Bryan Gilpin

Very unexpected double find in charity shops today…signed Taylor Swift and signed George RR Martin

Looking forward to finding out about Kenneth Williams underexplored F1 years

@pamhutch.bsky.social Lovely column in the current @sightsoundmag.bsky.social combining film extras, which I do a lot of, and Bette Davis, who I watch a lot of

There’s a chance Van Morrison is involved somewhere, as he and Chris are pals and the book was bought in Holywood, NI

A biography of Sam Cooke from a charity shop with what looks a lot like a message from Chris Farlowe…? What’s the story here? Did he buy it, and if so, what other “music icon” did he buy it for? Bargain of the day whatever the mystery is.

Any opinions? I want it to be a great that has passed me by so far

…and what an 8-part streaming series the life of Rock Hudson would make. Somebody sign Teller up asap.

ETERNITY - fun until it bodges the last 20 minutes - has Miles Teller describing Callum Turner as looking like Montgomery Clift (he doesn’t, he looks like Josh O’Connor) yet at no point does anyone mention that Miles Teller is the spitting image of Rock Hudson…

Oops…chapters 006-001 missing in the UK movie reprint of THE RUNNING MAN @stephenking.bsky.social

Any sign of a Torchwood resurrection now that Doctor Who is on the back foot?

And there’s a whole new Sight & Sound dedicated to us…

11 days ahead of me, old fella

So many great interviews from her later years on YouTube

You had me at Bette Davis…

Looks like LA in 1955

You will, late on ITV4 in five years time.

What!? This was like 2010 all over again, when there was one of these in the cinema every week, instead of the 3 a year we get now. Wasn’t great, but I liked it.

It’s that beautiful day when THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE turns up in CEX for £12 and you happen to find a £12 CEX voucher in your pocket.

Not the kind of record sleeve you leave in the £bin. Could contain almost anything with a cover like that…

NOSFERATU on a Friday night…full of enough shadows, rats, coffins, horses galloping through misty forests, bodices and blood to take me right back to being a teenager watching the late night BBC 2 Hammer seasons of the late ‘80s. Loved it.

Tarsem Singh’s THE CELL gets an IMDb score of 100 from Roger Ebert and a 0 from Kenneth Turan. Haven’t seen it, but those kind of stats mean I’m definitely buying the new Blu-Ray special edition.

I love the impact it made on you, an almost life-changing experience.