Roddy may have written ‘The Commitments’, but I couldn’t help but wonder, was he ready to commit?
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Roddy may have written ‘The Commitments’, but I couldn’t help but wonder, was he ready to commit?
Made a joke at the expense of Kojima’s auteur pizza endorsement collab for Death Stranding 2 along the lines of Kubrick did the same thing and, uh…!
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Made a joke at the expense of Kojima’s auteur pizza endorsement collab for Death Stranding 2 along the lines of Kubrick did the same thing and, uh…!
I wouldn’t like to suggest that Fandom culture has completely rotted our critical faculties but they are discussing headcanons on the Jane Eyre subreddit
June 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I wouldn’t like to suggest that Fandom culture has completely rotted our critical faculties but they are discussing headcanons on the Jane Eyre subreddit
I cannot reasonably be expected to dodge during the Clair Obscur Breton Mars Volta boss music
May 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I cannot reasonably be expected to dodge during the Clair Obscur Breton Mars Volta boss music
Brooklyn on BBC4 is my counter-programming to Eurovision (‘cause Saoirse is a Vision, from Europe)
May 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Brooklyn on BBC4 is my counter-programming to Eurovision (‘cause Saoirse is a Vision, from Europe)
Working my way through the Tomb Raider remasters and we need to stop making Lara Croft South England posh when at the zenith of her powers (TRs 2&3) she was audibly from Derbyshire. Lara must sound like she could explode a dinosaur, but also plausibly be living at Emmerdale's Home Farm.
January 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Working my way through the Tomb Raider remasters and we need to stop making Lara Croft South England posh when at the zenith of her powers (TRs 2&3) she was audibly from Derbyshire. Lara must sound like she could explode a dinosaur, but also plausibly be living at Emmerdale's Home Farm.
Surely an underappreciated aspect of why American high school teenagers of Film & TV were so aspirational to British youth was their loosey goosey carrying around of big chunky textbooks. Nary a jotter or rucksack in sight.
January 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Surely an underappreciated aspect of why American high school teenagers of Film & TV were so aspirational to British youth was their loosey goosey carrying around of big chunky textbooks. Nary a jotter or rucksack in sight.
Love this Laura Nyro cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFxS...
NEW * Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension {Stereo} 1969
YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine
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December 30, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Love this Laura Nyro cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFxS...
Watching Funny Face, the film which posits that Audrey Hepburn would be received by the modelling industry with skepticism. Pictured: me aged 10 at Niagara Falls
December 26, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Watching Funny Face, the film which posits that Audrey Hepburn would be received by the modelling industry with skepticism. Pictured: me aged 10 at Niagara Falls
Thank you to the My Brilliant Friend Season 4 set dresser for introducing me to the poster for GUERRE STELLARI, which the artist presumably saw while recovering from cataract surgery
November 29, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Thank you to the My Brilliant Friend Season 4 set dresser for introducing me to the poster for GUERRE STELLARI, which the artist presumably saw while recovering from cataract surgery
Continue to be staggered at how good the HBO My Brilliant Friend series is, and baffled that an adaptation of an ostensibly popular book series has left such little cultural footprint. I know of no one on Earth who has watched it who I didn't cajole into watching it.
November 27, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Continue to be staggered at how good the HBO My Brilliant Friend series is, and baffled that an adaptation of an ostensibly popular book series has left such little cultural footprint. I know of no one on Earth who has watched it who I didn't cajole into watching it.
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Rewatching My Brilliant Friend’s early seasons and making memes for absolutely nobody but myself
September 9, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Rewatching My Brilliant Friend’s early seasons and making memes for absolutely nobody but myself
Thinking again about local sewing shop Helen’s Alterations and how much that sounds like the title of a gentle comedy for older people where Imelda Staunton must get her groove back
November 13, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Thinking again about local sewing shop Helen’s Alterations and how much that sounds like the title of a gentle comedy for older people where Imelda Staunton must get her groove back
Going for a triple bill of Black Narcissus, Benedetta and The Devils, the crème de la crème of Nuns-in-Trouble cinema™
November 27, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Going for a triple bill of Black Narcissus, Benedetta and The Devils, the crème de la crème of Nuns-in-Trouble cinema™
Nastasha Romanenko: *waxes lyrical upon the START II treaty and the existential threat of improperly stored and dismantled nuclear materials*
8 year-old me: *nods sagely*
8 year-old me: *nods sagely*
October 24, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Nastasha Romanenko: *waxes lyrical upon the START II treaty and the existential threat of improperly stored and dismantled nuclear materials*
8 year-old me: *nods sagely*
8 year-old me: *nods sagely*
Walking through Queens Park thinking about the Battle of Langside like
October 21, 2023 at 12:43 PM
Walking through Queens Park thinking about the Battle of Langside like
“Never again to revisit the scene of my boyhood in Surrey, romping with my schoolchums in the fens and spinneys”
September 4, 2023 at 6:07 PM
“Never again to revisit the scene of my boyhood in Surrey, romping with my schoolchums in the fens and spinneys”
Le Samouraï/Charade forms a great double bill for fans of japery on the 1960s Paris metro
August 5, 2023 at 8:51 PM
Le Samouraï/Charade forms a great double bill for fans of japery on the 1960s Paris metro
Didn't think this could possibly get anymore camp and then Faye launched into a Cantonese Tori Amos cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL1Ybl8QW5U&ab_channel=Andreadionett
Faye Wong(王菲）Nothing Campares 2U & Iko Iko & Purple Rain & Love Is Love & 冷战 玫瑰之夜...
王菲 访谈&冷战&多首英文经典玫瑰之夜 现场1994 （英文曲目：1.《nothing campares 2U》 2.《IKO IKO》 3.《purple rain》 4.《love is love 》 ） 转自音悦Tai
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July 25, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Didn't think this could possibly get anymore camp and then Faye launched into a Cantonese Tori Amos cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL1Ybl8QW5U&ab_channel=Andreadionett
With hindsight, incredible how Curb posits Larry David might be an annoying spouse for Cheryl Hines to have
July 19, 2023 at 10:25 AM
With hindsight, incredible how Curb posits Larry David might be an annoying spouse for Cheryl Hines to have
Enjoying all the meats of our cultural stew: visiting the Burrell Collection and realising you are familiar with The Thinker as it was key evidence in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
July 14, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Enjoying all the meats of our cultural stew: visiting the Burrell Collection and realising you are familiar with The Thinker as it was key evidence in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Am guessing they actually announced this onstage during this recording but this remains the funniest possible title for a Buckingham Nicks bootleg
July 13, 2023 at 10:03 AM
Am guessing they actually announced this onstage during this recording but this remains the funniest possible title for a Buckingham Nicks bootleg