Leigh Singer

Just a reminder of what an absolute c*nt Farage is: he wants to scrap the benefits of people who legally work and pay their taxes in Britain, yet the greasy f*cker happily slurps down his fat EU pension - paid for by the very European citizens he spent years spewing bile at. Parasite in a suit.

pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review: Metal fatigue Rob Reiner’s follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked.

It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get?
And the answer is… none.
None more disappointed…

As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Someone else shared this. Various comments Kirk has made. -Gay people should be stoned to death -Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane -Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband -No one should be allowed to retire -Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states -British Colonialism was what "made the world decent" -The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out -Religious freedom should be terminated -Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots" -MLK Jr was "an awful person" -The Great Replacement Theory is reality -Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID -Vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid" -Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment -Women's natural place is under their husband's control -Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control -George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't -The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake" -Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates -Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11 -Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization -Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK

More of Kirk’s “reasonable opinions”

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen

Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN

No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Werner Herzog (Happy Birthday!)

It’s that time again…

A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival.
Meantime, feast yer eyes!

whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that

Met him once to talk about his… chocolates. But such a down-to-earth guy, zero pretensions & talent to burn that, despite impressive credits, you felt was often under appreciated. Still, Billy Budd, Collector, Teorema, Madding Crowd, Superman II, The Hit, Priscilla QOTD, The Limey… RIP Terence Stamp

Pravda.

This is so depressingly true re: the arts / of criticism. But in the bigger picture I also go back to shitheel Tory politician Michael Gove’s phoney Brexit shibboleth that British people “have had enough of experts” to justify anti-intellectual, knee-jerk populism & how to control / profit from it.

Et tu, @bsky.app?

If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here.

filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience… have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is fantastic, urge you to listen, especially if you think Still Bill is one of the most underrated albums out there…

🚨new video essay 🚨

How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever?

The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it…

How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience
for @lwlies.com.

Full video here:
youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...

New album cover art drop, courtesy of the fab European Film Festival Palić, FIPRESCI jury

no words... but also no action taken by any governments to this ongoing slaughter, so it just continues. insanity.

thanks, Jonathan!

🙏

The cop at the end of Usual Suspects looking around his office and seeing the objects that inspired the story

Bath salts

A bbc Coast boxset

A moth mug

A Penguin editor looking around their office this morning.

“Your producers were so preoccupied with whether they COULD, they never stopped to think about…” yadda yadda yadda, rinse & repeat

A really insightful interview with David Cronenberg by @hannahstrong.co.uk for @lwlies.com

Good sound, good writer.

All just a little bit of prehistory repeating… reviewed Jurassic World Rebirth for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social

in this utter sh*tshow of a world, we need to celebrate the positives when they come. fantastic news from NYC
#ZohranMamdani

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also from @lwlies.com on Before Sunrise, a really beautiful piece by Jess Furseth: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

A highly personal look at three films that get more resonant and poignant as time goes by, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE… trilogy.

New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here:

youtu.be/7My0TSarYqA?...

Thank you, Alex!

@secondsightfilms.bsky.social release of The Nice Guys is typically brilliant. Beautiful transfer and @leighsinger.bsky.social video essay “Lethal Weapon to Nice Guys” is a treat.