Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

This is where I come back to Starmer’s quote early doors that he wasn’t ideological, but rather had values. Yeah that’s like having a list of places to visit without a map. What is your understanding of how these things connect or potentially might conflict?

I’ve never seen Barton Fink, but last night I dreamt the first 10 minutes of Barton Fink and then said to myself (in my dream) “yes, the Coen brothers are immaculate stylists.“ I think I need to hold off on reading so much film criticism #filmsky

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

For #DoctorWhoDay, I bring you the best dialogue in any episode 1963-now.

The real “Dolores”? I was recently commissioned to create a pencil sketch of Aquilops - a dinosaur which I’d never really paid proper attention to. In the l course of my research I became a bit obsessed and felt compelled to also create this more detailed illustration as a personal project. #SciArt

Thanks to all of YOU, we’ve almost got Q1 locked down for next year, but we’d love to make it “we’ve got 2026 locked down” so if you’re looking for something to support and/or find benefit in what BWDR provides, we’d love to have you join us as a subscriber!

I always thought my trouble with horror movies is that I don’t like to be scared. What I’ve realised is that I have a psychological defence mechanism to disengage from characters who do stupid things that put them in danger. To be scared for characters you maintain engagement with is a real treat.

dancing

Honey-edged Magic Hour is now the worst sort of light. It lost its lustre so quickly.

Ok fine.

People really ought to be more embarrassed about putting shit like this up in public.

The team were clearly hoping to make another Mr Bates vs The Post Office, but I’m not sure anyone expects politicians and the press and the police to behave well any more. Hard to convey quite what they did wrong these days. We don’t even *expect* privacy.

I'm not positioned to be a black Friday Frances but if you do buy a drawing it will come with a hand written note including a unique bespoke improvisational tiger. Which is almost as good as a discount.

A slam dunk review of our film Odyssey, which is in cinemas in the UK. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Interview: Filmmaker Gerard Johnson and actor Polly Maberly on new crime thriller ‘Odyssey’ thehollywoodnews.com/2025/11/07/o... @IconFilm

A little short I made ages ago, but I think still has a certain charm. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aA4K...

We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.

Polly Maberly & Gerard Johnson talk ODYSSEY at Edinburgh Film Festival youtu.be/YaRh_v6LdO8 #EIFF25 #ODYSSEYFILM #POLLYMABERLY #GERARDJOHNSON

A film series that switches to George Lazenby for one movie, switches BACK to Sean Connery for one movie before landing on Roger Moore is now worried about the character dying. Film universes are a blight, film canons are a curse, continuity is its harbinger, and we are all poorer for its presence

The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:

Andor is basically watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but every so often a muppet shows up.

"There's a definite palpable anger to it" - Polly Maberly and Gerard Johnson on Odyssey www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #filmsky 🎬

all i have in this world is my balls and my word and i don’t brea- [my surgeon whispers in my ear]. oh. well i still have my word and that’s good i swear!

This is tough for me, I had thought clowning was an artform pretty well protected from AI.

David Lynch altar for the Día de Muertos celebration at Hollywood Forever.

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10/30/2025

Really good! 👏🏻🤣

Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶

Lakes, mounds, swans, rainbow at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation.

everyone should have a @roryblank.bsky.social shirt drawer. if you don’t have one, jump on it

Homer-ental: special preview of @gerardjohnson.bsky.social ’s satirical mini North London real(i)ty/underworld epic ODYSSEY (2025), 6.45pm tonight at The Nickel, with director's intro/Q&A. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. Recommended. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/odys...

ODYSSEY (Gerard Johnson, 2025) es un verborreico thriller con alta dosis de realismo y drama social, explora la crisis de la vivienda con humor negro y desencadena una recta final ultraviolenta. Bocado que se presenta apetecible pero se indigesta. A la mierda el sector inmobiliario. #Sitges2025

In @gerardjohnson.bsky.social's satirical mini epic ODYSSEY, an ambitious, desperate N. London estate agent voyages into the night to take care of business, becoming a real(ty) legend. 3pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social, review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/odys...

The main task of any October is to try and decipher if the bug you had a week ago is still lingering or whether you're now coming down with something else.

Right, so, someone saying immigrants should have “A-level English” is someone who doesn’t know what the subject “English” is, which is learning to recognise and understand deeper meaning and symbolism in a text, to be able to analyse and deconstruct and get their own reading on a text

When you ask people in LA why they like driverless cabs, they usually snort and say “it’s only as dangerous and awful as using a human cabbie, and you don’t have to talk”. Every human cabbie I had was called Pedro or Wong, and it struck me that these things are great if you’re an antisocial racist.

In last night’s discussion on One Battle After Another in my film club, views on the film split cleanly between A) people who haven’t been to the US recently and thought the film was too comic booky B) People who’ve been to the US recently and realise that America has turned into a comic book.

The real challenge for tech bros is striking the fine balance between completely destroying humanity and retaining enough of it that their billions are still worth something.

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

Eduardo Paolozzi, 5. See Mom? A Baby’s Life is not all Sunshine, 1972 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115623

every 9th grader should have to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. because it's fun to read, and kids should experience that feeling.

For this one I'm going with THE VOURDALAK, starring the best vampire puppet since The Count from Sesame Street.

I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I‘m a fan of Eleanor, but I’ve always thought there’s a problem with this quote; in that, in saying it, you’re actually discussing people.