Andrew Pope

I used to love Ed’s Easy Diner on Compton Street. Shut down a few years before Covid, iirc. Had a good long run up until then, for fans of cheapish formica-based 50s diner hot dog experiences in the heart of London. Decent rock’n’roll jukebox too.

You wouldn’t expect it to be necessary! And yet!

Oh wow, it really did not take long for people to start spoiling Weapons on the ol’ TL. You hate to see it! Always the same folks too. The group chat has taken notice.

And hence sadder.

Pretty easy gig tbh: e.g. on the issue of protests just program it to say “I urge people to stay indoors, the police will be making arrests” if it’s a peaceful protest against genocide, but “I think we have to recognise those are legitimate concerns” if they are threatening to burn down a hotel.

My disappointment is immense and my day is ruined. The sliver of joy is that they called Cush Jumbo “Cush Gumbo”, which she deserves for being involved in this.

Trump on top of The White House Tiffany from Independence Day on top of a building, welcoming the aliens. The aliens blowing up The White House.

What kind of a godforsaken ass would pull this? A switcheroo of different cuts of a movie?? I’m feeling Library of Alexandria levels of quiet fury.

Google Gemini might not see your anti-AI posts, but the real human VFX artists who secretly did the actual work in order to artificially inflate Google’s stock price will.

I like to dunk on Bezos as much as the next guy, but if you’re going to blame Amazon Studios - not Amazon as a distributor but specifically Amazon Studios - for War Of The Worlds you might have missed the massive Universal Pictures logo at the beginning.

A Super Thriller! SPENCER TRACY ROBERT RYAN NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN M-G Mis BAD DAYAT BLACK ROCK I COLOR "It has all the chill and intensity of 'High Noon'." - Hollywood Reporter ANNE FRANCIS: DEAN JAGGER WALTER BRENNAN JOHN ERICSON- ERNEST BORGNINE LEE MARVIN- RUSSELL COLLINS

🚨 Cult thriller alert 🚨
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK is now available on the Criterion Channel.
This movie does not come to play!
🥰

Cannot wait 🥰
This does look gorgeous. 👀 👻

Christ, was the new Naked Gun ever a letdown. One great sequence (you know the one), two or three decent gags… that’s it, for 90 minutes. Wistfully thinking back to the old movies that had a gag every ten seconds and 80%+ of them were golden. You can’t go back! You can’t go back.

we do not talk enough about the epidemic of lonely bears

(I think enough time has passed, and in any case everything I know about it came from the press anyway ☺️)

Those envelopes were handled by the vote-tallying consultants, PwC. I worked for PwC at the time, and we all got an email the next day telling us that under no circumstances were we to talk to the press.

David Lynch is barely in the ground. We don’t deserve electricity.

I saw 22 films at @fantasiafestival.com; in alphabetical order here are my 16 recs:

Anything That Moves
Buffet Infinity
Fucktoys
Hellcat
Influencers
Lurker
Mother of Flies
Noise
Obex
$Positions
Redux Redux
The Serpent’s Skin
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake
The Well
Touch Me
Transcending Dimensions

Also, this the first list I’ve seen in a while where, cards on the table, I haven’t seen a single one. The Man Who Lies looks interesting…

It’s in the geist of the thing, and that’s what’s important.

Solitude and adventure is a winning combination. Just living the life of a flâneur, never knowing what lies around the next corner or beyond the alleyway!

Strong advice, and doubtless correct! (I’ve never been).

(the moral is, go on holiday solo, do the thing whether people tag along or not, a private adventure is its own special kind of thing)

Turned out to be the first time in years the Northern Lights were so strong you could see them in downtown Reykjavik, even though the street lights. Some of the tourists cashed it “once in a lifetime”. My photos of that don’t do it justice because you really needed a tripod. But enjoy this geyser!

geyser in Iceland

A photo I took in Iceland, 2013. I was supposed to be going for a long weekend with a bunch of American friends, but they were stranded when their plane malfunctioned in Michigan, and they couldn’t make it. I ploughed on ahead solo.

ok but I heard Neanderthals could play the flute, so you better make those pincers dexterous

I too wish to go other ways.

5 page monologue on Neutral Milk Hotel

Marquee for the world premiere of Evil Dead Rise at SXSW

Happy days 🧟‍♀️