Went to go and see Salford City Academy do my Connections plays THE SAD CLUB last night The Lowry. It was so lovely it made me cry. Congrats!

I saw and loved the play but the TV show of Baby Reindeer is something else. Seering honesty, dramatically engrossing, and humanly twisted and complicated. Up there with I MAY DESTROY YOU, IMO.
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I reckon PERFECT DAYS is one of the best films I've ever seen. Tiny and MASSIVE. Full of warmth, safety, fear and hope. Zen, anti-capitalist, love led. Haven't felt closer to a film in ages. I love Wenders.
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RATCATCHER, Lynne Ramsey 1999 debut, is fucking insane. It's the crime and punishment of films. Had me doing mad things in my head. youtube.com/watch?v=_AOUzS…

I really loved this last night @nationaltheatre . The theatre making is world class. Everythings in synergy, primal, and MASSIVE. The story of taking for our own benefit, despair, and the solution being love is so needed. Properly gripping story as well.
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I loved this show. Go and see it!

Rewatched this last night and really enjoyed it. It's proper fun and humane. Walks the line and then is tender. Nice to see so many scouse legends as well.

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The WHOLE Kop like the back of the Kop? Fuck me that's going to be feral (assuming we don't just turn into a mid table club when Klopp leaves).

Luke Barnes. Excellent. Every team has their mid to lower table bogey team. They are ours now

The Arts are, quite literally, one of the few things that make life worth living. Without them society is just a giant marketplace where everything has a price and nothing has a value.
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‘A true joke, a comedian's joke, has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation’

RIP Trevor Griffiths

Holman, Bond and now Griffiths. The giants are all leaving us. If anyone wants to read a real play about class read COMEDIANS. It's genius as was he. Never met him. Just a fan of his work.

This is me except I live in my own home and write stories. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Beautiful easter film. Absolutely beautifully made. Using dialogue only from the Gospel of Matthew, made with non-professional actors, shot on his doorstep... and absolutely holy, epic, and beautiful. Pasolini is a master.

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This film is absolutely brutal. Exceptional western genre film about the land grab in Chile and the masscares that took place during it. youtube.com/watch?v=rdy--t…

I really enjoyed this. Almost dialougeless it's a beautiful story about learning about what imperialism really means, how the exploitation of people and props it up, and asks how willing we are to be complicit in it.

This is great. I'm a big chess player (although I love the game more than it loves me) and I think everyone should get excited about it. It's the best and most beautiful board game in the world.

THE LONG SHADOW OF ALOIS BRUNNER was insanely moving Factory International directed by omar elerian. loved everything he makes from NASSIM, to MISTY, to ISLANDS.. Massive ideas. This is no different. Go see if you get chance.

I'm very into theatres asking questions like 'how can I make sure everyone is well whilst they're working here'.

This is going to be brilliant. I'm a big Richard Gadd fan right from Monkey See Monkey Do.