Clarisse Loughrey

thank you & thank you so much for sharing!!

This is really good and I can’t wait for the book

In honour of the astonishing Udo Kier passing I fully recommend you go watch Paul Morrisey’s Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein asap. Both excellently perverse reimaginings of the gothic icons that sparked electrifying performances from Kier.

watching the porsche cup brasil atm & they’re trying to soft launch live-action CARS over there

A Royal collaboration: Wes Anderson & Gene Hackman In an extract from new book Wes Anderson A Retrospective, Flicks regular Clarisse Loughrey examines the brilliant, turbulent partnership powering The Royal Tenenbaums.

a new extract from my upcoming book WES ANDERSON: A RETROSPECTIVE is now available on @flicks.bsky.social

if you like it you can preorder the book at the bottom (or top) of the article 💛

interviewed noah baumbach today post-therapy and forgot that my fidget/good luck charm was still in my coat pocket

could even keep margot robbie & jacob elordi as the leads, it works!

reserving judgement on a certain film, but ill say now that emerald fennell would have been a great fit for a new adaptation of VANITY FAIR

very understandable i haven’t quite reached that point but im getting there

you’re very much right! did you watch the scorsese doc? that felt like what the standard for these hagiographic celeb docs should be at least, adoring yes but not dishonest (ofc impacted by who directed it)

Senator Elissa Slotkin • @slotkin.senate.gov Gaza Genocide Denier Israel Apologia

This is why you should subscribe to @shadowbanner.bsky.social so you don't repost bad people into your mutuals' feeds

The new guidance also removes a suggestion in an earlier draft that those running services could in “necessary and proportionate circumstances” ask to see a birth certificate or gender recognition certificate (GRC) if they suspected someone was lying about their sex. The final code instead says it would “unlikely be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex” even if doubts were raised. It said “there is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex” because people can change their sex on passports and driving licences without a GRC.

Under the new guidance, places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others. If there is doubt they are telling the truth about their sex, they could be banned from using those services once those running them had considered “relevant factors”.

But it says that if there is “genuine concern about the accuracy of the response” it may be proportionate to exclude a transgender person anyway.

Shot - chaser - finisher

The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork.

Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes.

Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans.

A recipe for utter chaos.

finally got clocked by a friend for referencing x-men in my wicked review. i refuse to apologise why did they have elphaba bending so much metal in those movies

BEING EDDIE is pure netflix pr job, but the very clear & compassionate way that murphy talks about himself is still pretty cool to watch

BEING EDDIE is pure netflix pr job, but the very clear & compassionate way that murphy talks about himself is still pretty cool to watch

stan brain is fascinating to me bc i feel like such a core part of being truly passionate about an artist is also talking about their creative missteps like they’ve personally embarrassed you… that’s true love, the rest is flattery

There’s no magic in the aimless slog of Wicked: For Good – review Cynthia Erivo scores, but Ariana Grande less so – and director John M Chu still hasn’t figured out how to properly light any of this

WICKED: FOR GOOD is a real slog – mostly the source material’s fault, but the film does itself no favours in its choices

There’s no magic in the aimless slog of Wicked: For Good – review Cynthia Erivo scores, but Ariana Grande less so – and director John M Chu still hasn’t figured out how to properly light any of this

WICKED: FOR GOOD is a real slog – mostly the source material’s fault, but the film does itself no favours in its choices

Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

“not a winky-dinky-doo of sleep for me”

first watch of FRANKENSTEIN on netflix and i can’t believe i’d repeatedly missed this line… in the vocabulary you go, winky-dinky-doo

was invited to a sip and paint event for this week’s release of KEEPER, osgood perkins’s new horror. felt like jungian art therapy with nice cocktails. was then sent home with my new masterwork & a chocolate cake, which im sure does not play any kind of sinister role in the movie

i am excited for this movie but ngl seeing an ancient greek in trousers gives me the ick… chris free those thighs

fell into the trap of comparing this to GIRLS but i think it’s a fascinating look at how narcissism has mutated between generations

fell into the trap of comparing this to GIRLS but i think it’s a fascinating look at how narcissism has mutated between generations

Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is a near-total failure – review The eerie prescience of Stephen King’s dystopian source material – written in 1972 and set, of all years, in 2025 – has been wiped from this bland reboot, which also seems to know it’s miscast its lea...

seems hard to imagine that THE RUNNING MAN *wouldn’t* feel achingly prescient and yet…

Reposting this now I've watched both @realgdt.bsky.social masterpiece and these interviews. @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social nails these interviews, and you can see how much fun everyone's having with this. Truly a master of the craft

Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is a near-total failure – review The eerie prescience of Stephen King’s dystopian source material – written in 1972 and set, of all years, in 2025 – has been wiped from this bland reboot, which also seems to know it’s miscast its lea...

seems hard to imagine that THE RUNNING MAN *wouldn’t* feel achingly prescient and yet…

Today I stood with peace activists outside Westminster Magistrates Court, in solidarity with those who have been arrested for protesting against genocide.

The proscription of Palestine Action is truly shameful. We must defend the right to demonstrate!

in this month’s @sfxmagazine.bsky.social, i speak to the cast & crew of THE WITCHER about the past, present, and future of the series and how it all comes back to one thing - why do we tell the stories we tell