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Jon Arnold

@jonarnold.bsky.social

Black Archives, Strangers in Space, Hamster Book Clubber mainly. Former Westeros charcoal. Too old, too Welsh, too bad.

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James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper / Midday Matinées@cooraysmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

One last push for this first issue. Free to read, and there are free and £1.00 tiers for future issues. Give it a go. If you like films. If you don’t, probably best not bothering. Unless you have more money than sense. Which @ £1.00 is unlikely.

Midday Matinées@middaymatinees.bsky.social · 5d ago

First post is up, and it’s what - if anything - we should consider the First Film. It should be in subscribers inboxes now and is free to read at the site as a taste of what we’ll be doing for anyone who wants to subscribe. www.patreon.com/cw/MiddayMat...

Ian Greaves@greavesian.bsky.social · 4d ago

Join me for a skeetalong-a- #PendasFen this Wednesday night when BBC4 reruns it from 10.15pm. Behind the scenes stories, pics and things to spot. If you've seen the play before, then follow live. If it's new to you, give it proper attention and then join the # on catch up. Link in bio to the book.

Title screen for Play for Today: Penda's Fen (1974)Close up on Dictionary of Place Names reading "Penda's fen" with Penda in italics.Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene (Ten Acre Books 2025)
Midday Matinées@middaymatinees.bsky.social · 5d ago

First post is up, and it’s what - if anything - we should consider the First Film. It should be in subscribers inboxes now and is free to read at the site as a taste of what we’ll be doing for anyone who wants to subscribe. www.patreon.com/cw/MiddayMat...

Midday Matinées with James Cooray Smith — A newsletter about films and going to the cinema.

Get more from Midday Matinées with James Cooray Smith on Patreon. A newsletter about films and going to the cinema.. Support Midday Matinées with James Cooray Smith and get exclusive access to their w...

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Midday Matinées@middaymatinees.bsky.social · 6d ago

First? www.patreon.com/cw/MiddayMat...

The words “midday matinées” in the front from The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
Iain Hepburn@iainhepburn.me · 2w ago

The best thing you can say about Dolly is she was loved by all the right people, and she absolutely pisses off all the worst people, and she did it all exactly the right way.

Jon Arnold@jonarnold.bsky.social · 2w ago

What sticks in the memory about Dolly Parton isn’t necessarily the music (although she was an astounding songwriter) but her humanity, her joy in life and the sheer kindness of every story you ever heard about her. The definition of a life well lived.

Jon Dear@accordingtojond.bsky.social · 4w ago

Insanely excited to tell you that @worldoftelly.bsky.social and I will be hosting a 50th anniversary celebration of one of TV’s most unique dramas, Philip Martin’s Gangsters, on 8 November with some amazing guests. Part of this year’s Square Eyes TV Festival in (where else?) Birmingham. Do come!

50 Years Of Gangsters + Q&A | Mac Birmingham

Gangsters was a TV drama like no other. Burrowing into the dark underbelly of the Birmingham crime scene, it mixed Shakespearian soliloquy with comic strip

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Jon Arnold@jonarnold.bsky.social · last mo.

If you haven’t already, now is a really good time to pre-order this. It’s wise, funny, horrifying and yet rooted in a faith that we’re fundamentally better than our worst impulses, and all through the lens of hard-earned experience. Exactly the book the world needs right now.

Nick Abadzis@nickabadzis.bsky.social · last mo.

My Beloved Other - A memoir of love, race and optimism in a time of denial. Available next Tuesday, Aug 11, (in the US) or order it from your local book or comic store: ISBN number 9781596433700. UK/EU, order from all “usual” online retailers. #comics #graphicnovel #antiracism #memoir #book

Cover of MBO (C) Nick Abadzis Angela Watson 2026. All rights reserved.
Pete Paphides@petepaphides.bsky.social · last mo.

Not sure what else is in my three or four favourite remixes of all time, but William Orbit's overhaul of Les Negresses Vertes' Zobi La Mouche is right up there. And, as you may know, he did a few other pretty incredible things too. www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol...

“We gave him everything, no matter how ugly, and let him clean up afterwards. I think he liberated us.” William Orbit (1956-2026) | Pete Paphides

When anyone asks me how I did at uni (which, let’s face it, is hardly ever), I always tell them I did really well. In my final year, I becam

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Jon Arnold@jonarnold.bsky.social · last mo.

First event I read as it happened in the US comics, thanks to discovering the comics shop in town. Felt like being able to read a myth as it formed. And in many ways I’ve always been looking for another cover which goes as hard as one of my first:

The X-Man Wolverine, his costume torn to shreds and his adamantium claws out, faces just to the left of the reader, ready to fight an unseen opponent Behind him, against a black background, are huge streaks of blood. A caption promised WOLVERINE vs. SABRETOOTH - - ROUND 1! No cover has ever gone harder than this.
Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last mo.

#EventsDearBoy 3. MUTANT MASSACRE (1986, Marvel) Apparently one of Jonathan Hickman's ideas when he revamped the X-Men was 'give them some wins'. Wherever could the idea that the X-Men are constantly losing have come from, I wonder? Perhaps this first mutant event will shed some light!

Jon Arnold@jonarnold.bsky.social · last mo.

Absolutely lapped this up at the time, spent a chunk of student budget on every issue of every mini-series. Also, the Wolverine cliffhanger that led into this was a banger: Wolvie, fist under Sabertooth’s head, two claws extended either side… and the world went crystal.

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last mo.

#EventsDearBoy 4. AGE OF APOCALYPSE (1995, Marvel) Stuck in the diminishing returns of imitating Chris Claremont's labyrinthine subplotting without his flair, the 90s X-Office does the one thing he never tried: a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.