Michael Mills
@michaelmills.bsky.social
Doctor Who book club rambler (The Hamster Book Club). Escaped journalist. “Welsh”. All this and great hair too.
James Cooray Smith, formerly of this parish, used to call Cummings’ Substack “Notes from the Stained Dressing Gown”.
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
James Cooray Smith, formerly of this parish, used to call Cummings’ Substack “Notes from the Stained Dressing Gown”.
They do *know* that the people voting for Holyrood and the Senedd vote for Westminster as well? Right? Is it worth someone mentioning this to them again?
February 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
They do *know* that the people voting for Holyrood and the Senedd vote for Westminster as well? Right? Is it worth someone mentioning this to them again?
They’re about to lose an election in Wales for the first time in a century but you’d never be able to tell.
February 10, 2026 at 1:07 PM
They’re about to lose an election in Wales for the first time in a century but you’d never be able to tell.
WW84 is a film trying to be Barbie, The Substance and Biggles: Adventures in Time all at once. It succeeds as none.
February 10, 2026 at 12:38 PM
WW84 is a film trying to be Barbie, The Substance and Biggles: Adventures in Time all at once. It succeeds as none.
It’s a film that thinks someone from 1918 wouldn’t know what escalators are but would know how to fly a jet aeroplane. It’s a film that thinks archaeologists know about all civilizations equally. It’s a film that thinks we don’t know why the Roman Empire collapsed.
February 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM
It’s a film that thinks someone from 1918 wouldn’t know what escalators are but would know how to fly a jet aeroplane. It’s a film that thinks archaeologists know about all civilizations equally. It’s a film that thinks we don’t know why the Roman Empire collapsed.
It’s begging for an Emma Thompson voiceover: “Note to the filmmakers: Kristen Wiig is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point.”
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It’s begging for an Emma Thompson voiceover: “Note to the filmmakers: Kristen Wiig is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point.”
Can we make this the new “and a little something for Wales” meme?
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Can we make this the new “and a little something for Wales” meme?
The last time around (2010s) films like Alice in Wonderland were converted into 3D without any apparent effort to exploit it. It just meant the cinema could charge more and justify the equipment.
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The last time around (2010s) films like Alice in Wonderland were converted into 3D without any apparent effort to exploit it. It just meant the cinema could charge more and justify the equipment.
Can you imagine Legend of the Sea Devils? I mean they’d never *say*, but I’m sure we could infer a heck of a lot from what they didn’t say.
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Can you imagine Legend of the Sea Devils? I mean they’d never *say*, but I’m sure we could infer a heck of a lot from what they didn’t say.
Similarly, in the 2005 series, one of the two stories set in Cardiff was actually filmed in Swansea.
February 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Similarly, in the 2005 series, one of the two stories set in Cardiff was actually filmed in Swansea.