Evening viewing recommendation? “You can learn more from John Sturges’s audio track on the BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school” - Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997.

Every day another act of imbecility from this orange cretin. It's exhausting.

A delightfully excoriating dissection

Look at this beautiful boxset! Three classic chanbara by Eiichi Kudo, released by @arrowvideo.bsky.social . I was delighted to contribute commentaries to 11 Samurai and The Great Killing and I'm looking forward to hearing @midnightmes.bsky.social talk about 13 Assassins

Marvelously silly

THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE (2004) returns to the PCC next Saturday night for a perfect Saturday-night 6:15pm show! We loved showing this one last time - it ended up being one of our favourite screenings of the entire year! 🎟️: buff.ly/3pgv0mH

What in seven hells has happened to eBay? Is this peak enshittification?

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

Fellow film peeps, anyone have a lead on Roger Garcia's book King Hu: In This Own Words?

I had a chat with Bi Gan about his mind and genre-bending new film Resurrection for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social - www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

So I've just learned The Karate Kid The Musical is a real thing that exists. I have questions. www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-ka...

A headline to boggle the mind

Episode 36 of Film by Numbers is here! 🥋 Episode 36 “36 Chambers of Shaolin” dives into the world of martial arts cinema—its history, philosophy, and lasting influence on action filmmaking. Featuring special guest writer David West. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3siT... #FilmSky #Podcast #Movies

The chaps of the Film By Numbers podcast kindly invited me to appear on their episode about martial arts cinema. open.spotify.com/episode/3siT...

The only thing preventing me from flying right now is gravity holding me down, and if gravity should not do that, then it's up, up, and away.

The Play China Didn't Want Strasbourg to See open.substack.com/pub/linguasi...

I hope this quotation is real because it's amazing

UK democracy in action The state unable/unwilling to provide people with clean water, timely healthcare, social care, decent housing, pension, affordable education, energy, decent roads. Corporate profits guaranteed through PFI, privatisations, outsourcing, subsidies, regulatory inaction.

Disgraceful

Hung this up in the living room last weekend:

This is the way!

Kate Nash in the current Amnesty Magazine. 🔥

ridiculously good

The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.

Favourite Transformer? Optimus Subprime Mortgage

Post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/GXlE8cdBqzY?...

Today we’re delivering the report to Parliament. Here's our CEO, Anna Ganley, with a message to Government, asking them to implement CLEAR; a new regulatory framework to protect the livelihoods of authors, illustrators, musicians, performers, and photographers. #JusticeForCreators

Dreadful.

In response to the sentencing of #JimmyLai today, #HongKong’s last Governor Lord Patten calls out the British government’s failure to secure the release of a British citizen from foreign persecution, and supports the ongoing fight for his release. #UK

'Evil beyond measure' says John Lee. What a bootlicker. Free Jimmy Lai.

Nothing to see here. Just the Times Magazine trying to rehabilitate Mandleson’s image. Totally normal and understandable. I mean, who of us has not shared highly sensitive government information with the world’s most prolific pedophile?

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Good grief

Great cover art, if you ask me. My audio commentary discusses the influence of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai, Teruo Ishii's An Outlaw, events in Tiananmen Square, and much more besides.

Melania is going to sweep the board at the FIFA Academy Awards.

Some thoughts on No Other Choice open.substack.com/pub/westwatc...

I'm sure it's fine. La la la la thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...

The level of cognitive dissonance - we're going to China to secure British prosperity, but we can't take any government tech because they'll steal all our info. FFS. And will they push Xi on his support for Putin? Will they hell. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Film peeps, anyone know of an English subbed version of Deewar (1975)?

Board of Peace - Season 1

Remembering things that happened is now illegal

An extraordinary story

Elia Kazan’s classic 1954 drama ON THE WATERFRONT hits the PCC next Wed 14th Jan at 8:45pm. Marlon Brando's career-defining and Oscar-winning performance as as Terry Malloy, caught between loyalty, fear, and the possibility of doing the right thing. 🎟️: buff.ly/UsOq9UQ

An amazing feat in this day and age to reach 400 issues - and this one features my interview with Steve Barron and Robbie Rist about making the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie