Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed 3377
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s 3322
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026A US-backed coup? In Latin America? Unprecedented! 0181
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s 3322
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed 3377
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Well, the FIFA Peace Prize people really have egg on their faces 0446
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 29/12/2025New Years, new me. Not like those other 42 times. 0151
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Ah shit, I nearly went the whole year without thinking about the Roman Empire 2362
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 28/12/2025READING 2025: Enjoyed the always compelling (if sometimes problematic) BALKAN TRILOGY by Olivia Manning, especially after briefly visiting Bucharest a couple of years ago and falling a little bit in love with it. 170
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 28/12/2025I’m very tired from all this sitting and eating 4120
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 28/12/2025READING 2025: Went on a Kazuo Ishiguro run in March filling in some of my blanks from his back catalogue: PALE VIEW OF THE HILLS, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS and re-read the wonderful, dream-like THE UNCONSOLED 060
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 26/12/2025THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored. ME: it was authored. By me. 2317
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 26/12/2025A special day, on which we celebrate the noble box, that lets us carry the many as though they be but one 061
Reposted by James TophamAlex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Never seen this so devastatingly and lucidly articulated. 07822
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 26/12/2025THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored. ME: it was authored. By me. 2317
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Putting turkey in sandwiches, curries, pies, using it as cavity wall insulation, stuffing mattresses with it, putting it beneath acrobats to break their fall 0408
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/12/2025The prosthetics in this Colin Firth movie are incredible #KingsSpeech 0231
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/12/2025There were reportedly tensions on set between Caine and Rizzo the Rat, a notorious method actor, who refused to break character even when the cameras weren’t rolling 1315
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Bit sad (especially at this time of year) but we had an accident at ours last night. Everyone’s okay, but I’m santa now. 3200
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism? 2223
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 24/12/2025In accordance with the tradition 1315
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Shit. I just realised that I am the same age and LOOK EXACTLY LIKE Alan Rickman in Die Hard 2180
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 04/09/2025And when you saw only one set of footprints on the beach? That was the invisible killer robot I invented to wreak revenge on my enemies. 090
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I’m now so old I don’t recognise half the Knives Out cast 260
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Why “water sommelier” when M’aitre d’H20tel was right there 2152
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 29/08/2025*sits backward on his chair* Sabrina Carpenter? You know who else was a carpenter? 0154
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 29/08/2025The plural is Carls Junior — like Attorneys General 170
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 29/08/2025*sits backward on his chair* Sabrina Carpenter? You know who else was a carpenter? 0154
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Happy Skynet becomes self-aware day, don’t forget to leave out your chatgpt prompts tonight or the machines might not come 0114
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 27/08/2025She’s a 10 but she doesn’t outline 0134
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Is he using THE SUBSTANCE? 1203
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Question asked in complete earnestness: is it the demons who are KPOP and they are being hunted? Or the demon hunters who are KPOP and the demons they’re hunting are just standard everyday demons? 450
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025If he’s male, then strictly speaking he’s a draculo 0183
Reposted by James TophamJames Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025“Welcome to… JURASSIC PARK!”, I say, opening the door to the room my cat is in. 1141
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025BTW all of Snoop Dog’s family have names that work on Smurf rules 171
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025“Welcome to… JURASSIC PARK!”, I say, opening the door to the room my cat is in. 1141
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 25/08/2025If he’s male, then strictly speaking he’s a draculo 0183