Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...

Ryan Coogler is a director of importance, the first half of SINNERS 📽️ is extraordinary but for @intheirownleague.bsky.social the second half is such an unholy mess that to my own astonishment I can't truly recommend it intheirownleague.com/2025/04/20/r...

The @thenickelcinema.bsky.social line-up for January at the thenickel.co.uk. A marvellous selection …

A quick calculation: I've reviewed 120 or so movies, 24 episodes of television, two books, three plays and four art exhibits this year, meaning I have written approximately 155,000 words of critical analysis of art this year (and 85% of that paid). Not too shabby

I got called a prescriptive misandrist for complaining that none of my dates have ever given me a stuffed capybara

Everyone enjoy! sarahsnewideas.com/2025/12/30/2...

– issue/topical novels generally less well realised. – a lot of novels lack subject matter and end up being just ... writing. – fragmentary writing works better when strong core concept unifies the world (Solvej Balle). – why/where do so many writers hide their sense of humour?

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bryan Cranston's A Life in Parts: Not bad, with some valuable commentary on the art of acting generally and not just his big famous part specifically.

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I think my reviews of season three of Reacher are some of the best work I did this year

We are member-supported and clearly there's hunger for feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm at a moment when we very much need both independent media and quality cultural criticism. Here's a 7% discount (my lucky number!) you can use through the end of the year.

I think my final two spots are for The Testament of Ann Lee and the first half of Sinners (the moment Jack O'Connell arrives, stop) but I will reflect

So many employers — you see this in journalism all the time — view entry-level employees not as future mid-career employees but basically as cannon fodder.

The question then becomes: how much more expensive will mid-career employees be if you have to bid them away from firms that are producing them in a few years, and does that exceed what you save by using AI as an excuse not to hire now?

This is about elections.

I've drafted my annual theatre report for my blog and good lord I saw 53 shows in London this year (and one in York). Someone please hire me to be the London theatre correspondent! My speciality is American plays and how good (or not) the Brits are at doing them, because they don't seem able to quit

📸 Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung behind the scenes of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE. In a milestone that still feels slightly unreal, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is now entering its 104th consecutive week on our screens. And yes, it’s showing on New Year’s Eve too! 🎟️: buff.ly/p1BC86U

A touch of Pre-Code Hollywood at its Pre-Code-est. A young Humphrey Bogart mocks Ann Dvorak's cocaine addiction. From Three on a Match (1932)

When chlorinated chicken was first mentioned as a concept in the UK, a boss did a straw poll around the office if we'd ever buy it and my finance colleagues all laughed and said they'd simply go organic. Whereas I was like, what about the kids who don't have a choice?

So I did do a books roundup on my blog, combined with the television roundup, especially since I would like to review more shows sarahsnewideas.com/2025/12/29/2...

@10millionhardbacks.bsky.social cheers my friend! A happy new year to you and the boy!

Be mean about my mom in my mentions and get blocked! The rules are not difficult!

Don't delegate the reading of your contracts to any one or anything. Read the whole fucking thing. If you have questions or don't understand something, this is what your agent or lawyer is for. And fucking YES get a lawyer, one that has some experience with contracts in the relevant field.

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for microgrant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. Projects of all genres are welcome. Visit our website to learn more and apply by December 31, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

Hello! I’m seeking volunteers to be interviewed for my PhD thesis on the cultural significance of the tailored suit within queer communities during the 1970s and 1980s. If you’re interested and would like more information, please contact me. Thank you, and feel free to share this with your networks!

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Agents, editors and publishers, see this thread. This book is one of my favourites ever and absolutely should be back in print.

Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

As my art project continues to attract no attention whatsoever, a reminder that 1) I am full-time available for it! 2) the lack of appreciation of my genius only risks me writing a memoir called MY SUFFERING CONTINUES and no one wants that sarahsnewideas.com/2025/01/01/a...

Here is a really nice review of YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK that Scott wrote *before* we became friends triumphofthenow.com/2023/01/18/y...

This is the most expensive copy of YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK I've seen for sale yet! One thousand seven hundred seventy-eight pounds and four pence! www.amazon.co.uk/You-Ruin-Whe...

London writers please boost: our workshop is always open to new members and anyone who would like help getting their novel over the line please get in touch

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

The "You had me at balls" scene from the "Hey, Our 'Cops' Is On!" episode of My Name is Earl

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

For those of you wondering what happened to the potato on page 3: they got him folks

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

They do not appear to be making this anymore 😭😭😭 if anyone has an alternative nutmeg jam they recommend please let me know

My mom saw The Thursday Murder Club and thinks it was funny for old people

Driftwood: I say they're duplicates! Fiorello: Oh sure. It'sa duplicates. Driftwood: Don't you know what duplicates are? Fiorello: Sure, those five kids up in Canada. Famous since 1935! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X85...

Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.

The last of the Dionnes has died www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...