Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Today is the day to complain about the commercials you hate #AdVent

This is on the BBC Scotland channel and iPlayer tonight from 9pm, a trip back to the 80s and 90s in the company of cast, crew and creator of City Lights. A few rarely seen bits of archive, including clips from the pilot with Billy Greenlees as Chancer and no studio audience.

Last month: no TV adverts feature the Grinch. This month: half of TV adverts feature the Grinch. Next month: all TV adverts feature the Grinch. #Christmas

Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Streamins service UI is increasingly bad deliberately. It's dark UX patterning as access to show catalogues narrows. If you let the user search, they will look for shows you no longer have (or never had). The goal is to hijack that journey and force a show they'll feel is 'okay' in front of them.

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

devastating thread

The film Zootopia is known as Zootropolis in the UK because nobody in this country could even fathom the concept of a Utopia.

As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”

There's no such thing as Roman society

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

Make the whole area much worse, destroy the infrastructure and burn down local amenities. It's what we like to call a mini Brexit.

No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

Man tries to demonstrate what wonderful progress AI is by citing instances in which, in most cases, the AIs in question are murderous, destructive villains that kill people. Great point, mate, great point, I for one am converted

Starting a rewatch of Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Emissary is a brilliant pilot, In 90 minutes the show is set up very well, the core crew established and the conflict with Bajor and the Cardassians is planted like a seed, And it’s SO SO SO much better than Encounter at Farpoint it’s not funny

i mean not to prejudge this, but the cyber expert is likely to say 'yeah you hit publish, mate'

This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

I’m unsure why Presto supermarkets no longer exist. I suspect it may have something to do with the sinister tag line and the anthropomorphic penis used in their ads. Coincidentally, I saw Anthropomorphic Penis play Glasto in ‘93.

"After all, he built that giant boat"

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I love TikTik piano tutorials where they've put numbers on the keys and proceed to show a number of patterns and them say "and then you just put that all together". No shit. That's not some hack. That's just learning how to play.

And yet you've used a horrible AI picture to show someone standing beside themselves as a younger man.

If you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's worthless. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten. They'll quite simply say "The OBR released a budget analysis 25 minutes early". Everything else will be a footnote.

Is Dream Phone Conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Dumb fucks say it's time to consider whether they're onto something x

One of my nerdier threads, for sure…

Building the bridge - TOS

Hey USA, you also have laws... apparently.

The Farage stuff is really weird, no? None of this is new. It could have been investigated this whole time. What he has said and done is on record. I just don't understand why his school days are getting scrutiny now when his whole political career has not.

That new Scrubs trailer has me wondering if someone actually gave Zach Braff some kind of youth serum. He looks younger than he did in season 8.

"device hoarding" is bad, say the billionaires who wannabe trillionaires

Prophecies is not the right word

Introduce yourself with four spaceships. These are all recreations of #StarTrek sets I built in #Blender.

Ah those cameos in Zootopia. Was that an animated pigeon? Wait until I tell my friends.

Okay, so in Jumanji, Alan and Sarah complete the game and it resets taking them back to their childhoods. They later meet Judy and Peter who never played the game. However, if they reach the same point in their lives where they would have played the game, would they remember both timelines?

Disgusting framing by the Telegraph here.

Yeah, he made it years ago. There's very little he can do at this point.

Luckily, this act resulted in no one talking about it and zero media coverage

Say it with me: The Exorcist is not a franchise

I'll never forgive them for what they did to Ribena

Oh great. More stuff to have the recipe changed to horrible-tasting sweetners 🙄