Apparently Bennett was certain that Frank Miller ripped him off. I mean... look at Mallet. They also shot a short film based on the BRUTE! comic, where MALLET! originated. Awesome stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnO...

"Gaza is now full of aid, which is why we have blockade it" really should be the sort of position that makes you second guess yourself.

My new FREE TO ALL Reading Project post is up. Today I cover Hans Fallada's relevant LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?, and Dan Fante's completely buguck POINT DOOM! billryan64.substack.com/p/dont-rush-...

Paul Duane (dir of All You Need Is Death) posted on Lboxd this sick trailer from 1987 for a series that never materialized, about a psycho noir character named MALLET. Based on a comic by Malcolm Bennett and Aiden Hughes www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgWL...

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 On the 30th anniversary of Jon Pertwee's passing, we pay tribute to the Third #DoctorWho. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Kay Francis in MANDALAY is not just a clothes-horse -- in fact, she proves she can act with no clothes at all. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/m...

I would pay cash money for a version where they cut Ricky Gervais OUT of the movie

Why would I watch a mid Star Wars movie when I could watch a random mid western from the 50s directed by Lesely Selender?

Any discussions on late 90s gaming in Italy would be unfair without Tabboz Simulator. Released in 1997, it was a simple Tamagotchi-like "white trash" simulator: get into fights with metalheads, get a girlfriend, modify your scooter and buy loads of furry clothes. Its portability was a great feat.

The ultimate rail replacement bus service.

I can never get rid of Facebook.

Dreamed that God used a flood to revert to an earlier save again. The decor in my house was 1980s for a few seconds while things buffered after, it was weird

I’m reading it more as he’s a Keir fan who is scared of Wes Streeting,, so the repeated variations of “do you think Keir REALLY hates Trans people?” all come with the implication “but you know who does?”

Blocked by the person being replied to long ago but the sad reality is that a lot of prominent legal people (including on here) are quietly quite happy with the Supreme Court judgement because they agree with it, and that's why they're more than happy to give Starmer a pass for not pushing back

The logic is brutal. Girls are for fucking. Thin girls are more fuckable. These are gender-affirming shots. As always, the machine that victimises trans girls also victimises cis girls.

UK: "So long as it's not a trans teen, we're all fine with it - do whatever you like."

it was never about “concerns about experimental drugs with a lack of evidence”

I'm happy to buy that he's not a frothing transphobe but if anything that sort of makes it worse - somehow he ended up adopting the most stringent anti-trans legislation in western Europe for....no particular reason? just sort of let it happen?

It's been said in the replies that no legislation changed. I would point out that the meaning of the words within the legislation was changed, and Starmer stood in front of the country and said there was a new, clear meaning that the Government supported. So yeah, it changed. Without changing.

This is a weird analogy as it isn't clear to me why Artemis "should" cost more than HS2 in a sort of cosmic, moral sense. A few single use rockets for a dozen or so people vs a strategic railway covering hundreds of miles that needs to last a century?

For all those people who love it when telling about how an actor ACTUALLY ad-libbed a classic movie line In Barry Sonnenfelds new (very good) book he talks about how Will Smith on a movie set has writers with him to write his off-the-cuff adlibs for him.

In 1981, we enjoyed EXCALIBUR, but giggled at Uther having sex in his armour, Nicol Williamson's wacky Merlin voice + on-the-nose Orff. What snotty brats we were. During my latest rewatch I wept at the purity of Boorman's vision. I doubt Nolan's Odyssey will come anywhere near it, but we can hope.

I revisited JG Ballard's "Cocaine Nights" this weekend. I bailed out on it first time 30 years ago, but essentially hoovered it up in one go this time. It's "Twin Peaks" in an "Eldorado" setting, investigating not a murder, but a whole community.

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

BAD TIMING is one of my favorite films. I know I have a lot of followers who are into David Lynch, and I'd like to say that Theresa Russell's performance in this film foreshadows Sheryl Lee's in FWWM. Her awareness of how she is perceived by men is the same. If you can go to this then you should.

Gina Carano whined enough about being cancelled for years to get a live Netlflix event and here's how it went:

This racist stalker on X explains why he is confident in his sense of impunity for racist abuse on the platform. (He may be proved right about that, but let's see)

There was a time when fossil fuels were inevitable and irreplaceable, we knew that, and we didn't need their marketing departments to sell us that message.

Hollywood’s take on the great @marizzo72.bsky.social was only slightly more of affront than the 1965 LORD JIM But at least they captured his satorial style.

WHO: Ebola is now a public health emergency in DR Congo. No vaccines, no medicine, no resources to contain it.

My beleaguered friends and family ask me “why do you still go to charity shops, you have every possible book that could interest you” And, in a way they’re right. But it’s for things like this. For things like this

my youtube video today is about a wonderful book of letters from the 1970s sent between a couple in england and a family in the USSR. 'From Newbury with Love' was something i found by chance last week... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSVC... @profilebooks.bsky.social

Sarah Beeny's Property Ladder, a 2000s show in which each an amateur developer would make a series of terrible decisions and then still somehow end up in profit, has been unexpectedly catastrophic for the British economy. Welcome to my TED Talk.

Ooof

Straight up nazi merch ads on the site still used by the UK government & they use the money from this to fund far right MPs. Great that everyone’s just ok with this because they’re addicted to the child abuse image generator board

WHY HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE? Mrs Ron does all the talking. Ron says little yet says alot. #VirginMediaRon www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NHD...

Highly recommend checking out Kawamoto’s House of Flame as well. I was immediately drawn in by its beautifully subtle animation when Animation Obsessive shared it last year.

My pithy Letterboxd style review of Mark Jenkin’s ROSE OF NEVADA Finally Britain has its own MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Mark Jenkin gets to go back to 1993. When Channel 4 would show a film like his every Friday night.

Thanks for your kind words about my Curtis Mayfield INVENTORY and playlist. Auditory version coming on Wednesday. @backlisted.bsky.social Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen it, Caryl Phillips’s BBC documentary Darker Than Blue (1995) features an interview with Curtis himself. youtu.be/ESEsC8mVLwo?...

I am weirdly angry about this DS9 episode Odo should not be Columbo. The whole point of Columbo is that he seems foolish and sloppy but friendly and this hides a deep intelligence. That’s so not Odo Rom would be the PERFECT Columbo. Damnit!

Great article. I think its time has passed. When filmmakers struggle for years and years to get their one dream project made & finally do, it rarely comes out well. It sort of loses its reason, like filmmaker has changed in the interim Mad Max Fury Road is the exception to this and many rules

Of all #DoctorWho historical papers this is maybe my new favourite curio - Malcolm Hulke’s 1966 pitch for at a new pilot script for the show. This was mooted for radio, potentially to star Bella Lugosi as the Doctor, or later Peter Cushing. (Taken from David Brunt’s Hartnell Production Diary book.)

Dragonheart. And I was a kid who loved his dragons. But it was just so dour and miserable. I was stoic at the time “yeah it was good” but the following week it was my friend’s birthday party and his dad wanted us to see this and I just broke down “No! Not again! Anything but that!!”

"Competing rallies draw similar crowds" - BBC

One had tens of thousands, the other had a quarter of a million, which I guess is a type of tens of thousands

Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.

I’d like you all to run “transgender extremists captured the BBC” through your deranged conspiracy theory bullshit detector, and see whether it pings

Big Jim cycles to meet a lady, but on the way gets hammered. Good lord. I actually applauded at the end of this. A perfect gag.

God we really did used to make films.

Of course the Observer are pro-Streeting. They are owned by rabid TERFs now. Streeting is one of them.