Helen O'Hara
@helenlohara.bsky.social
Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
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Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
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I wrote a little book, pals. 'SOFIA COPPOLA: The Complete Unofficial Guide' is out today from @quercusbooks.bsky.social/ Greenfinch and in all good bookstores. I loved delving into Sofia's prettified & melancholy worlds. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/sofia-c...
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I wrote a little book, pals. 'SOFIA COPPOLA: The Complete Unofficial Guide' is out today from @quercusbooks.bsky.social/ Greenfinch and in all good bookstores. I loved delving into Sofia's prettified & melancholy worlds. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/sofia-c...
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50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
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This is what future celebrities were supposed to be, not politics streamers
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is what future celebrities were supposed to be, not politics streamers
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
Small nephew watching E.T. for the first time. "I'd scream and run away. I'd call the scientists and tell them to come and get him."
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Small nephew watching E.T. for the first time. "I'd scream and run away. I'd call the scientists and tell them to come and get him."
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Animals need to civilize. I should be able to pay a 10cc blood toll with sterile equipment when I enter the woods and then the ticks and mosquitoes should leave me alone
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Animals need to civilize. I should be able to pay a 10cc blood toll with sterile equipment when I enter the woods and then the ticks and mosquitoes should leave me alone
Now that it's officially the season of Nightmare Before Christmas, I have begun #BaubleWatch2025, my annual visit to London's big Christmas shops to find the most unhinged decorations going. Link in my Instagram saved posts or stories. www.instagram.com/heleno84?igs...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Now that it's officially the season of Nightmare Before Christmas, I have begun #BaubleWatch2025, my annual visit to London's big Christmas shops to find the most unhinged decorations going. Link in my Instagram saved posts or stories. www.instagram.com/heleno84?igs...
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
A relatable vampire
October 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A relatable vampire
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
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George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.
Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.
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Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
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To paraphrase Simone Weil (the better Simone) in THE NEED FOR ROOTS, the difference between a need and a desire is that a need can be sated, and desire never can be.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
To paraphrase Simone Weil (the better Simone) in THE NEED FOR ROOTS, the difference between a need and a desire is that a need can be sated, and desire never can be.
Perfect example of establishing narrative tension and then paying off.
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Perfect example of establishing narrative tension and then paying off.
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There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.
I didn't get a chance to review it on the pod this week, but #StillerAndMeara: Nothing Is Lost on Apple is really good. A loving but not hagiographic look at love and family and work and the way they intersect.
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I didn't get a chance to review it on the pod this week, but #StillerAndMeara: Nothing Is Lost on Apple is really good. A loving but not hagiographic look at love and family and work and the way they intersect.
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I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers
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That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
October 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.
notinourname.org.uk
notinourname.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.
notinourname.org.uk
notinourname.org.uk
Hope noted sloth fan Kristen Bell is celebrating in style.
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Hope noted sloth fan Kristen Bell is celebrating in style.