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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I still love Bake Off, but they really have to rethink the technical challenges. If every single one of these talented amateur bakers cocks it up in the exact same way, that very much suggests the flaw is in the challenge rather than the contestants. #GBBO

Paul Hollywood pulls a face of disbelief as he says "Probably the worst Technical I think I've ever seen in 17 years".

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a wonderfully passive-aggressive Christmas response at Christmas from Aberdeen Council to the annual Christmas "someone's trying to take away the word Christmas" Christmas scandal. 🎅

An Aberdeen city council spokesman said: “The school community enjoys celebrating a number of festivals and Christmas continues to play a large part in Kaimhill School at this time of year.

“Activities planned this year include Christmas parties, festive sing-alongs, Christmas lunch, Christmas boutique, Christmas fair, Christmas decorations throughout the school, Christmas crafts, Christmas-themed films and activities, and carol singing.”

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching Inside Out while having a tough mental health week means I've spent the last two hours in tears. BUT it also means I've made the first change to my Letterboxd top four in a long time.

Letterboxd top four showing the posters for Jaws, The Social Network, Inside Out, and Singin' in the Rain

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Zach Cregger obviously had a blast doing #ResidentEvil and I had a blast watching it. It's as narratively lightweight as possible, but packed with icky effects and absurd gore that I couldn't help but love.

Austin Abrams fends off infected creatures from behind a hospital door in a scene from Resident Evil

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My overriding feeling after watching Pressure (which is completely fine) was that it's very British to make a war movie entirely about the weather. ⛈️

Andrew Scott and Kerry Condon in a scene from Pressure

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really enjoyed being thoroughly wrong footed by #BadApples. And Saoirse Ronan simply does not do bad performances.

Saoirse Ronan sits behind a laptop screen wearing a red jumper and a staff lanyard in a still from Bad Apples

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every time I see a picture of Ed Sheeran's recent on-stage statement, he looks like he's halfway through a Netflix stand-up special called Silenced, entering his 40th minute of trans jokes.

Ed Sheeran speaks into a microphone while wearing a plain t-shirt

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There was me getting really excited about the bird feeder with a camera my wife got me for my birthday. Turns out I've just got 9.5GB worth of blurry squirrel arse in full HD.

Various video and image file thumbnails showing blurry images of squirrel fur

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This smile is very much from before the game. 🙃 Great to have Premier League football at the CBS, even if it didn't go our way today. #PUSB

A man in glasses wears a blue and white Coventry City kit while standing in front of the pitch at the CBS Arena

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Very excited to be seeing Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma this evening. Jane Schoenbrun only seems to hit home runs, so I'm very excited to see what they've put together this time.

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder stand, covered in blood, on the poster for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've read this list three or four times and I really can't find the thing I'm supposed to be outraged by. One cereal bowl?! Stainless steel cutlery?! Two pillows?! Where are we putting them, the Ritz?!

Everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'

A jaw-dropping list of items are being provided to asylum seekers housed in the Norfolk town of Thetford.

1x Duvet (S)
1x 1pc 9 oz mug
2x Pillow
1x 1pc 8 oz glass tumbler
2x Face cloth
1x 1pc stainless steel dinner knife
2x Hand towel
1x 1pc stainless steel dinner fork
2x Bath towel
1x 1pc stainless steel dessert spoon
2x Duvet cover (S)
1x 1pc stainless steel tea spoon
2x Pillowcase
1x 20cm non-stick frying pan
2x Fitted sheet (S)
1x 16cm non-stick saucepan
1x 1pc 10.5" dinner plate
1x Tea towel
1x 1pc 7.5" side plate
1x Toilet roll
1x 1pc 5.25" cereal bowl

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A plea to our media organisations and football pundits ahead of the England game.

A still from the film This is England featuring Thomas Turgoose speaking while looking upset. Overlaid text reads: "Shut up about the Falklands!"

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

They now come every day and they're getting brave enough to come to the feeders nearer the house! #ukbirds #gardenbirds #birds

A great spotted woodpecker hangs from a suet feeder in a garden

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#ScaryMovie is a trainwreck. Not a solid joke in it. And why is everyone always shouting?

Poster art for Scary Movie showing the heads of various characters, including the ones played by Anna Faris and Regina Hall

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Nobody does summer blockbusters like Spielberg. I'm not sure I took a breath for the last 20 minutes of #DisclosureDay. Loved it.

Emily Blunt looks to the skies with a shadow of a cardinal bird across her face on the poster for Disclosure Day

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I had a lot of time for Tuner and Leo Woodall is super watchable, but it's perhaps a little too elegant for its own good. Could've done with some dirt under its fingernails.

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It has been busy at the garden bird feeders this week and we even got a local woodpecker stopping by yesterday. #birds #ukbirds #gardenbirds

A great spotted woodpecker feeds from a hanging tree feeder in a garden

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Finished watching #Rooster tonight and, in an era of bloated streaming shows, it was really refreshing to just relax and enjoy a fun, likeable, character-driven comedy populated by great actors. Very much recommended.

Steve Carell smirks at the camera while wearing a disheveled suit, walking down a path lined with autumnal trees

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

CHERUB. Why has no one ever made CHERUB?

A stack of the books in the CHERUB and Henderson's Boys series, with first novel The Recruit in the front, an orange cover

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

20 years ago, this image in response to the wishes of a grieving family would have ended a political career. Can we please revive that now?

Nigel Farage smirks like a smug Cheshire cat in the House of Commons in response to Keir Starmer discussing the murder of Henry Nowak

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Spending my BH Monday in an air-conditioned cinema with a Tango ice blast and some Star Wars. Way better than being outside. 😂

A snippet of the poster for The Mandalorian and Grogu featuring the title characters, with Mando wielding a blaster in front of an orange sun

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The moments just keep on coming. Another amazing day. 🩵 #PUSB

Players celebrate on the open top bus parade for Coventry City's promotion. A sign on the front of the bus reads "we are back".

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Absolutely remarkable bit of scoring in this week's Guardian Blind Date column. I *need* to know her criteria here. 😂

If you could change one thing about the evening what would it be?
Nothing. It was perfect.

Marks out of 10?
9.

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

What a ridiculous, brilliant day. 🩵 #PUSB

Selfie taken in the stands at the Coventry Building Society arena

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Very happy with my #Cinematrix performance today, so I'm allowing myself a brag. 😂

Screenshot of today's Cinematrix puzzle grid, with the following answers.

Michelle Yeoh or Alicia Vikander/Sci-Fi or Fantasy: Tomb Raider (4%)
Michelle Yeoh or Alicia Vikander/2010-2026: Light Between Oceans (3%)
Michelle Yeoh or Alicia Vikander/Based on a Book: Testament of Youth (1%)
Liam Neeson/Sci-Fi or Fantasy: Clash of the Titans (4%)
Liam Neeson/2010-2026: Made in Italy (1%)
Liam Neeson/Based on a Book: Mark Felt (1%)
Denis Villeneuve or Oscar Isaac/Sci-Fi or Fantasy: Rise of Skywalker (6%)
Denis Villeneuve or Oscar Isaac/2010-2026: The Promise (1%)
Denis Villeneuve or Oscar Isaac/Based on a Book: X-Men Apocalypse (6%)

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

First time in a decade I'm not staying up to watch the #Oscars, but here's how I think it will play out.

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If you see this post a vampire who is not Dracula.

A cartoon image of the character Kid Vampire, below the text "i am kid vampire"

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is an absolutely wild thing for THE GUY WHO MADE INSIDE OUT to say.

Headline: "Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is 'not making therapy'"

Summary: "Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially appealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gay"

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I love Guillermo del Toro so much.

“I’d like to tell the rest of our extraordinary cast and our crew that the artistry of all of them shines on every single frame of this film that was willfully made by humans, for humans,” del Toro added. “The designers, builders, make-up, wardrobe team, cinematographers, composers, editors, this tribute belongs to all of them. I would like to extend our gratitude and say: Fuck AI.”

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I think the Liverpool goal should have been allowed, but this stuff is very weird to me. Yes, Sky Sports, making the first call on an offside is literally the main job of an assistant referee. It's why they have a big, colourful flag to lift. Not a conspiracy. www.skysports.com/football/new...

From that transcript it is plain not only is the assistant referee the instigator of the decision to rule out the goal but, from Kavanagh's passive reply, that the assistant referee is effectively chief decision maker.

While this insight is important in achieving a full picture of what took place, it does though raise fresh doubts about the validity of the decision.

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Two separate products seem to think that a fictional creature is one of the 26 most important animals my children should know. 😂 And one of them went to the trouble of finding "xene" and "vicuna".

A child's alphabet play mat where U stands for unicorn on a pink square with a yellow letter

A child's white toy box where U stands for unicorn

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

One of the joys of my role as VoiceMag editor is the Voice Contributors scheme, in which I get to work with young people over 3 months as they explore #journalism & #creativewriting. They're already producing amazing work and I can't wait to see what they do next. www.voicemag.uk/tag/voice-co...

Seven thumbnail images of young journalists against a pink background under the headline: "Meet our newest group of Voice Contributors"

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

#TheLongWalk is brilliant but so fucking bleak. Can't remember the last time such a good film made me feel so hopeless.

Poster for The Long Walk featuring several teenage boys walking towards a large pair of legs, which are in a military uniform

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If you're in search of a Robert Redford film to watch, look no further than his final one. The Old Man & the Gun is a delightful, straightforwardly fun story in which Redford's charisma and charm is front and centre. He chose his own acting swansong, and he chose very well indeed.

Robert Redford leans against a fence while wearing a blue suit in a scene from The Old Man and The Gun

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This is some Football Manager bullshit. Unlucky lads, but the great start continues! #PUSB

Stats for the 1-1 draw between Coventry and Norwich, showing Coventry had 64% possession and won on xG by 4.03 to 0.13. Coventry had 28 shots (four on target) to Norwich's three (one on target).

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I reviewed The Thursday Murder Club, which is a bafflingly laugh-free take on a very funny book. www.voicemag.uk/review/15614...

Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren looking surprised at something off-camera in a still from The Thursday Murder Club

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Two lads here who have no idea that England usually don't win. 😂😂

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Just for fun, name two completely unrelated movies that share the same director.

Poster art for The Menu featuring Ralph Fiennes in chef's whites standing behind Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult, who are eating a plate of food

Poster art for Ali G Indahouse featuring Sacha Baron Cohen in a yellow outfit and wearing a chain, surrounded by a gathering of women

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I've been a bit quiet of late. This is why. 🩵🩵

Two beautiful baby boys lie nose to nose in a shared cot

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Reece Shearsmith walks out of a tent with a grimace in a scene from A Field in England

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

First-time watch of 28 Weeks Later ahead of the new one and I was pleasantly surprised. It's a totally different film to the first, but it's an efficiently nasty action thriller.

Robert Carlyle runs from infected characters in a still from 28 Weeks Later

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A quite incredible summary of the current bleakness from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social. And this was written a couple of days ago, so you can basically +100 to everything. www.garbageday.email/p/all-we-hav...

"It doesn’t matter if anyone believes the unreality of what they’re seeing online. Misinformation and disinformation don’t actually need to convince anyone of anything to have an impact. They just need to make you question what you’re seeing. The Big Lie and the millions of small ones online, whatever they happen to be wherever you’re living right now, just have to cause division. To wear you down. To provide an opening for those in power, who now have both too much of it and too few concerns about how to wield it. The populist demagogues and ravenous oligarchs the internet gave birth to in the 2010s are now firmly at the helm of the global order and, also, hooked up to the same chaotic, emotionally-gratifying global information networks that we all are, both social and, now, AI-generated. And, also like us, they are being heavily influenced by them in ways we can’t totally see or predict. Which is how we’ve ended up in a place where missiles are flying, planes are dropping out of the sky, and vulnerable people are being thrown in gulags, all while our leaders are shitposting about their big, beautiful plans for more extrajudicial arrests and genocidal territorial expansion. Assured by mindless AI chatbots that their dreams of world domination and self-enrichment are valid and noble and righteous. And there is no off ramp there. Everyone, even the folks with the nuclear codes, is entertaining themselves online as the world burns. Posting through it and monitoring the situation until it finally reaches their doorstep and forces them to look up from their phone and log off."

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Very easy to miss #DeepCover seeing as it's on Prime Video. Don't miss it. It's brilliant. All three leads on absolute top form, helped by a very tight and very funny script.

Orlando Bloom, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Nick Mohammed stand side by side while disguised as tough drug dealers in a still from Deep Cover

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thoroughly charmed by The Ballad of Wallis Island. I could watch Tim Key just being weird all day. Less wowed by the maudlin stuff in the final act, but the middle section really crackles.

Poster art for The Ballad of Wallis Island, featuring Tom Basden, Tim Key, and Carey Mulligan against the backdrop of a picturesque beach

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I had a lot of fun with #DangerousAnimals. But not as much fun as Jai Courtney is having. 😂

Poster art for Dangerous Animals, featuring the title in red type against an image of a blue ocean with an orange boat sailing away, leaving a trail of foam and blood

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Haven't seen them for a while, but my #goldfinches are back!

Two goldfinches sitting on either side of a bird feeder containing sunflower hearts

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Pretty sure that #FinalDestination Bloodlines is my film of the year so far. Horrible, hilarious, and a worthy addition to a franchise I have always loved. Zero notes.

Bong Joon-ho looks thoughtfully out of frame while wearing glasses. The caption says: "To me, that's cinema."

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I'll give you one guess which player this is, very much not under-performing his xG 👍

Screenshot of Haji Wright stats on FotMob, showing 12 goals, xG of 11.22 and xGOT of 11.87

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

(stats via Transfermarkt) Let's check in on Golden Boot winner Joel Piroe...

Screenshot of Joel Piroe's stats page, showing 163 minutes per goal

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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film? A year before Connor Swindells became a massive star because of Sex Education, he played a teenage battle rapper in VS. A very underrated and underseen British drama.

Poster art for the film VS., featuring two men facing in opposite directions against the backdrop of a green-hued seaside skyline. The tagline reads: "Rap is a battle. Life is a fight."

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