Xan Brooks

@the_mcquade Ha - thanks Aidan

Love your work Mr @XanBrooks

@DB_hereatlast David - thanks for saying

@XanBrooks Quite aside from your opinion of “Melania”, your review was so beautifully written. Exquisitely crafted. 👏👏👏 (Unlike the horrific subject of the review, it would seem…)

My piece on Cover-Up, Seymour Hersh & the state of modern-day journalism theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/…

I hesitate to bill this as an interview given that it basically involved sitting on a couch, listening to Hawke & Linklater chat & occasionally pitching in. But I wrote it up afterwards, so that officially counts as work theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/…

Spoke with Joel Edgerton & Clint Bentley about their fabulous Train Dreams, & the pleasures & pain of a life on the road theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/…

Delighted by this; it's a book that sticks around. Right alongside Denis Johnson, too, for the added real estate value

@exitthelemming All best wishes to you, Sam. I only met your parents once but they left a deep impression & their total, easy adoration for each other was a joy to behold.

This week’s @Independent⁩ column: on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, that magnificent, brawling, unreconstructed giant of 70s American cinema independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket. An antic noir adventure that plays like a postmodern Tintin story. A portrait of 1930s fascism that reminds us just a little of now theguardian.com/books/2025/sep…

@frankcottrell_b Yes, Mush-era X certainly resembles a toy shop - or a battery farm - more than an old-school pub. But independent personal relationships predate Musk & still cling on in the cracks, & these have value.

@XanBrooks Hmmm but it's not a pub. We're not customers. As they say - if you're not paying, you're the product. It'd be more like setting the toys free from a toy shop?

Serious question - at this point, from the POV of our mental health and our political civilisation - what we be the downside of banning X / Twitter?

Claudia Cardinale: the only actor to star in three of Sight & Sound's 100 best films of all time, but who also played the princess in The Pink Panther, destoyer & rebuilder of adolescents the world over. The cause of & cure for all our problems. No better legacy. RIP

Birds, Strangers & Psychos, an anthology of Hitchock-inspired short stories, is the Times's thriller of the month" We're launching it at the BFI Southbank next Monday. Drop by if you're free, or need a place to lie low. Still some vacancies. All mod cons. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default…

Latest @Independent column: on the posh streets & dodgy estates of Stephen Kingstown, a sprawling film franchise that has the MCU beat independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

@rachelmillward Good news! Absolutely delighted by this.

WE DID IT!!! Huge thanks to everyone who voted for me, and to those who supported this campaign in so many different ways - it is all massively appreciated. What an absolute honour this is. I can’t wait to get on with the work! Thank you. #RachIsDeputy! 🎉🥳🙌

@Jamesfilmcritic Hi James - Venice is excellent, always a total treat to be here. The weather has been fitful (huge thunderstorms of Friday & Saturday) but the lineup is good & the atmosphere lovely.

Absolutely beautiful day. Wish I was at @la_Biennale! Can’t wait to see Frankenstein (Del Toro) in particular! After The Hunt (Guadanino) Jay Kelly (Baumbach) Mother Sister Father Brother (Jarmusch) & House of Dynamite (Bigalow), too! Enjoy, @XanBrooks! #Venezia82 🦁 #Heatwave 🌞

My review of Kent Jones’s Late Fame, a slight, flawed film that has nonetheless stayed with me #Venice2025 theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/…

Darren Aronofsky, on the grubby old joys of 1990s New York & the (potential) new pleasures of the brave new world of AI theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/…

This week’s ⁦@Independent⁩ column is on Spike Lee, the brilliantly awkward square peg of American cinema, even when he’s trying not to be independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

Terence Stamp 1938-2025 theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/…