Itʼs bad that theatres are full of nostalgia bait but, taken on its own merits, Fawlty Towers: The Play isnʼt bad. Studio sitcoms are essentially recorded comic plays anyway so it transfers well and the actors are straddling the character/impression border well

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

So the top contenders to run the country are: A guy who is throwing away a public job he was elected to do because he's got a sniff of a better job A guy who dithered for days about forcing the issue, and who defended his seat in 2024 by winning a majority of just 500 votes What great leaders!

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

I watched this yesterday, itʼs been chopped up inelegantly so itʼs best watched all in one go. But itʼs worth it! Three hours flies by in a lavish period revenge romp that could have come from Hollywood only everyone is French. It cost ⅛ the budget of the last Mission: Impossible yet feels richer.

I switched to Firefox on my phone last year and the difference between it and the inbuilt Samsung Internet app on this page makes me feel very good about that choice

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

Letʼs just accept itʼs Labyrinth (still with heavy Jim Henson Co. involvement) and then debate who the current Bowie is. I know Taylor thinks she has eras like Bowie had personas, but no. Sabrina Carpenter could lay on the camp charm easily enough, right?

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Iʼve been meaning to watch the lavish, three-hour French 2024 movie adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo since I saw a rave Letterboxd review. And it seems the BBC is now airing it… as four 45-minute episodes?!

Josh O'Connor, on the incredible performance note he got from Steven Spielberg while shooting Disclosure Day apnews.com/article/disc...

Inconsequential conspiracy theory: Joe Wicks ran quite a slow marathon last year (5 hours 59) so he arranged a reason to legitimately not have to run fast this year to save face (he has to stay next to the guy in the giant pig costume)

they got this figure in the classic "yoda crouching down and talking on the phone" pose he was always doing in the movies

#Trekkies — can y'all help me find someone that speaks fluent Klingon? I've an idea for a craft I want to make for Pride Month, but my Klingon is woefully lacking. 🖖 TIA!

we all know I have no life, so:

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

In From Russia With Love, Bond visits Turkey and eats a “delicious and exotic” breakfast of yoghurt, figs and freshly ground coffee. If Daniel Craigʼs 007 had done this, he a) could have gone to any cafe in London for it; b) been called woke for not having a fry-up

Besides the aesthetics being far better, why do people pine for media without spending $6.99 per month- er, $9.99 per month- wait, $11.99 per month- hold up, $14.99 per month-

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

3 things they must do in the Mandalorian movie: Finally name Yoda’s species but it’s just “goblins” Have Yoda show up but no one can remember his name so they just call him “Old Grogu” & then also credit him as that in the cast Have 2 stars go to war (despite series name, has not yet happened)

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

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the evil emperor cozying up to the pope’s idiot brother is so fucking renaissance, man. it’s so funny. the emperor is forming an alliance against the papal states and there is war in the holy land. there are rumors of plague.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

I think this might be the most boring book cover on my shelves. Even if you want to stick to the format of “one photograph” for some Penguin Modern Classics house style, there are better options even among James Bond stills.

“There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.” (Back to the Future) Doc Brown may be weird, antisocial and out of touch, but come on, he knows what a dance is and he'd call it a dance

I found out the answer to this and it's because it dates back to the Japanese mobile phone carriers. The Japanese phones had both camels because double humpers are native to East Asia and a popular art motif and tourism attraction 🐫🎋, while 1-humpies represent the exotic Middle East desert 🐪🌴

Fun fact! There's a whole community dedicated to jailbreaking and modding kindles. You don't need to settle for this. kindlemodding.org

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

you, a fool: it's impossible to qualify who has the "best" life, due to the immense complexity of-- me, grabbing the mic: the bear from the bear baiting scene on Game of Thrones demanded frying pans full of whipped cream between every take, and everyone had to applaud him while he ate

Figure out what is very important to you, what you would hate to lose access to, and make sure you a physical backup is my advice. Use this horror as inspiration!

a new form of teen fuck-up emerges

If you want to make a screenwriter cry, take them to see the THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE. It's so lacking in substance and purpose that after a while you can’t even hear the dialogue over the incessant sound of Aristotle’s ghost punching himself. My review is at @thewrap.com!

If you see this post a concert photo you took.

Incredibly bold of #F1 to invite the Super Mario cast to a race just when everyone is criticising the new rules as “Mario Kart racing”

Happy 91st birthday to Julian Glover, genre villain extraordinaire. I often think of this letter he had published in the Sunday Times in May 2021:

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused

Please somebody just release The Pitt on disc and let me live in peace

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

Recently I assembled full run of Malibu-era Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comics published in 1993-95. It's so strange reading adaptations of a version of the show that barely existed (i.e. the year 1/2 pre-Dominion stuff.) The station gets bombed by terrorists about every three issues.

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#DoctorWho #Dalek

This is my life now 100jumps.org

Remember, that When It Happens, we must all show the grace, dignity, and restraint in speech and action of the man himself.

I was struggling to understand my autistic son - until we watched an episode of Doctor Who