when you’re definitely not filming everything and everyone all of the time

Anna Karina in Alphaville, 1965

Is that the Melting Stick?!

he’s only gone and blown up the Friends fountain

Sooooo Doomsday trailer. Thoughts? Initial reaction, after all the real world photography of The Odyssey, this looks very small.

Every fifteen minutes in The Odyssey

Me at kick off / me at full time

Now 828-741 to England. The match cannot be stopped. Players running around in tears. Bellingham spinning on the spot. The ball is screaming.

Incredible work, timeline

match summary

match summary

oh my god they’ve just scored again

remember that time J-Lo was given a rare first edition of the Iliad

One of my favourite paintings, 'A Seated Woman Looking at a Child Through a Window', a ghostly 17th century work by the enigmatic Jacobus Vrel. Next to nothing is known about the artist, did he even exist? More than enough room for a Schalcken the Painter style BBC Ghost Story, I would've thought..!

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This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

See now this is Al art. AL ART. oh never mind

Games Workshop opening day in Hammersmith, April 1978

Honestly wouldn’t mind if the Odyssey was just a compilation of Matt Damon and Tom Holland’s press tour. Every clip of them chatting about films or playing random games is a delight.

What were your Britannia Music Club picks? My selection back in 1996 were … varied.

I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film

IMAX tip: just go to a regular cinema and sit a bit further forward than usual

okay how tiny are these pilots, like are we talking scary tiny

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Wally Banana Chips

LONDON’D. Managed to squeeze a lot into yesterday. NPG’s Marilyn exhibition was incredible. Bowie at the Lightroom was overwhelming and brilliant. Anish Kapoor was … kind of disappointing.

Really dislike how the majority of the clips I see from press tours for movies are the interviewer making it about themselves instead of interviewing the actors from the movie

[staring into space] imagine having the absolute balls to greenlight a wildly expensive war epic where the biggest stars are Ross From Friends and Donnie New Kids

probably for the best it isn’t coming home given what we’ve done with it’s room, do you have any idea how difficult it was putting up that swing

hydration break

Every one of the Argentinians should be assigned his own referee

hydration break

yeah thanks me from three months ago for booking a train journey this evening that was great work well done

The crisp cauldron is replenished for tonight. Corkscrew in pic for scale!

A fine start to the day, listening to @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and @emilyrosemackay.bsky.social talking Bjork’s nineties.

Lots to love about York, but nothing beats that rush when you get to use Adrian Chiles’ Worst Traffic Lights.

I’m sure this is old news, but I just learnt if you say “space ghettos” in an American accent, it sounds like a Scottish person saying “Spice Girls”.

Great job 👏

which was your favourite, the helicopter that turned into a plane or the car that turned into a car with its doors open

Is Jurassic Park the only film that product-places its own making-of book?

Marvellous ❤️ #SamNeill

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which was your favourite, the helicopter that turned into a plane or the car that turned into a car with its doors open

The new food court in Seven Dials (Covent Garden) is split into two main sections, called Cucumber Alley and Banana Warehouse, and Sarah asked if they were euphemisms, and they definitely are aren’t they. I can’t not see it anymore.

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Marketers, if you’re wondering what the demographic of Waitrose shoppers is - it sits in the Venn diagram of these magazines. 😩

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Is Jurassic Park the only film that product-places its own making-of book?

this is the new backrooms