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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have the brand of neurodivergence that, when watching Gogglebox, hears every time they loop a bar of music so they can edit reactions between the Strictly clips.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m so-so on the Carrie show after a solid start episode - some stuff works, some doesn’t - but I’m genuinely baffled by a mid-season reveal that felt achingly obvious from the second it started. One of those “Yes, we know, we’ve seen TV” things. And not at all typical of Flannigan’s savvy.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perhaps my favourite “this was the scripted line before they redubbed it” in film history - as evidenced by the #IndianaJones and the Last Crusade tie-in comic book. Two obvious reasons to change the name to Mickey Mouse. No explanation required. But nonetheless an evocative 1940s gag.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s soooooooooo good. Just brilliant comedic timing and such wit and invention.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back in the day I’d just send people this. Which is, ironically, my defining thought on the subject.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nigella Lawson, three likely autistic contestants and a TARDIS joke. It’s like #BakeOff was trying to lure *specifically* me back. (It worked.)

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is, of course, what the funniest people on video platforms grasped so instinctually. Communal and energetic wins. Silvia’s huge on TikTok, and her “it does the job” FX - like South Park cutouts - become part of her inclusive voice. seetiktok.com/ZGdQXTE2H

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mitchell and Webb’s sketch show on Channel 4 had such a hard time trying to look good on its budget. The FX and grading, the shooting choices. Often not quite good enough. It feels 🤦🏻‍♂️ to realise that aesthetic quality can be the enemy. Can’t nail it? Push away from that. Pick vibes instead.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spot on. I’ve been struck with how SNL, surely our most expensive comedy show, is often content to look cheap. It’s because it feels quick. It screams “We’re literally doing this live, right now!” It screams *gig*.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All future Halloween movies will require the makers to pick three previous entries from the series out of a hat and make them, and *only* them, canon to the new film.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pressure is a solid movie, and yet…it kinda only has two beats. So it plays the first repeatedly for an hour. Positions are restated and entrenched rather than developed and explored. Basically, I think I wanted a load more battling between clever people over the minutiae of weather prediction. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The U.S. 4K disc works on UK players. A relief since it’s never gonna get a proper release here.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I love the brief section where Nolan remembers the primes is also blackly funny and goofy. “I’m chasing this guy…no, he’s chasing me.” “Hm, I don’t feel drunk…”

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rewatched it a couple of weeks ago and tonight, for the first time, saw the in-order edit. Just to see what it threw up. Basically: Natalie’s a super complex character, Teddy’s relentlessly after the cash in the car and constantly tries new approaches, and wow is Lenny not at all how he dresses.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gonna recommend The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and Milady. The 2023 French movies are well worth a rent, doing smart, precise things in adaptation to keep things surprising and stakes-y. Also, the fights are fabulous. Done in Spielberg-type oners that keep things honest and immediate.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m terribly behind - have releases of the Doctor Who Collection Blu-rays been paused? Feels like there’s usually one due out in the autumn.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Furious is extraordinary. Weirdly, of all things, it reminds me of DTF St. Louis - shows that snuck up on you using genre. But both know exactly what they’re about, what they want to say, and never fail to articulate those things, with truth and wit.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry in Charlie’s Angels, though. Can’t forget that one. Misleading everyone that he’ll be the big villain.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Watching 9 to 5 on Disney+. Despite opening with the traditionally grotty old Fox logo the HD master they’re using is shockingly good. Someone found a good print and put the work in.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cinemas seem nervous it’ll do a Master of the Universe. Our showing was booked out…but in the smallest theatre with one of only two screenings. Doesn’t help that they have no US box office to go off. I’m hoping good word of mouth will open it up.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No spoilers, but Coyote vs Acme also has a reveal at one point that’s so funny on a character-in-this-story level that I wanted to burst.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There’s a “spray product” joke in Coyote vs Acme that may be my laugh of the year. What a hoot that movie is!

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If talking a lot is something you want from your podcast guests, I sure did talk a lot of it here. Why not play at double speed and experience how irritating it must be to know me. youtu.be/b7YPgOMCBx0?is=4oG5qlFvl27…

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If I’d known this existed I’d absolutely have tried to find it for the DVDs. Goodness me.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 24/08/2026

A short piece about some early Red Dwarf which went unseen for decades. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/08/clos...

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Me literally only right now realising that the title’s meant to be understood in the Latin sense. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There should be a legal requirement not to label “long term online rental until the platform loses rights” as “Buy”. Call it what it is, “long rental”. At which point companies are incentivised to figure out how to make buy *mean* buy, or else lose sales to cheaper short rental and physical media.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Tugged on my script consultant trousers to help out on Proper Ladies. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002v…

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

he's right and he should say it

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN CALLS
OUT AMATEUR MOVIE CRITICS WHO THINK SPOTTING A MOVIE TROPE MEANS THE FILM FAILED

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very struck by just how specifically Spider-Man Brand New Day is focused on loss and recovery. Loss of self, of loved ones, of control. And in particular how connection is vital to any kind of recovery.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Joyous work. Lit up threads through the Nolan canon I’d just not seen.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Darren’s one-two punch of video essays on “Christopher Nolan” and “The Odyssey” are as good as video essays get for reading of filmic text and their cultural contexts. Click this first one - which you can watch without any Odyssey spoilers - immediately.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s an astonishing synthesis of game design, character connection and good story- and dialogue-writing. Everything that might be fixed, in a sequel say, is not in those areas. I’m delighted.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A very nice psychological take on 007 First Light, explaining why the theme of Bond as an instinctual ‘heart’ lands so well. youtu.be/H0kBN6R_82E?is=_lulS4c1x5X…

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Now, ah, you guys are gonna figure out how to spellcheck the word “episodes”before you take over ITV, right…?

KATIE PRICE: NOTHING TO HIDE caption card from a trailer, with “All epiodes available now” beneath.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ooh, Alice and Steve is very good indeed.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just played chapter 8 of 007 First Light. Haven’t loved a Bond game this much ever. Not even close. Someone have me on a podcast to rhapsodise. So much good writing. Two back to back scenes equate Bond with heart and hope. Words rarely used for the character but so applicable. It’s a real *take*.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I know Charlie Higson’s book kinda got there first, but Amazon/Villeneuve would be crazy to miss the chance to start their Bond series with the title On His Majesty’s Secret Service.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The YouTube video essays by @montyzander.bsky.social are always good, but this rich analysis of Wolfenstein: The New Order - a franchise I’ve barely a passing interest in - is peak stuff. youtu.be/QydfhmIy9pw

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I mean, the next version of the show is plausibly quite different, sure. But that’s surely the only real constant of the show for 60+ years. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Doctor Who fans acting like a lynch mob in the same week Tip Toe reached its painful conclusion. How more on-the-nose can things be?

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Oh thank god for a grown-up take on the Doctor Who situation.

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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Hulke's whole script, and the full story of the Stanmark radio pitch, can be found in issue 3 of Nothing at the End of the Lane: www.endofthelane.co.uk/Issue3PDF.html

Very 1960s high-contrast promotional artwork prepared for the 1966 radio proposal.

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Andrew Ellard @ellardent.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Of all #DoctorWho historical papers this is maybe my new favourite curio - Malcolm Hulke’s 1966 pitch for at a new pilot script for the show. This was mooted for radio, potentially to star Bella Lugosi as the Doctor, or later Peter Cushing. (Taken from David Brunt’s Hartnell Production Diary book.)

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