Paul Chandler
@paulchandler.bsky.social
Film watcher, newsletter writer.
Train Dreams is now on Netflix and you should watch it. It's beautiful and moving. That is all.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Train Dreams is now on Netflix and you should watch it. It's beautiful and moving. That is all.
When I worked in a hotel restaurant, we had background elevator music year round, that was fine, multiple CDs of it. Once December hit it was the same 2 cd Xmas compilation over and over and over again. 💀💀💀
I did once manage to get Kind of Blue on.
I did once manage to get Kind of Blue on.
The onslaught of piped in Xmas music is workers rights issue. It was THE thing I complained to management about when I worked @ B&N.
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
When I worked in a hotel restaurant, we had background elevator music year round, that was fine, multiple CDs of it. Once December hit it was the same 2 cd Xmas compilation over and over and over again. 💀💀💀
I did once manage to get Kind of Blue on.
I did once manage to get Kind of Blue on.
This is funny, but the fact to note is he was coming out of George Osborne's place. Because, you know, politics is just sport isn't it. We shake hands at the end and have drinks with the guy who ruined the country. Maybe the News Agents team popped round as well.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is funny, but the fact to note is he was coming out of George Osborne's place. Because, you know, politics is just sport isn't it. We shake hands at the end and have drinks with the guy who ruined the country. Maybe the News Agents team popped round as well.
The WASPI women thing is sending me absolutely over the edge.
Aw that’s nice the boomers want us to pay even more for them in the form of WASPI. Fuck off you cunts with your triple lock pension and £7000 now £8m houses
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The WASPI women thing is sending me absolutely over the edge.
First world problem here, but hey, we live in the first world. Booked Daniel Kitson work in progress tickets for some tiny arts centre near Norwood Junction. They have an "add to Google wallet" function. But apparently this is completely beyond the capability of the BFI.
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
First world problem here, but hey, we live in the first world. Booked Daniel Kitson work in progress tickets for some tiny arts centre near Norwood Junction. They have an "add to Google wallet" function. But apparently this is completely beyond the capability of the BFI.
This is tremendous.
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is tremendous.
Very much enjoyed I ❤️ LA, which is a new HBO comedy from the wonderful Rachel Sennott, first episode written by her, with her in the lead. Apart from at the beginning, when she asked her boyfriend to choke her during sex. Would say we shouldn't normalise that.
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Very much enjoyed I ❤️ LA, which is a new HBO comedy from the wonderful Rachel Sennott, first episode written by her, with her in the lead. Apart from at the beginning, when she asked her boyfriend to choke her during sex. Would say we shouldn't normalise that.
Is someone sitting on all these Mr Mountbatten Windsor emails and drip feeding them out? Well played if so.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Andrew hoped to meet Jeffrey Epstein after his prison release, emails reveal
Publication of 2010 correspondence comes two days after Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his titles
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Is someone sitting on all these Mr Mountbatten Windsor emails and drip feeding them out? Well played if so.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The original version of The Running Man was 100 minutes long. The new Glenn Powell/Edgar Wright version is... 133 minutes. 💀
What are we doing here? Who is looking at that & thinking what audiences want is another half an hour? A film like that should simply not be that long. 1h45 & let's go home.
What are we doing here? Who is looking at that & thinking what audiences want is another half an hour? A film like that should simply not be that long. 1h45 & let's go home.
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The original version of The Running Man was 100 minutes long. The new Glenn Powell/Edgar Wright version is... 133 minutes. 💀
What are we doing here? Who is looking at that & thinking what audiences want is another half an hour? A film like that should simply not be that long. 1h45 & let's go home.
What are we doing here? Who is looking at that & thinking what audiences want is another half an hour? A film like that should simply not be that long. 1h45 & let's go home.
People now say stuff in interviews that in years past would have come out in some recording of a party event or newspaper sting.
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
People now say stuff in interviews that in years past would have come out in some recording of a party event or newspaper sting.
Shouldn't the lobby pick stuff like this up? (Just a little joke.)
Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Shouldn't the lobby pick stuff like this up? (Just a little joke.)
One for the people talking about the "I've never had a curry or kebab" lady at the weekend.
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
One for the people talking about the "I've never had a curry or kebab" lady at the weekend.
I'm not saying American podcasts are too long but one film podcast has put more stuff behind a paywall, and the preview, for one film review, is 40 minutes long. A British podcast could cover the week's new releases in that time pretty much. I reckon 40 mins is about right lads tbh.
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I'm not saying American podcasts are too long but one film podcast has put more stuff behind a paywall, and the preview, for one film review, is 40 minutes long. A British podcast could cover the week's new releases in that time pretty much. I reckon 40 mins is about right lads tbh.
A simple fact, that doesn't get nearly enough coverage.
Money now spent on rent and mortgages was spent on eating out, tickets, holidays, coffee and a million other things previously.
Money now spent on rent and mortgages was spent on eating out, tickets, holidays, coffee and a million other things previously.
The vast majority of economic and social issues facing people in the UK can be attributed to the cost of housing - both rental and purchase.
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A simple fact, that doesn't get nearly enough coverage.
Money now spent on rent and mortgages was spent on eating out, tickets, holidays, coffee and a million other things previously.
Money now spent on rent and mortgages was spent on eating out, tickets, holidays, coffee and a million other things previously.
Strong London Film Festival for me. Hamnet the clear highlight.
October 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Strong London Film Festival for me. Hamnet the clear highlight.
Not saying I'm disorganised, but yesterday I was eyeing up sold out Saturday screening of The History of Sound on the London Film Festival ticket website and I thought "I wish I'd booked that" and then realised later that's the very filmed I'd booked to see today.
October 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Not saying I'm disorganised, but yesterday I was eyeing up sold out Saturday screening of The History of Sound on the London Film Festival ticket website and I thought "I wish I'd booked that" and then realised later that's the very filmed I'd booked to see today.
When you see the second tweet as well, it becomes massively obvious she's doing it tongue in cheek and I've not seen a single person take it at anything apart from face value. She must have been laughing all day.
Food triggers nationalists. Really peculiar thing. Because I dared to point out in my first book that 1970s British cuisine broadly wasn't up to much, I had this group of really angry Brexit people on my case for about a year. The very mention of avocados seemed to send the poor dears off the edge.
October 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
When you see the second tweet as well, it becomes massively obvious she's doing it tongue in cheek and I've not seen a single person take it at anything apart from face value. She must have been laughing all day.
I didn't go to the Gala, but I saw it yesterday and it hit my like a ton of bricks.
*****
Must see.
Tears likely to be shed.
*****
Must see.
Tears likely to be shed.
Delighted to join so many talented people at the BFI London Film Festival for the UK premiere of Hamnet, my film festival gala. A moving story of love and loss, with scenes filmed right here in London.
We can all be proud that London's film industry is a global success story.
We can all be proud that London's film industry is a global success story.
October 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I didn't go to the Gala, but I saw it yesterday and it hit my like a ton of bricks.
*****
Must see.
Tears likely to be shed.
*****
Must see.
Tears likely to be shed.
@hannahfearn.bsky.social Have the government just invented Home Information Packs?
October 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@hannahfearn.bsky.social Have the government just invented Home Information Packs?
Dogs have to go everywhere now. This wouldn't have happened 10 years ago.
"Can we bring our dog to your wedding?"
"Obviously not, no. It's a wedding..."
"Can we bring our dog to your wedding?"
"Obviously not, no. It's a wedding..."
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Dogs have to go everywhere now. This wouldn't have happened 10 years ago.
"Can we bring our dog to your wedding?"
"Obviously not, no. It's a wedding..."
"Can we bring our dog to your wedding?"
"Obviously not, no. It's a wedding..."
Just catching up with that Young Tory article everyone was enjoying this week and walked straight into some nonsense.
October 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Just catching up with that Young Tory article everyone was enjoying this week and walked straight into some nonsense.
I don't understand the line of questioning here.
"Oh David Simon, he'll definitely be into AI, let's take that as read and proceed from there."
"Oh David Simon, he'll definitely be into AI, let's take that as read and proceed from there."
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I don't understand the line of questioning here.
"Oh David Simon, he'll definitely be into AI, let's take that as read and proceed from there."
"Oh David Simon, he'll definitely be into AI, let's take that as read and proceed from there."
Blocking traffic in Soho... 🥴🫠
Lads, the people still doing "immoral" things in Soho are unlikely to have driven there.
Lads, the people still doing "immoral" things in Soho are unlikely to have driven there.
October 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Blocking traffic in Soho... 🥴🫠
Lads, the people still doing "immoral" things in Soho are unlikely to have driven there.
Lads, the people still doing "immoral" things in Soho are unlikely to have driven there.
I find he sometimes comes over a little self involved.
Donald Trump waxes poetic about his redecoration of the Oval Office. Actually the ornaments are made by a company in Taiwan of polyurethane and have been spray painted gold. He's deluding himself about this, just like everything else.
September 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I find he sometimes comes over a little self involved.
Not saying it's going badly for the US but the big story is DeChambeau coming back from 5 down to 3 down.
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Not saying it's going badly for the US but the big story is DeChambeau coming back from 5 down to 3 down.