45th* anniversary screening of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. What a film. What. A. Film. * yeah, weird anniversary to choose, I know.
Dan Shires
@vertigowooyay.bsky.social
Meeja hor, comics obsessive, sometime idiot. Old.
My Ring doorbell has an unwanted free trial of their new AI features, which describe what it sees. It’s now ending, with continuous email asking me to pay money to keep it. It is *laughably* bad. Either utterly wrong or so general as to be of zero use. Also, I CAN SEE WHO IS AT THE DOOR ANYWAY!
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Chief of Police in small town tries to ensure he can put up safe swimming flags on the beach.
Jonny Morris@jonnymorris.bsky.social · last mo.Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Student tries to find a way to recharge an electric car.
@quantick.bsky.social Woo, and indeed, hoo… (nice thing to receive on the first properly rainy day in a while)
The End Of Oak Street is both a hymn to 80’s Amblin pictures, and deliberately and unapologetically a B movie* that I enjoyed the hell out of. As with the best B movies - do *not* drill down *too* deeply into the plot 😁 * Always worth remembering that the B does not, and never did, stand for Bad
Just confirming that nearly two years on, the All4 app is still absolute dogshit.
Dan Shires@vertigowooyay.bsky.social · 2y agoAll4 - hey, I see you were part way into this episode. Would you like to continue where you left off? Me - yes please. All4 - yeah, well FUCK YOU! Here it is from the start, a ff function so hamfisted you’ll never easily find your place AND have to suffer more ad breaks. Me - IhateyouIhateyou.
Just seen the first night of Here Comes J Edgar at the King’s Head Theatre, which is a lot of fun, and got to meet Harry Shearer, who signed my Spinal Tap DVD “Derek Smalls” (annoyingly it smudged as he gave it back). So a good evening overall…
Astonishing that the police in 2026 need to include a “so sit the fuck down, racists” element of their statements.
post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)
Karen Carpenter’s Halloween@kellylink.bsky.social · 4mo agopost the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)
This is tremendous news and a huuuuge win for medical science, but also, *Sam Neill is 78???*
Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 6mo agoJurassic Park star Sam Neill has announced that he is cancer-free after five years of battling blood cancer
Actually, no, Data Monster. You go ahead and fuck that shit up.
Looking for a new audiobook to listen to in the car. The absolute fucking state of this review of A City On Mars has never made me purchase something quicker, just to spite the prick.
@thebugle.bsky.social Listening to @natogreen.bsky.social talking about hope on the latest Bugle was genuinely uplifting. It was only @zaltzcricket.bsky.social then applying it to cricket that reminded me what podcast I was listening to. So thanks, for both of those things.
Just watched F1 - The Movie and am genuinely astonished they didn’t just call it Top Gun - Grand Prix Edition.
Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns is 40 years old this year, and frankly I have just fucking had it up to here with the whole inexorable march of time bullshit.
Can’t help but feel @gailsimone.bsky.social would have been a perfect expert witness for this. (Btw, a lovely episode.)
Judge John Hodgman@judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social · 7mo agoA theater major, a marketing rep for libraries, and a dispute about XMEN: are these the perfect Judge John Hodgman guests? youtube.com/shorts/J-SNX...
What with the actual world going to crap, you could do a lot worse than see Project Hail Mary, a slice of intelligent, thrilling sci-fi that takes the DNA of the likes of The Martian (because it’s Andy Weir) and Silent Running, amongst others.
Just booked tickets to see Rush next year at the O2. Why yes, I *am* old, thank you for asking.
I mean, there’s so much in social media to make you mad, but this evening in particular it’s the prick who wrote the skeet I just read saying a) Robert Aramayo didn’t deserve Best Actor BAFTA for I Swear, but also b) they hadn’t seen I Swear.
Half watching the curling, and genuinely puzzled why, after two camera replays at different angles, that there’s a need for a third angle of the same shot but CGI animated.
Small issue with my Yorkshire pudding batter, in that I appear to have whisked through the bottom of the Pyrex jug.
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image
Lou Morgan@lmorgan.bsky.social · 8mo agoDescribe your Bluesky account in a single image
Can’t really understsnd why, with all the technology available, AppleTV doesn’t have an option to watch Hijack season 2 with English subtitles for the German dialogue *only*. Having subtitles on everything is so annoying.
In order: 1 - The DC versus Marvel omnibus. Hefty and lots of crossover fun. 2 - Dr Werthless, the comic autobiography of the man who nearly killed the comics industry. 3 - A goddamn perfect Yorkshire pudding. 4 - A dog with not a shred of dignity left. Happy Christmas…
@alexhorne.bsky.social there’s still a day left but I’m confident in saying the @taskmaster.tv advent calendar has been fantastic. My son has totally forgiven me for not getting him a Lego one like usual. It’s brilliantly constructed.
So, this complete bellend, on the basis of an anonymous email he hasn’t shared, is going to sue the BBC. Fool <———————> money.
Hatless, I remove my cycle clips in awkward reverence.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 10mo agoTil then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now