Russell Brand's trial isn't due to start until June 2026

When people ask me what today's date is.

Major UK Film Exec Poach - Netflix has hired Film4 boss Ollie Madden as its new UK film director, leading both its UK film slate and working on Dan Lin's UK-based features.

London mayor Sadiq Khan says record numbers of Americans have moved to the U.K. since Trump's return to power and is pitching for more from the creative sector to come. "London’s a place that’s the opposite (to Trump's US), where there’s an antidote to the negativity, so come"

Fun fact: Day of the Jackal has both a Golden Globe nomination as a film in 1974 and as a TV series in 2025. (Was just revealed on stage by Globes president Helen Hoehne at a special SXSW London panel)

Just Peep Show to beat!

'Flow' Continues Its Historic Box Office Run, Passing $50 Million Milestone (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2025/film/glob…

Spoke to 28 Years Later's young star Alfie Williams about climbing towers of skulls, learning archery to hunt the infected and getting advice from Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Turns out, like many actors (inc. Alfie's co-star Jodie Comer), an early career boost came from Stephen Graham

Gareth Edwards introduces the stars of Jurassic World Rebirth, including Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey, to the stage the London world premiere.

Funniest moment from the Jurassic World Rebirth world premiere in London? Gareth Edwards running back on stage as he'd forgotten to thank Universal chair Donna Langley and president Peter Cramer (he said he thought they were in the US). "Oh my god, I nearly ended my career!”

"28 Years Later" picks up Boyle and Garland’s dystopian saga with a new cast, a mutated strain of Rage, and a chilling father-son journey — blending primal fears, hallucinatory visuals and existential introspection into a bold, standalone sequel. Read the full review here:

Iran was at the negotiating table when Israel bombed them, you absolute ghoul.

Spoke to Chi Lewis-Parry, aka Samson, the biggest and baddest of all the infected in 28 Years Later. He told me about an epiphany he had in the middle of a scene (while holding up a severed head and spine), writing Samson's backstory and his, er, impressively-sized prosthetic

"Danny [Boyle] is the king of the needle drop. There’s no other director that I know who can seamlessly fit in music that changes a scene and makes you remember it for such a long time based on the music" variety.com/2025/film/glob…

GB News will no doubt be calling him 'Dennis'

This story is nuts. I did a double take when I saw that the Ukrainian covert mission this film tells the story of - in full cinematic fashion - happened earlier this month. The film itself took a a week to make.

If the Academy Museum in LA doesn't add Samson's massive prosthetic schlong from 28 Years Later to its collection it's really missing a trick...

Bob Vylan speaks out amid outrage over chanting “death to the IDF” during their #Glastonbury set. “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to

Spoke to the 28 Years Later intimacy coordinator to chat all things prosthetics. Have never written the word “genitals” so much in an article before. Doubt I will again.