Anne Billson
@annebillson.bsky.social
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
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PILLION is a Christmas Film.
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
PILLION is a Christmas Film.
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The wind whistles over the ridges but I like it like that.
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The wind whistles over the ridges but I like it like that.
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Would you like 30 seconds of Daphne enjoying a fuss?
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Would you like 30 seconds of Daphne enjoying a fuss?
Headline on VRT's English website: 'What can you do if your neighbour’s cat does a “whoopsie” in your garden?' WTF, are we 12 years old? What's wrong with 'What can you do if your neighbour’s cat craps in your garden?' or, if that's too blunt, use 'defecates' or 'empties its bowels'.
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Headline on VRT's English website: 'What can you do if your neighbour’s cat does a “whoopsie” in your garden?' WTF, are we 12 years old? What's wrong with 'What can you do if your neighbour’s cat craps in your garden?' or, if that's too blunt, use 'defecates' or 'empties its bowels'.
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wondered what all the honking outside my hotel was and it’s a seemingly endless stream of motorcycling santas driving through the streets of krakow
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
wondered what all the honking outside my hotel was and it’s a seemingly endless stream of motorcycling santas driving through the streets of krakow
Since Quentin Tarantino is in the news again, here's my review of his book, Cinema Speculation, from a couple of years ago. It's behind a paywall; if I had a Times Subscription I would gift-link to it, but I haven't, so I can't, sorry.
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino review — a motormouth’s history of film
The great director and passionate cinephile pelts you with trivia in this opinionated memoir, says Anne Billson
www.thetimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Since Quentin Tarantino is in the news again, here's my review of his book, Cinema Speculation, from a couple of years ago. It's behind a paywall; if I had a Times Subscription I would gift-link to it, but I haven't, so I can't, sorry.
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it took making fun of that little paul dano boy on a podcast to snap the populace out of hypnotic curse miramax warlocks placed on them decades ago
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
it took making fun of that little paul dano boy on a podcast to snap the populace out of hypnotic curse miramax warlocks placed on them decades ago
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It’s a paws on the radiator kinda morning.
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It’s a paws on the radiator kinda morning.
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Taping two phones to my glasses for that 3D IMAX experience
Do cinema bros not realize that if the phone screen is too small you can just hold it closer to your face
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Taping two phones to my glasses for that 3D IMAX experience
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So there's still plenty of time to get the Tube Mapper calendar. I was selling some of these in a Christmas market the other day and came up with the tagline...
"It's a gift that lasts a whole year!"
Anyway I'm very proud of the selection of images in the calendar so do enjoy.
"It's a gift that lasts a whole year!"
Anyway I'm very proud of the selection of images in the calendar so do enjoy.
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
So there's still plenty of time to get the Tube Mapper calendar. I was selling some of these in a Christmas market the other day and came up with the tagline...
"It's a gift that lasts a whole year!"
Anyway I'm very proud of the selection of images in the calendar so do enjoy.
"It's a gift that lasts a whole year!"
Anyway I'm very proud of the selection of images in the calendar so do enjoy.
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I dunno where these movie snobs are, I know plenty of people who write about movies and our conversations are all like "Have you seen SMILE 2 yet" "No I have to get through this Silent Night Deadly Night box set first"
What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
December 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I dunno where these movie snobs are, I know plenty of people who write about movies and our conversations are all like "Have you seen SMILE 2 yet" "No I have to get through this Silent Night Deadly Night box set first"
TiL about the practice of "Beaver Bombing"
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
TiL about the practice of "Beaver Bombing"
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Lockdown selfie (2020) photograph by Anne Billson
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lockdown selfie (2020) photograph by Anne Billson
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Two dogs (2020) photograph by Anne Billson
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Two dogs (2020) photograph by Anne Billson
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Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
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One of my favourite doodles that got out of hand being a doodle and ended up a drawing #chtulhu #creature #creatureart #creaturedesign
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
One of my favourite doodles that got out of hand being a doodle and ended up a drawing #chtulhu #creature #creatureart #creaturedesign
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I’ve been lucky enough to see the pilot. It’s great
Starfleet Academy (January 15, 2026): First clip
A chance to get to know the USS Athena, and see Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti having fun on a spaceship bridge. Also, an old friend.
A chance to get to know the USS Athena, and see Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti having fun on a spaceship bridge. Also, an old friend.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Exclusive Clip | Paramount+ (CCXP 2025)
YouTube video by Paramount Plus
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I’ve been lucky enough to see the pilot. It’s great
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REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND: I naively just expected a stylish and stylised spy films tribute and had underestimated Cattet/Forzani! This mad narrative kaleidoscope of an actor’s psychosis is so brimming with visual brilliance and invention, one viewing isn’t enough!
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND: I naively just expected a stylish and stylised spy films tribute and had underestimated Cattet/Forzani! This mad narrative kaleidoscope of an actor’s psychosis is so brimming with visual brilliance and invention, one viewing isn’t enough!
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Photos of skylines at dusk.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Photos of skylines at dusk.
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Live stream volcano alert!
Stop what you're doing and watch this - absolutely wild!!
Kilauea, Hawaii #Volcano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
Kilauea, Hawaii #Volcano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Live stream volcano alert!
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UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING (Hyams, 2012)
December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING (Hyams, 2012)
Not forgetting:
O pointy birds, o pointy pointy
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy
(which AI seems to think is a real poem - "known for its playful repetition and slightly nonsensical charm, celebrating the simple, pointy shapes of birds")
O pointy birds, o pointy pointy
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy
(which AI seems to think is a real poem - "known for its playful repetition and slightly nonsensical charm, celebrating the simple, pointy shapes of birds")
I come from haunts of coot and hern
and make a sudden sally
and-er-hem-er-hem-the fern
to bicker down a valley
and make a sudden sally
and-er-hem-er-hem-the fern
to bicker down a valley
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Not forgetting:
O pointy birds, o pointy pointy
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy
(which AI seems to think is a real poem - "known for its playful repetition and slightly nonsensical charm, celebrating the simple, pointy shapes of birds")
O pointy birds, o pointy pointy
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy
(which AI seems to think is a real poem - "known for its playful repetition and slightly nonsensical charm, celebrating the simple, pointy shapes of birds")