Apposite for the moment to bid farewell to India's B'wood singer Asha Bhosle who passed today. This was a hit in the late 90s; a tribute to her by the diasporans who made home in Britain. It's so 90s. Rest easy Asha Bhosle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBn...

PATREON SUPPORTERS - Reminder that we'll be screening the excellent romcom Rye Lane in the Light Fantastic Theatre tonight at 7.30 PM BST. Looking forward to seeing you there!

New "While Rome burns" has landed.

[getting rejected at the bar] that's fine. actually my boys and i were thinking of diminishing and going into the west

Jared Leto is the AI of actors. Everyone hates him, a couple of rich oligarchs keep pushing him on us, and we wish he'd just go away.

TWITCH PEEPS - I'm back with a little more Eternal Strands tonight! 7.30 PM BST - twitch.tv/devilligan

NOT THE BEES!!!

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

remembered a good tweet

Kind of an interesting mixed bag. #LastFourWatched

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Monorail cancelled.

Go watch Lore’s video on LoM and support her channel!

PATREON SUPPORTERS - Our next film is the gorgeous South London romcom Rye Lane and you can read more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/our-ne...

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

TWITCH PEEPS - Tonight in the Horror Hangout we'll be searching for anomalies in Platform 8 - the sequel to Exit 8! 7.30 PM BST - twitch.tv/devilligan

Dispatch is a blast. I will be streaming more of it.

Don't sleep on The Drama. It's a smart, engaging time at the movies.

there has never ever been another man with this many photos where he looks like his mom just walked in on him jerking off

This could be the best Bond game ever made and I’ll never get over how much I dislike this character design:

TWITCH PEEPS - Tonight we'll be diving into the superhero comedy Dispatch! 7.30 PM BST - twitch.tv/devilligan

I've been doing some research into locations in Prague using Google Maps, and either the guy who was tasked to take the photos got the camera position wrong, or there's a small hairy ghost haunting large swathes of the city.

Not so much a tease as a threat.

Watching Playtime is a perfect way to feel better about everything for two hours.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

I feel like this is the most unhelpful thing I’ve read on this or any other site in a long time?

If it’s Naomi Klein, you’re fine. If it’s Naomi Wolf… oof.

Imagine you're slipping the surly bonds of Earth and touching the face of God but then you have to get on the phone to listen to a child molester ramble about how Bette Midler is nasty

TWITCH PEEPS - We're back tonight with a little more Hitman 2! 7.30 PM BST - twitch.tv/devilligan

On the set of A Matter of Life and Death. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. 1946.

I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice

Elder Millennial here: we all read our mum's collection of romantic fiction as under 11s. Not because we craved salacious content, but because the internet didn't exist yet and we'd read any old shit lying around through sheer boredom.

TWITCH PEEPS - No stream today, but there's a new Resident Evil Requiem (with a magnificently unhinged thumbnail) up on YouTube: youtu.be/AbOgoteo_94

A good piece of advice I picked up a while ago is to name all the characters in your script. It not only makes you write them a tiny bit better, and think about them a little bit harder, it gives the eventual actors some respect, and also something to put on their IMDb page that isn’t… er… this.

The greatest

A long piece this week on the various kinds of AI foolishness I have seen lately. Tl;dr: in your professional life, do not use technologies in which you have no expertise and with which you have not engaged critically?! It’s not that complicated?! open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Christina Hendricks spinning Spiritualized is canonically how the Sirens tried to lure Odysseus

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

april is poetry month so i often take the months to read work my favorite poets. derek walcott’s “love after love” is one of the greatest ever poems :-)

Clem report: Today Clem climbed a tree.

Agree with this completely. In the meantime, I think it's healthy that people are learning to enjoy smaller, less connected social media environments that nurture their interests without inflicting massive psychic damage on them, and that's why I'm very happy with Bluesky thank you very much.

Everything that needs saying about this profoundly cruel and stupid state of affairs, said well.

AMAZING Stanley Tucci impression here:

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

Finished Resident Evil Requiem last night. It doesn't quite reach the dizzy heights of Resident Evil 4, but it's definitely up there as a top 3 Resi game for me. Brilliant, constantly entertaining stuff.