Here’s what I watched in Feb. More on my @letterboxd.social boxd.it/2g3mZ
Here’s what I watched in Feb. More on my @letterboxd.social boxd.it/2g3mZ
I miss being able to book a table at ALL pubs
“To happiness, eight million ways there are”
You do
New Consume & Obey with me and Nick Helm out now. podfollow.com/1664218201/l...
New Consume & Obey with me and Nick Helm out now. podfollow.com/1664218201/l...
Deep state
Throwback to when the first series of The Night Manager started and three of the major TV listings mags used basically the same image on their covers.
Just watched the first two eps of #WonderMan and it’s lot of fun. I particularly like the way Ben Kingsley’s resume mirror’s his characters.
[2/2]
Here’s what I watched in January. More on my @letterboxd.social [1/2]
Every time he released an album in this period the music press would say it’s his best since Scary Monsters and then say the same thing with the next one seemingly forgetting that they also liked the previous one.
I’ll be moderating a special Q&A screening of this at Hackney Picturehouse on Saturday 7th March with James Acaster and @stuartlawscomedy.bsky.social www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
Up until its cinema rerelease in 2020 it was a U.
An excerpt from Stewart Lee’s January mail out that lists How to Survive and Affair amongst the comics Stewart has read this year and also kindly giving five stars which isn’t a review but does mean that in that moment he liked it
Got a lovely mention in Stewart Lee’s Cultural Year. Obviously exceptionally pleasing to have someone like Stewart like your work. See if you like it too here widdicomics.co.uk
Very similar
You don’t know me
Meet the Parents
Here are my favourite new films of 2025 in no particular order:
The Brutalist
One Battle After Another
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
The Rule of Jenny Pen
The Ballad of Wallis Island
The Shrouds
Bugonia
Superman
Weapons
Nosferatu
Sinners
The Ugly Stepsister
28 Years Later
My favourite first watches of 2025:
The Squeeze (M. Apted, 1977)
Sitting Target (D. Hickox, 1972)
Planet of the Vampires (M. Bava, 1965)
Paper Moon (P. Bogdanovich, 1973)
A Dandy in Aspic (A. Mann, 1968)
The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, 1934)
The Rocking Horse Winner (A. Pelissier, 1949)
Here’s what I watched in December. More on my @letterboxd.social boxd.it/2g3mZ
Amongst the weird scheduling this Christmas is Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at 2am on BBC2. Enjoy kids.
me: you boy what day is it today?
boy: nonces shout out of the window day.
me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.
Here’s Bob Cratchit’s 77 minute walk from his home in Camden Town to his job in Cornhill. I wonder if he ever stopped in that Costa next to Mornington Crescent to buy himself a flat white?
It was Christmas Eve, babe
In the Gunge tank
This is important stuff.
Timothy Spall
It’s Nick Helm’s Christmas Fuck Fest 10 on Tuesday at The Pleasance, Islington. Here I am at last year’s show. Photo courtesy of Mark Thompson. www.pleasance.co.uk/event/nick-h...