“Frank Abagnale Jr.’s real-life exploits are absurd yet true” citation needed from Jordan Ruimy… (I thought Catch Me if You Can’s debunking was common knowledge) www.worldofreel.com/blog//2015/0...
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“Frank Abagnale Jr.’s real-life exploits are absurd yet true” citation needed from Jordan Ruimy… (I thought Catch Me if You Can’s debunking was common knowledge) www.worldofreel.com/blog//2015/0...
As with all Marty news though, take it with a pinch of salt until you see a production still
for context: tomdavidson92.medium.com/if-martin-sc...
It appears as though my hat is safe…! deadline.com/2025/09/scor...
you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be
One Battle After Another is going to really test my 'all the true masterpieces get ~70% on Rotten Tomatoes' thesis
like it or not, these are the images that define our generation and Aster is probably the only ‘mainstream’ filmmaker confronting that
the more I think about it, the more stuff happens and the more I read from Ari Aster - the more I downright love Eddington tomdavidson92.medium.com/why-i-loved-...
send me your recommended Robert Redford-adjacent long reads please
Number of guys getting fresh fades from the Turkish barber before going to the far right march….guys, pack up. It’s done. Islam has already won
Yea but all that outsourcing really helped the stockmarket so...
Jeremy Kyle show, everyone knew it was horrid and exploitative but then one story and all of a sudden it's condemned etc Woody Allen's allegations were all a matter of public record but then MeToo happens and (almost) everyone distances themselves Then there's Post Office scandal as well
I saw some speculation it might be because he's got a rifle hidden down his trouser leg?
and the fact that on X the outrage factor is quite literally monetised
I don’t think One Battle After Another can be over-hyped. You’re going to hear alot of what sounds like awards season hyperbole about it, but it’s not - the movie is undeniable, it really is that good. And it’s a big funny entertaining action movie, but also much more. I can’t wait to see it again.
Guinness at The Red Setter, Clapham Junction. £7.25.
£18 each but they’ve gone now I’m afraid
genuinely gave me a little thrill to see a ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER poster on my fairly sleepy street in SW London.
new contender for ugliest 4K disc
Revealed: Boris Johnson approached Elon Musk on behalf of London Evening Standard owner Lebedev www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Charlie Brooker's quote for new Netflix project is...
the source: www.indiewire.com/features/int...
Charlie Kaufman surprisingly tender on the reaction to Synedoche, New York
Such is the atmosphere stoked by politicians and media, that if you’re a coachload of young men from varied ethnic backgrounds arriving in an English town, it’s currently about 50-50 whether you’ll face abuse, threats or potentially worse.
objectively hilarious
Due to poor planning, I've double-booked myself. Two tickets to ENZO at #LFF on 8/10 at Curzon Soho are for re-sale already...
#LFF tickets for The Kidnapping of Arabella, Enzo, The Voice of Hind Rajab and the Daniel Day-Lewis screentalk confirmed... Lucky to have a press pass for the festival but there are some experiences I want to share with friends and enjoy the festival crowd. Cannot wait!
It’s peak Dad Cinema
"I will grind whatever grist the mill requires to fulfil my duty."
I know it’s in there but the sets etc are what are really remarkable, between this and maybe Gangs of NY it was the end of an era in lots of ways
“You've come to the wrong shop for anarchy, brother.” one of the last great epic movies that doesn’t overly rely on CGI just a fantastic time at the movies
actually very funny news.sky.com/story/great-...
"He is the one inspiring vegan." Sean Penn on Paul Thomas Anderson
Not underreported by Sky News :-) news.sky.com/story/the-re...
rival politicians hate this one simple trick
ChatGPT was only pretending to write a book? Wow, it really is human.
"The same thing that's wrong with you isn't wrong with me." the news out of New Zealand this morning has got me thinking about Leave No Trace
hard to think of something ‘original’ to say about Taxi Driver but it is startling just how relevant and powerful it still feels, 50 years on. (The 4K remaster is perfect, pin-sharp but still grimy and scummy)
guys, just imagine the sort of power PTA would have for his next project if One Battle After Another is a hit
not actually r/okbuddycinephile
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I am old enough to remember to five days ago when Keir Starmer said he was resetting his government…
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
I'll say this for Emerald Fennell, one way or another, she gets the people going! (I thought Saltburn was largely trash)
Back at it Framed #1273 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf
love these sketches of Clive Owen with a very small head
In 2014 Giorgio Armani spoke to The Standard about dressing icons for movies www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/su...
![Merriam-Webster Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.c... • 17h enshittification noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits ... Gold Yoshi @goldyoshi.bsky.social [Screenshot of the enshittification page on Merriam Websters website. It says where does enshittification come from and the entire page is covered in ads]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g2p3bnbzcvcbohfpvjxfazqv/bafkreicqj6ceehevsgs4dhtajor6aehaismo6dwhcy4vdrqozqusqptpii@jpeg "Click to view full size")
"scenes involving graveyards and bathtubs" oooh matron! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hmm
it is remarkable - if not downright spooky - that Eva Marie Saint (101), Tippi Hedren (95), Vera Miles (95) and Kim Novak (92) are all still alive
well then www.youtube.com/watch?si=GsZ...
James Gandolfini was 37 when they shot S1 of The Sopranos. Matt Dillon is 61.
the first poster for Emerald Fennell's forthcoming Wuthering Heights, which stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie
Jonathan Rosenbaum on film criticism in 1985
also, every year it feels like a missed opportunity to showcase London’s amazing film culture that, like, 90% of the screenings are within the same square mile.
god bless the BFI but rebranding the Royal Festival Hall as the ‘Southbank Centre’ won’t make it any better as a movie-going experience
Feels like the flag debate has been kicking around my whole life and it still boils down to: Civic institutions should fly the flag routinely. Sporting occasions and national events, sure get it out. Year round flag on your house, bit weird, trashy. Doing it to "intimidate the forrins", obvs bad
lol, he's actually a total fucking dork with a stupid-ass jacket
because of woke www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Politicians boasting about having flags in their homes gives exactly the same energy as that 'Clap for the NHS' stuff during Covid
who pigeon-holed him I wonder
92-year-old woman doesn't look like she did several decades ago!
Solid film-industry reporting going on here
some of the ads on Donald Trump's Truth Social page seem illegitimate!
#LFF Screen Talks confirmed as: - Daniel Day-Lewis - Yorgos Lanthimos - Richard Linklater - Jafar Panahi - Lynne Ramsay - Tessa Thompson - Chloe Zhao (stellar line up from the BFI team)
Warwick Davies is *returning* as Professor Flitwick in the new Harry Potter TV show??? paging @stephenkb.bsky.social press.wbd.com/us/media-rel...
Fair but I’d probably score very poorly
one of my guilty pleasures Framed #1269 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf
what's amazing about this piece is the (correct) lack of balance - there is no 'pro SUV' argument put across because it's accepted that driving an SUV in and around London is a selfish/dangerous decision www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!
this is equal parts terrifying and fascinating (NB: Does everyone use AI as ubiquitously as this author appears to?) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I'm in a waiting room, and a woman is scrolling through Instagram with no headphones and the volume up. She's wearing a hoodie that reads; "quiet mind, calmer days".
BRITAIN PREVAILS
fuck yea, my finest work Framed #1266 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf
the problem is my current watch list includes: - Lawrence of Arabia - The Tree of Wooden Clogs - LA Dolce Vita - 1900 there aren't enough hours in the day...!
Current physical media wishlist (I've made a solemn pledge to not buy ANY until I get through my to-watch list): - Edge of Darkness TV series (nearly picked this up in Fopp) - Cabaret blu-ray - True Detective S1 blu-ray - Taxi Driver 4K - Winchester '73 4K - The Searchers 4K
If your business can’t succeed without stealing then it should obviously fail.
standard based von Sydow
Killers of the Flower Moon is one of the best films of the last 10 years and I don't think it should be a matter of debate (but debate is FUN)
Thinking about media and politics this morning, film specifically, I want to encourage you to read this excellent piece on the limits of empathy using the example of Killers of the Flower Moon. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/o...
"It’s Centrist Dad ZeroHedge with a Farrow & Ball paint job." thecritic.co.uk/why-on-earth...
daily art affirmations
i'm still waiting for more details on this release
stop talking down Britain! (etc etc)
They all act like, and look like, babies. www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
shame on me if I hadn't got this Framed #1265 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf
Werner Herzog is now on Instagram (and promoting his new movie Ghost Elephants)
it's super interesting to see EDDINGTON, a movie that is 'about' Twitter/Instagram/TikTok corrupting people's minds, be dissected by Twitter/Instagram/TikTok hot takes
I now have this lovely steelbook trio (alas, Kwai is not 4K…)
Don’t quit the day job
finally got my 4K holy grail (but when will I have the time to watch it?) I refused to pay over the RRP and forgot I had placed it on order in June…
I’ve not seen Hud (but I have seen Judgement at Nuremberg…)
so damn good it actually makes Marty’s The Color of Miney seem pretty ordinary (spoiler: it’s not) a forerunner to Uncut Gems in a lot of way but much more melancholy so damn damn good Paul fucking Newman
rewatching the Rebel Moon films, after all I heard about them, feels like a choice? (I avoided them, personally)
RoboCop: *about to arrest me* Me: before you arrest me, which of these 9 pictures have cars in them RoboCop: i’m going to let you off with a warning
