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Will Bird

@willwriteandtalk.bsky.social
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Writer, lecturer, documentary-maker, traveller, drinker. To book me for a talk drop me a line. My films: youtube.com/@willwriteandtalk5006?f… My blog: willwriteandtalk.org My Letterboxd: boxd.it/kiqyv

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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Funny, frustrating and so fucking timely. #Digger is THE film of 2026. My review is here: boxd.it/gB5shF
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A ★★★★★ review of Digger (2026)
To review or just explain "Digger" in its entirety will just spoil the fun, so this is spoiler free. Alejandro Inarritu's spectacular movie is both an angry environmental satire and a joyous celebrati...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A fresh blog on the original Star Wars, past, present and future. #FilmSky willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/f...
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Far, Far Away: Another Look at Star Wars
In February 2027 a 50 year old science fiction movie will be re-released in cinemas. This means there is the same amount of time between today and 1977 as between 1977 and the era of “The Jaz…
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just hit 10,000 views on YouTube for my film on the forgotten godfather of British comedy: Mr Sid Field. Maybe he’s a bit less forgotten now! Discover Sid here: youtu.be/lWPTObiWUcc?...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Silent #Sherlock Holmes movies are mad. Check out my documentary on these weird and wonderful films here: youtu.be/rd3h-rOj3cI?... #Filmsky
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nearly dead. Neither I nor Mel can hardly wait.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Hey #filmsky check out documentaries I’ve made on Hitchcock’s silent work, the very first Sherlock Holmes movies and the career of forgotten British comedy genius Sid Field! youtube.com/@willwritean...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just hit 10,000 views on YouTube for my film on the forgotten godfather of British comedy: Mr Sid Field. Maybe he’s a bit less forgotten now! Discover Sid here: youtu.be/lWPTObiWUcc?...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Learn about the odd and surprising London upbringing of a cinema genius in my documentary “Silent Hitchcock” - now on YouTube! youtu.be/mpR3lSKGeOY?...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
On the hottest day of last year my mate Christian and I sweated around the East End making a film about Alfred Hitchcock’s early life. Enjoy some outtakes of me avoiding traffic and looking warm. Full documentary here: youtu.be/mpR3lSKGeOY?...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As everyone else is having a go, here are my two drachmas on #TheOdyssey willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Off Course? Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
I’m not a huge Christopher Nolan fan. His films have got increasingly louder and longer over the years, they usually feature a tortured male protagonist played rather woodenly by a famous actor, fe…
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Genius.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Check out my film reviews on @letterboxd.social - my latest is “Savage House” boxd.it/kiqyv
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I think #Ratrace is a work of genius.
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Mr Bean: Race? I Hope I Win!
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Geeking out at the Cinema Museum in London - based in Charlie Chaplin’s old workhouse - for a symposium on early sound cinema. #filmsky
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Bond night!
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Love #TheOtherBennetSister and I think we may have the next #DoctorWho in Ella Bruccoleri
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’d love to translate this. It’s kind of like humans watching a sporting event.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
My latest blog. A personal reminiscence of 30 years of the wonderful #DoctorWho movie starring Paul McGann. willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/i...
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It Was About Time: 30 Years of Doctor Who – The Movie
Thirty years ago on the evening of 27th May 1996, a Bank Holiday Monday, I was sitting in the Putney studio flat of two old university friends watching TV. We’d all moved to London the previo…
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
RIP David Hockney. A master of turning the mundane Technicolor.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I think we can all agree that it’s over for #Trump. He looks ill and confused here. If he can’t keep it together for an interview like this, he can’t do the job.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
My latest blog. A personal reminiscence of 30 years of the wonderful #DoctorWho movie starring Paul McGann. willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/i...
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It Was About Time: 30 Years of Doctor Who – The Movie
Thirty years ago on the evening of 27th May 1996, a Bank Holiday Monday, I was sitting in the Putney studio flat of two old university friends watching TV. We’d all moved to London the previo…
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Buffy, Who, Yonderland and Gold Blend! What a fantastic actor. RIP Anthony Head.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Silent #Sherlock Holmes movies are mad. Check out my documentary on these weird and wonderful films here: youtu.be/rd3h-rOj3cI?... #Filmsky
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Trump really hates America.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Next Doctor Who?
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Happy #SherlockHolmes day and happy birthday to this dude.
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Joe In Absurdistan @j-everett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
He raped a woman in a department store and, if the complete Epstein files are ever released, may have done the same to minors. Now he's raping the American taxpayer.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Gold Rush original cut in 4K at the Regent Street Cinema with a glass of Cabernet at your seat. Watching film doesn’t get better than this.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
RIP David Burke. The wonderful actor who redefined Dr Watson. Enjoy your dinner at Romano’s in the sky, sir.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Rewatching Laurel and Hardy’s silent movies. What an extraordinary and hilarious set of films. Very adult themes of drugs, nudity, booze, cross-dressing, violence and lashings of camp all feature. They transcend all modern norms.
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Stanlio and Oliver Hardy Laughing
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Learn which #Watson was a “bastard” to his #Sherlock in my full-length documentary “A Case of Identity” on YouTube: youtu.be/rd3h-rOj3cI?...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I used to love Eurovision, before it was hijacked to provide some kind of musical human shield for a genocide.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
America is going insane.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The future of British politics is in Hackney.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is like watching a nightmare.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
PAUL NEWMAN’s advice to young Actors: “Study your craft, and know who you are and what’s special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set. Make sure you live life, which means don’t do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
My Top 5 Carry On Movies: 1. Doctor 2. At Your Convenience 3. Abroad 4. Follow That Camel 5. Cowboy See all my reviews on @letterboxd.social here: boxd.it/TMy8U/detail
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Carry On Watching!
The Carry-Ons are a British institution. The longest running comedy series in film history amazingly helmed by the same producer/director team of Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas throughout. Not only ar...
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Everyone has the right to walk down their street in safety: in Golders Green, in Tehran, in Beirut, in Gaza.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mutilated a road-killed raccoon. Chainsawed a whale’s head. Dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park. Isn’t the obvious question to RFK Jr.: What the hell is wrong with you?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2026
Trump rants his ballroom will feature "Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital & Medical Facilities,Top Secret Military Installations, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Drone Proof Ceilings, Military Grade Venting, & Bullet, Ballistic, & Blast Proof Glass" Dafuq kind of ballroom is this?
The White House doesn’t have a Ballroom (No Taxpayer Money!), which Presidents have desperately wanted and desired for over 150 years, but a Trump Hating, Washington, D.C. District Court Judge, a man who has gone out of his way to undermine National Security, and to make sure that this Great Gift to America gets delayed, or doesn’t get built, is attempting to prevent future Presidents and World Leaders from having a safe and secure large scale Meeting Place, or Ballroom, one with Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass —which all means that no future President, living in the White House without this Ballroom, can ever be Safe and Secure at Events, Future Inaugurations, or Global Summits. This Magnificent Space will allow them to carry out their vital duties as the Leader of our Nation. Furthermore, the Ballroom, which is being constructed on budget and ahead of schedule, is needed now. Almost all material necessary for its construction is being built and/or on its way to the site, ready for installation and erection. Much of it has already been paid for, costing Hundreds of Millions of Dollars. If somebody, especially one with no standing, had a complaint — Why wasn’t it filed many months earlier, long before Construction was started? The Public Record was open for all to see. Everybody knew that it was planned, and going to be built. This highly political Judge, and his illegal overreach, is out of control, and costing our Nation greatly. This is a mockery to our Court System! The Ballroom is deeply important to our National Security, and no Judge can be allowed to stop this Historic and Militarily Imperative Project. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Done another @letterboxd.social list! It’s a big one. boxd.it/TMy8U #filmsky #carryon
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a man with a surprised look on his face .
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Totally normal.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral - Via Reuters
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Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral
Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, 7, barely survived an Israeli strike on her home. She was there to bury her father when a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives.
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Will Bird @willwriteandtalk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think we can safely say that Trump is insane now.
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