Listening to Mad & Madder, which would have been a good title for a Terence Hill/Bud Spencer film.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Over the weekend of 1st/2nd November, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social will be screening the 1977 BBC adaptation of ‘Dracula’. First adaptation that was actually filmed in Whitby and the one that scuppered the #DoctorWho ‘Vampire Mutations’ story

Radical left millennials have killed another company soon after it was taken over by private equity.

Richard Hannay, not yet realising he has another 7 to go.

One from the October vaults! If you are looking for a guide to classic horror movies and creature features, you can't go wrong this classic tome - A Pictorial History of Horror Movies (1973) by Dennis Gifford

A wonderfully strange song from @sparksofficial.bsky.social youtu.be/Di9-ZRI4tjA?...

It's an important job!

Happy Birthday to Russell! 💫

Could. Not. Resist.

MADDER! Unboxing 😎 ▶ youtu.be/2tQu_DWkdJA

No South Bank Book Market today, probably because all the books would have ended up in the Thames.

I'm 64 and he looks 10 years older than me.

Ridley Scott has been in the building at the BFI, drawing one of those strange congregations of people who don't come to films or events but assemble in the foyer optimistically with a carrier bag full of stuff to have signed.

Picked this up in the BFI shop.

I didn't think it was that windy until I got to the South Bank, where I am willing to concede that it is windy.

I still don’t understand why Boris Johnson isn’t in prison meanwhile a national newspaper still thinks it appropriate to employ him to apply posh boy humour against people rightfully protesting genocide . The moral depravity of the man & our media on full display.

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

Off to the BFI for an Anna May Wong double-bill today.

This was definitely worth upgrading - one of the best 4K transfers I've seen (Italian Serie B cinema does tend to scrub up beautifully).

In honor of of the first day of Spooky Season, here's Dracutwig, a novel about Dracula’s daughter who becomes a Twiggy-inspired model in late 1960s Swingin’ London. This could have been a great Hammer, or maybe an Amicus, movie. But I think Twigula is a better name for the character.

Ordered (along with the Guide to Occult Britain)!

Not for the first time Netanyahu prefers the global far right to the Jewish diaspora

No cassette? How is Ron supposed to play it in what might loosely be described as his car?

"Your version won't rip". I am very confident that it will. youtu.be/2tQu_DWkdJA?...

About to see Urchin.

Thoughts and prayers with Alexis Petridis, who will shortly be going into hiding. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

The first ever EP from Sparks, MADDER! - a 4-track companion piece to MAD! - is OUT NOW❗️ Listen/buy: transgressive.lnk.to/madder Tracklisting: 1. Porcupine 2. Fantasize 3. Mess Up 4. They

75 years ago today, The first Peanuts comic strip was published. Peppermint Patty was such a brilliant character, and this is my favourite strip featuring her, from 28th December 1984.

Sad to learn of the passing of punk icon Susan Lucas, aka Soo Catwomen. Rest in power. X

Number 14. Beat The Clock - Sparks youtu.be/JoMCip83GZ4?...

Number 25. Something for the Girl with Everything - Sparks youtu.be/xQZ57K9h5tI?...

Bradshaw is wrong about the lack of sympathy in Curse of Frankenstein - there is pathos as well as terror in Lee's broken performance.

The new restoration is (horribly) gorgeous.

Hammer and the Cush smashing it in the Guardian! We love to see it 🖤 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Number 21. Propaganda/At Home, At Work, At Play - Sparks youtu.be/gmEq12ndSh0?...

Appropriate number one for the #Top40ofthe70s

Number 6. Get In The Swing - Sparks youtu.be/IiztV-9lAuk?...

Number 9. This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us -Sparks youtu.be/eUJ_ifjKopM?...

Never say 'The last time I checked' if you have never, ever checked.

i assure you, the joker takes no pleasure in flooding gotham with joker gas, he has to ensure the gang places all of these tanks in the right places to poison all of gotham

Are you ready for HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology? 👉🏼Pre-orders for Tales of Occult Britain are open worldwide on helleborezine.com

Spaaaaarks!

Movie nerd highlights

Charlie Brown’s Diamond Anniversary—October 2, 1950, 75 years ago today, began what is inarguably one of the greatest comic strips of all time. D.D. Degg has a thorough history of Charles Schulz Peanuts. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

For those who don't understand, Yom Kippur is the day every Jew at the very least reflects on their relationship to their Jewishness. Some of us spend lifetimes trying to define that outside the frame of antisemitism. This isn't just a day of mass congregation, it's a chance at reclamation.

Arrived today!

Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured. Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.