Here's my latest for @crimereads.bsky.social and it's about William Conrad, veteran film heavy, TV series lead, narrator of loco, wonderful cartoons and, most surprisingly, director of offbeat 1960s thrillers. crimereads.com/william-conr...

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New year; new thread #bestfilminlondontoday Jan 1 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. "Arguably, cinema’s greatest ‘accidental masterpiece’, it still amounts to some hill of beans." CASABLANCA (35mm) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

Rounding Out Flat Characters: elizabethspanncraig.com/writing-tips... #wkb1

This Woman's Work covers women in hip-hop and reggaeton guest edited by Carina del Valle Schorske & Danielle Amir Jackson. it features work by Alice Arnold, Harmony Holiday, Jessica Lynne, Joy Priest, Kristina Kay Robinson, Michael A. Gonzales Miles Marshall Lewis and Sheila Maldonado.

The first president’s decision to step down from the presidency after two terms “ensured America wouldn’t become a monarchy, or worse,” he wrote.

Eligible voters of the United States! The @npr.org voter registration guide has been updated to help get you ready for the 2026 primary elections. You can find deadlines and the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Great proposal this. Continues to be incredibly funny and incredibly stupid that for years we've *banned* bus and rail operators "colluding" to make their timetables integrate with each other.

In particular, I think this week’s episode is really important for more men to hear podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

For those that might not have Seen it, my latest Substack newsletter is live and gives some - in my opinion - much deserved love to Michael Cimino's YEAR OF THE DRAGON (1985). Free to ready at the link below. andrewnette.substack.com/p/forget-it-...

youtu.be/R-rDQs5NOP4?... Dirty punks predicted this…

Yup. Starmer is no Saint but he can’t light a candle to these Mega Sinners…

Today on Substack, I have an exciting conversation with Kevin Burton Smith, the brain behind the brilliant Thrilling Detective Web site... of course we talk about all things related to Private Investigators. Have a read! meproctor.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

This brave woman speaks for millions of British people. Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

Homer Simpson voice: "DOAH!"

NBCC member Christina Acosta reviewed Thomas Pynchon's "Shadow Ticket" for the Historical Novel Society:

AOC with the zinger of the week.

To give him his full title - Sir Cyril Smith MBE.

BTW, for those wondering: The FBI believed there to be 10 convictable co-conspirators. Khanna and Massey were only able to confirm 6 with their two hours with the files. There are 4 more names to come.

The only reason you go to the mattresses to keep the masks on is because you know people are gonna find pardoned J6ers and guys on those sex offender lists who couldn't get jobs elsewhere amongst the ranks

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tim Healy's first screen credit is in Play For Today The Happy Hunting Ground, about rogue trading on the North Shields fishing quay.

Burt Lancaster demostrando su dotes acrobáticas con Ava Gardner en un descanso del rodaje de Forajidos (The Killers). 1946

Left: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home

Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

US PUBLICATION DAY!!! I've been doing multiple interviews for US media. The common thread seems to be timing.... 'Daniel Rachel challenges the motivations of those artists who sought glamour and notoriety in exploiting Nazi imagery.' @billybragg.bsky.social www.akashicbooks.com/.../this-ain...

With thanks to @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social for these words on FALSE CALM by Maria Sonia Cristoff. Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year. ‘A profound and eerie treasure trove of stories about people living in forgotten places.’ www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...

Wherever you stand on Schrader, Blue Collar is a stone cold masterpiece

Blade Runner art by Jim Sternanko #ScienceFiction #scifisky #filmsky

AMERICAN GESTAPO: A new anthology from RHP Press this fall. We're looking for dark crime stories (2-7k words) about American fascism. Subs open Feb 15 to March 15. More info: bit.ly/4pTIdJF

I wonder if this is why he hates Somalians so much. #USDemocracy

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records. n.pr/3ZxKSy6

Only two percent of close to 400.000 people ICE has arrested are suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. Let me emphasize "suspected" there. Not convicted.

BEST. DAY. EVER.

This is quite a game changer. To pretend, to imagine is very complicated, but we are so close to them in DNA.

2/9/71: Little Murders - D Alan Arkin/W Jules Feiffer NB: Gould's FBI monologue; scene w/Sutherland Godard was lined up to direct: www.nytimes.com/1969/05/29/a... More: @tonemadison.bsky.social: tonemadison.com/articles/lit... Ben Sachs: chicagoreader.com/blogs/the-st...

"We were never really Britpop".

Poo, Spew, Richer Than You, Cuntface, Dribble, Twat.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Farewell, George ❤️🤍 A true icon of the city, and the club, he loved so dearly.

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

Robert De Niro’s copy of the Taxi Driver script includes his handwritten notes and provides insight into how he constructed his performance and how improvisation is incorporated into the filmmaking process. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/approaching-...

The decline of burglary and robbery, explained. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The question to ask now is WWND? (What would Nigel do?) If he gets into power why wouldn’t he flood the Lords with Reform peers?

A fair point. The al Fayed Harrods sex abuse and trafficking scandal has led to zero consequences. The Met Police have rec'd over 140 reports of alleged offences (incl rape, sexual assault & trafficking) spanning decades, but no charges have been brought. So far, Starmer's govt has done nothing.

Readers replies: why does a song sometimes get stuck in our heads – and what makes an earworm?

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this. It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

I’ll be driving by Billingham in about half an hour. Ask Ridley.