This video is vastly underperforming our usual standards in most metrics, but it's also the only video we've ever made that's led to a mass influx of people following me on Letterboxd, so in a way it's the most successful we've ever made.

Sounds exactly like what someone who would put me in a bucket would say.

There's a kid on my train playing a game at absolute max, obnoxiously loud, bothering everybody volume, except from the sound effects I can tell he's playing Pikmin 4 so instead of storming over I kinda just want to congratulate him on his taste.

Crispin Blunt getting done for drug possession is the greatest political scandal since Anthony Weiner lost his job for sending out dick pics

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

The Oscars is the only time one billion people will tune into see a middle-aged Kiwi woman cry and then forget everything she was going to say and that makes me glad it exists

Incredible scenes as for the first time ever ITV seem to have booked some people who don't hate movies for their Oscars live stream

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

They have a big sign up on the door of the screen I just walked into at the cinema saying confetti canons are banned. I'm seeing Hamnet.

Ella McCay is good and only me & the French understand this. www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/2/...

Not again

I was going to do an additional shorter list of the funniest films of 2025 but one movie is so far and away ahead of the others it felt pointless

It's that time of year again! I saw 194 movies released in 2025, and these are my twenty favourites-

Year Twelve. Movies are great.

My main accomplishment in 2025 was that I got very tired.

They should make up a holiday just so people watch Singin in the Rain like how they made up Christmas just so people watch It's a Wonderful Life

Professional sports is the only profession where if you get good enough at your job, you will become a playable character in a video game.

What if the movie was called Glad Boys and Will Smith and Martin Lawrence played men who were very grateful. That’s what I’m thinking abou.

Good time to add Google Docs constantly suggesting ways to make your writing more boring like it's pointing out spelling mistakes has been driving me to the brink.

I don’t think I can understand a world without Diane Keaton in it.

Genuinely think this is one of my favourite video essays, and I don't just say that because I love rugby/I'm friendly with @squidgygoat.bsky.social. The way it details both the sports drama and political tension does such a good job at illustrating how almost every activity is inherently political.

He's gonna make some insane tweets about this, I can't wait

Josh O’Connor as an unhinged priest in a Knives Out movie is the fourth best thing that’s ever happened to me

You guys see where this is going? Right?

We have another two weeks of being able to call Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping the funniest film of the last decade

So ummm Weapons is the funniest film of the year

Genuinely what do they want to achieve with this

I remain astonished by 28 Years Later. Dozens of artists firing on all cylinders, producing distinct work, yet Boyle somehow pulling all these disparate chunks into a whole that feels complete, cohesive, crackling on a scale you probably can't accomplish if it's just one person's vision.

I always love chatting with @squidgygoat.bsky.social about video games and occassionally throwing in an obscure rugby reference really confuse poor @kellymerka.bsky.social.

Casting two English actors as Link & Zelda implies when Shigeru Miyamoto was cutting about in woods outside Kyoto as a kid he imagined everybody had British accents

I’ve now come out of Sinners, 28 Years Later and Superman this summer invigorated by a feeling that somehow, miraculously, in the alchemy of making a big movie on that scale, art won out over commerce.

As someone who bought a Switch 2 and wants to read/listen/watch stuff about the games I've played, the fact such an enormous percentage of the work out there is speculation on the future or frame rate/tech analysis rather than examination & reflection on the art itself continues to frustrate me.

Brb updating the piece www.nintendolife.com/features/don...

Alternative suggestion: Listen to me.

Brad Pitt's "deftness in removing the specter of violence from his own narrative is a reminder of the ways violence against women is normalized. It isn’t that people don’t believe in what happened to Jolie on that plane — they just don’t care."

Americans would love crumpets

A new Half Man Half Biscuit album releasing the exact day I turn 30 is such a perfect bit of universe kismet I'm surprised it doesn't happen for everyone.

Omg Sonic's in this?!

Now to get used to turning on this thing every day for the next eight years

Quentin Tarantino found dead in a ditch

Woah, they look just like in the old one

The only downside to being off Twitter is every few weeks you miss another unhinged Michael Caine tweet

This year’s hosts putting Petra on screen

With apologies to The Beekeeper, my four favourite films of the decade so far

This place gets more and more like Twitter every day.

Why do we, as a society, have the movie Mission: Impossible - Fallout if we also have to have jobs and therefor do things that aren’t watch the movie Mission: Impossible - Fallout.