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

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Ten favourite guitarists in no particular order? Don't mind if I do: Tal Farlow Grant Green Angus Young Paul Kossoff Tony Iommi Samantha Fish Marty Stuart Mike Ness Joe Walsh Eddie Van Halen

New achievement unlocked, Reuters hid our reply bsky.app/profile/disn...

"We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

Ex-Court of Final Appeal judge Jonathan Sumption: • Hong Kong's rule of law applies in principle, but does not apply on issues which Beijing has a political agenda • Those who criticize China/GovHK or organize to press for more democracy are liable to go to jail www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Toho has acquired Anime Ltd...?!

This is going to be a great set, three classic chanbara from Eiichi Kudo. I did the audio commentaries on The Great Killing and 11 Samurai. Out on 30 March.

Jimmy Lai's conviction is a blow to press freedom everywhere. In Hong Kong, the role of journalism in holding power to account is now treated as a crime. Jimmy Lai is a prisoner of conscience. The fight doesn't end here. We will not rest until justice prevails. ✊

1/ Kevin Yam, a lawyer quoted in The Guardian's piece, has a great Tweet about the court's judgement re Jimmy Lai. Since I know there are some here who refuse to go on Twitter, here's copying it here: "The judgment against Jimmy Lai today spanned over 850 pages, but it's... x.com/kevinkfyam/s...

Happiness is Shawscope Volume 4 arriving in the post. All the weirdest and wackiest of Shaw Brothers, plus my essay Strange Tales From A Chinese Screen, all from @arrowvideo.bsky.social

Free Jimmy Lai - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

> @amysiskind.com

Good analysis from The Diplomat - thediplomat.com/2025/12/no-h...

Just received my copy of Saga Of The Phoenix from @88films.bsky.social . Lovely packaging that includes a booklet with my essay about the onscreen cultural crossovers between Hong Kong and Japan.

This is grim. There are no depths to which the CCP will not descend. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Lots to read including my review of City On Fire from @arrowvideo.bsky.social

Oh, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has left us. Great screen presence, I have a soft spot for the first Mortal Kombat movie.

Free Jimmy Lai www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

There is a 1-star review on Amazon from someone who really didn't like The Killer. No accounting for taste.

Out in February!

I see The Black Tavern near the top - that movie rules!!

powerful piece. how, in hong kong, silence can be deafening. "Even laughter feels different now." www.dw.com/en/hong-kong...

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

Kiss my Converse, Charlie Brown.

Our Black Friday sale is here. Get discounts on over 100 titles, including this summer's Limited Editions. Prices going as low as £7.99. Perfect as a holiday gift - or some self-care - indulge yourself with this sale. Ends midnight 3rd December.

To coincide with the re-release of City On Fire, Sight & Sound asked me to pick 10 great Hong Kong action films of the 1980s. Here's what I came up with: www.bfi.org.uk/news/10-grea...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Very tough to pick just one favourite performance by Tatsuya Nakadai when his filmography includes The Human Condition, Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion, Goyokin, The Sword Of Doom, High And Low, Sanjuro...

Coming out in January from @88films.bsky.social , Ti Lung kicks a lot of people and I ramble on about the history of Wu Song onscreen!

lol she got his ass and he knows it

The hell is up with this? This government can get in the sea. Melts.

There are much better platforms, just saying

Why does no one seem to like Superman III? That's my favourite Supes movie.