That's a wrap! What a summer! how very lucky I am to have been directed by this brilliant man for the last 3 and a bit months Catch 22 is coming to Tv screens everywhere next may
I doubt there's many a millennial in the UK who won't watch a Buffy episode in the next week, & feel both sad and utterly flummoxed about how it can possibly have been nearly 30 years.
RIP Anthony Head- you were a shining light between school and homework for a whole generation.
Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head 🕊️. Here’s a clip of him as Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer performing a cover of Behind Blue Eyes by The Who. A beautiful performance that fans will never forget. 💙
3 of the Main Cast Members of Buffy The Vampire Slayer have passed away in the last year
• Michelle Trachtenberg who played Dawn Summers passed away at the age of 39 on February 26, 2025
• Nicholas Brendon who played Xander Harris passed away at the age of 54 on March 20, 2026
• Anthony Head who played Rupert Giles passed away at the age of 72 on June 5, 2026
Just booked someone a train ticket Valencia-Madrid at 12 hours notice for travel tomorrow morning. High speed 1hr 56 mins. £26. We are being ripped off all the time in this country.
Feels like the best time to talk about how “You Know My Name" by Chris Cornell is absolutely fucking incredible and is probably my favourite James Bond theme
Have you heard Episode 3 of The Dig? Our special guest is the star of George Clooney’s Catch-22 and Tom Hanks’ Masters of the Air, it’s @JoshBolt! Mike @fentonstevens and John also bury this week’s capsule and answer listener’s emails and voice memos. https://t.co/l4oUO4Rf5W
The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years?
Yes, forty, forty five years.
Happy birthday Paul 🤘
Tom Sizemore's menacing glare in the coffee shop scene in Heat was brought about through his extensive training in lethal force. Michael Mann explains
"Right here, Sizemore does something very interesting. He had the cold look in his eye, which anybody encountering, communicates without any words or histrionics - lethal potential. It’s a belief in himself as his character, Cheritto, that Sizemore got from the work we did in pre-production. You have to do the work, feel you have the aptitude and the capability of being that lethal, and then the moment's there."
Michael Mann’s quote comes from the director’s commentary track on the Heat DVD.