Just got totally owned by the security guy at Dublin Airport. Coming up to the scanner he asked me to take my belt off and when I asked: “Are my shoes all right?” he replied: “I wouldn’t wear them” and got a big laugh from the rest of the queue #DIFF #Dublin2020
Peter Bradshaw
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Guardian film critic. My Audible Original drama Mercy, starring Joanna Scanlan, is available to listen now. Click on the link!
- This morning @BBCr4today reports that the Greek parliament is sitting throughout the summer. I suppose if we faced some sort of urgent crisis we’d have to do something similar
- Cameron looks like someone who has opened the door expecting his Ocado delivery, and is instead confronted by a homeless person selling dusters
- All the reviewers of Tom Bowers’s Boris Johnson biography have professed themselves baffled by how lenient it is and @PrivateEyeNews has chosen this moment to point out that Johnson has just raised Mr Bowers’s wife Veronica Wadley to the peerage
- On this day, Spike Milligan would phone Jesus College, Cambridge, ask "Is that Jesus?" and on hearing "Yes" sing Happy Birthday To You
- Some thoughts on the late Tom Wilkinson:
- "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films."
- Some thoughts on the late Chadwick Boseman
- The Queen did that without wires
- Quentin Tarantino’s brilliant exploitation black-comedy Once Upon A Time In Hollywood finds a pulp-fictionally redemptive take on the Manson nightmare: shocking, gripping, dazzlingly shot in the celluloid-primary colours of sky blue and sunset gold. Review later #Cannes2019






