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The "Predator" Opening Titles, Re-Imagined I recently had the pleasure of re-watching John McTiernan’s “Predator” (1987) for the umpteenth time with someone who had never seen the mov...

Some have imagined what "Predator" would look like if that first shot of the spaceship flyby was removed? Imagine no longer.

The "Predator" Opening Titles, Re-Imagined
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More towards Covent Garden but ate here last week and it was lovely and quick keepchaating.co.uk

Every time you make fun of a website name on a TV show or movie I just need you to know some poor person fought for their life with Clearances to even be able to use that

Everyone is saying Home Alone but the subtle clues in the post are clearly pointing to:

Print in in blue and black, looking up to bare black tree silhouettes in a forest as two birds fly in between

More breathing space, 2024 one of the many etchings & engravings by printmaker Janis Goodman #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Thank you to everyone amplifying this. It's massively appreciated.

A cake that’s Tony Montana sitting on bricks of cocaine

A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.

Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

🚨🚨 " The BBC is far from perfect but it remains the most trusted news source in the world. To live up to its promises, it needs more independence, not less. More secure funding, not less. It needs to be set free, not shackled; defended, not attacked." Great stuff by @chrischirp.bsky.social

Keep mid-level writers and actors and crews in work. Be lovely, that would.

Play For Today, please. A comedy one. A sci fi one. A horror one. Cheers.

Interesting nugget from BBC staff call this morning: Tim Davie said the biggest number of complaints the BBC is handling right now concern the corporation giving Nigel Farage's Reform too much airtime. bsky.app/profile/jake...

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Blue Zoo animation studio co-founders Adam Shaw, Oli Hyatt MBE, and Tom Box are smiling at the camera and set against a teal coloured background with the Blue Zoo logo above them in white lettering.

We’re very happy to announce that multi-award-winning animation studio Blue Zoo will receive a BAFTA Special Award next month, recognising the studio’s extraordinary 25-year legacy and its significant social and cultural impact 🎉

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The premium this week is the precursor to something I'm working on coming out in the next week or two (which will be free). But one thing I can't stop thinking about - how has nobody else simply added up all the funding and revenues and costs? Hell, I should've done it months ago.

Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.

YouTube video by BBC The Night Manager Series 2 | Teaser – BBC

Here we go…

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WW1 British Brigadier surname generator (roll d6 twice for a hyphenated surname)

1. Hopton
2. Bletchley
3. Armsworth
4. Kensington
5. Pullwell
6. Fenton

1. Toss
2. Mallet
3. Ballup
4. Tugger
5. Smythe
6. Goode

WW1 British Sergeant surname generator (roll d6 twice for the first and second half)

1. Bos
2. God
3. Tread
4. Flit
5. Smeth
6. Dun

1. ric
2. well
3. wick
4. inns
5. ton
6. send

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.

At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.

🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90

The intro to my piece on All's Fair with Kim Kardashian www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Mailbag! 'Star Wars' and Soderbergh, the Best Home for Warner Bros., and Netflix vs. Theaters.

New pod: It’s a Town Hall mailbag episode! Your questions, my attempts at answers, with cameos by David Ellison’s chutzpah, Kathy Kennedy’s indecision, Rachel Sennott’s premiere finger foods, Comcast’s desperation, and…. CT and Bananas. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0qOM...

Breaking news: US stocks have dropped as jitters over highly elevated valuations for many artificial intelligence companies intensified and top Wall Street executives said markets were vulnerable to a pullback. on.ft.com/4hIMmhj

Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman on The Night Manager’s Long-Awaited Return Nearly a decade after the Emmy-winning original series, their intelligence officers navigate a bleaker world in season two: “Forty years ago, people would write movies where the punchline was, ‘and th...

Been busy helping to make this…
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I’m watching the Sopranos at the moment, for the first time, and the most remarkable part of it (as a timepiece) is it being a prestige piece of television with a cast list of names you don’t know. When’s the last time that happened? The Wire? We stopped doing that. We got timid.

This is why I share my "napkin math" crunching the numbers on the the top comics charts creative teams because this kind of "complacency and built-in prejudice" is there, too: