A. J. Black

She strikes me as a particular village idiot, this one. History won’t treat people like this kindly.

The sequel is good too. Unexpectedly stars Barbra Streisand.

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris

That’s the biggest worry I have, despite being excited by some of the creatives involved - not having the family around to give Bond that unique quality control and prestige it always had. Now it’s just another Amazon IP & on that level, it’s never going to be the same.

Well that’s the US covered, what’s the leader of Iran doing?

There’s no probably about it.

He’s spot on. Labour just don’t understand the country right now and what they want. They think there are WAY more Reform voters than there are, I think (I suspect a lot of them are just casual Tories backing the winning horse currently). And they’re alienating their own base.

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.

#c4news

The Usual Suspects Podcast Episode · At the Movies in the 90s · 27 February · 1h 1m

Back on my 90s bullshit this week with @steelbookbluray.com as we chat 1995’s now largely sidelined THE USUAL SUSPECTS, thanks to two very suspect individuals.

But does it deserve to be forgotten? I don’t think so.

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Yeah it’s awful. Poor man.

Jamie Foxx can suck a fuck on this one too.

It will always have been higher in girls but depressing stuff. Doesn’t help lads that age are getting a firehose of macho bullshit every day that discourages this kind of self-enrichment. I know for a fact in a brief 6 month tenure as a school librarian I got some lads reading again. Proud of that.

At least the people who talked like this in A Clockwork Orange had the decency to kill you.

In Manhunter, Tom Noonan created one of the great screen villains In the wake of Tom Noonan’s passing, a respectful tribute to his uncanny performance as Francis Dollarhyde in Michael Mann’s Manhunter.

A brief yet heartfelt tribute to the late Tom Noonan and his mesmerising portrayal of Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter.
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I remember an English teacher in Yr 10 for Rememberance showing us the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, which not only cemented my love of that series but absolutely helped me pass GCSE History a year later.

X / Pearl / MaXXXine with Jon Wroot Podcast Episode · Modern Horror Podcast · 18/02/2026 · 1h 57m

NEW EPISODE!

@ajblack.bsky.social @angryscotsman81.bsky.social & guest @jlwroot.bsky.social join forces to chat Ti West’s epic X trilogy - X, Pearl and MaXXXine.

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That’s the post-credits scene.

Thought + felt a LOT through highs and lows of Emerald Fennell's #WutheringHeights
Reminded me of Orson Welles' great, derided film Macbeth - his sketches for it below.
Echoes too of Jacques Demy films.
It's thin at times, but thinking visually rather than in terms of literature or psychology.

Indeed. One of the best.

Popped up last night on BBC Radio 2’s Midnight Mastermind after being invited on to chat a 90s movie and quiz the host on it. Got an @atthe90smovies.bsky.social plug in too!

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Brilliant actor. For me, the one I’ll remember is his turn in The X-Files as a child killer who enters people’s dreams, but he played it less Freddy Krueger and more low-key Lecter. A one shot role but an important one for Mulder’s backstory, and Noonan gave it the import it deserved so memorably.

Susanna’s absolute innocence at the double meaning of what she said is adorable.

Would have been hard for anyone to follow up on BOBW Pt 1 with how brilliant that cliffhanger was. They set themselves up to fail really.

Which very much lingers in NTTD too. I don’t really know how you write Bond as someone who doesn’t go off book in the 2020s when the geopolitical Establishment are racing toward authoritarianism. What’s the point of this kind of solitary hero unless he does?

A thing of absolute beauty came today.

£90 and a very long wait but it’ll obviously be worth it. #Thunderbirds

Whistle is out in cinemas today and it’s bloody good fun.

I chat about it with Hugh and Kat, who also chats to its director Corin Hardy, in a terrific little conversation.

Hope you enjoy if you give it a listen. I fall down a manhole for some of it, if that helps?

I signed this one. Frustrating. They ought to be pushing through all kinds of stuff like this with a majority. Proportional representation too.

I think Labour would be amazed how many uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoiners actually voted to put them where they are.

I haven’t seen it yet (will soon) so I won’t judge the actual article, but I did on hearing some details groan at YET ANOTHER modern Trek episode which obsessively venerates better storytelling that came before. Why can’t they just create their own stuff we’ll be talking about in 30 years?

Love love love this film and it was great to chat with Dev about it on AT THE MOVIES IN THE NOUGHTIES.

We get into lots - Pitt and Redford’s careers, the Cold War, cheesy lines and more.

Hope you enjoy.