Kate Phillips
@andanotherkate.bsky.social
Look what your god has done to me
I appreciate they are (presumably) more soundalikes than lookalikes, but yeesh. Even Mike Love’s Zombie Beach Boys look more like the real thing, and I don’t say that lightly.
December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I appreciate they are (presumably) more soundalikes than lookalikes, but yeesh. Even Mike Love’s Zombie Beach Boys look more like the real thing, and I don’t say that lightly.
Off to see Sarah Millican play Stockholm’s worst building, Waterfront, with its design aesthetic of someone having described Frank Gehry to a friend on a limited budget. I can see this monstrosity from my office and it makes me sad every time.
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Off to see Sarah Millican play Stockholm’s worst building, Waterfront, with its design aesthetic of someone having described Frank Gehry to a friend on a limited budget. I can see this monstrosity from my office and it makes me sad every time.
Thinking about Colossal per my last reskeet made me dig out my list of my favourite films of the 2010s that I made for a friend a couple of years ago. I still stand by all of these!
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Thinking about Colossal per my last reskeet made me dig out my list of my favourite films of the 2010s that I made for a friend a couple of years ago. I still stand by all of these!
I feel like my fellow fifty year olds and I have an unfair advantage with this one.
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I feel like my fellow fifty year olds and I have an unfair advantage with this one.
Happy 65th birthday to Kenneth Branagh, seen here at his hottest as Roman Strauss in DEAD AGAIN.
December 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Happy 65th birthday to Kenneth Branagh, seen here at his hottest as Roman Strauss in DEAD AGAIN.
Every year, I get my Dad a subscription to The Oldie for Christmas. This suits us both, because he loves the magazine and he is otherwise impossible to buy things for as an 87 year old whose principal interest is sleeping in front of the cricket. But they are now severely trying my patience.
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Every year, I get my Dad a subscription to The Oldie for Christmas. This suits us both, because he loves the magazine and he is otherwise impossible to buy things for as an 87 year old whose principal interest is sleeping in front of the cricket. But they are now severely trying my patience.
I think I can give myself marks for consistency.
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I think I can give myself marks for consistency.
If Tim Burton were ever tempted to do a George Lucas style revisit of BATMAN RETURNS, the only thing he should touch is the cut between these shots. Either cheekily wipe off the makeup as he rips the cowl or let him keep it on, R-Batz style. The film is otherwise perfect in every way.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
If Tim Burton were ever tempted to do a George Lucas style revisit of BATMAN RETURNS, the only thing he should touch is the cut between these shots. Either cheekily wipe off the makeup as he rips the cowl or let him keep it on, R-Batz style. The film is otherwise perfect in every way.
It is some time since I have thought about Kathy Lette, but I see she hasn’t changed. Even in sombre tribute, she just can’t help herself.
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It is some time since I have thought about Kathy Lette, but I see she hasn’t changed. Even in sombre tribute, she just can’t help herself.
I have been listening to this audiobook by Britain’s greatest stage actor. It’s full of the intelligence and sensitivity that characterise his performances but my main takeaway is that - since he was known at first for comic roles - his first agent wanted to change his name to Simon Russell Beagle.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I have been listening to this audiobook by Britain’s greatest stage actor. It’s full of the intelligence and sensitivity that characterise his performances but my main takeaway is that - since he was known at first for comic roles - his first agent wanted to change his name to Simon Russell Beagle.
I was looking at Noddy Holder’s Wikipedia entry (I have my reasons) and enjoyed this titbit - apparently meriting an entire separate section - which heavily implies it was the Nodster who directly inspired the cancellation of HS2.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I was looking at Noddy Holder’s Wikipedia entry (I have my reasons) and enjoyed this titbit - apparently meriting an entire separate section - which heavily implies it was the Nodster who directly inspired the cancellation of HS2.
April is the coolest month. I can’t wait!
(But the ticket buying process was WAY more stressful than it should have been. Everyone in my office rallied round very generously and had the horribly buggy queue website open on all their devices.)
(But the ticket buying process was WAY more stressful than it should have been. Everyone in my office rallied round very generously and had the horribly buggy queue website open on all their devices.)
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
April is the coolest month. I can’t wait!
(But the ticket buying process was WAY more stressful than it should have been. Everyone in my office rallied round very generously and had the horribly buggy queue website open on all their devices.)
(But the ticket buying process was WAY more stressful than it should have been. Everyone in my office rallied round very generously and had the horribly buggy queue website open on all their devices.)
I am only one chapter in, so it can’t construe a spoiler, but I knew I was right about Tony, the worst character in literature. Justice for Eilis!
I think the only other fictional character I have hated so viscerally is Claes Bang in Bad Sisters. Clearly people wronging Irish women is a trigger.
I think the only other fictional character I have hated so viscerally is Claes Bang in Bad Sisters. Clearly people wronging Irish women is a trigger.
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I am only one chapter in, so it can’t construe a spoiler, but I knew I was right about Tony, the worst character in literature. Justice for Eilis!
I think the only other fictional character I have hated so viscerally is Claes Bang in Bad Sisters. Clearly people wronging Irish women is a trigger.
I think the only other fictional character I have hated so viscerally is Claes Bang in Bad Sisters. Clearly people wronging Irish women is a trigger.
Two weeks to go! I must stand firm, given how judgemental I delight in being about Christmas in November. But it’s so damn tempting!
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Two weeks to go! I must stand firm, given how judgemental I delight in being about Christmas in November. But it’s so damn tempting!
Kate Atkinson simply never misses. Yes, she leans heavily on coincidence but I think it all serves her fundamental thesis on how life reverberates messily across generations - and she writes characters, places, times and voices so effortlessly and evocatively that I could forgive her anything.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Kate Atkinson simply never misses. Yes, she leans heavily on coincidence but I think it all serves her fundamental thesis on how life reverberates messily across generations - and she writes characters, places, times and voices so effortlessly and evocatively that I could forgive her anything.
Emerald Fennell’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS looks like the most tin-eared adaptation of a book since Baz Luhrmann concluded The Great Gatsby was all about the fun. And yet there is no way I’m not watching it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Emerald Fennell’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS looks like the most tin-eared adaptation of a book since Baz Luhrmann concluded The Great Gatsby was all about the fun. And yet there is no way I’m not watching it.
After Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse and Diego Maradonna, Asif Kapadia has now trained his keen documentarian’s eye on…Kenny Dalglish. I worry that this trend will end with him directing a ruminative overview of the life of Brendan O’Carroll.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
After Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse and Diego Maradonna, Asif Kapadia has now trained his keen documentarian’s eye on…Kenny Dalglish. I worry that this trend will end with him directing a ruminative overview of the life of Brendan O’Carroll.
I can’t say I’m a fan of Moby’s new direction.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I can’t say I’m a fan of Moby’s new direction.
This is an actual dream come true. Would it be excessive to go to all five shows? (No.) And is Chris Lowe devastatingly attractive? (Yes.) If you need me before April, I’ll be busy making fantasy set-lists (which will run to about ten hours each).
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This is an actual dream come true. Would it be excessive to go to all five shows? (No.) And is Chris Lowe devastatingly attractive? (Yes.) If you need me before April, I’ll be busy making fantasy set-lists (which will run to about ten hours each).
This is possibly the best book I’ve read this year (and it’s been a good year). It reminds me a little of The Dud Avocado, as a sprightly and witty narration fails to disguise a profound sadness. As a portrait of the Jazz Age, it deserves to be mentioned with - if not quite alongside - Gatsby.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is possibly the best book I’ve read this year (and it’s been a good year). It reminds me a little of The Dud Avocado, as a sprightly and witty narration fails to disguise a profound sadness. As a portrait of the Jazz Age, it deserves to be mentioned with - if not quite alongside - Gatsby.
Very pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this; I really didn’t get on with Detransition, Baby - in truth, I loathed it - but started flicking through this in the library and ended up racing through it in a sitting. Vivid and new and transporting. I’ll actively anticipate her next book.
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Very pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this; I really didn’t get on with Detransition, Baby - in truth, I loathed it - but started flicking through this in the library and ended up racing through it in a sitting. Vivid and new and transporting. I’ll actively anticipate her next book.
These targeted ads are cutting a little close to the bone.
![A targeted ad from the Hollywood Reporter website showing a coffin and asking ‘Vad kostar en begravning i Sverige 2025?’ [What does a funeral cost in Sweden in 2025?]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7oc3y2oc567ogc276x4ccck7/bafkreicgv3b2ynmckyxz4rjknaeyxs44yzahg3zpo5sdwyfw5owzt74yvq@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
These targeted ads are cutting a little close to the bone.
A new Norwegian film hitting Swedish cinemas this week. It looks blazingly original!
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A new Norwegian film hitting Swedish cinemas this week. It looks blazingly original!
This - a history of the Institute for Sexual Science and its destruction - was a sad and sobering read. There’s nothing new under the sun, and its story of hatred and repression is horribly resonant now - but it’s also about the inevitability and promise of queer community, which will always endure.
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This - a history of the Institute for Sexual Science and its destruction - was a sad and sobering read. There’s nothing new under the sun, and its story of hatred and repression is horribly resonant now - but it’s also about the inevitability and promise of queer community, which will always endure.
I enjoyed this exhibition at the National Gallery, while never quite managing to shake my long-standing sense that Neo-Impressionists (as it seems Pointillists preferred to be called) just weren’t very good at painting. Their work always feels a bit stilted to me.
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I enjoyed this exhibition at the National Gallery, while never quite managing to shake my long-standing sense that Neo-Impressionists (as it seems Pointillists preferred to be called) just weren’t very good at painting. Their work always feels a bit stilted to me.