Happy #VHS day to all who celebrate. It's a winning year for fans of the series - Halloween has a a grab bag of creepy, gory and downright nasty shorts on offer. Not a Bounty bar among them. Feast Friends!

3. THE SINK: A SLEEP AID (Natasha Hodgson, 2020) Horror comedy that’s actually funny *and* scary in equal measure - also sad, heartwarming, inventive, and queer as hell, with sound design that feels like someone scratching my bare skull. I listen to it every Halloween and urge you to do the same.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

London in my bones. This is why.

I am more a Londoner than I am British and certainly than I feel English. I don’t want to sound weird but: it’s a way of being. To be a Londoner is to love difference enough that you always find ways to make room for other cultures not just your own. Not to tolerate difference; to revel in it.

This was a hard one to write. A true legend. www.heyuguys.com/robert-redfo...

Hang this in the Louvre.

Stephen Graham’s Emmy speech 🥺❤️

I mean, this looks great, but sooner or later, I'm going to take the hint. Every year.

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

You know what was great? Weapons. That's what was great. Genuinely unsettling, proper scares and a heart that doesn't stop beating until it's ripped out. If you want good horror on the big screen go and see this one.

Aww, Ray Brooks has gone. At least he left his voice behind as a kind of aural sanctuary for us all. Brooks, Brian Cant and Oliver Postgate. That’s what I have instead of a ‘Whalesong & Gentle Surf’ noise app when life’s thumb presses down on me. Thank you Ray.

R.I.P. Ray Brooks.

Lovely to see the words of @simonbrew.bsky.social on the trailer for I Swear at the flicks tonight.

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Five years ago I tweeted (I know - it was all the rage back then...) to mark the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the best cover version of anything anywhere. Now, 5 years to the day (15 years since the song was recorded) here it is once again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLrC...

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

He’s right.

And because I'll never stop recommending it, 'Children of Men' is on BBC2 at 22.00, tonight. It really is a work of art.

Cannot wait for this...

Happy to reveal the official poster I designed for the short film "The Deep Vessel". #shortfilm #posterdesign #keyart #posterart #digitalart #photoshop #humanartist #movieposter #freelancer #film #poster #horror #indiefilm

"...people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create..." This is LITERALLY what the internet used to be. The whole fucking thing. Every piece of it. Stem to stern. That sentence right there. We were just on here, doing stuff, just to share with each other.

Happy Publication Day to Me Darkness Visible the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer is available from the publisher at the lowest price £16 in the UK or $18 US stickingplacebooks.com/darkness-vis...

Not Tom Lehrer.

English Teacher instead of camp counsellor but yes - this is stunningly accurate.

A bit of good news in amongst it all - George Saunders has a new book coming out! Less good news is the cover art for the UK edition is awful. No judgement of course. www.waterstones.com/book/vigil/g...

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

You don't need influencers asking empty questions about personal lives or 'lol meme moments' to make a movie's promotion cycle valid. You need people who love the artform so much they dedicate their professional and personal lives to them. Simon's one of the absolute best out there.

These women are amazing.

Mr. Brew is, as usual, completely right about this AI nonsense. Having a company name that looks like a typo is somehow very fitting.

Bless this Hausu is the sort of late night genius that only BlueSky can offer.

Watch this to the last desperate, pleading syllables.

So then. Superman was special. And colourful in all ways it could be. Funny, silly and human, that (those) people are angry about kindness and compassion heralded as keen virtues shows how deeply important it is.

NOPE.

Aaaand here they are, Alex Cox's Moviedrome intros for The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now with both films on BBC iPlayer also, bliss www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

New blog post: The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of imagining a better future www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

ah, love this, hits exactly the points that I think I found most captivating about 28 Years Later — the progression of folk horror fiction framed as a response to the state of *things* and as a natural progression of the post-apocalyptic pastoral.

Rebekah Del Rio was so attuned to the worlds of Twin Peaks & Mulholland Drive, her loss so young is another part of Lynch's world slipped away. But their legacy is this - there's always music in the air. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqzf...

The single coolest combination of titles, images and music in cinema. Adiós Maestro. #Laloschifrin youtu.be/S__L_OQe6NE?...

Very interesting look back at Moviedrome, which was a weekly must-see for teenage me – Alex Cox was always good value, and an excellent explainer of why something was interesting even if it was a bit ropey in many other ways. (Also, it seems age has turned him into Samuel Beckett, which is cool.)

Really nice to see Labour remembering at least a portion of what they're supposed to be.

Rewatching "T2 Trainspotting", and - as ever - thinking about how we had that wave of genuinely ambitious legacyquels in 2017, movies about nostalgia and what it means or says about the state of culture. "T2 Trainspotting", "Blade Runner 2049", "Logan", "The Last Jedi." It's so far from today.

It's so good. It truly is the thing that gets you to the thing.

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Some of my poster design work. Sharing is appreciated. If you are looking for a versatile, professional and easy going poster designer for your production, look no further. Let's chat! No generative A.I. was used at any point. #posterdesign #keyart

This is true. And the loss of him so young, and now so long ago, was a genuine tragedy. His last words are an extraordinary tribute to the man who saw so much. makikoitoh.com/journal/sato...

If you watch only one video today, let it be this one. Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America. His words could not be more on point and timely. Please pass it on.

I’m a stranger who owes @raynewman.bsky.social nothing and I endorse this message. I love that these stories make me look at the everyday with a suspicious second look, then a touch of growing dread.

There must be a word for the moment when you finish a really good book, the final paragraph is a perfect landing, the last sentence is a belter, and you close the book, lay your hand on the cover and just… exhale.