‘It’s a heist movie’ ‘Makes Derek Zoolander look smart & self-deprecating’ ‘Like a documentary following Eva Braun looking sad as Hitler invades Poland’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Mark Kermode for PM!

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Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Today is Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau (Mary's Festival of the Candles), which is celebrated on Candlemas Day in Wales. 🕯️ Marking the gradual change from winter to spring, people lit candles, and in some homes, "every pane in the kitchen was illuminated in this way." #candlemas #wales

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Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus 💞 Here's a blogpost about Welsh tokens of love 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "The heart is the universal symbol of love... It is a sign of passion and strong emotion which surely signifies the carver’s depth of feeling for his beloved." museum.wales/blog/1894/Lo... #Wales

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Feedback opportunity for UK writers, opening in March (get that script ready now!)

Spent the night in a windowless hotel room in that there London and guys, it’s like being incarcerated in a tomb with air con and toilet facilities Also the worst breakfast I’ve had in ages

lil palette cleanser, from incredible animator India Rose Crawford www.youtube.com/shorts/GkZL4...

Nation Cymru has been named Online News Site of the Year in the Wales Media Awards for 2025 ✍️ Martin Shipton

Gee, who could have predicted that the lying machine would create more work, not less….

Llongyfarchiadau congratulations @nation.cymru for winning the Online News Site Of The Year at #WMA2026 Wales Media Awards

Oh hello, THE ICE TOWER is now available to stream on the BFI Player along with Hadžihalilović's 2015 film EVOLUTION, if you fancy a double-bill both eerie and strange...

The curated version of ‘Welshness’, framed through woodland, ritual, and a promise of depth, feels generous and narrowing at the same time. At its core, the problem is this: Welshness is not misunderstood. It is enjoyed in ways that prevent encounter ✍️ Llinos Anwyl

Further Mari Lwyd action this morning with their appearance at the Gellionnen Chapel Hen Galan (Old New Year) Service, as the Gwaun Valley residents resisted the calendar change of 1752 from Julien to Gregorian. Happy New Year again..!

I’m making my original artwork and sketches for The Woman in Black available to purchase in February. Come back in * FEBRUARY *

a sun dog (parhelion) today in the sparkling snow at Frognerseteren, Oslo - one of the most stunning things I’ve ever seen 🌅❄️ a bright spot of light that looks like a second sun caused by sunlight reflecting through ice crystals

Can any #knitters #wool experts help me identify this yarn please? Was from my late mum’s knitting bag and I’d like to get some more to knit a scarf to remind me of her

STREET OF CROCODILES (1986): Startling, terrifying stop-motion animation by the Brothers Quay, loosely based upon the short story by Polish writer Bruno Schultz. Channel 4 aired it in one of their animation strands and it blew my mind.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

This terrible news for female directors, the wider industry and for female stories and representation on screen AND behind the scenes. Women and girls make up 51% of the world population and yet aren’t given the same equivalence within the film/TV industry. Frankly, that’s archaic.

Janet Marrett Screenwriter Director reel vimeo.com/722474071

Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM

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Really interesting article touching on things I think about almost daily as someone trying to make work in both Welsh & English Diddorol iawn, diolch @henbapurnewydd.bsky.social

Blwyddyn newydd dda! #NewYear’sDay walk along the river by Ogmore castle with tea & excellent cakes at St Teilo’s church with a visit to their #lapidarium. Felt like a good start to the year: sunshine, fresh air, nature doing its thing, free cake & something suitably niche & eccentric for interest

Shaun the sheep decided he’s a donkey for the new year 😁 #toast

Greetings and good morning it’s the New Years Day farm rush hour with our donkeys and Toast

Happy New Year's Eve! We had no sunrise this morning despite great promises of color, but here is a pre-dawn shot of some boats at one of our downtown docks this morning. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day – and I look forward to flushing 2025 with you at midnight!

The last time I saw The Trial by Orson Welles it was on VHS; the teenage me probably taped a late-night TV broadcast of a cropped, substandard print. I saw it again last night. Wow. Every frame is a work of art, not least due to cinematographer Edmond Richard. Here's a short 🧵of frames. #cinema

I don't know if you heard that Jimmy Kimmel was invited to give the "Alternative Christmas Message" to run opposite the one from King Charles. This is it, and I, personally, got a kick out of his last line.

Morning all. Hoping your Christmas day is as happy as this little lad's. Christmas day in Wales, 1962. Photograph by Dennis Stock.

Now begins fridge jenga

I think he liked his Christmas present 🎁 #CatChristmas

Some #Welsh terminology for the festivities ahead… Nadolig Llawen - Merry Christmas Cyfarchion y Tymor - Season’s Greetings Blwyddyn Newydd Dda - Happy New Year Uchelwydd - Mistletoe Celyn - Holly Gwledd - Feast Nos Galan - New Year’s Eve #Cymru #Christmas🎄

It’s 1986 and you’re driving through the night to make it home for the holidays #nostalgia #80s #synthwave

Www.jeaniefinlay.com/pantoforfree Please share with your f&f Merry Christmas everybody ♥️🌟♥️ ★★★★ THE OBSERVER ★★★★ SUNDAY TIMES Critic’s Pick: GUARDIAN. RADIO TIMES. DAILY MAIL, THE TELEGRAPH, TV TIMES, WHAT’S ON and TOTAL TV GUIDE

It’s Christmas in 1988 and you’re thinking of loved ones who are not around anymore 💔 #nostalgia #80s #synthwave

🖼️ Jane Newland

Greetings and good morning it’s the Wednesday day farm rush hour with our donkeys, sheep and toast

Excellent damn question (andfa very fine write up that actually gets into the history and larger issues) Why Is Warner Bros. for Sale at All? prospect.org/2025/12/10/w...

This is “Plygain”. It’s an old Welsh form of harmonic carol singing. It’s the most Christmassy thing you’ll see today.🎄 Goosebumps. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

Merry Christmas to all my fellow TV writers:

Reform UK's efforts to muzzle the free press, including Nation.Cymru are detailed here. It's an excellent read

And can you imagine what it's like for those of us who don't have the cachet of fame...those of us who trudge through the trenches of shorts...us 'little' women with big ideas banging our heads against walls as we try & try again...what's the definition of insanity again? Oh yeh, a female director.

Good to wake up and see fascism getting a kicking in #Caerffili Da iawn pawb!