Michael Brooke

My late and much-missed dog Monty, with his ears artfully rearranged over the top of his head to make him look vaguely leonine. I am of course posting this particular picture during this particular week entirely at random.

More new work! New 4K restoration from the original camera negative. Ft new commentary by @johnnymains.co.uk & @marbleicehook.bsky.social, plus archival extras, and new booklet essays by @horrornonna.com and @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social, + new art by @Nat Marsh www.arrowfilms.com/p/4k/soylent...

Saying Trump was "snubbed" for the Nobel Peace Prize is like saying Goonies 3 was snubbed for the Best Picture Oscar. He was never in contention because he is a war mongering fascist.

"I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

Well I guess that proves that Sharia Law works.

This was Andrzej Wajda's first flop, both commercially and artistically—and aside from it not being a comedy, broadly equivalent to his friend Steven Spielberg's equally ill-fated 1941, both films being about their respective countries' messy, confused, and decidedly involuntary entry into WWII.

To mark the passing of the great Béla Tarr, I’ve republished my Sight & Sound lead review of his penultimate film on my Substack.

“Well, if you won’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize that I totally deserved, I’ll just go and bomb another country, and *then* you’ll be sorry.” <stamps foot> “And it’s all your fault. You made me do it.”

If Ukraine had had fifteen years of security guarantees following the 1994 Budapest Agreement that persuaded them to give up their nuclear weapons, those guarantees would have expired by 2010.

Probably just as well I had no plans to go there anyway. A review of up to five *days* of my social media history would most likely get me barred.

A thing what I wroted. Usual caveat: everything in these BFI listpieces has to be currently in print in English-friendly form, preferably on a UK label, but I reckon I'd have gone for most of these even if I'd had a completely clear run at the entire corpus of Hungarian cinema.

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Not sure how "sophisticated" this supposedly sophisticated publishing scam is when their fake photos haven't even been cropped to hide the watermarks showing that they're fake. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Proofreading an OCRed document about Turkish popular cinema, I find that the name of the director Çetin İnanç has been misread as “Cretin Inane”. Everyone’s a critic.

Does this mean that Donald Trump has seen the error of his former ways and will no longer be grotesquely misrepresenting people several times a day via a combination of selective quotation and flat-out lying? I mean, one would hope so, but...

I’m absolutely thrilled for my New York friends who - expectedly but still gratifyingly - cut through the same bullshit that Londoners were fed in 2016. And, ten years later, London still hasn’t become the hotbed of Islamist Communist terrorism that we were assured was inevitable under Sadiq Khan.

1) She has proof Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion colour swapped 2) Mrs Doubtfire & Rose from Titanic are the worst 3) She has a 3rd, correct, way of putting Jam and Cream on a Scone 4) Arsenal scoring from set pieces is perfectly acceptable and whining about it makes you a loser 5) Han shot first

Well, there’s lovely.

A thing what I wroted. I'd gladly have made this two or three times longer - it's a phenomenally rich subject - but the BFI has a standard template and word count for these pieces.

@ohsinnerman.bsky.social has probably seen this already, but just in case...

If someone gave me $30bn, I wouldn't become "energised and focused", I'd say "thank you very much", put my feet up and enjoy the rest of my now extremely pampered existence in a state of blissed-out relaxation. (Actually, I'd most likely give 99.999% of it away and live comfortably off the rest.)

After watching Michael Brooke's hour-long history of Polish animation on this set last night I now have a better idea of how to pronounce the names of directors that I've been mispronouncing for years. Also a much better idea of the history of Polish animation.

There are 3 types of newspapers columns I am an utter sociopath I am extraordinarily thick Thank Christ for nepotism They can, obviously, overlap

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.