Somewhere along the way, we've shifted from storytelling to elaborate descriptive narration. Like a movie is just an inefficient way of doing the plot summary of that movie.
Michael Mills
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Doctor Who book club rambler (The Hamster Book Club). Escaped journalist. “Welsh”. All this and great hair too.
My Welsh is rustier than it should be but I’ll be sticking this on to help me brush up (I can never remember “escape pod” and it has caused embarrassment at parties). It’s also reminded me of @cooraysmith.bsky.social idea to do A Morbid Taste for Bones as folk horror and largely in Welsh.
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h agoReading about the Welsh Star Wars translation for a podcast tomorrow and felt... oddly moved by it? Despite being neither a Star Wars fan nor Welsh?
DC Compact really is the most pro-consumer thing to have happened to comics in a long old time.
Broken Frontier@brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 4h agoPreview: Judge Dredd Compact Crimes Vol. 1 – Rebellion to Reprint the Dredd Saga from the Beginning in a New Series of Affordable Editions. @2000ad.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/preview-judg...
'Go to hell' is basic. 'I hope a thing you liked as a child gets a Dynamite comic' is smart. It's possible. It's terrifying.
I always got “moved to a new parish” vibes from John Tracy.
Stupid sexy France with its stupid sexy independent nuclear capability.
Went to a press screening of this. Asked by a PR on the way out what I thought, I said “I liked the bit… in space.”
Prince Charles Cinema@princecharlescinema.com · 2d agoIt's been far too long since we've screened GRAVITY. Alfonso Cuarón's breathtaking space survival thriller returns to the PCC next Mon 10th Aug at 6pm in our downstairs screen, as part of SPACE DAY. 🎟️: buff.ly/stRQI4t
Chris Morris Says YES! on The Day Today
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Geoff Marshall@geofftech.bsky.social · 2d agoNew VIDEO! New Station! the newest station on the network opened on Saturday over the weekend, say heLLo! to Okehampton Interchagem, Station Number 2,598 ... youtu.be/aUiOr9DC3ZI
A version of this crops up in criticism too. “Writer/director X must have seen/read this much more obscure thing”. Or did two people operating in the same cultural context come up with a couple of the same ideas? (The most annoying thing being claiming plagiarism is much less interesting!)
Stephen Graves@stephengraves.co.uk · 3d agoI've had so many instances where ideas I've come up with have turned up in other works, and it's always been simply because they were sufficiently zeitgeisty that someone else came up with them independently.
Downplay a movie: She’s Not All That
Daniel@deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 3d agoDownplay a movie: The Adequate Budapest Hotel
Atomfall is a 2025 action survival game developed and published by Rebellion Developments.
Des@desdelboy.bsky.social · 7d agoMorning all. Photographer Eric de Maré. St Edward's, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B power station behind, 1960s.
There’s a BFI Film Classics due out on this later this year as well. Great film, great way to see it.
John Hodson@mgcroadster.bsky.social · 7d agoBloody hell, it's *gorgeous*... "ITV Content Services are delighted to reveal that we've completed work on a new 4K restoration of Whistle Down the Wind, restored from 35mm original camera negatives Now streaming in HD on ITVX..." #FilmSky youtu.be/Q9ItJA0DdAw?...
Ruin a book adding a word: Stephen King’s Not It.
Dale Smith@dalesmithonline.com · 2w agoruin a book adding a word: Stephen King's Christine Hamilton.
Can we please start seeing some articles about how irrelevant Twitter is now?
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago‘THE ODYSSEY’ is now tracking to pass $1 billion worldwide in its box office run. It is expected to become Christopher Nolan's highest grossing film ever.
If you’re going to see The Odyssey remember to stay to the end of the credits when Ra tells Telemachus he’s putting a oh god this joke was old when I made it about the 2012 Olympics.
“If you ask me, they’re burrowing right down to the Earth’s core.” Well, I didn’t, and what an odd thing to say.
“The Glorious Dead” is a 10-part comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine throughout 2000.
Maxine@maxinebunny.bsky.social · 2w agoi haven't read through most of Sonic The Comic, but this page in oarticular goes hard.
There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.
Forget Barbenheimer. All hail Pughsday.
Kameo@kameoapp.bsky.social · 2w agoFlorence Pugh on December 18. • ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ • ‘DUNE: PART THREE’
Someday somebody’s going to do an epic TV series about the Beatles and the best episode will be the one about Jimmie Nichol.