DTF St. Louis was a slow burn but I'm glad I stuck with it. Episode 5 in particular was a highlight. I can see the cast doing well during awards season. Great performances.

We're excited to be back at Film Camp during Flatpack Festival 🎬 Film Camp is a chance to connect and spark ideas on bringing audiences to the big screen. Our session will focus on opening new collaborations and possibilities for your community cinema! 📆 14/05/26 📍 MAC, Birmingham 🎟️ bit.ly/3Q7IlJv

My electrician thinks I should write a film like Rocky which is a good idea because Rocky made a lot of money. Why aren't I writing the new Rocky?! 😭

🧵 On Birmingham's historic Station Street is the nearly 120 year-old Electric Cinema. Film enthusiasts know it very well. Others might not. But beyond film fans, the Electric could become very significant for Brum at large. At least, that's the bet of Ian Francis.

In all honesty losing a pet is awful and losing a pet rabbit at Easter is probably the worst possible time to lose one.

Spending my Easter digging a hole to bury my daughter's pet rabbit which to be fair is probably the most Eastery thing I could do.

I asked A.I. to complete my novel using my own writing style and it did my laundry, went shopping, cleaned the kitchen and spent the rest of the day dicking around online.

I just signed a petition to help save the Friends Institute in Birmingham. It’s been an amazing community hub since 1897, but the council is planning to close it down. We need to protect this space you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...?

Dreamt about Paul Thomas Anderson again. He wore a white suit and could read Chinese. He was showing me some locations from his latest film, then at some point he morped into a young girl that looked like Zendaya who was making me sing and tap dance with her but I wasn't very good.

Director Ben Wheatley designs the frankly beautiful Film Stories issue 59, on sale now. Here's what you'll find in its 168 pages: filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

Me watching the Scala doc: it's such a shame I'll never experience the grungy cool of watching a film at the Scala. 😢 Me in Odeon New Street: Those teens are talking too loudly, the carpet is sticky and my chair doesn't recline 😢

Watched Hamnet and it did make me cry but watching a Variety interview with the child star saying he just wants Hamnet to live on because it's not fair that he died emotionally broke me 😭

I felt for sure he must be working with Chalamet on something, why else would he appear to be morphing into Chazelle?

Watched it at Mockingbird Cinema yesterday. Still available on the big screen if you're a cineaste like me.

Dreamt I was shadowing Paul Thomas Anderson on his latest film, a period piece set in my old primary school. ✨ Manifesting ✨

Screen B14 presents a night of shorts by Arnold T Rice, Carl Woods, Genevieve Loewe & more! 🎥 Short Film Night 🎟️ shorturl.at/wC2PA pay-as-you-can 📆 Thu 12th March 2026 ⏰ 7.30pm Start 🏠 The Cuban Embassy, B13 8HW 🍸 2-4-1 on selected cocktails. #WhatsOnBirmingham #BirminghamEvents #Moseley #b13

If you eat a hot cross bun cold is it just a cross bun? If not does it become a hot hot cross bun if you heat it up?

Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.

Tickets on sale now: filmstories.co.uk/live-events/ Please help me spread the word too if you don't mind?

DTF St. Louis suggests a CSI type extended universe with DTF stories in various exotic locales.

They should rename it One BAFTA After Another!

Great night last night with Screen B14 screening Meshes of the Afternoon with live score by Piera Onacko followed by Sisters with Transistors documentary. As a female filmmaker I'm always pushing to programme more films by and about women and found the night really inspiring ✨

If I hear one more person misuse the phrase 'One bad apple...' I will lose my mind. One person completed it by saying 'let it roll away and save the orchard.' That's not the phrase! It's 'One bad apple spoils the whole bunch' ie. one bad apple is one too many! Have these people never bought fruit?

Dreamt that me and Benicio Del Toro were going to star in the final Tarantino film. Quite an exciting dream you might imagine except I spent most of it explaining to Benicio how a futon worked which seemed oddly to perplex him no end.

📣 Sign Brummies United Petition to Birmingham City Council 💥 *Requesting the Removal of Divisive Flags in Birmingham* 👇🏽👇🏼 c.org/t4PRTzwjSS *Please keep sharing with your networks + encouraging them to sign. We need to put pressure on the council to do their job and remove the flags!* #BrumTogether

Part II of the CEX Cellar (Concrete Brum mag's version of the Criterion Closet) is here! What will Rupert think of my picks? youtu.be/I3vX1830zNo?...

We are back! 🎥 Short Film Night 🎟️ shorturl.at/wC2PA 📆 12th March 2026 ⏰ 7.30pm Start 🏠 The Cuban Embassy, B13 8HW 🍸 2-4-1 on selected cocktails. Screen B14 is a non-profit, volunteer run community cinema. #WhatsOnBirmingham #BirminghamEvents #Moseley #b13 #BirminghamFilm #MidlandsFilm

Slightly delighted to be called "funny" by Stewart here. youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?...

Catch me hanging out with Concrete Brum in Kings Heath's answer to the Criterion Closet... That's right the CEX Cellar! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy3z...

That part in a costume drama where the sickly mother convinces her kids to go to the party without her. Don't go! You'll come back to find her dead!!!

The Windrush Day 2026 Grant Scheme is open - applications close 10 Feb. Details: www.near-neighbours.org.uk/windrush26-h...

Fashion goals for 2026 Jared Harris in The Terror!

Tickets are on sale for Simon Brew's latest Film Stories Live show in Birmingham - more details on what to expect right here: filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

If anyone fancies seeing a classic of Indian cinema for free (or whatever you can afford) Screening tomorrow 🎞️ The Big City (1963) 🎟️ Pay as you can (no minimum) screenb14.eventive.org/schedule/68f... 📆 Wednesday 3rd December ⏰ 7:30pm 🏡 Cuban Embassy

The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric. We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result. www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

My short Rushed starring Cherrelle Skeete and Azan Ahmed has finished its festival run at last night's Birmingham Film Festival Screening. Quite fitting as it is a love letter to Brum. It's up for the audience award which can be voted for here: millenniumpoint-6203578.hs-sites.com/birmingham-f...

What a season coming up from #ScreenB14 and at prices that won't break the bank. Catch these cinematic classics on the big screen and check out our next live score event Meshes of the Afternoon with music by Piera Onacko followed by Sisters with Transistors doc! 🎟️ shorturl.at/l5b20

Screen B14 are excited to bring you this dizzying pop-art fantasia. Shining a light on the queer subcultures of 60s Tokyo with its stunning visuals, it’s a transfeminine, Oedipal, fever dream. Not to be missed! Funeral Parade of Roses 24th Nov 8 PM Mockingbird Cinema 🎟️ tr.ee/TRYt1vp2f7

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...

I'm trying to remember who did this stand-up comedy routine about a friend who does cryptic crosswords and comes up with the answer Omar Sharif. The internet is not helping 😢

Got a 2-4-1 on Mexican auteur directors when I went to see a preview screening of Frankenstein by DirectorsUK. Great chat between two old friends Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron. Worth having to get the rail replacement bus twice!

Stewart Lee remains one of my favorites comedians for a reason. I do not always agree with what he says, but I agree more often than I don't

The Bride's revenge saga will finally be shown in full on the big screen this December with Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (best read in the voice of Michael Caine). filmstories.co.uk/news/kill-bi...

Corin Redgrave is adorable as Old Jolyon in the Forsyte Saga.

Drum roll… the return of Stewart Lee! The Nerve team is delighted to have signed Stewart as our first weekly columnist. Here he is on how ‘consequential culture’, formerly cancel culture, works. #TheNerve #TheNerveNews #StewartLee

Just finished watching The Great Fire on ITVX. You should have seen my glee when they mentioned Pepy's cheese. I think I may have applauded 😅

Rewatching Fosse/Verdon for probably the 5th time. Sooo good!

Pay as you feel tickets available. Join us for Ryan Coogler's smash hit, starring frequent collaborator Michael B Jordan... 🎥 Sinners 📆 Wed 24th Sep ⏰ 7.00 PM doors, 7.30 PM start 🏡 @thecubanembassy , B13 8HW 🎟️ screenb14.eventive.org/schedule/68b... 👂Subtitles #B13 #Moseley #Birmingham #Brum

Back on that Marc Maron train. New special Panicked is one of his best. Available on NowTV/HBO boxd.it/aTTKB3

Kind of embarrassing how many attempts it took me as a screenwriter to correctly spell inciting incident (it was 3!)