#LetterboxdFriday #Lastfourwatched It's a Wonderful Life (1946), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Blue Moon (2025), and Little Women (2019) @letterboxd.social #filmsky 📽️🎬

If I've woken up and put on the cricket during this Ashes series and been pleasantly surprised with how things were going, I certainly don't remember it. Before Perth I predicted it might be 3-2 to Australia (or 3-1 if weather intervened maybe) but we'll be lucky to avoid 5-0. #thecricket

Watched Blue Moon today, one of the two Linklater films we've got coming to us over the next few months. I liked it! boxd.it/c3YbSV #filmsky 🎬📽️

Christmas watches so far in December: The Daytrippers (technically set just after Thanksgiving but Christmas is there somewhere in the background), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (beautiful), Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree, Home Alone, and Little Women. #filmsky 📽️🎬

Ughhhhhhhh. #filmsky 🎬📽️

Oh, eff off. We all know what that really means. #filmsky 📽️🎬

There probably isn't a good option available, but I don't like the sound of this. Netflix don't think releasing films either at the cinema or on Blu-ray/DVD is important at all so this is bad news for both of those things. #filmsky 🎬📽️ www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Body clock woke me up just a bit after the cricket started and it sounds like we're messing it up once again. #thecricket

Someone I work with has a free cinema ticket for Vue so we're going to see Stand By Me this evening. Never seen it on the big screen! #filmsky 📽️🎬

Not putting it up just yet, but I'm off out to get a Christmas tree in a minute! 🎄

Re-watched Moonstruck last night. A good set-at-Christmas-but-not-about-Christmas option. Can't believe Danny Aiello is supposed to be 42 in this! #filmsky 🎬📽️ boxd.it/bSI4rn

Went to see Jay Kelly the other night. I love some of Noah Baumbach but this wasn't for me. Just extremely middling. Also it did that thing you read about Netflix-produced things where the script is written in such a way that if you are looking at your phone, it doesn't matter. Bleurgh. #filmsky 📽️🎬

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Hoping to see Jay Kelly this week. I could go today but there are limited options with everywhere showing Wicked so much. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian gave JK one star! However in his review he said he thought White Noise was good. I thought it was dreadful, so maybe I'll like it. #filmsky 📽️🎬

Bet Ruben Dias is really insufferable as a guy.

I’ve gone from not enjoying the cricket to enjoying the cricket in the space of an hour, who knew that sport could be like this, with fortunes changing back and forth over a period of time

We are relieved that Nigel's case is over & feel he was lucky to not get a more severe sentence.

#LetterboxdFriday #Lastfourwatched City That Never Sleeps (1953), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Naked Spur (1953), and The Running Man (2025) @letterboxd.social #filmsky 📽️🎬

steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"

“Getting reports that Weatherald has fallen down the stairs at the Met Gala”

the moral of Drive was that it's cool to cruise around the city at night listening to synth music

Body clock woke me up in time for the cricket starting. Can't say I'm pleased that it has. #thecricket

boxd.it/bLPnRZ #filmsky 🎬📽️

Got two days off now! I've stuck on City That Never Sleeps (1953), my next #Noirvember entry. Saw this still from it online the other day and couldn't resist! #filmsky 📽️🎬

RIGHT I've put the heating on.

Plan for today: read in bed, snack, go for a canal walk, meet my family for a roast, come home to watch a film, go to bed. Solid.

Went to see The Running Man. Never saw the original adaptation, and perhaps if I had I might have appreciated this more, but it felt like a bit of a mess, and as though it lasted about half an hour longer than it actually did. #filmsky 🎬📽️ boxd.it/bISZT9

Not sure that will have poured oil on troubled waters, I must say.

My next book group book is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. I've started reading it over the last few days. I'm slowly finding my way into it. Its prose is quite sparse and there's a definite emphasis on character over plot but I like that kind of thing. #booksky 📚

At my book group last night we talked about The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene. It's always published with The Third Man - both stories were adapted into excellent films by Carol Reed. I feel The Fallen Idol is if not underrated, certainly under-seen, but it's one of my faves. #booksky #filmsky 📽️🎬

I hate the sea.

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005), The Killers (1946), Black Tuesday (1954), and My Name Is Julia Ross (1945). #Noirvember has definitely set in. #filmsky 📽️🎬 @letterboxd.social

Just spent over £100 in the UK Criterion Collection Sale 😬 Pleased with my haul though: Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Girlfriends (1978), Certain Women (2017), My Brilliant Career (1979), Detour (1945), Crossing Delancey (1988), Grey Gardens (1975), and Magnificent Obsession (1954). #filmsky 📽️🎬

In the NYC subways; The French Connection (1971) Saturday Night Fever (1977) Death Wish (1974) The Warriors (1979) Dressed to Kill (1980) My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Couple of days off work ahead of me. Booked for a day trip to York tomorrow! First stop is the Minster, then getting a Yorkshire pudding wrap for lunch, then going to the railway museum, then home. Solid day in prospect.

End of year film polls should be published the following February so they can cover an entire theatrical year and also allow some crucial Christmas/January catch up time.

Bit late doing it this week, but: #Lastfourwatched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), The Raven (1963), Young Frankenstein (1974), and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). @letterboxd.social #filmsky 🎬📽️

#Noirvember is ON. #filmsky 📽️🎬

Only managed five films for #Shocktober this year: Tales of Terror (1962), The Return of Doctor X (1939), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Raven (1963), and the best one, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966). Technically watched the last one in November but I'm counting it. #filmsky 🎬📽️

1986 to 1991 really were a low point in TOTP title design.

But a high point in TV theme tunes.

I'm watching silly, non-scary horrors only this #Shocktober, and tonight I'm re-watching Young Frankenstein (1974) #filmsky 📽️🎬

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, on at Manchester Apollo last night, are the figures you can just about make out thanks to the inadequacies of my phone camera. They were very good.

#LetterboxdFriday #Lastfourwatched Urchin (2025), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), Tales of Terror (1962), and My Father's Shadow (2025). #filmsky 🎬📽️ @letterboxd.social

After the cinema yesterday I looked in on an exhibition in the gallery called Roots in the Sky. This one is by Joy Labinjo and it's called Love him and let him love you.