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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 28/09/2026

I will once again be covering #BFI #LondonFilmFest for @takeonecinema.net and perhaps others. Longer reviews throughout but press screenings started today, so here’s a thread of short reactions and links to Letterboxd. #LFF boxd.it/MZiH

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2026 — https://boxd.it/MZiH

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 18/09/2026

Was doing a first read of a writer’s first draft they sent me yesterday. I’m ready to drop Google Docs and burn everything to the ground.

An AI pop up prompt to “Summarise this document”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 09/09/2026

I don’t really game much these days, but if you can get me emotional while playing, over a character rendered like this, I don’t think you really need to have photorealistic people.

Aerith, in the blocky form seen in the original PlayStation version of Final Fantasy VII

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 05/09/2026

Some of these GTA 6 analyses are fucking weird to me

THINGS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED:
• Rob and the team told me that if you see someone walking their dog and the dog does its business, you can wait for the owner to pick it up in a bag, hit them so they drop it, then pick the bag up yourself and throw it at people. That is the level they are going to.

YOUR SCIENTISTS WERE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH WHETHER OR NOT THEY COULD...
THEY DIDN'T STOP TO THINK IF THEY SHOULD.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 11/08/2026

I raise you this clash of output (tell me your have a four year old without telling me etc…Cinderella 2 and 3 casually chilling out here)

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 13/07/2026

Sorry, I know I’m petty rooting for England’s opponents, but whenever I see some Scotland and England fans giving it big licks about mutual support if one gets knocked out, this is all I can see in my head.

Still from The Inbetweeners: “OH, FRIEND. FOOTBALL FRIEND”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 13/07/2026

We have an easy way out of the tedious ‘football’ v ‘soccer’ debate, and it’s really just to embrace the Italian word ‘calcio’.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 26/06/2026

I absolutely hate LinkedIn posts. Just detest them with a passion.

Who would have thought Ecuador would have beaten
Germany!
Overnight, Scotland's chances of progressing to the next stage of the FIFA World Cup dropped from 42% to 5.26% (BBC).
The reason? Results in matches Scotland weren't even playing didn't go the way they needed.
It's a useful reminder that in business success is rarely determined solely by your own performance.
External factors, competitors and market conditions can also influence the outcome.
But there's an important business lesson here.
The answer isn't simply to "control what you can control."
That's only half the story.
You have to maximise everything that is within your control.
Because if you don't, someone else will.
Businesses that consistently execute better give themselves the best chance of succeeding-especially when circumstances beyond their control don't go their way.
Let's hope Scotland don't have to wait another 28 years before they have an opportunity.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 25/06/2026

I hate reporting like this. Scotland deserve progress (fwiw, I don’t think we will) if at least four other 3rd-placed teams do worse. It’s as simple as that. I think this 48-team format is stupid but framing it as some form of moral cheatery if you progress by the skin of your teeth is bizarre.

BBC Headline: World Cup reaction: Do Scotland deserve to go through?

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 20/06/2026

Today in LinkedIn…”employees, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with collecting a paycheck.”

Headline: Sam Altman on why you should take a year off between jobs

Comments: He is knowledgeable because he invests time in reading and learning. Many employees, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with collecting a paycheck and staying in management's good graces rather than developing a deeper understanding of these issues.

Comments reply: Correct, you have to let go of making a paycheck an idol, of sorts.
Paycheck is what drives the uncertainty.
Some folks can't let go, in their thoughts.
It could also be family members who will panic, as well.
By going this route, you also will learn to buck management.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 18/06/2026

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"

Mark Zuckerberg Orders Surviving Meta Staff to Have Fun Following Brutal Job Cuts
Zuckerberg's call for fun clashes with employee discontent post-layoffs

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 02/06/2026

We can test how unlikely this is with a Poisson distribution (technically not correct, as the probability per tournament differs and isn't that small in many, but it'll overestimate and is easier to whack into a spreadsheet than Poisson-binomial). For λ = 41/24, P(🇧🇷vs🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿≥5) ≈ 3%. (7/9)

Table from a spreadsheet showing each element of building up the Poisson distribution analysis, showing P(🇧🇷vs🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿≥5) ≈ 3%.

A second snippet of a spreadsheet with the more robust analysis, showing P(🇧🇷vs🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿≥5) ≈ 1.4%.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 02/06/2026

So, with each tournament as an independent event (any objections on a postcard), and the probability of drawing Brazil = 1/G, where G is the number of groups, i.e. seeds per pot, E(∑🇧🇷vs🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) = 1.70833…, which appears to far undershoot the observed value of 5. (6/9)

Handwritten table with a row for each tournament that both Scotland and Brazil qualified, with a chance calculated for each of them drawing one another, the summed.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 02/06/2026

Terms cancel out based on assumptions, many unfortunately for Scotland: - P(🇧🇷✅) = 1 , Brazil always qualify - No knockout probs as Scotland never made it there - Always different seeding pots; Brazil are always a top team & for geo seeding, last I checked, Scotland isn't in South America (5/9)

Handwritten expression of Bayes Theorem for playing Brazil given Scotland qualifies. After several overwrought substitutions, it just breaks down to the chance they play each other, given both qualify.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 01/06/2026

I sincerely wish media would stop giving publicity to a production company mirage. I keep pieces about "tIlLy nOrWoOd, aI AcTrEss", yet - even putting ethical issues aside - nothing of actual substance has been produced with 'her'. It's like watching someone try to force a Mandela Effect in realtime

A few days later, Eline sent me another video, this of her and Mark interviewing Tilly in her generative mode again. She was getting better. From the beginning, they had allowed me to speak with Tilly because they thought my questions might help train her and prepare her for her first broadcast interview, which is imminent.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 29/05/2026

Always find it funny when I get an excited email about a *second or third* season of an AppleTV+ show that I’ve never heard of until that moment…

Apple TV unveils trailer for season two of its acclaimed neo-noir detective series "Sugar," starring and executive produced by Colin
Farrell
Premiering globally Friday, June 19, 2026, the second season introduces new stars Jin Ha, Raymond Lee, Tony Dalton, Laura Donnelly and
Sasha Calle

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 16/05/2026

I know it’s a temporary thing, but every day this fucking horrible Spotify anniversary icon remains I get one day closer to actually finally ditching Spotify.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 07/05/2026

Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Dir: Colin Trevorrow

A children’s book laid open, where the first page shown has a cutesy drawing of two tiger-striped velociraptors reading “Velociraptor twins go Bompity Bomp”, and second page show with a cutesy drawing of a stern T. rex reading “Tyrannosaurus Rex goes Stomp Stomp Stomp”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 04/05/2026

Good to know that all this kerfuffle is bypassed by something not even at the level of those glasses with the fake nose and ‘stache. What a waste of everyone’s time.

⁠Original post: https://social.heise.de/@vowe/116515807603012363⁠

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 29/04/2026

In other news, I’ve learnt my lesson from when I gave Joker a kicking and Cuties a largely positive review all those years ago now.

Footer of the review article, which reads in italics: “Comments are disabled because, frankly, we just do not have the energy.”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 27/04/2026

The energy I need to be bringing to busy film screenings these days

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 24/04/2026

Ironically forgot to shout about a new episode because @simonxix.com & I were recording a different one earlier this week. Terminator: Salvation is one of the prongs on my Trident of Terrible Cinema from a godawful visit in 2009. Thought my opinion of it might improve in better context. It did not.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 23/04/2026

This World Cup is just beyond a joke now. I’ve seen FIFA ban countries from participating in games over less state interference than this. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Fifa has no plans to replace Iran with Italy at this summer's World Cup according to sources, after the switch was proposed by US president Donald Trump's special envoy.

The FT reported Zampolli's plan was suggested to smooth things over between the US and Italy after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticised Trump over his comments towards Pope Leo
XIV.

Trump has previously said that Iran would be
"welcome" at the World Cup - though signalled he felt they should not be involved "for their own life and safety"
The White House World Cup Taskforce has been approached for comment.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 18/04/2026

I think the minute it the MCU suggested on some level you could rewatch the noughties F4 films, Elektra, Spider-Man 3, and TASM2 *and* be vaguely aware of X-Men casting rumours from the 2010s…nah, chief, shut it down. I ain’t got time for that.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 17/04/2026

Forest school activity using clay and fake bugs with my daughter has ended up looking like a facehugger fossil

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 15/04/2026

“With all the talk about efficiency gains from AI, I wonder how much corporations would save if staff didn’t need to sit through Windows updates?”, he idly wonders as he sits through the fifth reboot and fifteenth minute of staring listlessly at his work computer screen.

A Windows update screen: “You're 100% there.
Please keep your computer on.”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 31/03/2026

My local cinema on Friday. It’s a multiplex ODEON…but come the fuck on! 22 showing start times in a 13-hour window. I know it’s a bank holiday but ffs

22 showings of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie between 9AM and 10PM.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 29/03/2026

Maybe it makes me a bad husband that I laughed so much when my wife was spat at by this alpaca during a country park visit today…but, in my defence, it was hilarious.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 25/03/2026

"What you made with Sora mattered” said OpenAI in the announcement.

Thor making the face when he says “Is it though?”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 24/03/2026

This is apparently a real film. I refuse to believe the multiple sources. Especially with Jackman front and centre in the poster given this nugget...

Cast: Hugh Jackman as George Hardy, a shepherd who is mysteriously found dead

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 20/03/2026

My only scalding hot contribution to the Dune font and poster generator stuff…

A poster for the Dune movies with the man title ‘DJOON’ and subtitle ‘None of this ‘doon’ shite”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 11/03/2026

I’ve never found the trolley problem an interesting thought experiment if you think about it as an adult for more than two minutes. If the obvious answer (Be Kirk to its Kobayashi Maru) needs false machinations to not allow, then the idea the premise results in anything insightful should be rejected

If the absurd though experiment you followed brought you to this...
...of what use was the absurd thought experiment?

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 07/03/2026

With Scotland hammering France and Italy beating England in the Six Nations, I am of course a picture of absolute graceful winning behaviour in our rugby group chat…

The Goodfellas laughing GIF followed by a line by line set of messages of the Italian national anthem in block capitals

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 07/03/2026

Poor Things (2023) Cinderella III (2007)  Dir: Yorgos Dir: Frank  Lanthimos Nissen  🤝 Ducks/Geese  with heads of  other animals

A duck or chicken with the head of a dog in Poor Things

The head of a cat (Lucifer) on a duck or goose in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 02/03/2026

Any decent outlet would point out that this sounds like the CEO of Particle6, Eline van der Velden, playing the saddest, shittest, most expensive game of The Sims ever conceived. Fucking tragic nonsense.

The Tillyverse, “a dynamic, constantly evolving digital universe where Tilly and a new generation of AI characters will live” is set to launch later this year, the press release said.

Whelan was previously a comedy producer and led social expansion for Amazon Prime Video. “Tilly already has the momentum, an audience and the cultural spark,” Whelan said in the press release regarding his new role. “Now we’re writing her story and building her universe.”

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 28/02/2026

New synonym for ‘dickhead’ just dropped…

David Ellison-headed operations, from Skydance to now Paramount, have a history of picking up *****distressed human assets.*****

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 12/02/2026

Let’s make sure the new Old Trafford gets built, then perhaps we can shove one of this enormous spires up Jim Ratcliffe’s arse, and perch him up there so I don’t need to hear him flapping his gums again.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 02/02/2026

And whenever I hear anyone say Emerald Fi-nell, rather than Emerald Fenn-el (a la the plant/herb), this is the only picture I have in my head.

Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 02/02/2026

If we start going down this route, then is Sound of Freedom more legitimate because it made $250M? What about all these (really great!) festival darlings that make compararive buttons? Box office receipts can tell you plenty things, but quality or non-monetary value are not among them.

"This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it"

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 02/02/2026

Great minds, fools seldom differ etc, but I thought the same thing. He's trying his best, but it didn't work for me. boxd.it/bUaGtV

"...but I'm not quite sure Neeson works in this role for me. He can't quite do buffoonery, which is what material this silly needs - it needs the sort of sincerely naive nonsense which Nielsen was so good at."
https://boxd.it/bUaGtV

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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 30/01/2026

Not sure I was prepared for how much I thought 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple slaps. Never has so much been said by so little happening, but I fucking loved it. I’m not surprised it’s tanking at the box office though - this & the predecessor will feel incongruous against the original’s reputation.