Will Bird
@willwriteandtalk.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, documentary-maker.
I like comedies and cocktails.
I hate genocide.
My films: https://youtube.com/@willwriteandtalk5006?feature=shared
My blog: https://willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/
I like comedies and cocktails.
I hate genocide.
My films: https://youtube.com/@willwriteandtalk5006?feature=shared
My blog: https://willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/
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If you’re into film history check out documentaries I’ve made on Hitchcock’s silent work, the very first Sherlock Holmes movies and the career of forgotten British comedy genius Sid Field! youtube.com/@willwritean...
To mark the passing of the peerless Pauline Collins here is a tribute to her most famous role. willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
The Girl Who Used To Be Me: A Tribute to Pauline Collins and Shirley Valentine
Please note: there are a few spoilers below! The older I get the more I fall in love with the character and the film “Shirley Valentine”. Based on Willy Russell’s play of the same…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
To mark the passing of the peerless Pauline Collins here is a tribute to her most famous role. willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
Comedy genius.
It's here! The third exciting novella in the Inspector Marsden series! Available for purchase, on tour, on the Amazon and on countarthurstrong.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Comedy genius.
If you’re into film history check out documentaries I’ve made on Hitchcock’s silent work, the very first Sherlock Holmes movies and the career of forgotten British comedy genius Sid Field! youtube.com/@willwritean...
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you’re into film history check out documentaries I’ve made on Hitchcock’s silent work, the very first Sherlock Holmes movies and the career of forgotten British comedy genius Sid Field! youtube.com/@willwritean...
Don’t miss “From Ground Zero”
From Ground Zero - Bertha DocHouse
A collection of short films that bring emerging Palestinian artists to the fore in an urgent cry for humanity from a people under siege.
dochouse.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Don’t miss “From Ground Zero”
Isreal is literally killing the people recording their genocide. It’s too late. We’ve seen the pictures.
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Isreal is literally killing the people recording their genocide. It’s too late. We’ve seen the pictures.
On the hottest day of last year my mate Christian and I sweated around the East End making a film about Alfred Hitchcock’s early life. Enjoy some outtakes of me avoiding traffic and looking warm. Full documentary here: youtu.be/mpR3lSKGeOY?...
August 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On the hottest day of last year my mate Christian and I sweated around the East End making a film about Alfred Hitchcock’s early life. Enjoy some outtakes of me avoiding traffic and looking warm. Full documentary here: youtu.be/mpR3lSKGeOY?...
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The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
GAZA: HOW TO SURVIVE A WARZONE (2025)
YouTube video by Will Write and Talk
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
Why is Israel being allowed to kill thousands of people and fuck up the entire world? It can’t just be the videos Mossad and Epstein collected of the world’s political and business leaders fiddling with kids, could it?
June 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Why is Israel being allowed to kill thousands of people and fuck up the entire world? It can’t just be the videos Mossad and Epstein collected of the world’s political and business leaders fiddling with kids, could it?
The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
GAZA: HOW TO SURVIVE A WARZONE (2025)
YouTube video by Will Write and Talk
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
I really liked The Final Reckoning - it’s a return to form for the Mission franchise and inspired me to write a blog about Tom Cruise’s silent comedy inspirations! willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/i...
Impossible Clowns: Tom Cruise’s Comic Connections
The release of the 8th movie in the “Mission Impossible” series: “The Final Reckoning” is a cause for celebration. Not only is it an exciting and funny return to form for the franchise, after the m…
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May 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I really liked The Final Reckoning - it’s a return to form for the Mission franchise and inspired me to write a blog about Tom Cruise’s silent comedy inspirations! willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/i...
Happy Sherlock Holmes Day! I did a film about him! youtu.be/rd3h-rOj3cI?...
May 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Happy Sherlock Holmes Day! I did a film about him! youtu.be/rd3h-rOj3cI?...
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Charlie Chaplin was born 136 years ago today, on April 16, 1889
(The Adventurer 1917)
(The Adventurer 1917)
April 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Charlie Chaplin was born 136 years ago today, on April 16, 1889
(The Adventurer 1917)
(The Adventurer 1917)
#BlackBag is dinner-party Bond for grown-ups. Blanchett and Fassbender ooze style as the slightly unhinged power couple of MI6. But who is the traitor? With an amazing soundtrack and superb editing and design, it’s just very, very, very cool. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
a woman wearing sunglasses and a brown leather jacket stands in front of a building
ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses and a brown leather jacket stands in front of a building
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April 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#BlackBag is dinner-party Bond for grown-ups. Blanchett and Fassbender ooze style as the slightly unhinged power couple of MI6. But who is the traitor? With an amazing soundtrack and superb editing and design, it’s just very, very, very cool. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Happy 121st birthday to Sid Field! Check out my documentary on this most influential of British comedians here: youtu.be/lWPTObiWUcc?...
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Happy 121st birthday to Sid Field! Check out my documentary on this most influential of British comedians here: youtu.be/lWPTObiWUcc?...
Watch “No Other Land” on the Channel 4 app if you can. An urgent, humane and raw depiction of life in the West Bank. Its director has just been attacked there by Israeli settlers today. Winning an Oscar doesn’t protect anyone from such a sick and violent society. www.channel4.com/programmes/n...
No Other Land
(2024) Oscar-winning film offering a powerful view of destruction in the West Bank
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March 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Watch “No Other Land” on the Channel 4 app if you can. An urgent, humane and raw depiction of life in the West Bank. Its director has just been attacked there by Israeli settlers today. Winning an Oscar doesn’t protect anyone from such a sick and violent society. www.channel4.com/programmes/n...
#TheLastShowgirl is a tremendous backstage tale set in an empty, irrelevant Las Vegas of broken dreams. Anderson is fantastic, a fading Monroe-esque dancer unable to make meaningful relationships after a lifetime of performance epitomises a lost America. Highly recommended. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
March 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#TheLastShowgirl is a tremendous backstage tale set in an empty, irrelevant Las Vegas of broken dreams. Anderson is fantastic, a fading Monroe-esque dancer unable to make meaningful relationships after a lifetime of performance epitomises a lost America. Highly recommended. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Opinion: 'Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-israel-can-ban-all-films-it-wants-palestinian-voice-cannot-be
Opinion: 'Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced'
<span class="field field-title">Opinion: 'Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced'</span>
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>In the whole row over the BBC documentary <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-slammed-pulling-film-humanised-palestinian-children" target="_blank"><i>Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone</i></a>, not one word was written about what this film told us about the way <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a> are surviving a war that has spanned a year and a half.</p>
<p>None of the following voices appear to have been heard in the controversy over screening this film.</p>
<p>A woman fleeing with an empty water bottle, after another <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> evacuation order, shouted to no one in particular: “God damn you all. May God curse you [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar.”</p>
<p>A boy told the camera in a deadpan tone: “We saw people dead in front of us. One had his guts coming out of his stomach. Are we in a safe place?”</p>
<p>Zakaria, an 11-year-old hustler scratching a living out of cleaning ambulances at al-Aqsa Hospital, explained how he worked alongside members of the media, doctors and paramedics: “I love being a volunteer. I want to volunteer for an ambulance unit.”</p>
<h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-can-ban-all-films-it-wants-palestinian-voice-cannot-be-silenced">Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced</a></h3>
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March 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Opinion: 'Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-israel-can-ban-all-films-it-wants-palestinian-voice-cannot-be
#BridgetJones:MadAboutTheBoy is a beautifully acted dollop of nostalgia. Instead of going for belly-laughs we get mature poignancy and wit. Both a worthy sequel and a mature and rather tear-jerking remake of the original for us oldies. A bit slow, but then aren’t we all now? Loved it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
February 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#BridgetJones:MadAboutTheBoy is a beautifully acted dollop of nostalgia. Instead of going for belly-laughs we get mature poignancy and wit. Both a worthy sequel and a mature and rather tear-jerking remake of the original for us oldies. A bit slow, but then aren’t we all now? Loved it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
They climaxed with 2 mediocre and very long Bond films. They made Blofeld Bond’s brother. They gave Bond a kid. They then literally killed Bond. And then refused to make another Bond film, despite the fact nobody else could.
We’ll always have the books and 20-something good films.
We’ll always have the books and 20-something good films.
Absolutely terrible news.
“Under the terms of the new venture, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise following closing of the transaction.”
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“Under the terms of the new venture, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise following closing of the transaction.”
www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
Amazon MGM Studios announces new joint venture with Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for James Bond franchise rights
Amazon MGM Studios, Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli today announced that they have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights, and those parties will remai...
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February 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
They climaxed with 2 mediocre and very long Bond films. They made Blofeld Bond’s brother. They gave Bond a kid. They then literally killed Bond. And then refused to make another Bond film, despite the fact nobody else could.
We’ll always have the books and 20-something good films.
We’ll always have the books and 20-something good films.