow it gets worse. The journalistic end of days.

The Mamdani case shows again how hard it is to get elected on a genuinely left-wing platform. Billionaires, and those that work for them, will throw everything at you – money, smears, racist scaremongering – whatever it takes, and usually that works. Just occasionally it doesn’t.

I got this with Gemini.

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I sometimes get that train back from Peterborough on a Saturday, which shouldn’t ofc make the blindest bit of difference but because I’m a human obviously does. Some scary shit

Amateur Bluesky theorists complain about common tropes in film and TV but overlook the huge amount of pleasure to be derived from a film that cuts from a For Rent sign to a shot of Zachary Scott with a suitcase.

The four words that every man wants to hear

“The joke has only begun” (beautifully ad-libbed) is the defining line of this year. 🙏🏼

This is beyond grotesque. Another young journalism who treats the lives of minorities as a game. I know plenty of people who still hang out with this guy – I can't respect that as a decision when he's publicly gloating about further stigmatising disabled people.

I see—and feel— the hope that this campaign generates and its truly thrilling

My hot take about Starmer is that a man’s reputation should never recover from the fact that another man buys his trousers for him.

Remember watching culloden in school. Stunning piece of telly,

What a talent. What a loss. Simply one of our greatest: a true visionary who changed what was possible within cinema, and popular culture more broadly.

‘It’s An Adequate Life’

Perhaps the Frenchest thing I’ve ever seen, from the adultery set-up to the bobbed hair to the understated FIN. Whack it in a triple bill with 7th Heaven (1927) and Big City (1937) of films where taxi drivers flock to the rescue, to the detriment of the film. Starts well, runs out of steam. Bof.

‘Uncle Billy, did you deposit that money?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Great - thanks.’

The only reason to watch this is if you’re going to die in 108 minutes’ time

Bootlicking extravaganza on The News Agents today, save for Lewis

McCartney always says "group" even now. I think it might have become associated with big arena acts like the Stones, which is why "band" came to replace it in the punk/indie era? Maybe?

Normalise referring to bands as ‘groups’ like it’s 1966 again band – comrades as automatons, presumably making a horrible generic racket group – a loose collective of mysterious intent, why are they grouping, what do they want, perhaps to run a zippo down their strings at the front of the UFO Club