lurker movie guy

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Lars Ulrich, a far more annoying guy than James Hetfield, doesn't like his politics either.

Nice to see Roger Waters getting more mellow in his old age.

Today I learnt that 'clown school' is real and not an idiomatic expression

Devastating: I finally watched the movie where Clint Eastwood has a pet monkey and somehow it wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. :(

found out Larry David just starts verbally abusing Alan Dershowitz whenever he sees him, this is very good

There's more visual inventiveness in a random episode of 'Columbo' than in most modern American movies.

Tsimshatsui, Hankow Rd photographed by Greg Girard in 1974

RIP Sam Neill. 'Possession' was a great film, and I loved this mad interview quote.

“Who funds him?” No one funds him! There’s nothing to fund. He just gets the same bin costume out the loft for one evening every 6-12 months.

Wacky Races narrator:

They should keep the Minions in the world of Hollywood. Imagine the Minions on the set of Apocalypse Now...they're supposed to work for Coppola but they think Brando is actually Colonel Kurtz and worship him like a god

Saw this today. Guffawed when I saw the recreation of Xanadu from'Citizen Kane' but I think everyone else in the audience thought it was just a normal mansion.

watched 'The Hit' (1984) recently. Easy to forget that Stphen Frears used to make movies that were a little more hard-edged than they are now, and he was once quite the arranger of sublime images.

Nick Timothy, Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney - we've had a parade of overmighty subjects in Number 10 who turn out to be hopeless at governing. The reign of the "political strategist" has not been a golden age for British politics.

They're saying 'Obsession' (1976) did better at the box office than 'Star Wars' (1977)? That can't be right.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Day Today, Brass Eye, The Thick of It, Babylon 5, 30 Rock, The Prisoner, BtVS.

There's no way of building genuine progressive movements without grappling with universal human problems of shitty behaviour and taking pleasure in acting righteous while hurting others. The longer I've been doing the work, the less value I place on stated beliefs, and the more on lived behaviour.

Eddington is ageing well

Currently listening to this, it's awesome: archive.org/details/ajc0...

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

"The philosophy never did make much of a direct impact on cinema" PARDON??

This was quite the unforced error. There was absolutely no pressing need for Mandelson to have a role in government.

Of all the New Labour guys, Mandelson is the most interesting (derogatory). A career of continuously failing upwards, each scandal more catastrophic than the last…

“Yes, obviously” Two words to shut down the question and still communicate to everyone watching “what a stupid thing to ask”.

Some of my earliest classic film and literature education can be found in this book. A crucial text.

"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."

'No Other Choice' is great, of course. Even in the moments without gags, I found myself laughing because of the sheer cleverness of its camera angles and scene transitions. There are things Park is doing here as virtuoso as Spielbergo and De Palma.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

The best thing about Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' is Bresson gets an MCU-style fan service cameo.

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

finally, we're living through precedented times

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

deja vu huh

“What if we revived the Bush-Blair era, and made it even made stupid?”

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

I’ll see yall next year ✨