Jorvik Viking Centre is the best museum in this country.

Who is the person at Warner Bros that loves Ken Russell's The Devils so much? Not only is the release of the uncut version being massively promoted but the nuns from the film featured in Space Jam 2 a few years ago.

Ken Russell's work is too deliberately kitsch, populist, anti-realist, earnest and kinky to ever be truly loved by the English even though I consider him the most English artist I respect and worship.

Found this in the garden shed.

Was listening to Unt by Penthouse. Has aged extremely well. They really were a perfect band. This is a photo I took of them at the Oxford Point very many years ago when I interviewed them for the uni paper.

My 8 year old child thinks Donald Trump wanted to protect Greenland from Russia and China because of BBC Newsround. Their 'impartial' reporting of the news is incredibly dangerous.

Started reading Gunfighter Nation over Christmas. The use of the Frontier as an excuse for American exceptionalism and imperialism. Hitting really hard right now.

The Nativity films are some of the most tonally challenging films I've ever seen.

It annoys me that Welcome To Derry claims Hasil Adkins was being played on the radio in the 1960s. Yes. I'm petty.

I honestly feel Del Toro's Frankenstein is as bad as Argento's Dracula.

Last year we bought a dismembered Edgar Allan Poe from TK Maxx. My wife restored his missing limb in time for Halloween. 2024 2025

This is how our cat chooses to exit the cat flap despite knowing the normal, more accessible option.

Just been reminded of the time I was racially abused in Hither Green. I was listening to music and didn't hear anything so I asked him to repeat himself. He did so whilst looking really confused.

I've finally seen Dario Argento's Dark Glasses. It was brilliant. I was not expecting a really sweet relationship between a blind sex worker and an orphan migrant child to be at the heart of the story. If this is to be his final film, it is a worthy end to an amazing filmography.

Cat has to look like this until his abscess heals.

Saw Melvins and Redd Kross last night. Absolutely amazing. First time seeing Melvins. Have they always had that showmanship and visual panache? Or has Steve McDonald contributed to that?

They will never find a more perfect Clark Kent/Superman than Christopher Reeves

Power of the Potato

Snake at Sidcup Station

Dog whistles are no longer needed in modern Britain. x.com/CharlotteCGi...

Charlotte Gill on X: "Cheadle Primary deleted their account very quickly So many schools, councils and otherwise seem to think no one will ever scrutinise their output. Doesn’t speak well that they often hide things pronto! https://t.co/wuyOs3EbAx" / X

Cheadle Primary deleted their account very quickly So many schools, councils and otherwise seem to think no one will ever scrutinise their output. Doesn’t speak well that they often hide things pronto! https://t.co/wuyOs3EbAx

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Whenever people swear around me, they apologise to me. Don't really understand what vibes that I give off.

Trying to watch Innerspace with the 7 year old on Father's Day and I've been forced to turn it off because of the 'inappropriate language". He was angrily counting the curse words like some infant Mary Whitehouse.

Shaun Hutson, author of SLUGS ("They slime, they ooze, they kill") London, 1982. Photograph by Anne Billson.

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Wish that the Godzilla Kong film had more Dan Stevens and more depressed dude Kong.

Remembering Elisabeth Lutyens who left us on April 14th 1983, but not without leaving a staggering body of work in both the concert halls of Europe & British horror cinema for decades. Her contributions to Hammer & Amicus Films remain breathtaking. Hear her incredible story here 👉 bit.ly/3XXmRA9 👈

Maybe Sanders could first apologise for decades of anti-migrant pronouncements

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Sanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.

Great that REVOLUTION IN 35MM is still getting readers. You can pick it up PM Press (as well as all the usual on line platforms) here pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

theoesophagus@theoesophagus.bsky.social · last yr.

Revolution In 35mm is a collection of insightful essays on political cinema edited by Andrew Nette (@pulpcurry.bsky.social) & Samm Deighan. The major selling point of this fantastic book is the diverse range of films & filmmakers that it covers. This is a vital book radical cinema has long needed.