Happy ‘gay men falling over themselves to let you know how much they hate Taylor Swift’ Day to all who celebrate!

Does anyone else lie awake at night wondering, in the world of The Morning Show, who won Best Actress at the Oscars in 2005 and 2007?

ANOTHER ONE

Nothing to see here, just double Oscar-winner / Annette Bening’ mortal enemy, Hilary Swank doing spon con for MRI machines.

The second-hand embarrassment I receive watching people’s Letterboxd Top 4 is honestly staggering.

Between Discovery Channel on the Hayley Williams album and Before You Break My Heart on the JADE album, maybe it's time to press the pause button on samples, eh?

Finally a great episode of Alien: Earth, and not for nothing the first that actually embraces the franchise’s horror origins rather than use it as window dressing for Noah Hawley’s more cerebral, bloodless dystopia.

Watching Pump Up The Volume for the first time (surprisingly great, sincere, anti-authoritarian) and Christian Slater really was the original slutty lil glasses wearer.

I think we all need to brace ourselves for the idea that 9 film roles or whatever for someone who has never acted before might have been an overreach.

Big props to Yesterday (currently on iPlayer), for being both cringingly bad *and* genuinely unhinged! I get that in a world where The Beatles don’t exist that we probably wouldn’t have Oasis, but then the film keeps listing other things that nobody has heard of: Coca Cola! CIGARETTES!

Okay…?

Discovering that the world’s most iconic alcoholic will be leaving Summer Bay has led me to rediscover this incredible image and Home & Away does not get enough credit for its frequently bonkers story arcs of the 90s!

Another good one was at Curzon Soho, taking my 8-months-pregnant best friend to see mother!, insisting that neither of us be spoiled for what happens. During the baby eating scene, she leaned across, wagged her finger and just mouthed ‘no.’

Watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes at Peckhamplex and the woman in front of me loudly proclaiming ‘what is this ape’s PROBLEM?’

Chappell’s Sixpence None the Richer pastiche >> Chappell’s Shania pastiche

Simply embarrassing journalism from the Guardian today on the worst historical epics!

No thoughts, just Booker Prize grumbling.

Another week, another TV series starring Keeley Hawes and/or Suranne Jones as fierce/morally compromised characters in an international setting.

We are running out of summer days for Taylor to announce her guest appearance on a re-release of How Bad Do U Want Me and give us the Song of the Summer we deserve.

People giving the new I Know What You Did Last Summer good reviews is an indictment on gay culture.

Not Matlock finally having its own ‘Hitting The Fan’ moment.

Charli gets it

🥰

Watching The Phoenician Scheme (delightful!), and suddenly struck by what a great Tintin movie Wes Anderson could make.

Female Trouble, Better Man, Hard Truths.

Happy 'how have they not been invited to The Academy already' to Gillian Anderson, Kieran Culkin, Bing Liu, Mike Flanagan and Aubrey Plaza.

I’m enjoying Department Q, a very well-cast show outside of Matthew Goode. When are we going to stop slapping a beard on privately-educated posh boys and trying to pass them off as men-of-the-people?

Wild to me that with The Hunger Games films, Francis Lawrence has become our foremost purveyor of teen horror when his run of 00s music videos is truly unparalleled. Sk8er Boi, Hands Clean, Cry Me A River, Just Like A Pill, Goodbye To You and Jenny From The Block all within a calendar year!

Sorry, I can't come to work right now, another unhinged Guardian ranking just dropped. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Primavera should have a seasonal cousin, Autunno, for us sad girlies, but it’s just a Lilith Fair revival.

Happy one-year anniversary to brat.

Listening the two-year-old Blank Check episode on Se7en, because I knew it would give me exactly what I needed (ten minutes talking about what an amazing run Gwyneth Paltrow had in the 90s).

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it’s just watching more and more actresses you like succumbing to re-posting something by Evan Ross Katz.

It's fucked up that Jeremy Renner is part of the (very small) club of people who actually deserved all their Oscar nominations.

Honestly don’t know what people are complaining about with the new season of AJLT; Charlotte’s bulldog gets cancelled is the sort of story that just writes itself!

I hope that those people complaining about the age of the actors in Overcompensating did the same when Wicked put 37-year-old Jonathan Bailey in a school uniform. WHERE WERE YOU IN THE TRENCHES?

The single most toxic trait among Gen Z is their embrace of Pride & Prejudice (2005).

God, I swear the single worse thing about Bluesky is the inability to turn off retweets for specific (endlessly self-promoting) people.

Who told the Pop Pantheon guys that TERF is pronounced like ‘tariff’ and an ‘e’?

Sometimes I like to self-soothe by trying to guess how many times Michelle Pfeiffer has politely but firmly turned Ryan Murphy down.

I think about how Charlie Puth should have named his third album CP3.0 more often than I should.

Watching the new Final Destination for the second time in a week, and maybe Death would have got through all those bloodlines quicker if he hadn’t paused to give so many of them time to put together so many funerals.

The single best performance across the whole Mission: Impossible franchise is when Hayley Atwell says to Tom Cruise, ‘I like the long hair.’

‘personality’?

people who insisted on watching eurovision this year getting worried when the clearly rigged votes worked a second time in a row

Sure, as soon as Mon Mothma openly joins the rebellion, she’s suddenly allergic to serving.

I know we all talk about what a ridiculous name Clear Rivers is in the Final Destination franchise, but we should be paying more attention to the fact that one of the dead co-workers in FD5 is called Heather Slay.

Me on my deathbed: ‘Matthew MacFadyen isn’t good in Pride & Prejudice (2005).’

There’s nothing like coming back home to my parents and seeing Kim Tate in some sort of face-off with assorted Dingles over red wine.