Jim Lynn

A really moving final response from Ridley Scott in this interview.

Who or what is 'The Badenoch'? IT'S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.

Soooo… I watched 1992’s infamous GHOSTWATCH on @Shudder last night…

@kermodeandmayo I watched The African Queen for the first time a few years ago and it was a revelation. Two brilliant performances from Hepburn and Bogart, playing characters with such depth and wit, such that I would die for either of them. It's a classic for a reason.

📺It's WEEKEND WATCHLIST time 📝Pick your favourite from these 5 please - and predict Mark’s choice... 🎞️ THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) 🎞️ THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) 🎞️ THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) 🎞️ PADDINGTON 2 (2017) 🎞️ ENYS MEN (2022)

@SkillageSteve The only early TV memory I can definitely date was when Grandstand started and it was the first colour broadcast. I stared at our B&W TV, convincing myself I could make out vague colours. That was 13th Nov 1969 so I was five.

As ever, would love to hear your earliest TV memories. Still recall Play School "moving house" in 1983 when I was four

What year is this?

@KulvinderGill Now there's a rabbit hole I'd rather not go down. Great plot idea for a conspiracy thriller, though!

There's a strange new type of YouTube bot posting I've been seeing recently. Random users posting six random names. No idea what the point is, apart, I guess, from getting a posting history.

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF... Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨 Immediately, I email the conference host. (FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.) He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue. He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website. She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller. AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯 — FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

No one gave me first-hand evidence that this shot from "Seven" is a visual effects shot - but that didn't stop folks from insisting it's a visual effects shot! So I went overboard and wrote a piece about long lenses, and also got first-hand confirmation. fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/10/this-s…

Genome is absolutely indispensible.

Hey Elon, Can I have my designs back please? #ElonMusk #Elon_Musk

@goodexceptsucks I watch it every Christmas.

Time to reboot the campaign to get Iron Man 3 officially recognised as a Christmas Movie. You know it is. timworthington.org/2020/03/22/its…

@agirlcalledTom I only knew it as a title, then it was featured in an old British Films documentary I was watching for my blog, so I was delighted when Talking Pictures TV showed it a while back.

@JimLynn That is a brilliant description of it. I saw it as a kid and couldn't bring myself to see it again until a couple of years ago

Thora Hird & Elizabeth Allen versus Nazis in Went the Day Well?

@outonbluesix We call it Swirly Tennis now thanks to Charlie and Lola

Apparently Swingball is technically officially named 'Totem Tennis'. Yes, that was going to catch on.

Someone got carried away with typing 'Stevenage' 🤔

I guess habit is a hard thing to break.