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Speaking of Clint Eastwood, directed by Don Siegel, i watched Dirty Harry recently. The film is... anti woke! 😄 It's full of Harry railing against this new woke agenda ( only they don't call it woke obs) A decade later, it was called politically correct before it was called woke...

Two mules for Sister Sara is just starting on 5 action

The Happiest Season is on film4 at nine. Dan Levy is great in it but Dan wasn't in it enough. The trailer mis-sells it It's not a gay French Farce I'm not sure it knows what it is A romcom to begin with, then... no rom or com? Kirsten Stewart & Aubrey Plaza are in it too. I should have loved it...

I saw Die Hard in the cinema. And about a week later, I bought the book. Which was a repackaged slightly tweaked Nothing Lasts Forever (The book Die Hard was based on) The original book is about Joe an older detective visiting his daughter.

Many are against solar fields because of the look. There's no natural beauty. Our countryside only looks the way it does because of farming. It's already unnatural. Before that, it was largely woodland. Let's have solar farms, but put some trees around. Then they'd look like woods.

What's it got to do with the BBC? I mean, Walliams has been on the BBC, I guess, but he was also on ITV's Britain's got talent for years. What are the BBC specifically meant to do?

In publishing a large advance almost ensures a best seller. Say an author gets a £7k advance. That's £7k the publisher needs to get back Modest sales will do that. So there's little pressure on the publisher to promote the book. But if the author gets a £100k advance...

I've been scraping the net, collecting popular and successful art prompts and feeding them into an AI. I now have an AI that will generate prompts for you. This is a joke, bluesky, don't at me.

Theo "The quarterback is toast" survived the events in Die Hard. Argyle knocked him out. Die Hard 4.0 was 19 years later. They should have had Theo in 4.0! It would have been awesome if he'd been the baddies head hacker!

Remember the 5th Doctor adventure The Visitation? That ship that crashed on Earth in the 17th century and buried it's self? We can fix it? They still make the pallets it was made out of. We just need to paint them white!

Bruce Willis ad-libbed "Now I know what a TV dinner feels like" "Come out to the coast we'll have a few laughs" was made up on set by writer Steven De Souza during filming. The reason is great...

The original Die Hard is unusual by todays standards. It takes 23 minutes for the first shot to be fired. That's 23 minutes until the "inciting incident" In Die Hard 3 Bloomingdales blows up at the 50 second mark. BOOMINGDALES!

Terrorists kidnap a bus full of retired nuns. John McClane is about to have another bad day, in... Old Habits Die Hard!

Remember the 5th Doctor adventure The Visitation? That ship that crashed on Earth in the 17th century and buried it's self? We can fix it? They still make the pallets it was made out of. We just need to paint them white!

David Walliams and I... There was a rumour going round for a while that I was David Walliams ghost writer. I've been contacted a couple of times by journalists. My bank balance is all the proof you need that never was.

If Musk ever does get to Mars, he'll be Cohaagen from Total Recall, and you'll need an oxygen subscription. Air premium + for the proper clean stuff.

"Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez donate $5 million for neurodiversity education" Jeff gets richer by 100 million a day, so I guess he can afford it. That's about half an hours work?

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

Me in shops

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

Left over decals from Star Trek, the motion picture were used on the spinners in Blade Runner. The top of the Blade Runner police station was a cast off the inside of the space ship in Close Encounters. The desert ship in close encounters was made for a different film... youtu.be/VmQapmpHDsg?...

I got a bit brain damaged in 2022. No big, but I pretty much spent a month in an MRI.

Scandal is a film about the Profumo affair, where, I think, Profumo's girlfriend had a Russian spy boyfriend so Profumo had to resign. Years later Boris Johnson's connections with Russians and the KGB won't fit in this post.

Wonder Park has just started on Film 4+1 The film's director was fired before it was finished and the studio couldn't get anyone to finish it, so it was just kinda finished without one. It's not great.

The BEANO has teamed up with Comixit!, the world’s first kids-safe comic platform, to bring Britain’s most iconic kids comic into the digital era.    https://downthetubes.net/beano-x-comixit-team-up-bringing-dennis-gnasher-bananaman-and-more-to-life-in-the-palm-of-kids-hands/

The Million Eyes of Sumuru has a 3.7 score on IMDB, but those comments aren't taking into account this line.

It's been five years since I left a comment on this Portishead Biscuit video, and it still gets a comment every other month or so. youtu.be/FRntBOQsNYc?...

Jesus Christ Super Star is past the halfway mark on BBC2. I'm not a religious man, but that thing is full of absolute bangers.

I'VE been thin,king... of aaaa subject... for my new video essay... ... ... where does, the........... odd speech pattern... the, irr...egular pacing... the, spas,modic... delivery OF... many VIDeo essay...ists come? From? Have THEY all been, to THE ShatNer school for... public speaking?

Disney pay Open AI a billion!? Not the other way round? That's a great deal there, Dizzy.

Some people don't have an internal monologue. Must be nice, not having some negative Nelly going on all the time reminding you of stuff you don't need to be reminded of.

If you want to replace the break pads on your Hyundai Ioniq your garage needs to buy a hyunai computer and a £60 a WEEK subscription? Which keeps you locked in to going back to the dealership. www.thedrive.com/news/replaci...

The animated rescued version of Doctor Who the celestial toymaker is on the iplayer. I don't want to detract in any way from the fine work the animators have done, but why not go the whole hog and get Century 21 films to do it in proper puppets!...

Notebook 27: The Book of Ned

While we're all thinking of Doctor Who spin-offs that don't have Doctor Who in it... What? You're not all thinking of the next The war between the land and the sea? What? You don't know who I am and why I'm in your feed!

Really nice use of a mirror in this shot from upcoming RTD drama Tip Toe. Gives a better look at Morrissey but also makes Cummings look trapped between the Morrissey's. That won't be by accident.

Inept ghosts, confusing time jumps, spies, frustrated scientists, wild tangents, bad puns, prison breakouts. Ah, the spirit of Christmas! The latest Beano Christmas Special is a belter! You can check it out in the full review now up on the blog: oink.blog/2025/12/06/b... 😜🤣🐽 #beano #bemorebeano

While we're all thinking of Doctor Who spin-offs that don't have Doctor Who in it... What? You're not all thinking of the next The war between the land and the sea? What? You don't know who I am and why I'm in your feed!

We all neg on second screen content, but I think it can be done well, and we've been making it for years. Halloween is a great second screen film. It's stalking, stabbing, repeat. Can you get lost in the plot? Predator is kind of the same. Any film where there's a thing that keeps happening...

Do you want me to have an opinion on Tarantino too?

Body Double is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight. A wild film. Uneven? You can be watching it thinking "What is this garbage!?" then moments later it's brilliant. Feels like a parody half the time. I wish more films were like this.

Could this protest be any more British?

🎵OO-WA-OO!🎵 OooO-AWA-OO!🎵 WAA-OO-OO--OO-WA-OO!🎵 DUMIDY-DUM-DUMIDY-DUM!🎵 A while ago I put this comic (as in funny) re-telling of Genesis of the Daleks, episode 1, on that other place. Anyway, I'm putting here now too. #DoctorWho #regenesisofthedaleks

My wife's a second screener. She scrolls through online shops. She says she can multitask. She also says, "Wait. Is he not meant to be dead?" To which I say, "It's a flashback."

Cartoonist Hunt Emerson – widely acclaimed for his brilliant graphic novels, his creation, Calculus Cat and work for titles as divers as BEANO and Fortean Times – is working on a new memoir with journalist Rory… https://downthetubes.net/hunt-emerson-memoir-50-odd-years-of-big-noses-in-the-works/