Chris

Review — ‘Mercy’ Ah, this takes me back. Sitting in a cinema on a sunny Saturday morning, shunning a social life or much-needed sleep in order to watch a…

Extending my social media break a bit longer, but if you're *that* thirsty for my pop culture takes, I went back to my roots by reviewing a throwaway piece of sci-fi kack. medium.com/@chrisrogers...

Review — ‘Mercy’ Ah, this takes me back. Sitting in a cinema on a sunny Saturday morning, shunning a social life or much-needed sleep in order to watch a…

Extending my social media break a bit longer, but if you're *that* thirsty for my pop culture takes, I went back to my roots by reviewing a throwaway piece of sci-fi kack. medium.com/@chrisrogers...

Review — ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Nia DaCosta’s second entry in this ever-expansive horror saga is a louder, funnier, more blood-curdling elegy for a lost world than ever…

Briefly breaking my social media-free January to say: I wrote a film review for the first time since 2019. Hope you like it.

medium.com/@chrisrogers...

A television screen showing Daisy Ridley as Rey on Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

2025 was mostly fucking awful, but I did just share a joint and watch The Force Awakens with my girlfriend, so the pendulum is swinging.

Anthony Daniels takes an already funny script and is riffing on a level that is freaking sublime

feel like Bob Ferguson the way I'm drinkin One Bottle After Another of Pepsi Zero Sugar

Not looking forward to those Steam Machine prices 😭

Long-abandoned tradition of simply logging out of socials for January is calling once again.

Gotta be honest lads, I’ve been reading it as ‘Plurbius’ this whole time.

I said I’d like JJ Abrams to make another film someday.

Letterboxd favourites refresh for 2026 🐕🪢🤖🚗

RIP to one of the very best to ever do it

Really sucks that we had 7 seasons of Clone Wars with some white bloke pretending to be Tem, then when he finally gets the big comeback it's for this thrid-rate Patton Oswalt-inspired rubbish. Train heist in Ep 2 was fun, tho.

Diva down :(

The meme image of a man facing the rising/setting sun and breaking apart the chains around his wrists.

Uninstalled Halo Infinite

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

MARTY SUPREME - using my favourite song as the final needledrop is cheating, but even so: real good shit, sold-out crowd loved it.

Personal Version

Out:
This fucking flat
“I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard it’s good!”
Apologising needlessly
Halo Infinite
The same three pairs of jeans on rotation

In:
Reading
The Steam library backlog
Museums/galleries
Framing all my posters
[Redacted]

Out:
Bedrotting
"Closed all my rings!"
Avatar cultural impact discourse
Streaming shows with 2 year season breaks
Pistachio/'Dubai' Chocolate
Mullets

In:
Sluttery
Shorter shorts (men)
Chunkier glasses (all genders)
Synthpop
Being the friend who's 'Too Woke'
Corner shops

Gävle brought down by wind rather than fire…something has shifted.

My mum gain class consciousness challenge (impossible)

Was telling my mum about Wuthering Heights "It's made by Emerald Fennell, she's very posh" Mum: "she can't be that posh, she was on The Archers!"

Charlotte’s back at work today so I’ve been keeping her updated on the family gathering:

Haha he’s away until January 5th, what if I just set myself on fire x

Wrote down a comprehensive list of all the reported issues since we moved in and oh Jesus Christ.

Ben Affleck, dejectedly smoking.

After trying every DIY treatment I could find online and driving myself insane for a week, I will in fact have to message our useless landlord about phorid flies. During the Christmas perineum.

Good *grief*

Then: LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga
Now: Portal

(Phantom Hourglass - the one Zelda game I’ve played - could have made the cut both times tbf)

“I'm not sleepy, I want to look at my flower!”

“Dream about it, and it'll be a whole garden.”

Fell apart, lads.

I watched IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE for the first time today after a very difficult week, an eyes-bigger-than-belly lunch and four drinks: fucked me *right* up.

A selfie of Chris in bed with a large white and orange cat bundled in his arms

Peace and goodwill from The Lads™️