Ewan
@ewanm.bsky.social
London UK, was Naarm, before that Pōneke, originally Edinburgh, he/him
It's getting down to crunch time. I'm going to have to start making some LISTS. I think I may have run out of time to catch up with any more films though.
December 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It's getting down to crunch time. I'm going to have to start making some LISTS. I think I may have run out of time to catch up with any more films though.
Well we did it, we finally tackled the big boss of Christmas films (at home, not in a cinema, where I will never watch it) and readers, as you know, Love Actually was bad. I would rather rewatch The Holiday every day. Just weird. So many bosses cheating with their employees in that film.
December 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Well we did it, we finally tackled the big boss of Christmas films (at home, not in a cinema, where I will never watch it) and readers, as you know, Love Actually was bad. I would rather rewatch The Holiday every day. Just weird. So many bosses cheating with their employees in that film.
It's that happy time of year (translation: possibly every time of year) when there's chaos on the East Coast Mainline and our train was cancelled, we're standing on another, and we've been delayed by at least three hours but the silver lining is maybe we'll get to Edinburgh today? (Also: refund)
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's that happy time of year (translation: possibly every time of year) when there's chaos on the East Coast Mainline and our train was cancelled, we're standing on another, and we've been delayed by at least three hours but the silver lining is maybe we'll get to Edinburgh today? (Also: refund)
I've come into the office in London today. It's so far looking like I might be spending more time out Xmas shopping then actually working but look what's the use of thia week otherwise?
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I've come into the office in London today. It's so far looking like I might be spending more time out Xmas shopping then actually working but look what's the use of thia week otherwise?
Well, we've now hit the Christmas moviegoing nuclear option and we're off to see beloved timeless holiday classic The Holiday, screening in 35mm for the real movie lovers.
December 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Well, we've now hit the Christmas moviegoing nuclear option and we're off to see beloved timeless holiday classic The Holiday, screening in 35mm for the real movie lovers.
I'm in a fancy London shop, as one is during this time of the year, overhearing someone ask a staff member where the advent calendars are. Why would you be buying an advent calendar on the 22nd December??!
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I'm in a fancy London shop, as one is during this time of the year, overhearing someone ask a staff member where the advent calendars are. Why would you be buying an advent calendar on the 22nd December??!
Anyway I'm off to do some Carolling tonight which is -- and if you know me at all you already know how this skeet ends -- where I go and see Carol (2015, dir. Todd Haynes) for Christmas. I should probably get a new tradition eh
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Anyway I'm off to do some Carolling tonight which is -- and if you know me at all you already know how this skeet ends -- where I go and see Carol (2015, dir. Todd Haynes) for Christmas. I should probably get a new tradition eh
I went to see a film yesterday in which going for a run, come rain or shine, was an expression of freedom and determination for a young woman and mighty inspiring it was too. However I've been looking out the window at the rain all morning while wearing my running kit and I'm not so determined.
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I went to see a film yesterday in which going for a run, come rain or shine, was an expression of freedom and determination for a young woman and mighty inspiring it was too. However I've been looking out the window at the rain all morning while wearing my running kit and I'm not so determined.
I just love when you stand at a bus stop long enough to see the bus that's listed as being due for the last five minutes just silently gives way to the next one coming in 10 minutes and then one just cruises past you without even stopping though you're standing at the fvcking stop. Fuck you buses.
December 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I just love when you stand at a bus stop long enough to see the bus that's listed as being due for the last five minutes just silently gives way to the next one coming in 10 minutes and then one just cruises past you without even stopping though you're standing at the fvcking stop. Fuck you buses.
My 122 day streak on Squaredle finally comes to an end so I can stop playing Squaredle all the fvcking time.
December 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My 122 day streak on Squaredle finally comes to an end so I can stop playing Squaredle all the fvcking time.
I saw someone doing a run in full gear down Charing Cross Road the other day at around 5pm, truly deranged behaviour, can't help but respect it. Feel like even in central London there might be better places to run but hey.
December 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I saw someone doing a run in full gear down Charing Cross Road the other day at around 5pm, truly deranged behaviour, can't help but respect it. Feel like even in central London there might be better places to run but hey.
I don't know if people are aware of this television thing called The Traitors but we are getting into it approximately eleventy billion years after everyone else ("Celebrity" version). It's quite addictive it turns out.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I don't know if people are aware of this television thing called The Traitors but we are getting into it approximately eleventy billion years after everyone else ("Celebrity" version). It's quite addictive it turns out.
I went on a little wander around the BFI because I thought I heard @pamhutch.bsky.social 's voice but now I realise that my brain probably just inserted that into the background hubbub because I'm here to see a silent movie.
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I went on a little wander around the BFI because I thought I heard @pamhutch.bsky.social 's voice but now I realise that my brain probably just inserted that into the background hubbub because I'm here to see a silent movie.
We went to the @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social Live Take and my wife Kerry was the loudest, most shameless and frankly dishonest, and hence won a Peace Prize. Well deserved!
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We went to the @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social Live Take and my wife Kerry was the loudest, most shameless and frankly dishonest, and hence won a Peace Prize. Well deserved!
Terrible photo but it was lovely to see Stereolab on stage at the RFH. Laetitia was very keen that people tear up the seats but I think her fans are too polite to do that.
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Terrible photo but it was lovely to see Stereolab on stage at the RFH. Laetitia was very keen that people tear up the seats but I think her fans are too polite to do that.
I'm in my local community hall, the one literally two steps from my home, watching a big band play, and I thought briefly I had never been in here. But actually I think someone had a birthday here years ago, before I lived here. Ant, I think. A 40th perhaps. It's that kind of hall.
December 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'm in my local community hall, the one literally two steps from my home, watching a big band play, and I thought briefly I had never been in here. But actually I think someone had a birthday here years ago, before I lived here. Ant, I think. A 40th perhaps. It's that kind of hall.
In the last two days I've learned that both the musical lyricist Lorenz Hart (thanks to the film Blue Moon) and political a-hole Joseph McCarthy died at the age I am now (48), from alcoholism. Not sure what my point is. I might be getting old.
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In the last two days I've learned that both the musical lyricist Lorenz Hart (thanks to the film Blue Moon) and political a-hole Joseph McCarthy died at the age I am now (48), from alcoholism. Not sure what my point is. I might be getting old.
There's a guy here (with a weird moustache, what is it with the younger generation and weird moustaches?) who's been talking about the filmography of Will Ferrell, and now saying to his friend that he's doing an Inland Empire/Dune double bill. I wish him the best with that.
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There's a guy here (with a weird moustache, what is it with the younger generation and weird moustaches?) who's been talking about the filmography of Will Ferrell, and now saying to his friend that he's doing an Inland Empire/Dune double bill. I wish him the best with that.
Don't get me wrong, I love me a Turner painting, and Constable is okay too, but when is the Tate not doing a Turner and/or Constable exhibition? Still, thought I would take a quick swing around, refresh my memory for sunlight and roiling skies
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Don't get me wrong, I love me a Turner painting, and Constable is okay too, but when is the Tate not doing a Turner and/or Constable exhibition? Still, thought I would take a quick swing around, refresh my memory for sunlight and roiling skies
Enjoying the bar vibes at the Garden Cinema. I can imagine coming here again, just for a drink. Anyway I've joined up as a member because why not. This is better than the member rooms at the Tate.
December 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Enjoying the bar vibes at the Garden Cinema. I can imagine coming here again, just for a drink. Anyway I've joined up as a member because why not. This is better than the member rooms at the Tate.
I checked the Cafe Oto website as I periodically do and booked to see the composer of Bella Tarr's film scores play live next February (Mihaly Vig) because why not eh. Always a fun time is a Bela Tarr movie.
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I checked the Cafe Oto website as I periodically do and booked to see the composer of Bella Tarr's film scores play live next February (Mihaly Vig) because why not eh. Always a fun time is a Bela Tarr movie.
I have also started watching the documentary series about Martin Scorsese but this was a mistake because now I need to watch all his films
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I have also started watching the documentary series about Martin Scorsese but this was a mistake because now I need to watch all his films
Watching an odd, late Preminger film called BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING which inexplicably stars Noel Coward and Laurence Olivier among others. Anyway just taking a break to google "wtf is junket", a dessert that has now been mentioned multiple times. I'm sure it's part of a dense allusory framework.
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Watching an odd, late Preminger film called BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING which inexplicably stars Noel Coward and Laurence Olivier among others. Anyway just taking a break to google "wtf is junket", a dessert that has now been mentioned multiple times. I'm sure it's part of a dense allusory framework.
Classic getting onto a tube train believing it was going down one branch but then it ended up going down another while I was zoned out to a Rosalia. This might be me reaping that unwise 15% beer earlier who can even say. Will I get to my film in time? Absolute scenes.
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Classic getting onto a tube train believing it was going down one branch but then it ended up going down another while I was zoned out to a Rosalia. This might be me reaping that unwise 15% beer earlier who can even say. Will I get to my film in time? Absolute scenes.
And while I'm in the bottleshop thinking about beer people, some of whom I've met and had a drink with, possibly in here. Pellicle is a damn fine publication, lots of good people. A+ good work.
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
And while I'm in the bottleshop thinking about beer people, some of whom I've met and had a drink with, possibly in here. Pellicle is a damn fine publication, lots of good people. A+ good work.