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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Movie theaters forever
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Movie theaters forever
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What's up with the Internet Movie Database synopsis for Them (1972), a Johnny Speight BBC sitcom with James Booth and Cyril Cusack as tramps?
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
What's up with the Internet Movie Database synopsis for Them (1972), a Johnny Speight BBC sitcom with James Booth and Cyril Cusack as tramps?
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... in this episode, things go a bit Amicus and the tramps find themselves in a haunted room with Madeline Smith as a ghost and a pitched battle between 'cavaliers and skinheads'.
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
... in this episode, things go a bit Amicus and the tramps find themselves in a haunted room with Madeline Smith as a ghost and a pitched battle between 'cavaliers and skinheads'.
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Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
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I reckon reverse film snobbery is much more commonplace these days. And the original posting here is a prime example of that.
December 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I reckon reverse film snobbery is much more commonplace these days. And the original posting here is a prime example of that.
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The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
Fun facts: Treat Williams plays a dead (and decomposing) cop called Roger Mortis. DEAD HEAT was written by Terry Black, Shane Black's older brother; Shane has a small role in this.
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Fun facts: Treat Williams plays a dead (and decomposing) cop called Roger Mortis. DEAD HEAT was written by Terry Black, Shane Black's older brother; Shane has a small role in this.
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It's that time of the year when I show off my Rock Concert photography of the '80s and '90s. Here's Bjork (with Sugarcubes), They Might Be Giants, Laura from Superchunk and Robyn Hitchcock. (photos by me) @tmbg.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social @superchunk.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's that time of the year when I show off my Rock Concert photography of the '80s and '90s. Here's Bjork (with Sugarcubes), They Might Be Giants, Laura from Superchunk and Robyn Hitchcock. (photos by me) @tmbg.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social @superchunk.bsky.social
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN on 35mm at De Cinema today? Don't mind if I do! (Anne's sister Barbara - played by Patricia Hitchcock - is a main character in The Mark, a short story I wrote for Birds, Strangers and Psychos: New Stories Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock.) www.amazon.co.uk/Birds-Strang...
December 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN on 35mm at De Cinema today? Don't mind if I do! (Anne's sister Barbara - played by Patricia Hitchcock - is a main character in The Mark, a short story I wrote for Birds, Strangers and Psychos: New Stories Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock.) www.amazon.co.uk/Birds-Strang...
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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.