SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW! The Maureen Seaton Book Prize for LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writers is open from 6/10/26 through 7/10/26, with final judge Denise Duhamel. Named for the beloved poet Maureen Seaton (1947–2024), this prize honors queer voices in the early stages of their literary lives.

Winner of Best Director, Best Debut Film and Best Actress at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, and named “a stunning, sensory-forward portrait of a woman with dementia" by Little White Lies, FAMILIAR TOUCH is coming to UK & Irish cinemas from 19 June www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fB...

There will be an army of vloggers catching trains and planes to get to Belfast to try and help stir shit up, reminder that if a man with a GoPro starts filming you, you can always ask "aren't you that paedo guy?" to ensure the clip doesn't end up online.

I just realised something huge. The holding a tiny microphone instead of attaching it to your clothes trend is because nobody smokes anymore but they still need something to do with their hands. These videos are all something somebody would tell you in the smoking area

this is what consequential journalism looks like

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

also listen to Second Homes, you're probably a 38 year old and you'll want more of this in your life secondhomes.bandcamp.com/album/find-a...

If you haven't seen ROVING WOMAN 📽️ you should fix that www.criticsnotebook.com/roving-woman...

What if we just got rid of the tech industry and started over? What if there’s no point to an industry that mostly invents new chocolate and cheese flavors of the panopticon?

Ceci n'est pas une équipe.

Very, very sorry I had to exit the bus and could not continue to listen to the voicemail the young man across from me was leaving which began "I am devastated by my choice, which do not align with my values. I just hope you can see the humanity in me"

"32% of 12th graders now score below NAEP Basic in reading...And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a 4-yr college. That last sentence is the whole problem in one line: We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level & are pretending otherwise." 💯 💯 💯

"Why do all these ads have only five-star reviews on them? We need a four-star review on there!"

Well. Born with Teeth is a banger, Ncuti Gatwa a big star and Edward Bluemel quite the discovery I was less impressed with the audience tittering every time they kissed though

I saw Hot Poirot in Born with Teeth and he was quite hot in that so this is exciting news

When did all the concrete barriers get installed around Trafalgar Square?

Very important public service announcement

Sending people without papers to slave camps should really not be the US in 2026

Excited to announce that I will be performing Il Faut Danser (You Must Dance), a one-woman show about my mother and grandmother's lives in Algeria in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, on Thursday 2nd July, 7pm at Stanley Arts, part of the Croydonites festival stanleyarts.org/event/croydo...

hot take: every single movie plays better in a good movie theater with a crowd of people who want to be there (vs any other context)

Treating any communication platform that algorithmically selects which content to put in front of a user as a publisher, and legally responsible for that content, is the screamingly obvious solution that will deeply upset maybe seven companies and make life considerably better.

Good afternoon to the young woman whose t-shirt said MY BOYFRIEND IS OUT OF TOWN, and good afternoon to the young woman whose t-shirt said MY BOYFRIEND IS OUT OF TOWN only 😉

Theatrical distribution is good, and for people who really don’t see the difference between it and your tv, I have good news! It is coming your living room in a couple of months anyway. But if theaters go away, the movies WILL get worse, and I would really love it if people thought that part through

#UK: Keir Starmer appears poised to fast-track a social media ban for under-16s. The evidence from Australia is unconvincing, but the free speech risks are clear. Revisit our piece on why banning social media for under-16s threatens free expression ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/bann... 1/2

People who expect a movie audience to sit in reverent silence have got to get over themselves. The selfishness since the pandemic is expressed like this because there are so few genuine public spaces for but one purpose anymore and we're caught between people who don't care they're in public

Re the theatrical experience: when I have paid for a cinema ticket I do not care if/when people are eating, snogging, texting, scrolling, making tiktoks of the big action sequences, changing a baby's diaper, whatever. Being in a crowd enjoying the experience is the whole entire point!

1) Filmmakers like theatrical distribution for the same reason musicians like playing live shows, because a good movie or show with a good crowd is electric. Sure, a bad crowd can spoil a good thing, but this mostly doesn’t happen and I’ve never understood people who complain about it all the time

Seeing some discourse about movies people will never watch again and once QUEEN AT SEA is released there will be only one contender (extremely complimentary, except for the nightmares I'm still having)

You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?

"I have a young son who needs me, Che Guevara!" OUTSTANDING

The classic Hollywood tale you didn't know you wanted to read: ew.com/mamie-van-do...

I was also at the talk in London which was chosen as the centerpiece of GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT 📽️ which is not a flawless documentary but a pretty good primer on why her work is important intheirownleague.com/2023/02/02/g...

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

I have a dumb problem with which I would like some help: a cinema app on my phone needs to know a location in order to show me the nearby movies, but there seems to be no damn way for me to tell the app any location. I can't do it manually, somehow it won't sync with my phone, what have I missed

All this uWu smol bean crap irritates me greatly: you're selling food for the public to eat, someone should be checking that it's safe and sanitary.

Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer reflected on the highs (and mild disappointments) of their 10-year-old cult comedy.

Vermiglio on BBC Four now and therefore iPlayer for a while is very much worth your time

“What if a Silicon Valley-backed music streamer started giving huge paydays to musicians but banned them from performing live” is such a preposterous hypothetical that you don’t even get mad when you read it but that’s exactly what Netflix is doing to film

It's alive!!! I think this review of FRANKENSTEIN 📽️ #Venezia82 is the strongest rave I have ever written movieswetextedabout.com/frankenstein...

Trailers before Tuner: The Last Viking Jackass Best and Last Boogie Nights One Night Only The Invite These are all too long

“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (6), food prices in the U.S. have increased 33.3% since the beginning of 2020, while housing costs are up 32.5% (7). Energy prices, meanwhile, have surged 48% (8) over that period.” Fuck the economy gaslighters claiming we just dont understand gdp

This is what we need Language-based Area Studies for. People who know language, culture and history. You know, the kind of departments they are currently closing down everywhere.

Ok .... this is where the increasing lack of language skills is taking us. If you don't know Korean, maybe leave the study of Korean history to those who do.

My annual “My Dog Ate My Library Book” proposal is up on @donorschoose.bsky.social If you are inclined to save a child from their overdue library books, your support would be greatly appreciated! www.donorschoose.org/project/my-d...

Georgette Heyer's Royal Escape: This is a lot of fun. The personalities come through loud and clear and the tension combined with action works well.

Film: Persepolis (2007) [PG-13] Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Character: Marjane Actor: Chiara Mastroianni Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi Screenwriters: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud Timestamp: 0:57:45 cinematicfbombs.com/2020/07/25/2...

Today I learned there are three topics which will make me lose my temper in a movie review 1) violent misogyny 2) bigotry of any kind in a kids' movie 3) use of genAI of any kind at any point in the filmmaking process I knew about two of these but now I have a third enemy on my list

John Plumb, Untitled August 1969, 1969 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124114

A reminder that The Guardian has a strategic partnership with OpenAI ergo can't be trusted

i look forward to seeing how many cis people (especially cis men) get opportunities to write about teenage sex and death at camp miasma for every single publication while trans writers and queer women just sit there like "okay neat"