My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

I don't mean to brag but... Nearly 8 hours into the first day back and I've still not accidentally typed 2025 😎

I finally switched our business email over to our website domain instead of the Hotmail one we had been using. Nearly 5 years that's been sitting near the top of my To-do list. Feels like I've aged another 5 years trying to get it functional.

I've definitely been feeling snowed under by notifications whenever I pick up my phone so have started culling anything nonessential. Same with emails. I need to reduce this overload of information clamouring for my attention.

I keep planning to post here but never do. I don't know why but social media is feeling like a chore these days.

Hear me out... 6-day weekends

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

📽️ 200/ The Princess Bride For my 200th flick of the year I had the pleasure to introduce @dionisea.bsky.social to The Princess Bride ☺️

📽️ 199/ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Never fails to be better than I remembered.

“Get out of my fucking seat.”

Work stress has been hitting hard lately. Yesterday was absolutely brutal. I feel totally wrung out.

📽️ 198/ The Running Man 🍿 So weird to see your hometown on the big screen being used to depict a dystopian future! 😄 Wembley Park stood in for the exteriors and entrance of the TV Network building, so it was a little distracting to keep spotting intimately familiar locations.

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

Calvin & Hobbes turns 40 today, apparently. I genuinely don't think there's been a better comic strip before or since this came out. I have the full collection and it's due a re-read. Just joyful, artistic, funny, thoughtful and timeless. Watterson is the GOAT

📽️ 197/ The Aviator Most normal billionaire.

📽️ 196/ The Wind That Shakes The Barley I needed to get the taste of Wolfwalkers out of my mouth.

📽️ 195/ Frankenstein This looks stunning in HDR. The lighting throughout the movie is spectacular. I had put Mia Goth's strange accent down to being a Yank imitating a Brit but it turns out she is actually from the UK 🤷‍♂️

The next Bond film is practically writing itself

In 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master' Freddy Krueger is resurrected by a dog pissing on his remains and I don't see why that wouldn't work perfectly well here.

All the Bonds are Bond and they should never attempt to justify or explain why they are different.

The Bond franchise is now officially a roguelike

Bollocks. The Bond franchise has repeatedly proven that you just stick another handsome guy in a tuxedo, have him order a martini and introduce himself to the nearest femme fatale. Job done.

new actor, line about settling into a new role, M says something about big shoes to fill, no further acknowledgement of any previous continuity

People rag on Reddit for it being full of weirdos, but sometimes that's the only place where people ask the big questions.

📽️ 194/ Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) It's fun but trying to be a solo Harley Quinn movie and an action ensemble flick pull it in too many directions.

📽️ 193/ The Rocketeer Another film that's perfect for a bit of Sunday afternoon adventure.

📽️ 192/ Eddington There is a sequence towards the end that feels like a great template for how to make a modern Western. I hope some people are inspired by it.

This just randomly popped into my head. Good to know it's still pant wettingly funny. youtu.be/qy_nU8RGWKA

📽️ 191/ Dunkirk I missed this in IMAX so without its selling point I had not felt the urge to watch it at home. With a new TV and surround sound I figured it was now worth a try. No doubt less impactful than on a big screen but still well worth watching.

Them: "Where did you go?" Me: "Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?" **electro fiddle shrieks**

My Dad ignored my birthday again this year. It's on Halloween so it's not like he wouldn't have had constant reminders. It clearly just isn't important to him to acknowledge it. He has a big birthday in a few weeks time and I'm due to fly over for it. Why should I? Would it be petty to bail?

📽️ 190/ Drive (Radio 1 Rescore) I've watched the opening car chase so many times but this is only the second full rewatch of the movie I've done. The version on Amazon Prime is the version with new songs selected by Zane Lowe. I'd have preferred to see the original again I think

📽️ 189/ Uncharted I have no experience of the games so was judging this purely as a film. I was hoping for National Treasure but expecting Tomb Raider but this fails to come anywhere close to either.

📽️ 188/ Wolfwalkers I'd heard nothing but praise so this was a slap in the face. It's been a couple of days & honestly I'm still seething. I can't get past the cultural context of the movie, but loads of native born Irish love it entirely so is that just the "plastic Paddy" chip on my shoulder?

Every year we get closer to this happening on the news

Leave to FIFA to come up with some really thoughtful bribes Say what you like but they really understand corruption. They live graft, they breathe it, they... believe in it, if that doesn't sound too mushy And it makes all the difference 🥰

I've spent a few days shying away from Bluesky because it was feeling like work. The enjoyment I get from sharing the movies I'm watching and rating was being overshadowed by the growing backlog I needed to deal with. I'm glad I didn't give up but I didn't like that feeling.

📽️ 187/ This Is Spinal Tap I'm so glad I got to introduce @dionisea.bsky.social to this movie. Watching her reaction to the Stonehenge scene was wonderful. I'm cautiously optimistic for the new movie.

📽️ 186/ Ash I was tired and burnt out on horror films when I watched this but even so I don't think I was too harsh on this.

📽️ 185/ TRON: Legacy I seem to be blind to the obvious flaws in this movie, dazzled by the gorgeous lights and stunning music.

📽️ 184/ Tron After the horrors of October I wanted something low key for a Sunday afternoon and this was ideal.

📽️ 183/ Pandorum A film I love recommending to sci-fi/horror fans because so few people seem to have seen it. We watched it on Amazon Prime and the audio mix and lack of subs made it borderline incomprehensible. Find another source if you want to check it out.

After a few days of consideration, here are my rankings for the films and shorts I watched for 🎃 Spooktober '25 📽️ Only 59 the year (I blame Celebrity Traitors) with 12 rewatches and 47 first viewings. I saw all my "must watches" but I'm disappointed with the low number of foreign language films.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

This man defined my political awareness growing up. I can’t explain to folks the amount of damage that this man did to American politics, society and the world. I really can’t. He was seemlier than the current bunch, but his kill count is way higher. It ripples down the ages.

🎃 Spooktober '25 📽️ 58/ Strange Darling Trying to be Tarantino so hard that it even includes some foot action.

🎃 Spooktober '25 📽️ 57/ Tetsuo: The Iron Man Metal Mickie's everywhere! I first heard about this film nearly 30 years ago and I finally made myself confront it. Seeing this as a teenager would have been really messed up.