Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 3h"Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. You take the pill, flush it away. It enters the water cycle, feminises the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky, then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again." 041
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Resident Evil is probably the best Evil Dead film since Army of Darkness and also an acknowledgement of about how good these video game adaptations are gonna get. An up-all-night funny fright machine, where all sorts of icky indignities are piled on our goofy protagonist every 10-15 minutes or so. 220
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026All that alluring atmosphere of black market racketeering, with Vienna as a post-war playground of moral compromise and ruin, plays like Casablanca with all the idealism sucked out. It's a movie where the hero is a loser and the movie star is a heel. Of course I loved it. 110
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Orson Welles has the funniest entrance. Even though he's only in it for 10 minutes tops, you'd never know it from how he seems to *tower* over the rest of the film because of all the mystique that swirls around him. Welles plays him as a complete amoral sociopath, so of course he's awfully charming. 100
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I'm a hack writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls." Black & white classics like this would be so much better served if we dialed down the hallowed reverence (i.e. "The Most Important Film Ever Made!") and just sold them more on how *entertaining* they are. It's modern! It's FUN! 100
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🧵Belatedly caught up with Carol Reed's The Third Man, and I can't think of a better introduction to the wit & sophistication of classic cinema! It might be 77 years old but there's nothing dusty or musty about the film at all. Chatty, propulsive, crackling with insouciant energy.. it's so much FUN! 120
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"'Ezekiel!' the King beamed, delighted by the biblical reference. 'Tarantino!' Graham grinned and went inside, with Ryan and Yaz, leaving James baffled, not just by Quentin, but by the three people fitting inside the strange blue box, and the Doctor apparently about to follow them." 020
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Thank you UK Daniel! A good time was indeed had by all 🥳 020
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026To quote Willy herself: on this one, "Anything Goes!" 031
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I loved The Rivals of Amziah King. Freewheeling and full of joy, with such a rich sense of place and so many wonderfully colorful characters, digressions & surprises. Best of all, it's the kind of film that's never far from a song. And I daresay Matthew McConaughey hasn't been this great in years. 011
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey and now The End of Oak Street. Anne Hathaway is having quite a year! 000
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026So here we go. COMING SOON for the end of the summer - cos everyone's got a podcast nowadays! Very pleased to introduce SCREENING OUT LOUD, a film podcast which invites you to pick out 60-odd second snapshot from any movie of your choosing, which we can then unpick together! 14216
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"You said memories become stories when we forget them. Maybe some of them become podcasts." "That would be nice." 0101
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"You might think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a podcast." 092
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Here, Adric: If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now, my straw reaches... acrooooooss the room... and starts to drink your milkshake. I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! I DRINK IT UP!!!" 131
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine. 010
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Happy 20th to the literal & the metaphorical, the happy & the sad, the comic & the tragic, the salvation & damnation, the communal & the lonely, the light & dark, the wonderful & terrible, the heart & soul... A very happy 20th to Love & Monsters. 040
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026School Reunion didn't need to give Anthony Head any CGI alien wings, because the greatest special-effect was always his acting. 131
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Happy 20th to The Impossible Planet, Part 1 of a terrific DW story directed by James Strong & written by Matt Jones. Although having now read the diabolical (in so many ways) novelisation, I'm pretty certain I can say "entirely rewritten by Russell T Davies, based on an original idea by Matt Jones." 000
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Pretty telling that I haven't been to the cinema in awhile, cos I found myself wishing for Hitchcock's No Admittance Psycho policy after ENDLESS walk-ins during the first 10-15min. Being late is one thing, but if you're then gonna start waving your phone flashlight around & squabble over seating... 000
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Pike nodding to his men in The Wild Bunch/Kate nodding to her UNIT staff in The Reality War, as "La Golondrina" rises on the soundtrack: "Let's go." 010
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Not Guilty. Further evidence is forthcoming. In song. In the meantime, here's a taste: 030
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 17/05/2026🚨COMING SOON!!🚨 A concrete jungle where Dalek dreams are made of. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Let's hear it for... (with apologies to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys). 031
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 14/05/2026If the verdict IS guilty tonight, the next big question is... which eternal punishment will the judge sentence it to? 😱 100
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"Have you enjoyed it, Doctor? Being human? Has it taught you wonderful things? Are you better, richer, wiser, hmm? Then let's see you answer this... Which sort of sentence do you want us to hand down? Innocent or Criminal? Guilty... or NOT Guilty? YOUR CHOICE!" 130
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Delighted to have caught up with THE BEEKEEPER, which has the idiotic, lizard-brained fun of watching a snarling Jason Statham avenge scam-victims everywhere by slaughtering the insufferable techbro dudes who swindled them. Jemma Redgrave plays the President of the United States. 000
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - not exactly known for being the most bashful of men - doing the most Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger thing they could possibly do. 000
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Happy 20th to School Reunion, which (re)introduced me to Sarah Jane and K-9 in a lovely story that asks us to remember some things, forget some others, and completely reimagine some more. Which sort of sums up Doctor Who in a nutshell, doesn't it? 3110
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Meanwhile, my own long-running pet-project to adapt New Earth into its very own Target audio-novel continues apace. I've had a lot of fun putting it together, and I'm 11 chapters in - which is officially halfway through recording! Hopefully I'll be able to finish the rest this year! 100
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Oh look, New Earth just turned 20! It's a camp, disreputable, at times profoundly silly Doctor Who story that I happen to be very very fond of, and has brought me great joy & comfort over the years. I think we all have one like that. (Apropos of nothing, Time & the Rani turns 39 this September...) 100
Daniel Rawnsley @danielrawnsley.bsky.social · 09/04/2026"I wanna run dis YouTube live podcast, whaddever it takes. By any means necessary." "YOU THINK LIKE A DA-LEK." 010