I am very proud to announce that you can now preorder my new novel CONNERY @plumeriapics.bsky.social which will be released 23 February 2026. We don’t do Amazon because they’re bastards so please preorder direct from the site. plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

Can anyone beat SIX HOURS on hold to a government department?

If there are any fans of the Rogue Commentary audio commentary podcast out there, check out some of the clips on YouTube.com/@roguecommentary and more being added all the time. Subscribe and enjoy!

@knibbsey.bsky.social Hi Steve! Please could I ask you a couple of questions about the ‘Coconuts’ trial which you covered for the Beeb? Thank you!

me when you get your acoustic guitar out at a party I was up to that point enjoying

Before WW2 British Nazis said this about Adolf Hitler. Now the Telegraph is doing it as Donald Trump threatens us. We see you.

After a number of days in the public gallery at my local magistrate’s court (doing project research), here’s what I learned: • The ethnicity of the magistrates is like a photonegative of that of the defendants • The affirmation isn’t worth the laminated card it’s printed on

with the Your Party shenanigans and the Tory Party shenanigans, there's just so much for sickos to enjoy as.ft.com/r/142fdc3d-a...

Did you know, incidentally, that Cat Stevens did a comedy country song about the time he got deported from the US because he was on the no-fly list, and got Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, Alison Krauss, and for some reason Terry Sylvester of the Hollies to sing bits of it?

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

One thing about re-watching thanks to the @filmsradiance.bsky.social re-issue was how incredible Cliff Gorman was. It must have been incredible to see him on stage in the ‘60s and ‘70s… I’m gonna revisit the film The Boys in the Band, in which he reprised his stage role.

Park Chan-Wook remains undefeated. Would love to track down the Costa-Gavras version but it’s only available in French, so I’ll have to read the Donald E. Westlake Nobel instead.

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in less than a week ago and the postman has already delivered one of the greatest (and grimiest) New York movies in 4K. You call it coincidence, I call it collectorvism

I really enjoyed this and cannot for the life of me fathom why. The reliably watchable Josh O’Connor? The ’60s car porn? Film grain? The masterful period detail? A filmmaker completely in command of their art? Or just… vibes!? Wait — maybe it’s all of the above! #TheMastermind

It was just excellent 🔥

Just interviewed the man behind the greatest gif of all time

Good morning! If it's freezing where you are, remember that a bag of hot water rubbed across the windscreen works way better than de-icer

i refer you to starmer's 2021, 11,500 word essay explaining his values, which i forced myself to read its actually worse than his soundbites, if you can believe such a thing fabians.org.uk/publication/...

Arrived at Eventim Apollo last night to see @sjpemberton.bsky.social and Reece Shearsmith in one of the last Inside No.9 Stage/Fright shows, only to discover my tickets were for the matinee. Beyond gutted. Great start to 2026 😕

So grateful to Josh Olson for bringing this insanely great OBA_A analysis to my attention www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Kicking off the new season of my audio commentary podcast with this deep cut creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

After two episodes of The Night Manager Series 2 I’m like

Cool stuff entering public domain: Betty Boop Nancy Drew + her first 5 novels The Maltese Falcon novel Disney's first iteration of Pluto as "Rover" The first fully voiced Academy Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers Dream a Little Dream of Me I Got Rhythm

A year ago, Noam Chomsky was my dream dinner party guest. Little did I know he would rather be having dinner with Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen. On the plus side, Beth and I just celebrated our first year together. Chomsky can suck it.

FINALLY - a new season 🎧

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...

Es rarísimo que El autobús atómico no la hayamos visto todos de críos. Es una parodia del cine de catástrofes anterior a Aterriza como puedas. No tiene la densidad y variedad de chistes de aquella (de hecho, sólo tiene chistes de guión, no hay bromas formales) pero a cambio tiene el

"By dint of my screenwriting services on the first two Die Hards, Time Out has asked me to weigh on the ‘Die Hard-iness’ of some of the better-known examples. In keeping with the assignment, they will be graded on a scale of 1-5 Twinkies (Sergeant Al Powell’s favourite snack)."

Had an absolute blast with this Time Out exclusive: 'Die Hard' screenwriter @stevenedesouza.bsky.social ranking 10 'Die Hard'-inspired action flicks www.timeout.com/news/10-die-...

"Molti esplosioni etc etc" absolutely sank me.

You should read this.

De Souza’s still got it! Such a fun article!

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Had an absolute blast with this Time Out exclusive: 'Die Hard' screenwriter @stevenedesouza.bsky.social ranking 10 'Die Hard'-inspired action flicks www.timeout.com/news/10-die-...

I really need to stop waiting for the audiobook and get a hard copy of this

There was a time when the HBO logo was the greatest signifier that you were about to watch something amazing. But in the past decade it was supplanted by an even more reliable one. What am I talking about?

Sirât makes look like

Every year there’s one film the critics go nuts for, confounding me with their enthusiasm for something I find drab, bloodless and with nothing new to say. This year there’s two! Each to their own, I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

December 5 Press Briefing with #karolineleavitt

Science brains! At Wells-next-the-Sea yesterday, wind was blowing the top layer of sand across the beach, yet the sound was so dead it sounded as though I was inside a recording studio. What's going on!?

2+2=5 is just OK, muddying its already scattershot narrative by utilising sellouts like AOC+Bernie as exemplars of righteousness, using (valid) claims of neo-Nazis in Ukraine as examples of Orwellian propaganda, + implying that only Republican presidents do war crimes. 2+2=5/10

That said, the needle drops feel like an unfortunate afterthought

You just can't imagine Starmer and co calling Reform supporters 'nuts' and that tells you all you need to know about who they are, if you haven't already worked it out

Felt like watching Hal Ashby’s #ComingHome with Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern, and thank God for Eureka!’s fine Blu-ray because it’s #NotStreaming (or available on VOD) in the UK – and isn’t on US iTunes either

2+2=5 is just OK, muddying its already scattershot narrative by utilising sellouts like AOC+Bernie as exemplars of righteousness, using (valid) claims of neo-Nazis in Ukraine as examples of Orwellian propaganda, + implying that only Republican presidents do war crimes. 2+2=5/10

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 Great reads for political bookworms, selected by @davidhughesbluey.bsky.social 📚 open.substack.com/pub/chiltern...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗡

Nothing speaks to the lack of underclass voices in film criticism like the plaudits showered on a film that boils down to “beware the neighbour on benefits who may be a murderer just waiting for an inciting incident”