Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Some people just shouldn't be allowed to die, because their existence feels load-bearing. RIP Dolly Parton. Blueprint for a life properly lived. 031
Reposted by Olly RichardsKeezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 06/02/2026welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up 1040291056
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Great in literally everything she appeared in. Two Emmy nominations in the last year of her life. In person, every bit as delightful as you'd hope. RIP one of the best variety.com/2026/tv/news...variety.comCatherine O’Hara, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Home Alone’ Star, Dies at 71Catherine O'Hara, a legendary Hollywood actor known for her roles in 'Schitt's Creek' and 'Home Alone,' has died. She was 71. 010
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 17/12/2025My contrary view is that this is probably good. It’s essentially been a collection of YouTube clips for years. It has no strong future as a TV show. Only sickos watch the entire broadcast. (I am an occasional sicko) 000
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Talking A Merry Little Ex-Mas and Champagne Problems with @helenlohara.bsky.social on her Bah Humbug podcast. I am, uncharacteristically, not at all grinchy about either of them! Although one has the wrong ending. open.spotify.com/episode/5iXE...open.spotify.comA Merry Little Ex-Mas and Champagne Problems: Are Netflix Films...Good Now? 001
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 24/10/2025This had no place in the review, but the fifth episode of this show was written by Brad Kane, who was once the singing voice of Disney's Aladdin. I thought you might like to know. 030
Reposted by Olly RichardsEmpire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox reunite to discuss Back To The Future at 40 – and why it still resonates today. “We live in a bully culture right now,” says Fox. “[The film] is all about how you stand up to them.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/... 16621
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Every time I listen to a podcast episode about AI, it seems to begin with the premise, ‘Is AI absolutely brilliant or terrible? We speak to the CEO of AI Is Absolutely Brilliant to find out.’ 011
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I can’t believe how good One Battle After Another is. It’s about really serious stuff, yet so playful and funny. And it keeps getting better and better. 3 hours whizzed by. Best film of the year so far by a massive margin. 020
Reposted by Olly RichardsMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2025What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP. 643945635
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The only thing cheering me up at the moment is that AI appears to be imploding 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Freakier Friday makes very little sense and has plot holes you could drive a bus through, but how much does that actually matter when it's such purely good fun? www.timeout.com/movies/freak...timeout.comFreakier Friday review: This ridiculous body-swap sequel ups the bodies and the funLindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reunite for a daft but good-natured sequel 220
Reposted by Olly RichardsSamuel Pinney @ginbrogueshats.bsky.social · 21/07/2025A director pal has been working for decades with big name clients. Doing huge stuff, including international shoots. If you live in the UK, you will have seen their stuff. They are currently retraining as a Pilates instructor. To have a more regular income in winter. That's how bad it is. 8640213
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Please, everyone posting social media stuff from Wimbledon, you have to learn that a comma is *essential* in 'Come on, [whoever]'. Otherwise you're saying something very, very different 051
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I think a silly action movie that's actually fun, as opposed to just stupid, is a rare thing. I found Heads Of State extremely fun. www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...empireonline.comHeads Of StateIlya Naishuller (Nobody) returns with presidential action-comedy Heads Of State — on Prime Video from 2 July. Read the Empire review. 130
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The plot of Carrie’s book in And Just Like That seems to be ‘an old-timey woman might go outside’. 000
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Have been listening to Natasha Lyonne on Amy Poehler's podcast (recommended) and I finally figured out what her voice makes me think of: Marge Simpson doing James Cagney 040
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I don’t know a single thing about cars or Formula 1, but found F1 extremely entertaining. Joseph Kosinski is a very good blockbuster technician. Gets all the rhythms right. 130
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 10/06/2025These A.I. stories are always breathlessly reported as if these companies are close to achieving their goal to synthesise the human brain or whatever, when it's always just something they'd *like* to achieve. What useful thing is A.I. actually brilliant at so far? 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 13/05/2025There's a lot I liked in Murderbot – it has an appealing loose, goofy vibe – but I rarely found it actually funny. Skarsgård is great. www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/m...empireonline.comMurderbotAlexander Skarsgård plays Murderbot in Apple TV+'s adaptation of The Murderbot Diaries novels. Read the Empire review. 000
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Final Destination: Bloodlines is loads of fun (also gross) www.timeout.com/movies/final...timeout.comFinal Destination: Bloodlines review: this horror reboot is a bloody good timeThe best Final Destination movie has just landed 010
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 11/05/2025This is just delightful. I love interviews with actors who aren’t A-list but have worked with everyone. 181
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I think so often of the time an ex-boyfriend picked a pair of my jeans off the floor, read the label and said, devastatingly, "'Slim and straight'. Both lies." 121
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 05/05/2025How exactly do you put a tariff on a movie? Do you double the cinema ticket prices? And exactly which studios have been 'drawn away' from America? He's always finding new ways to be infuriatingly stupid 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Today I went to the garden centre and arrived so early that it wasn't open yet, just in case anyone's wondering how a cool guy spends his Sunday 030
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 07/04/2025No spoilers, but every time a White Lotus season ends a lot of the reviews always make me wonder what show people think Mike White is making. You want neatly packaged little moral lessons from Mr Monkey's Paw? 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Watched The White Lotus finale at 6am to avoid potential spoilers. The downside is there's nobody to discuss it with because everyone else has 'lives' and hasn't seen it yet. 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Well well well, my lack of investing money for the future suddenly looking pretty, pretty financially savvy 010
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Hugely recommend the new Amy Poehler podcast, Good Hang, for distraction from...everything. It's just very funny people having a natter. open.spotify.com/show/1z20Eiw...open.spotify.comGood Hang with Amy PoehlerPodcast · The Ringer · Come hang with Amy Poehler. Each week on her podcast, she'll welcome celebrities and fun people to her studio. They'll share stories about their careers, mutual friends, shared ... 040
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Haven't seen Black Bag yet, but everything I hear about it makes it sound precision engineered for me. It's about married spies who suspect each other? One of them is Cate Blanchett? Their houses look unrealistically expensive? IT'S 94 MINUTES LONG?? These are all things I'd specifically request. 2130
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 14/03/2025This is such good interviewing. Direct, succinct and reactive to what's being said – and not being said. No cheap gotcha attempts. No allowing the interviewee to set the framing. Calm insistence on an answer. 030
Reposted by Olly RichardsSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 13/03/2025So it’s over then, works for mearstechnica.comOpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair useNational security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says. 34685301610
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Going through a box of old magazines and found the Empire 2006 Greatest Movies Ever feature for which @chrishewitt.bsky.social and I had to find (approx) a million directors and actors and ask them their thoughts on the list. Just trying to imagine what it would be like attempting to do this now… 061
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Could I get a ticket for just this bit of Glastonbury and then go home? 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Absolutely love that Sean Baker has the most Oscar wins for a single film. That is perfect. 050
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I would watch the Oscars, but if I stay up until 3am it will be take me until the end of the year to recover 170
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 17/02/2025@davidallengreen.bsky.social Apologies if anyone’s already said this - I didn’t see it in replies - but Thompson was nominated for Remains Of The Day the same year MAAN was eligible. So if she’d campaigned for both she could have cancelled herself out! 100
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 03/02/2025‘So what’s happening in American politics right now?’ ‘Well, Big Balls is trying to destroy everything, but Drizz turned out to be kind of a badass’ 110
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Wired is doing excellent reporting around the current US fuckery – way better than 90% of newspapers – and an annual subscription costs less than £5. www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...wired.comWIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIREDHoliday Sale. Power up with unlimited access to WIRED. | Best-in-class reporting, gear reviews, podcasts, and more—now at our best price of the year. | Plus, FREE stickers 031
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Broadly speaking, that's a really good list of Oscar nominations. Some I'd have liked to have seen (Daniel Craig in Queer/Nicole Kidman in Babygirl), but didn't notice any glaringly terrible choices. Would love to see Demi Moore and Zoe Saldana win. 110
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I'm just really not into this whole 'Everything being ruined by big dweebs' thing, you know? 030
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 16/01/2025There are some filmmakers who seem like they’d always been there and somehow always would be. How bloody sad. 030
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Writing this 28 Years Later feature in the week before Christmas left me feeling like that guy on the cover, but it was a great one to work on. Lots of surprising things from these interviews. 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Putting low expectations on myself in January. Congratulating myself for finishing the last of the Christmas cheese. 020
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Ended 2024 with Babygirl. Started 2025 with Nosferatu. Only ‘horny weirdos’ movies for me this festive season. 030
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Enjoyed Conclave yesterday, a film that ponders ‘what if The Big Brother house but it’s clergy?’ 040
