What’s up nerds?! 🤓 Welcome to Nerdy & Nice! A new weekly pop culture #podcast from @LaceyGilleran and @johnnyhoey of The Resistance Broadcast!

Every Monday, our show will be full of banter, spice, and everything nice in TV, movies, and all things entertainment. Debuts May 6! 🙌

The The Beach Boys album Sunflower is just right for a spring evening. 🌻🎼

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A mini excellent adventure this week for James Clarke 🌻 as he enjoys the penmanship of Charlie Kaufman for Orion & the Dark, a Dreamworks Animation movie, with a Time Travel twist.
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How can it be twenty five years this spring since the albums Utopia Parkway (by Fountains of Wayne) and Summerteeth (by WILCO) were both released? That has all gone by way too fast.

I’m moving to freelancing + seeking more film writing + arts admin work ✍️ I’ve written reviews, essays + interviews for Empire Magazine , BBC Culture , Little White Lies , Curzon , I’ve introduced screenings, have script reading experience + more + I’d love to work with you 😌

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Work well underway here on a new book that’s due out next year. In the meantime , here are four that I prepared earlier. Thanks! 🎥📚📸

We’re investing £900,000 in a BFI Skills Cluster in Wales, which will see Sgil Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Creative Wales and Screen Alliance Wales partner to launch the ‘One Stop Shop’ thanks to #NationalLottery funding. bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-skill…

I have a new piece in Resurgence Trust 🌎 later this spring. In the meantime, here’s a piece I wrote for the magazine about #WatershipDown :

Reviewing progress on MA student film-projects today at Birmingham City University. Some intriguing stories afoot. 🎥👍

Interview with Jo Fox (School of Advanced Study, University of London) & Professor Anna Vignoles (@LeverhulmeTrust/The British Academy) highlights wealth of opportunities for arts & humanities graduates, incl #history ; impact of these skills (working with #STEM ); and need to ensure their availability to students across UK HE 2/2

If you seek a clear account of the economic and civic value of the arts & humanities; the factors behind cuts & closures; the personal & civic impact of these, and the need for political action, listen to yesterday's BBC Front Row bit.ly/3UoXBS5 (starts 13:20) 1/2

If you enjoy reading about #animation , #visualeffects and #conceptart , please do look out for new pieces in print soon from yours truly. Thanks! 👍🎥✏️

Back in 2015, I had a conversation with writer William Kotzwinkle about the only sequel story to the movie, ET: The Extra Terrestrial. The piece was published in Sci Fi Now magazine. Thanks!

The link to book Saturday's screening of the new Bill Douglas documentary is exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/bill-do… . Apologies.

If the next Steven Spielberg-directed movie is what Variety (today) suggest that it is, then I have bought my ticket to it already.

#studioghibli will be awarded the Honorary Palme d’Or at #Cannes2024 next month. One of the studio’s most overwhelming movies is Grave of the Fireflies. I wrote about the film in a chapter about animated war films in the book Under Fire (2009). Thankyou. ✏️🎥

There’s a new documentary about Jim Henson being released later this spring. Here’s a piece that I wrote a while back for Fantasy/Animation about Henson’s work:fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/… Thanks! ✏️🎥🐸🔮

I have a new article in a forthcoming issue of @Resurgence later this spring / early summer. In the meantime, here’s a link to a piece that I wrote for the magazine in 2016 about the writing of John Stewart Collis. Here’s the link: resurgence.org/magazine/artic… Thanks!