Tuchel's grumpy post-match interviews are genuinely making me warm to him.

Astonishing to witness the arrival of a truly world-class English superstar in Bellingham. I don't know the last time we had someone quite like him.

My ★★★ review of "Kill the Referee" (1984): boxd.it/f9O1b1

Incredible stuff from Egypt.

"Harry, new regulations say that you must inhale helium before your post-match interview, to remove any dignity from your words."

Mexican fans who’ve been so good during this tournament have sadly in this second half resorted and returned to their now infamous homophobic chants. There’ll be big trouble for the FA … unless the government gets involved. Because that’s now a thing.

That's what happens to your much-vaunted home record when the visitors aren't St. Kitts & Nevis.

Mayhem at 3 AM.

'one team desperately trying to level the playing field by turning a football match into a brawl, abetted by puzzling refereeing' is a noble footballing tradition and it's good to see it on the big stage once in a while

If you want an example of Paraguayan bloody-mindedness, by the end of the War of the Triple Alliance, their army was mostly child soldiers who drew little mustaches on their faces with burnt cork and there were only 27000 adult males left in the whole country

Orson Welles on John Brown, Julia Ward Howe, and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1976)

My ★★★★ review of "The Room" (2003): boxd.it/f1Zr2J

I see they make clown shoes in tartan.

Pochettino looking weirdly like young Russell Crowe.

Kolašinac possibly already the luckiest man at this World Cup.

2 goals and 3 sendings off? Genuinely a promising start in terms of how entertaining this World Cup might be.

My ★★★ review of "The Banshees of Inisherin" (2022): boxd.it/eHfOwb

When I hear that Jimmy McNulty has been made Stockport County manager.

I see it's fine and patriotic to criticise the police and accuse them of bias now, whereas it was unacceptable and borderline traitorous two weeks ago

If you made a poster this good for a genre movie in 2026 Disney would drone strike you.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

My ★★★ review of "Man Walking Around a Corner" (1887): boxd.it/ep6oxn

Remembering the late, great Eric Morecambe, who was born 100 Years ago today.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

My ★★★ review of "Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man" (1976): boxd.it/eb4DEj

My ★★★★ review of "Rolling Thunder" (1977): boxd.it/dYGcPX

Did anyone actually cease firing at any point?

People love saying this untrue thing

See all that stuff in there, Elon? That's why it didn't blow up like all yours do.

*coloniser

Mussolini: Son of the Century (2025, dir. Joe Wright)

The world's navies responding to Trump's request that they come and help attempt to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Movies are political and it's good to discuss their politics, but if you view a film primarily as an ideology delivery system that is caked in stupid art and entertainment and pleasure that it uses to distract the dumb unwashed and make What It Is Really Saying palatable, you might be the problem.

Imagining the Zoom call where the Pentagon asked its naval captains how they felt about taking their ships into a 20-mile wide strait with a massive enemy coast on one side.

China does this and it's really funny to see the ways filmmakers deal with it: A title card that says all the criminals have been captured, have a shot the end that clarifies it was all a dream, or pretend it's in another country - or planet!

My ★★★★★ review of "Faust" (1926): boxd.it/dp9Nlf

Octopus Energy telling me about their predicted reductions to my future bills.

when the labour party purges you you're supposed to stop existing. to continue to take part in elections voting inline with your previous convictions is not only rude, it's anti-democratic.

We used to make Pete Bondurants in this country

the people of manchester have spoken: britain demands trans rights and drug liberalisation

Yes officer, the word on the street is that Baron Mandelson is packing heat and says if he's going down he wants to waste some filth and go down in glory

Hoyle should have told the cops that Mandelson was tooled up

"Let me tell you about my mother." -- Brion James as Leon, Blade Runner (1982) #cyberpunk

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

it's weird and disconcerting how this government lets things just slike towards oblivion apparently because it just can't be arsed. See also higher education.

Pasolini punches a fascist outside the premiere for his film "Mamma Roma", 22 September 1962.

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

losing my mind at this photo, it's literally the 'my t-shirt' meme

Damn that person close to Mandelson must feel stupid now the email has been released.