buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New @ Psychic Paper, for subscribers, but you can always become one. On the Years tapes of the early 1990s.
James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper / Midday Matinées
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Freelance Writer. Highgate Dad. Kinda Desi. Doesn’t post / read. So I won’t see anything you say here. I’m not ignoring you. Am probably on the school run. Automated posts from my Dr Who & film crit emailers only. Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/buxo1
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 · last wk.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...
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... What does perhaps the greatest of all old money Doctor Who serials have to do with the 1979 election, the 1991 budget and Brexit? Rather a lot.
City of Death
“Je cherche fortune,Autour du Chat Noir,Au clair de la lune,A Montmartre !Je cherche fortune,Autour du Chat Noir,Au clair de la lune,A Montmartre, le soir!”...
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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 · last wk.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...
"Something took off from Mars." It's an anagram of 'A Home of the Sad Bastards', over at Psychic Paper. Just for subscribers, but you could always become one! buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
The Ambassadors of Death
“You’ve really made the grade. And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear. Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare.” Last time, I mentioned the...
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I’ve started a new film reviewing, research and history patreon newsletter, with a couple of tiers, including a free one. By me and guest writers. First piece is available to read on the link. Give it a go. Lots of things lined up.
Midday Matinées@middaymatinees.bsky.social · last wk.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...
I’ve started a new film reviewing, research and history patreon newsletter, with a couple of tiers, including a free one. By me and guest writers. First piece is available to read on the link. Give it a go. Lots of things lined up.
Midday Matinées@middaymatinees.bsky.social · last wk.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...
"The Final End?" What has 'The Evil of the Daleks' ever done for us, over at Psychic Paper. In subscribers inboxes now, and available to read at the web link if you have a free or paid subscription. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
This is something I wrote before the now unannounced Christmas special was announced and I have very little to add. Reversion to meme. To coin a phrase.
James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper / Midday Matinées@cooraysmith.bsky.social · 11mo agoI am contributing to Doctor Wno cancellation discourse, whether you like it or not. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
At the risk of talking shop: there are just under 50 Government Bills before Parliament (including Employment Rights, English Devolution, Great British Energy) which aren’t getting the media attention that Coalition Bills at a similar point did. We’re missing proper scrutiny outside of Parliament.
Jack@jackwjb.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society
this is a lovely read for Twin Peaks fans
James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper / Midday Matinées@cooraysmith.bsky.social · last yr.- and for those of you who prefer writing not about Doctor Who and which you don't have to pay for, I've done a guest column over at the legendary and long running twinpeaksblog. twinpeaksblog.com/2025/09/08/r...
