Mike McCahill

@mikemccahill

Film journalist for the Guardian, Telegraph and Little White Lies. No static at all.

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Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 2d

We may have reached the point where the phrase "Harry Potter" can simply be replaced with the word "money".

Screengrab of a Discussing Film tweet in which Bel Powley says she "strongly disagrees with JK Rowling's views on gender... I think that the trans community deserve safety and dignity and total acceptance. But I love Harry Potter."

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 3d

On SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE, FLUSHED AWAY, DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA, THE SACRIFICE and UCHO/THE EAR [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/5wJrh

A couple stands in front of a painting of a nude, the man clutching a telephone to his ear, his wife looking on alarmed, in a still from 1970's UCHO/THE EAR.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 5d

A man with a Union Jack flag wrapped around his shoulders taking a photo of a pile of horse manure left behind after a parade. The horse manure has a smaller Union Jack flag atop it.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 6d

New David O. Russell looks good.

Christian Bale (as "Al Davis") and Nicolas Cage (as John Madden) in a still from David O. Russell's upcoming MADDEN.

Paul Whitehouse (as Mike Smash) and Harry Enfield (as Dave Nice) in a still from the Smashie and Nicey sketches.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 19d

History was made at the #CommonwealthGames earlier, with the first recorded instance of Starmix stops play.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 19d

On THE ODYSSEY [below] and NOSTALGIA, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/Z1H74

Clad in a soldier's furred helmet, Odysseus (Matt Damon) turns to the camera in a scene from Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 21d

Historically accurate Odyssey.

Charming photo of the 1970s disco outfit Odyssey: bloke in a suit, two ladies in matching tribal costumes and dreadlocks.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 24d

Sam Matterface: You have to give Argentina credit for the way that they work. Everyone on BlueSky:

Dril's 2017 Tweet in which he points out, re. ISIS, that you do not "gotta hand it to them".

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· 25d

On A CLOSE SHAVE, A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH and RANGEELA [below], plus a Sam Neill obit and the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/xjjZJ

A man in a multicoloured crop top brandishes a banana at the woman standing next to him in a scene from Ram Gopal Varma's 1995 film RANGEELA.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Jul 5

A tasty treat *and* a social ideal.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Jul 5

On THE INVITE, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE [below] and TAXI DRIVER, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/j2xf1

A man in a trilby hat stands before a wipeclean board making peace signs in a scene from Matt Johnson's NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Jun 29

The original fair stormed the UK Top 63 at number 62...

Screenshot from the Official Charts website, featuring the details of Tom Cochrane's "Life Is A Highway" (peak: 62, weeks: 2).

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Jun 26

On THE FURIOUS [below], A BETTER TOMORROW, CACTUS PEARS and THE MASTERMIND on DVD, plus a Brian Johnson obit and the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/f0lt8

Three angry men, in various states of verticality, punch and kick seven bells out of one another in a scene from Kenji Taniyaki's THE FURIOUS.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Jun 12

On DISCLOSURE DAY, BOOGIE NIGHTS [below] and ERUPCJA, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/QlqyI

A group portrait of folks in 1970s clothes, as featured in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film BOOGIE NIGHTS.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Jun 5

On THE MISFITS [below], BRIDESMAIDS, TUNER and LA GRAZIA, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/uG6px

The behatted trio of Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable look out past the camera in a black-and-white still from John Huston's THE MISFITS.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Jun 2

"Is your kid on cocaine? Is your kid smoking pot?... Or has she got a Bros poster in her room and is she driving you mad, listening to the Bros album every night? Which would you rather have?" Tom Hibbert, pre-empting AFTER THE SCREAMING STOPS in his Q profile of Bros in November 1989.

'Bros is like a very anti-drugs band,' Luke is telling me as he tucks into his bone-less beef. 'You know, man,' he is warning me, 'drugs are very, very dangerous. They scare the shit out of me. Cocaine. Evil. Don't do it. I've seen heroin once in my life. My dad [Mr. Alan Goss was a policeman] showed us a bag of heroine after a bust. It makes you think...'

Luke: 'Matt is *this* weak. He's so sensitive...'
Matt: 'Everything affects me. Luke looks after me. He protects me. He's physically trained his body now so that comments and problems don't even get into his brain. Not because he's thick. Because he's trained himself to disregard it. But I'm like a dartboard. Sharp things go in, you know...'
Luke: 'I cry probably three or four times a week. That's my release. But Matt, the other night he was so tense. I was absolutely terrified. He was on the bed and it took us two hours to try and relax his body. He just couldn't move his body at all and it took us six cups of tea to figure it out.'

'I've never said this before but my drums is so professional, man, know what I mean? Mike Rutherford asked me to play on his album. Mike and the Mechanics asked me to do the album, right? And on the Bros album [The Time] I played it all live - bang bang - took me up to twenty-seven hours a track but I did it all live because I'm a professional.'

'It may sound corny but we're like God. Take drugs, for example. We're aware of our responsibility so we put a big no entry sign next to our throats. No drugs, drink but drink in moderation, beware of AIDS, beware of diseases. Whatever, we make people aware.'
[...]
Luke: 'Is your kid on cocaine? Is your kid smoking pot? Is your kid getting pissed out of her brain every night? Or has she got a Bros poster in her room and is she driving you mad, listening to the Bros album every night? Which would you rather have?'

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 31

On PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE [below], POWER BALLAD, BULLET IN THE HEAD, OBSESSION, PASSENGER, ATHIRADI and HUSTLE, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/3GDuV

A solitary figure in a jade-green dress stands on a rocky shore, looking out at the ocean, in a still from Céline Sciamma's PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 29

Ported over from the other place, the pub quiz round of nightmares #totp

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 26

Robert E. Sherwood, 6'8" playwright behind THE PETRIFIED FOREST, Academy Award winner for THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, potential double for Ron Mael of Sparks.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 23

On HEN, THE CHRISTOPHERS, BILLIE EILISH: HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, CHARLIE THE WONDERDOG, NORMAL, CRONOS, DIABOLIC [below] and VOIDANCE, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/7rvNq

Three travellers - two women and one man - stand in front of a wooden hut in the woods, looking out at a mysterious forest of sticks adorned with slivers of coloured material, in a scene from Daniel J. Phillips' horror film DIABOLIC.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 20

"Come closer, fellow kids."

Jimmy Cricket wearing a backwards baseball cap.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 15

On SHREK at 25 [below], TOP GUN: MAVERICK, LIFEHACK, IRON MAIDEN: BURNING AMBITION and WAKE IN FRIGHT, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/szEO0

Cheery green ogre Shrek strides out of his outdoor toilet, having presumably just done a massive poo, in a scene from the 2001 animation SHREK.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 8

On HOKUM [below] and PATRIOT, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/xzCIU

Horror writer Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott), wearing spectacles and a tan raincoat, looks quizzically to his left in the car park outside a hotel festooned with Hallowe'en pumpkins in a scene from Damian McCarthy's HOKUM.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· May 1

On SLITHER [below], ROSE OF NEVADA, MOTHER MARY, LOVE MEANS ZERO and THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/hRB4T

A reddish-tinged worm creeps silently up on a woman lying in a bathtub and listening to music in a scene from James Gunn's 2006 film SLITHER.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Apr 18

On FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER [below], MIROIRS NO. 3, DIAMONDS/DIAMANTI, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, THE STRANGER, UNDERTONE and SONG SUNG BLUE, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/jKm2o

The Le Saux siblings (Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat) sit on the floor of their parents' recently abandoned apartment in a scene from Jim Jarmusch's FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Apr 12

Feeling old? 5 Action's snooker coverage is offering a glimpse of what Ali G looks like nowadays.

A snooker commentator called Lee or Leigh, in Ali G glasses and a goatie beard.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Apr 11

From the "misheard colloquialisms" file:

A user comment under the match report for Coventry City vs. Sheffield Wednesday: "Take nothing away from Wednesday, set their stool out and worked well."

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Apr 5

On DHURANDHAR: THE REVENGE, AMÉLIE, TRANSHOOD and THE WITCHES [below], plus the Easter weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/ELvQw

Black-clad head witch Anjelica Huston addresses her fellow spellcasters from the stage of the RSPCC (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) annual conference in a scene from Nic Roeg's 1990 film THE WITCHES.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Mar 31

Your new favourite meme just dropped.

Photo of a perturbed-looking Imelda from GRANGE HILL with a sticker saying "DIVVY" on her forehead.

Mike McCahill@mikemccahill· Mar 30

Ah, but himself doomed by a historic relationship.