Mike McCahill
@mikemccahill.bsky.social
Film journalist for the Guardian, Telegraph and Little White Lies. No static at all.
New on last week's UK chart - RAYE, Miley and Julian Barratt's stand-in. (Bring earplugs.) theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-37-se...
Week 37: September 11-17, 2026
National Noise Week
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On DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER [below] and LEVITICUS, plus a Jeremy Thomas obit and the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/xyazh
Thirteen albums in, their lowest ever chart position. There's a lesson there.
Mike McCahill@mikemccahill.bsky.social · 6d agoAfter last week's dim blaze of publicity, the new "tells it as it is" Proclaimers album has stormed the UK Top 86 at...
On DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER [below] and LEVITICUS, plus a Jeremy Thomas obit and the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/xyazh
I'd forgotten that 30 ROCK (Netflix) had a James Franco subplot back in 2010.
New on the first chart of September: Olivia Rodrigo, Alex Warren and Fontaines D.C. theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-36-se...
Week 36: September 4-10, 2026
Subtext and gossip
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After last week's dim blaze of publicity, the new "tells it as it is" Proclaimers album has stormed the UK Top 86 at...
My Telegraph obit of the producer Jeremy Thomas, who died last week: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
On RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK [below], THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE/LA FEMME INFIDELE, THE INCOMER, LATE FAME and KNIGHTFALL, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/6OSPC
On RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK [below], THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE/LA FEMME INFIDELE, THE INCOMER, LATE FAME and KNIGHTFALL, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/6OSPC
On RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, which returns to cinemas tomorrow: shorturl.at/Ovqnd
Indy revival: "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
This back-to-front, Benjamin Button -ass movie summer began with substandard Spielberg ; it closes with a reminder of the young master opera...
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My interview with Aamir Khan at the BFI as part of July's London Indian Film Festival is now available to view online: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Watch Aamir Khan in Conversation - BFI Player
The star of Lagaan, Dil Chahta Hai and 3 Idiots gives a rare on-stage conversation about his extraordinary career.
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Brief thoughts on 1969's THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE, back on UK screens from Friday as the flagship film of the BFI's Claude Chabrol season: shorturl.at/wSnxN
Anatomy of a murder: "The Unfaithful Wife/La Femme Infidèle"
The flagship film of the BFI's current Claude Chabrol season, 1969's La Femme Infidèle , lures us in: it opens in sundappled soft focus, bef...
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On Ben Fortune's KNIGHTFALL, streaming from Monday: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
Knightfall review – low-rent gender-flipped Bond knock-off swaps Aston Martins for Minis
Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott’s no-nonsense spy heads a game cast that includes Ian Ogilvy and Roger Moore’s son Geoffrey, but this austerity actioner lacks tension
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Something for everyone. On FACES OF DEATH, BETHLEHEM KUDUMBA UNIT and SHAUN THE SHEEP: FARMAGEDDON [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/yVwGG
Autumn is here. Warm yourself on the glow of Jonathan Demme's humanism and the ferocity of Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, aka "the most beautiful home movie ever made". 📽🍂 Next week at The Castle Cinema, with intro by the amazing @pamhutch.bsky.social. thecastlecinema.com/programme/11...
