Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 7hThat's Life is the reason I am still suspicious of any foods containing guar gum. 090
Reposted by Marie PhillipsIvan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 16hThat’s Life! was just incredible. Its two most famous moments are a man being movingly celebrated by the now grown Jewish children he got out of Nazi Germany & a dog saying “sausages”. No other programme has ever had that range. 58922
Reposted by Marie PhillipsIan Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · 15htaking a moment to admire this reasonably literal sleeve for the German release of Pussycat's Mississippi, which seems to have accumulated a gallery of furious cats 2111
Reposted by Marie PhillipsNANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 15hSLUGGO’S THURSDAY SPECIAL 324631
Reposted by Marie PhillipsJane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 20hI love this poem. It features in the excellent Faber Book of Movie Verse, which is probably the poetry book I return to most often. 2224
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Remembering the time I met a certain former Labour leader and he told me he'd only ever read one novel, Anna Karenina, and the only thing he could remember about it was that it was 600 pages long. This was after I had told him I was a novelist. Feel free to speculate. 13270
Reposted by Marie PhillipsSharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All over great work from the entrants in this year’s Abbey Road music photography awards but I adore this pic of Warren Ellis (with Larry & Piglet) by Manuel Vazquez, a finalist in the portrait category. Those boots. With running shorts. #majordude 0132
Reposted by Marie PhillipsLaurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Allez tous vous faire reskeeter ! Ruven Afanador 1223
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Love Hypothesis: the romcom LIVES! letterboxd.com/marie_philli...letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of The Love Hypothesis (2026)Sexy consent! Sexy consent! Great chemistry between the adorable leads, ludicrously nerdy science dialogue, and huge character development expressed through the transition from black to extremely dark... 250
Reposted by Marie PhillipsDan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I love a good film podcast so I'm enjoying listening to Fade Out with the great @mariephillips.bsky.social talking about Nicholas Ray. And boy there's some stories here. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-wcz9f...podbean.comPodbean App 185
Reposted by Marie PhillipsNick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We get mosquitoes every night of summer, even with the windows shut. Lights out - we're hearing them. Hunting for them before they hunt for us. Every night. Lights out, lights on. Trying to oust them. Half mad with the tedium. The other half mad with being bested. Summer is the cruelest months.static.klipy.comJack Nicholson: Here's Johnny! (Shining)Alt: Jack Nicholson looking crazy in The Shining 131
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Because of all the fuss, I have now listened to Choosin' Texas. It's Country Dancing On My Own, isn't it? 261
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Beautiful essay by Karl Knights about finding his identity as a young queer poet in rural Suffolk www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/169...poetryfoundation.orgThis Be the Place: My Actual HuhPoems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. 042
Reposted by Marie PhillipsAnne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant being adorable. Interviewer Ryan Gilbey wisely just winds them up and lets them go.theguardian.com‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatreThe actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars 3205
Reposted by Marie Phillipsfilm-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good morning. This is my cat Joe, in a photo taken five minutes ago. As you can see, Joe regards me with wry amusement; he is patient up to a point with the length of time it takes to serve breakfast, but tries to hide his frustration. Joe is glad to see the end of the stormy weather. Namaste!! 2562223
Reposted by Marie PhillipsAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I speak as a huge fan of the previous four but that is the worst film I’ve seen in 2026, by a significant margin. 5382
Reposted by Marie PhillipsForever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ahoy! It’s Carole Lombard, 1933. Photo by Irving Lippman. 221219
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I had such an incredible time making this podcast, thank you so much to Rob Kelly for having me on. We had a thorough rake through the life and work of Nick Ray, culminating in the swan song that is Lightning Over Water, the remarkable pseudodocumentary he made with Wim Wenders about his own death. 2288
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just returned from the world of Toy Story 5, and oof. It's ugly out there. letterboxd.com/marie_philli...letterboxd.comA ★ review of Toy Story 5 (2026)Unspeakably depressing. Unfunny, charmless and cynical, with an icky relationship with the tech that’s supposedly being critiqued but is paying the bills. All the voice actors, inevitably and through ... 2161
Reposted by Marie PhillipsAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm biased but this discussion of Nicholas Ray's career between @mariephillips.bsky.social and Rob Kelly is utterly magnificent. 1162
Reposted by Marie PhillipsFade Out @fadeoutpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026New FADE OUT! @mariephillips.bsky.social fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fo64/ 2199
Reposted by Marie PhillipsSophia Grene @sophiagrene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The exception is our Irish red and white setter Cinnamon, who has yet to work out what ‘sleepy’ looks like. 271
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Blue Heron: an exceptional film, but a very, very hard watch letterboxd.com/marie_philli...letterboxd.comA ★★★★★ review of Blue Heron (2025)This is an exceptionally well made film of extraordinary power, but it is also utterly devastating from start to finish, and I advise you to think carefully whether it is something that you can cope w... 0111
Reposted by Marie PhillipsFrances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 20/08/2026i've been going to a weekly support group called Hope but every once in a while they skip a week 272199307
Reposted by Marie Phillipsbyelilo @byelilo.bsky.social · 23/10/2024“drink water” for what? just to piss again? life is a prison 214437
Reposted by Marie Phillipsscpnyc.bsky.social @scpnyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's Blue. I have high standards and only sit for adorable dogs. 181
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Travelling in your own private rail car! This is 100pc my dream www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...nytimes.comIn the Private Jet Age, the Quiet Allure of Private Rail (Gift Article)Private train cars may seem like a relic of the past, but for some rail fans, nothing beats having — or renting — your own sleeper car. 1110
Reposted by Marie PhillipsJT Lindroos @oivas.com · 26/09/2026Iggi, #saunacat returns. Is there a better way to spend a cold and rainy #caturday than lounging in the sauna? I think not. 🔥😸 #catsky #iggi 1141
Reposted by Marie Phillips"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Paulette Goddard is #caturday 17813
Reposted by Marie PhillipsAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The chaotic keycutters near the station (rogue boots and batteries in grey plastic tubs) now has a name. I love it. It sounds like something from Borges and thus gives validation to the disorder and entropy of the shop, allowing it to exist within the unreliable ontology of a Borgesian short story. 612513
Reposted by Marie PhillipsJane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve walked 3.84 miles today, which is good practice for next month*, but also I’m exhausted. 😬 *I’ve pledged to walk 100 miles during October for Ovarian Cancer Action, which is 3.22 miles a day on average. This might not seem much but I’m on drugs and stuff. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...justgiving.comMy Walk 100 Miles in October ChallengeHelp Jane Hill raise money to support Ovarian Cancer Action 26210
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Every Eye (Isobel English, 1956) spoke to me more profoundly than any book in years. It's a work of interiority more than incident, cutting deep into the life of a girl who yearns to be a pianist but is discouraged by her elders and loses for a long time the ability to live passionately. Exquisite. 2211
Reposted by Marie PhillipsAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it’s *fall, fuckers. Yes, also autumn, shitheels. 2112
Reposted by Marie PhillipsAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When you're trying to get everything finished for 4pm but your cat would like you to double-check the feeding schedule first. 11088
Reposted by Marie Phillips"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Style for the day. Madeline Hurlock with her Borzoi, c1924. Source: The Canine Aesthetic of Art Deco. 16111
Reposted by Marie PhillipsOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think the most important news from history today is that it’s the 39th anniversary of the (US) release of The Princess Bride—and what better way to mark the day than remind ourselves of Cary Elwes’ story about André the Giant and the enormous, life-altering, earth-shaking fart? 416971
Reposted by Marie PhillipsJane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh btw. I'm doing a show called Spunk In My Eyes at the inaugural Plymouth Comedy Festival in February. It’s about dealing with ovarian cancer as an exhausted woman in my sixties with an intense hatred of positive mindsets and spiritual woo-woo. www.plymouthcomedyfestival.com/events/jane-...plymouthcomedyfestival.comJane Hill: Spunk In My Eyes | Plymouth Comedy Festival, Plymouth Comedy Festival, University of PlymouthJane Hill brings Spunk In My Eyes to the SU Lounge at Plymouth University Students’ Union. Jane’s candid, blackly comic show tackles cancer, courage and the exhausting pressure to stay positive with h... 106519
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Whistle Down The Wind probably should have been five stars, but there is one unnecessarily annoying character in it. Yes, I'm brutal that way. 3401
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Some tickets still left for the Saturday matinee (tomorrow!) of Lara Ricote's Edinburgh Best Show Nominee INKLING at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London. I saw it last night and it was so wonderful and funny and moving and strange and wild. I loved it. parktheatre.co.uk/events/lara-...parktheatre.co.ukLara Ricote: Inkling - Park TheatreMelbourne International Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show Nominee 2026. INKLING is a show about How to Salute to the Mystery of Being Alive (ok?). Might that be of intrigue?… To you? Big kisses to... 020
Reposted by Marie Phillips"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ginger Rogers with cat, and with husband, William Marshall. Photo by Nina Leen for LIFE magazine, 1961. In summer stock performing Bell Book And Candle. LIFE reported, as soon as the photos were done, "the cat jumped out of Ginger's arm and sank sharp teeth right into her husband's neck." 37618
Reposted by Marie PhillipsCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 23/09/2026And Cruise by fire, Cruise by water Cruise in the sunshine, Cruise in the night time Cruise by high ordeal, Cruise by common trial Cruise in your merry merry month of may 1142
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This headline took me SO LONG to understand this morning. Admittedly I was tired but it's torturous. [Don't buy The Sun.] 10272
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Black Bag! Black Bag! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comPrevious winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prizeThe two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist 170
Reposted by Marie PhillipsBryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. A patch of stained/flaky plaster on the wall that looked like a witch. 2. Vomiting up a living, thrashing tapeworm. 3. The eventual expansion of the sun and annihilation of all life on earth. 4. Lifting a toilet seat and finding an animate demonic head 151