Gordon.writes @blankpages237.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For Elastica fans everywhere thequietus.com/quietus-revi...thequietus.comReissue of the Week: Elastica's Debut Album is "Untouchable Louche Perfection" | The QuietusClaire Biddles returns to Elastica's debut album and finds it short and perfectly formed; even with some extra tracks thrown in. 000
Reposted by Gordon.writesMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17071461958
Reposted by Gordon.writesJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wrote something about SNL:UK and what I learned by going to see it being made… joelmorris.substack.com/p/live-from-...joelmorris.substack.comLive from London, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!What seeing this week’s episode of SNL UK taught me about comedy. 3723872
Reposted by Gordon.writesToby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is like two forms of punctuation meeting outside the usual confines of a sentence. 79220
Gordon.writes @blankpages237.bsky.social · 13/09/2026All hail ‘King Mong’. Yeah. Probably wouldn’t do that nowadays. 000
Gordon.writes @blankpages237.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I’ve jumped the gun sliding back into semi-goth attire #sunshine #stillsummer 010
Gordon.writes @blankpages237.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Pierced associates heighten marital tension. 000
Reposted by Gordon.writesAnnette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel. 5497203011
Reposted by Gordon.writesBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 12/07/2026"I can’t tell you how many times I popped in that VHS and let myself access Donnie’s world. Dozens upon hundreds. And much like my own submission to the uncanny, I never aimed to crack its code, but just let it wash over me. I crawled right up inside of it and wore it like a stupid man suit."brightwalldarkroom.comStupid Man Suit | Donnie Darko (2001)And isn’t that 'Donnie Darko', too? Removed from the impossible tangle of time travel, it's really just a mood. 2214
Reposted by Gordon.writesmseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was. 19348701509
Reposted by Gordon.writesReactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Is John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) the definitive Arthurian adaptation? Let's discuss this potent fever dream of a film, from its brilliant Merlin and excellent cast to some of its...weirder and more puzzling choicesreactormag.comExcalibur: An Epic Tale of Swords, Sorcery, and Baffling Tonal Shifts - ReactorA deeply flawed, fascinating, and visually stunning film from director John Boorman. 1404
Reposted by Gordon.writesToronto Film Critics Association @torontofilmcritics.bsky.social · 04/01/2026"For my films, I think I am an acquired taste." @filmfest.bsky.social chats with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, Hitchcock, Cronenberg, the Three Amigos, and monster movies. torontofilmcritics.com/features/gui...torontofilmcritics.comGuillermo del Toro on Frankenstein and a Life of Making Monsters - Toronto Film Critics AssociationAn interview with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, Hitchcock, Cronenberg, the Three Amigos, and monster movies. 129158
Reposted by Gordon.writesDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/05/2026These guys know their business, sure, but they've been tasked with the impossible. Paddington 2 scans as if Shakespeare and Moliere both rose from their graves and banged out one last triumph together. Fool's errand to go near a franchise after such work. And no, I'm not being hyperbolic. 2333534
Reposted by Gordon.writesBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 12/04/2026"Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ is like a Fabergé fidget cube, its many contraptions and bells and whistles held together by so much humor and whimsy and craft as to be almost deliriously entertaining." - @justinh94.bsky.socialbrightwalldarkroom.comHot Fuzz and the Comedy of TactilityHot Fuzz leverages every perfect match-cut and hilariously blocked visual gag to create something lastingly comforting and deliriously entertaining. 1102
