Alan Maxwell

Paul Dano talking to the press while Tarantino grimaces in the background like some kind of hobgoblin or troll

lmao

Was at the lovely Mackintosh Church in Glasgow this eve for Jacob Alon, with support from Alice Faye. Two of the most exciting singer-songwriters in Scotland right now. What a night.

Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing | Dani Garavelli The Reform leader is exploiting growing resentment towards migrants and hosting a sold-out event - something unimaginable just a few years ago, says freelance columnist Dani Garavelli

A wee bit I wrote about the hammerblow of watching people from the country that gave us the Glasgow girls and Kenmure Street turn to the right. And about the opportunism of Farage as he heads north. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Watching an old western from the 50s and just spotted Warren Oates in the background in one scene. Fine way to start a Saturday.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Given how much FIFA can be trusted and how much Trump can be trusted I will admit I've already stuck a couple of quid on the USA winning the World Cup.

Bizarre mix-up at draw as winner of World Cup accidentally revealed seven months in advance

Or awarding a World Cup to Russia?
Or awarding a World Cup to Saudi Arabia?
Or just awarding the inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize" to Trump?
Or...

FIFA really have no shame at all, do they?

Who has time for new releases when there are so many 80s action movies and Italian horror yet to be watched.

I've seen just 13 of these (so far). Guess I have some catching up to do.

Paperback copy of Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid, and hardback copies of To See Ourselves: A Personal History of Scotland, and The North Sea: Along the Edge of Britain, both by Alistair Moffat.

Latest update to the "books I've read in 2025" thread. First McDermid I've ever read (obviously not happy about buying a book by a Rovers fan, but I have been reading all the Darkland Tales series); and Alistair Moffat seems to be releasing books faster than I read them but they're always brilliant.

One Christmas movie to know me by

‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures The imposing concrete buildings that defined British postwar architecture held a vision of the future – but many fell into disrepair. A new book finds the finest examples

These are amazing. I think I may need to pick up the book.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Wait... did you just compare yourself to the Lord? Typical Cork.

Fascinating look at how much one band—Los Campesinos!—makes from streaming.

“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period.”

Went to see the filmed version of The Fifth Step since I'd enjoyed the original EIF production so much. Really enjoyed it, although (aside from obvious changes to the cast and set) I do seem to recall some differences. All the excuse I need to go and read the text (again).

Saw a film on IMDb that had a release date of "2025" against a particular festival. Having been there, I decided to update it to show the exact date. Got rejected, so people still can't rate a film that has been publicly screened. So glad I moved to Letterboxd.

Quiet night in with some classy viewing on the cards I think. The Vampire Lovers followed by Tarzan and the She-Devil.

This doesn't sound *quite* so bad but still sounds really shitty.
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You are shitting me

Yep. It's hilarious.

Don't know how this has come to pass but GBH is on the BFI Player. Yes, the Cliff Twemlow film.

Two panel cartoon: panel 1 shows someone holding a booklet for a planet called Dino World, open 24 hours. Panel two reveals that this booklet is being held by an asteroid zooming through space wearing a cap that has an "I love dinosaurs" design on it.

No matter how many times I see this cartoon (by Nathan Pyle) I still laugh every single time. This is one of the all time greats.

This just won the Best Animated Short at Foyle FF, one of a number of Oscar-qualifying fests its done well at, so this is your chance to watch it and then look really cool if it ends up nominated.

😄

Queens Film Theatre, Belfast

Picture of the so-called "Janus" carving (and similar stone next to it) in a wet graveyard in Fermanagh.

Went to Ireland. Saw a gig in Dublin, saw the great Don Wycherley in a one-man play, saw a few films at the QFT, had some day trips, spent a week in Derry for the Foyle Film Festival. It's 1am, I just got home, I'm back at work in the morning. Yaaay.

This is on the BBC Scotland channel and iPlayer tonight from 9pm, a trip back to the 80s and 90s in the company of cast, crew and creator of City Lights.

A few rarely seen bits of archive, including clips from the pilot with Billy Greenlees as Chancer and no studio audience.

Good. This should upset all the right people. Happy St Andrews Day!
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