Arc'Tan'Gent

Easily the best film I've seen in the past few years. It reminded of High-Rise, with the principle of social status in a tower block acting as a microcosm, and Us. Here's a great video essay exploring a number of Parasite's themes.

This is fucking superb. For fans of bluesy/stoner riffs in the vain of All Them Witches, Slo Burn etc

In order The Farewell For Sama Knives Out The Favourite Joker Marriage Story Toy Story 4 They Shall Not Grow Old Official Secrets Ad Astra Amazing Grace Apollo 11 Little Women Ash Is Purest White Green Book Mid-90s

Just wanted to put it out there that Manchester United withdrew from the FA Cup in the 1999-2000 season because of their commitment to the Fifa Club World Cup, so fair play to these kids for keeping the scoreline to a respectable five against bigger and better men in a far less prestigious competition. Bit of a baptism of fire but sure they'll just be happy for the playing time.

Top gurns on this one.

Majestic tune.

The penalty was an absolute joke. All the players will have to adopt Riverdance poses to avoid being hit by the ball. Preposterous.

Someone already mentioned Bjork’s Come to Me, which is staggeringly exquisite, so this is the first that came to mind.

Apparently not... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46950701?fbclid=IwAR2tW21DvDo-fVZ8F9M17zqa0Wx6TvmJVWbtGAMY2IgThGnar6XJvGnUPfs

But fucking come on Mexico. That is quite marvellous!

'Mario Gomes went down there like Super Mario, when a bad player is playing it.' Fuck me, pure poetry.

Mexico dead on their feet here. Really hope they can hold on.

Well I for one am absolutely enthralled with that Kirsten Dunst/Mel and Sue stat.

Good save there by Robbie Rotten in goal.

That fourth goal by Cheryshev is a thing of beauty.

Reminds me of the 1999-2000 French Cup, when Minnows Calais lost to Nantes in the 90th minute due to a staggeringly dodgy penalty. Tom Daley would have been proud.

I'm just gonna throw this in here too for the hell of it.

Quicksand – Sergio Vega (Deftones), Walter Schreifels (Rival Schools/Gorilla Biscuits) dropped a new album this week too, their first in two decades. Post-hardcore-noise stuff, absolute corker.

Loving this new one from Alt J. The rest of the album is a bit meh, but this one has that real Man Next Door by Massive Attack vibe running through its core. Also, superb video.

While of course this film is utter dross, it is highly enjoyable and doesn't take itself too silly. I laughed out loud at quite a few points, and I don't worry about small things like whether the humour was intended or not if I'm entertained. Which is much more than I can say for other films I've seen recently (Along Came Polly, The Tree of Life, The Core, About Time). Utter tripe the lot of them. Also, no fire-breathing killer spiders.

Let's remind ourselves that there was a little artistic licence in BB, too (mercury fulminate scene, the P2P cook being such a high quality, etc).

Fuck, totally forgot that Deftones' album came out last year - that would have been my Number One pick too. What a schoolboy error oversight.

Sorry to be that guy, but there's no way to select just one. Here's a selection of guaranteed man-weepers.