Joseph Dudley

A ★★★★ review of The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Showroom Cinema + Q&A with Tim Key All-round top night. Although I got Dame Judi drenched on the way home.

My Letterboxd review of The Ballad of Wallis Island… boxd.it/b8J7xh

Now Watching: All the President’s Men (1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring the late, great Robert Redford.

Now Watching: Black Bag (2025) Dir. Steven Soderbergh

I love this movie. Not many like it.

Goes way too fast. Happy Birthday!

I was hoping the Denis Villeneuve announcement was about him directing a Waterworld reboot.

Now Watching: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof

Now Watching: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023) Dir. William Friedkin

“Yippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.

KNEECAP ARE NOT THE STORY If senior politicians can find neither the time, nor the words to condemn, say, the murder of fifteen voluntary aid workers in Gaza, or the illegal starvation of a civilian population as a method of warfare, or the killing of thousands & thousands of children in the same territory, by a state in possession of the highest precision weapons on earth; how much notice should a music festival take of their moral advice on booking performing acts? As a band that has spoken publicly for more than 30 years about the illegal occupation, apartheid system and killing with impunity of thousands of Palestinians, we are hyper aware of the both the human cost of abject political silence, and the commercial implications of publicly expressing solidarity with an oppressed people.

Language matters of course. The hideous murders of elected politicians Jo Cox and David Amess means there’s no scope for flippancy or recklessness. But do politicians and right-wing journalists strategically concocting moral outrage over the stage utterings of a young punk band, while simultaneously obfuscating or even ignoring a genocide happening in real time (including the killing of journalists in unprecedented numbers) have any right to intimidate festival events into acts of political censorship? Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story. And the silence, acquiescence and support of those crimes against humanity by the elected British government is the real story. Solidarity with all artists with the moral courage to speak out against Israeli war crimes, and the ongoing persecution and slaughter of the Palestinian people. Massive Attack.

Massive Attack 👏👏👏👏

Now drinking… #TheyLive #FilmSky

Now Watching: Miracle Mile (1988) Dir. Steve De Jarnatt

Now watching: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Dir. John Carpenter

#FilmSky #JohnCarpenter #NeonRaptorBrewingCompany

#FilmSky #JohnCarpenter #NeonRaptorBrewingCompany

Pretty meh, though I’m not sure I was the target audience.

#LastFourWatched @letterboxd.social

Now watching: House of Games (1987) Dir. David Mamet

A late start, but #NowWatching a personal favourite…

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Friday

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

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Tonight’s John Sayles/Chris Cooper double bill…

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Now watching: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Dir. Sam Peckinpah

A good week… #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

RIP David Lynch

I fucking love that lad.

Kyle MacLachlan’s beautiful tribute to David Lynch…