Legendary New Zealand Filmmaker & ‘Once Were Warriors’ Director Lee Tamahori Passes Away. Iconic New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori has passed away at the age of 75: au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Pauline Collins, star of Shirley Valentine, dies aged 85 www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Problem we have is every time we invite Irena over we have to reupholster. It’s a right nightmare!” #Noirvember Don’t be like them! Invite Irena into your home for #Noirvember by watching classic #FilmNoir horror Cat People (1942) on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The Thai Film Archive has opened its digital vaults, releasing a selection of historical newsreel footage that captures the boundless royal grace and work of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother: www.nationthailand.com/life/art-cul...

Opinion: Dick Cheney Was the Warmest, Kindest Man to Ever Shoot Someone in the Face and Make Them Apologize for It: thehardtimes.net/blog/opinion...

When two titans of podcasting meet! Boxing Movie Podcast (me!) and Sergio Angelini of @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social at #filmnoirfest 2025! A fantastic weekend organised by @filmnoiruk.bsky.social #filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky

Reddit added to Australia's social media ban on under-16s www.bbc.com/news/article...

On the filming road again already… a pint of Twickenham Brewery’s Naked Ladies and an Adam Hall from @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social! #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

Can’t be sure what radio station… but I’m in the hotel breakfast room and they’re playing Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You!!!

Worth watching Chris Mullin/Alan Plater’s “A Very British Coup” immediately afterwards - for a more fundamental, and angrier, take on the engineered failure of UK socialist ambitions. Watch it here on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/a...

Barcelona's Sagrada Família becomes world's tallest church: www.bbc.com/news/article...

A weekend of danger, desire, and despair starts today in the shape of @filmnoiruk.bsky.social’s 2nd #FilmNoirFest at the Plaza Cinema, Weston-super-Mare. Expect plenty of #FilmNoir and crime action. Singular tickets (nearly all £5 each) are still available: wsm.merlincinemas.co.uk?forcechoice=...

Watch: Question Time audience reacts to Andrew news www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

As Sean Bean would say: “Bastards!” Watchdog slams O2 over unexpected price rise: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ponty just lost

The mighty Pontypool (my home rugby team) on @s4c.cymru tonight: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l...

Donor offers £1m to restore Brunel's 'other bridge': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Turing AI Institute boss denies accusations of 'toxic internal culture' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Björn Andrésen, Swedish actor who starred in Death in Venice, dies aged 70: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

John Boorman’s BBC series (all shot in Bristol) returns to Bristol thanks to @swsilents.bsky.social and @andrewkelly.bsky.social with a sellout audience!

Bizarre cover to go with. Armpit smelling anyone one?! Arm-pit-calypse Now! #HeartsOfDarkness #ApocalypseNow

Barbara Gips Dies: Tagline Writer Responsible For Iconic “In Space No One Can Hear You Scream” Was 89: deadline.com/2025/10/barb...

A roaring fire, a pint of Maiden Voyage and Benny and Hitch. An excellent read up to now! #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

There aren’t many who can present a show nearly once a week for 12 years and make it as fresh, thought provoking, entertaining and intelligent as @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social! It’s been great listening from the very beginning. Listen in on #BBCRadio3’s #SoundOfCinema at 4PM for the final time.

Listen to myself and @neilkbrand.bsky.social talk and babble to @www.johnbleasdale.com for the Writers on Film Podcast all about #Pordenone’s Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 and #SilentFilm in general. Neil talks! I babble! Thanks to John for ticking this off my bucket list! 😁

For all you #JamesBond fans out there; #bbcradio3 has Puccini's Tosca from The Royal Opera tonight at 6PM. The background setting for 2008’s Quantum of Solace Opera sequence. Worth a listen, although “Tosca isn’t for everyone.”: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

They don’t come anymore wicked than Margaret Lockwood in The Wicked Lady (1945), on today @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 2:45pm. To be honest, I can’t stand most of Gainsborough Pictures’ period films, but this one is a classic. Edited by future Hammer legend Terence Fisher by the way.

Just arrived! The first copies of our #FilmNoirFest Festival Catalogue! If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more! Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Not quite a #FilmNoir but Frank Lloyd's Blood on the Sun (1945) starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney is an interesting film in Cagney's work. Produced by William Cagney. Music by Miklós Rózsa. Cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl. On @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 01:20am.

I review the UK @criterion.bsky.social release of Howard Hughes’ very bloated but action packed #WW1 blockbuster Hell’s Angels (1930); plus a chance to win a copy all on the @swsilents.bsky.social website: www.southwestsilents.com/post/hell-s-...

Co-director @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social selects his top five #SilentFillm titles from this year's Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 in #Pordenone, Italy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/festiva...

Worth a watch! Johnson questioned on lack of planning before closing schools over Covid: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

We are back in #Wareham this November for the #SilentFilm Weekender; tickets and passes on sale: www.therex.co.uk/news/18363 Our thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social.

Love #JoanCrawford?! #Bristol has a special Joan Crawford Double Bill coming up at @bristolaquarium.bsky.social’s Megascreen! #FilmNoir Mildred Pierce (1945) and classic (and noirish) Johnny Guitar (1954) on Saturday 15th November. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A pint of Maiden Voyage and Stephen Rebello’s Criss-Cross: The Making Of Strangers On A Train, Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

Grand Theft Auto made him a legend. His latest game was a disaster www.bbc.com/news/article...

Klaus Doldinger, the German saxophonist and composer who created the soundtracks to Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story, had died: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Warner Bros. Discovery rejected a takeover offer of “around” $20 per share from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance in recent weeks as “too low.” au.variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Samantha Eggar, Star of ‘Doctor Dolittle,’ Cronenberg’s ‘The Brood,’ Dies at 86 variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Well, @Waterstones is offering 25% off online orders of the paperback of The New Forest Murders. OCTOBER25 is the code. Easier to crack than the one its hero and heroine must solve. www.waterstones.com/book/the-new...

Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the footsteps of giants: One of the world’s longest dinosaur trackways uncovered in Oxfordshire quarry: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Another item picked up during Giornate Del Cinema Muto this year was Lea Jacobs’ most recent book, John Ford at Work: Production Histories (1927-1939). There is a fascinating chapter from the outset about Ford and Murnau at Fox. Highly recommend. #Pordenone #SilentFilm

'Under the tinsel and glitter - something ugly.' Australian pulp fiction's Spanish connection by @pulpcurry.bsky.social: andrewnette.substack.com/p/under-the-...

Odd being in #Pordenone after the Giornate has finished. But life carries on… as does work.

Glastonbury Tor found preserved in log by gardener: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A final white wine at the Posta in #Pordenone before the end of another edition of Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto; and George Kennedy’s Murder on Location crime fiction book. Yes, that George Kennedy! #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

Some more of the amazing film posters at Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto’s #FilmFair #Pordenone