Julia Raeside
@jnraeside.bsky.social
📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out now. Shortlisted for CWIP Prize 2025 & Chortle Awards 2026. juliaraeside.com 🗞️ 📻 iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio. Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
Also, I review the new Sense and Sensibility which is out on Friday.
Film review: Sense and Sensibility
I wanted to love it but through no fault of their own, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles are in completely different films in this shallow, strangely dull Austen remake.
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I was in a Viz photo story and yes, it is the highlight of my long career. Read it here.
That time I starred in a Viz photo story
This caused quite the stir on Instagram, so here is the entire thing for fans of the bawdy adult comic.
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Joel @gralefrit.bsky.social has written this BRILLIANT piece about our visit to SNL UK and why the show is a rock concert. Such a good analysis.
Live from London, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!
What seeing this week’s episode of SNL UK taught me about comedy.
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Replacing television and film with Whatever All This Is has gone so well. The bright future that the disrupters came up with (a version of having a very big hard drive of indifferent content you can’t navigate and don’t value) has worked about as well as it did for music. We’re all so much poorer.
IGN@ign.com · 4d agoDisney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo
We went to SNL and the X Factor sketch nearly ended me. What a ride.
The latest on the David Walliams story. So much information is missing here.
David Walliams dealt final blow by Harper
In an unprecedented move, the publisher is dropping the former best seller’s back catalogue, cutting their last ties with the author.
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Wild. They really want distance between them and him all of a sudden.
The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 7d agoBreaking News: HarperCollins has dropped the backlist of children's author David Walliams, The Bookseller understands. 👇
Brilliant. And in that same lovely back-footed Scandi-English key as Norsemen, which is blissful.
Nicolas Hénin@nicolashenin.net · last wk.Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
A new long read that took a lot for me to write.
Me, Kate Middleton and the medical meat machine
Why women in the healthcare system will always feel like chopped liver.
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Soy un perdidor / I’m a loser baby / so why don’t you kill me
Postcard From The Past@pastpostcard.bsky.social · last wk.The rabbit rode down in the furniture van
A British classic thriller directed by #BryanForbes SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964) 1:30pm #KimStanley #RichardAttenborough #NanetteNewman #MarkEden drama #TPTVsubtitles
For the evening crowd, I reviewed the OG Practical Magic.
Julia Raeside@jnraeside.bsky.social · 2w agoI reviewed Practical Magic just 28 years after it was first released because I’d never seen it and the new one is out this week.
I reviewed Practical Magic just 28 years after it was first released because I’d never seen it and the new one is out this week.
Film review: Practical Magic
Because I missed it the first time around and a new one’s out in UK cinemas this week.
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Perfect review of ITV's The Box by @dempster2000.bsky.social... "while frantically thrashing his horrifying Norman-era bowl cut from side to side like a one-man Battle of Hastings."
The Box review – no one knows what’s going on here … least of all Gary Lineker
In this bizarre new gameshow, you will encounter John Bercow doing topless karaoke while tossing glitter at pensioners and Joey Essex pounding on the walls of a shipping container. Why? Who knows!
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It was late in life when I first heard Gloria Steinem’s “We are linked, not ranked.” Rest in power and solidarity
Hey! Us guys at Cheese n Pickle have got a brand NEW podcast series JUST FOR YOU! How Long? With @jnraeside.bsky.social & @jondrytay.bsky.social boggling at the passage of actual time. It’s very funny and will boggle you too, if you too think 1996 was about 15 years ago. pod.link/6805050407?v...
How Long?
Listen to How Long? wherever you get your podcasts!
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I was thinking about Judith Hann so I checked and she’s ok and 83 and gardening up a storm in double denim. Does anyone need this? I made this. #TomorrowsWorld
I read and really enjoyed this. Very thought provoking.
Julia Raeside@jnraeside.bsky.social · 3w agoI don’t believe it!! I was so, so wrong.
NO SPOILERS. I’ve reviewed Furious on Disney+/Hulu without giving away a thing. Apart from that it’s a five star feminist banger. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
TV Review: Furious
Female rage is allowed to run rampant across the screen and I think I’m high on it.
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New pod out today. HOW LONG is about how long ago everything we remember is now. Box of Delights will return also, just got to edit some new eps.
Listen to the podcast The Storyteller: Narcissist’s Playbook presented by Isla Traquair. I’ve never heard of anything like it. The more people who know about the allegations about Sam Vaknin, the better.
Thank you for this thread about big Toberlones, Rose. I enjoyed it very much.
Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 4w agoBought myself a big Toblerone & I feel like I’ve broken an unspoken law of the universe, as if nothing is sacred & there are no rules in the world. They are a present, a thing people bring you back from holiday: one does not just buy a big Toblerone, the same as one does not simply walk into Mordor
Why is The Independent platforming a man with multiple allegations of rape and abuse against him? Free to read now on Womansplaining.
Hiding in plain site?
The subject of a ‘true crime’ documentary who continues to appear as an ‘expert’ in the British media.
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