Yesterday was extraordinary. Strangers embracing in the street, grown men crying, the entire Holloway Road shut down. Old friends and new ones. 22 years coming.
Football is important because it’s not important.
Love to Arsenal fans everywhere x
If you're stuck inside this rainy weekend, I'd recommend watching SPIDER-NOIR on Prime Video, especially with the delightful option to do so in black and white, which makes the whole vibe make a lot more sense. Nicolas Cage perfectly pitches the old-fashioned 1930s tone x
Just a reminder, before people start minimising this, that almost the entire Labour Party in its current form was meticulously shaped and staffed by Peter Mandelson. Almost every new MP elected in 2024 was personally hand-picked by him. They are all his kind of people.
This is absolutely heartbreaking.
Dying from grief at the age of 56 while her country is bombed to smithereens.
No words for how sad this makes me.
PERSEPOLIS (both the comic and the film) is a masterpiece, read it, watch it, remember her x
Would highly recommend the incredibly sentimental but really rather sweet new film REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES on Netflix, which has some nicely-pitched ruminations on grief and ageing, but more importantly a wonderful octopus as a supporting character, which improves any film
KKAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIII
Horror films continue to tear it up at the box office (reflecting real life socially and politically, as usual), and while not the best recent example, perhaps the most impressive is BACKROOMS, due to it being defiantly its own thing, and directed by a fucking 20-year-old kid...
There's a brilliant horror film out in cinemas at the moment called OBSESSION, in case you fancy escaping from the heat this weekend. The premise might look simple but it's much smarter than it seems, and probes excruciating places around modern relationships. Bring your partner!
Escaped from the frankly offensive heat yesterday into an air-conditioned cinema to watch THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU.
It's fine.
Got me thinking though, about Star Wars. What IS that now? What has it become? What have we done to it? What's it done to itself? And why?
Why?
Just an incredible piece of writing
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
