Will Bird
@willwriteandtalk.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, documentary-maker.
I like comedies and cocktails.
I hate genocide.
My films: https://youtube.com/@willwriteandtalk5006?feature=shared
My blog: https://willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/
I like comedies and cocktails.
I hate genocide.
My films: https://youtube.com/@willwriteandtalk5006?feature=shared
My blog: https://willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/
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If you’re into film history 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...
Do follow my brother’s YouTube channel where he uncovers animal abuse in Eastern Europe. Yes, he makes the important documentaries and I make the silly ones. youtube.com/@wild_at_hea...
Wild at Heart Investigates
Wild at Heart's mission is to highlight environmental crime and human-animal conflict in film, articles and debates.
Our latest project, ‘Animal Hustlers’, exposes the illicit trade in large mammals ...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Do follow my brother’s YouTube channel where he uncovers animal abuse in Eastern Europe. Yes, he makes the important documentaries and I make the silly ones. youtube.com/@wild_at_hea...
Do seek out “Palestine 36”. It’s a brilliantly acted, truly affecting cinematic epic - an exemplar of how to comment on contemporary events through period drama.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Do seek out “Palestine 36”. It’s a brilliantly acted, truly affecting cinematic epic - an exemplar of how to comment on contemporary events through period drama.
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Palestine 36 filmmaker talks to Deadline about the importance of Palestinian history in the current era
‘Palestine 36’ Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir Talks Recreating 1930s Wartime & Modern Relevancy: “People Hear The Other Point Of View From The Victors But There’s Different Stories To Be Told”
Palestine 36 filmmaker talks to Deadline about the importance of Palestinian history in the current era
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Palestine 36 filmmaker talks to Deadline about the importance of Palestinian history in the current era
Edgar Wright's "The Running Man" is the third movie with that title. My latest blog compares this interesting trio of films - each epitomising their own cinematic eras.
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Restless Hearts: Chasing the Running Men
Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man” rushes into cinemas on the heels of not one, but two movies carrying the same title. In 1987 an earlier version of the orginal 1982 novel the movi…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Edgar Wright's "The Running Man" is the third movie with that title. My latest blog compares this interesting trio of films - each epitomising their own cinematic eras.
willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/r...
willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/r...
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"Daddy why did you go into politics?"
"Well, I always hoped that one day I might be able to make a difference. Like if people were fleeing war and persecution, and they arrived on our shores desperate and afraid, then maybe I could be the one to suggest we nicked their jewellery."
"Well, I always hoped that one day I might be able to make a difference. Like if people were fleeing war and persecution, and they arrived on our shores desperate and afraid, then maybe I could be the one to suggest we nicked their jewellery."
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Daddy why did you go into politics?"
"Well, I always hoped that one day I might be able to make a difference. Like if people were fleeing war and persecution, and they arrived on our shores desperate and afraid, then maybe I could be the one to suggest we nicked their jewellery."
"Well, I always hoped that one day I might be able to make a difference. Like if people were fleeing war and persecution, and they arrived on our shores desperate and afraid, then maybe I could be the one to suggest we nicked their jewellery."
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If you’re into film history 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...
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you’re into film history 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...
To mark the passing of the peerless Pauline Collins here is a tribute to her most famous role. willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
The Girl Who Used To Be Me: A Tribute to Pauline Collins and Shirley Valentine
Please note: there are a few spoilers below! The older I get the more I fall in love with the character and the film “Shirley Valentine”. Based on Willy Russell’s play of the same…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
To mark the passing of the peerless Pauline Collins here is a tribute to her most famous role. willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/t...
Comedy genius.
It's here! The third exciting novella in the Inspector Marsden series! Available for purchase, on tour, on the Amazon and on countarthurstrong.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Comedy genius.
If you’re into film history 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...
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you’re into film history 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...
Don’t miss “From Ground Zero”
From Ground Zero - Bertha DocHouse
A collection of short films that bring emerging Palestinian artists to the fore in an urgent cry for humanity from a people under siege.
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September 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Don’t miss “From Ground Zero”
Isreal is literally killing the people recording their genocide. It’s too late. We’ve seen the pictures.
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Isreal is literally killing the people recording their genocide. It’s too late. We’ve seen the pictures.
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?...
August 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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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The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
GAZA: HOW TO SURVIVE A WARZONE (2025)
YouTube video by Will Write and Talk
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May 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
Why is Israel being allowed to kill thousands of people and fuck up the entire world? It can’t just be the videos Mossad and Epstein collected of the world’s political and business leaders fiddling with kids, could it?
June 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Why is Israel being allowed to kill thousands of people and fuck up the entire world? It can’t just be the videos Mossad and Epstein collected of the world’s political and business leaders fiddling with kids, could it?
The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
GAZA: HOW TO SURVIVE A WARZONE (2025)
YouTube video by Will Write and Talk
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Gaza film the BBC banned is now up on my YouTube channel. It’s a remarkable and heartbreaking documentary, not pro-Hamas propaganda as some have said, it’s simply pro-humanity. A tough watch though. youtu.be/gHjwHmUrJqs?...
I really liked The Final Reckoning - it’s a return to form for the Mission franchise and inspired me to write a blog about Tom Cruise’s silent comedy inspirations! willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/i...
Impossible Clowns: Tom Cruise’s Comic Connections
The release of the 8th movie in the “Mission Impossible” series: “The Final Reckoning” is a cause for celebration. Not only is it an exciting and funny return to form for the franchise, after the m…
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May 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I really liked The Final Reckoning - it’s a return to form for the Mission franchise and inspired me to write a blog about Tom Cruise’s silent comedy inspirations! willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/i...
Happy Sherlock Holmes Day! I did a film about him! youtu.be/rd3h-rOj3cI?...
May 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Happy Sherlock Holmes Day! I did a film about him! youtu.be/rd3h-rOj3cI?...
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Charlie Chaplin was born 136 years ago today, on April 16, 1889
(The Adventurer 1917)
(The Adventurer 1917)
April 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Charlie Chaplin was born 136 years ago today, on April 16, 1889
(The Adventurer 1917)
(The Adventurer 1917)
#BlackBag is dinner-party Bond for grown-ups. Blanchett and Fassbender ooze style as the slightly unhinged power couple of MI6. But who is the traitor? With an amazing soundtrack and superb editing and design, it’s just very, very, very cool. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
a woman wearing sunglasses and a brown leather jacket stands in front of a building
ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses and a brown leather jacket stands in front of a building
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April 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#BlackBag is dinner-party Bond for grown-ups. Blanchett and Fassbender ooze style as the slightly unhinged power couple of MI6. But who is the traitor? With an amazing soundtrack and superb editing and design, it’s just very, very, very cool. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️