The 286 Project

A podcast about art, politics, culture, sport, and anything else worth discussing

Also writes scripts and has written about boxing.

Hosted by @EclecticChris42

[The 286 Project @the286project]

The next episode is now online ✍️

I spoke to screenwriter Claire Bennett about how the UK television industry has changed, whether it is still London-centric and whether fresh stories need to be told on television.

Click below to watch ⬇️

[Taste of Cinema @davidcinema]

The 100 Most Heartbreaking Movie Endings of All Time

[The 286 Project @the286project]

May be of interest @PhilR2025 @WJourneyBook @footyheritage @FootballRemind @BelgianPodcast @SoccerBooksLtd @FBeyondBorders @fussballgeekz @AChapterOfMyLi1 @robertmdaws @MotherSoccerNL @Mexico86HQ @martindacruz_ @sliding_tackles @BRTD1989 @MarkGordonMedia @mrwriterman79

[The 286 Project @the286project]

As part of our continuing football series of interviews during the World Cup, there will be not one but two interviews in the same week this month.

More details coming soon.

#football #soccer #worldcup #ireland #russia

[The 286 Project @the286project]

As part of our continuing football series of interviews during the World Cup, there will be not one but two interviews in the same week this month.

More details coming soon.

#football #soccer #worldcup #ireland #russia

[The 286 Project @the286project]

@RosieKayK2CO Stay strong.

[The 286 Project @the286project]

The next episode is now online ✍️

I spoke to screenwriter Claire Bennett about how the UK television industry has changed, whether it is still London-centric and whether fresh stories need to be told on television.

Click below to watch ⬇️

[The 286 Project @the286project]

@TheCinesthetic Maybe they need to ice skate uphill.

[The 286 Project @the286project]

@twisted_twins Plus, there is no bloat to it. At 90 minutes, it's compact.

[The 286 Project @the286project]

Excellent film and an interesting take on it.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

Obsession (2026) is my favorite movie of the year and it's not even close. It's fantastic in the constructive filmmaking Barker designed - camera movement, editing, score all on point - and his script beautifully escalates the idea while welding together callbacks at perfect points. I even like the costume design, especially his awesome sweater in the third act.

It is also - and I swear this is a positive - the most politically regressive movie to come out in years. The irony of being championed as a Gen Z movie is that other than starring young people, it doesn't reflect Gen Z's aspirational culture whatsoever. First, it's all straight white people. Not even a bone thrown to the walk on roles like waitresses or salespeople. No black people, no gays, no Asians, no trans Blasians. While Backrooms set itself in the 90s, Obsession could have been set in the 50s. Yes the lead actress is Latina but let's be honest it would get very canceled if the point of a movie directed by a white guy is Latinas are fucking nuts. So white she is.

Then the bigger regression: it's a genuine woman hating movie, told from the perspective of a young, straight white male. It's every fear young men have. Once you get the girl she's possessive, irrational, controlling, codependent, emotionally unstable, lying, vindictive, manipulative, with unknowable psychic damage, and at the end of the day, she doesn't actually like you. What millions of dollars of ticket sales are saying is FINALLY. In a world with abundant critiques about young men, here is finally the movie that calls out females on their shit for once.

That women love this movie is a bit of a joke of the movie itself. You're crazy. Yes, we know. What Goodfellas did for Murder, Obsession does for Misogyny - and it's great!

It's great because movies aren't supposed to BE CORRECT. They are supposed to be CATHARSIS. They don't even have to be sociologically accurate. They just need to tickle the dirty thoughts, the subconscious, make you confront the WORST and BEST parts of you. They just need to FEEL.

What we are feeling in Obsession is the THING WE CANNOT SAY, and it is dramatized in action and violence. It's the world of young white men amongst who they really hang with - other straight white people - pining after girls who dislike them. That believable world gives the film authenticity that EVERYONE can believe in, and the story that unfolds is taken without aspiration or propaganda or idealism. There will be some takes that it's a critique on selfish men, but it's a weaker extrapolation as the movie clearly presents the male as a hapless victim, nobly refusing sex at first, only to be tricked by the succubus. It's a creature feature and the monster is not the scientist, it's the Bride of Frankenstein - and we will never understand her even as we want to fuck her as we die.

Loved it.

(posted the poster for the Netflix version)

[The 286 Project @the286project]

May be of interest @bekibox @MrsJayneW @redrumlisa @TankTopFilms @KingBobIIV

#television #script #screenwriter

[The 286 Project @the286project]

The next episode is now online ✍️

I spoke to screenwriter Claire Bennett about how the UK television industry has changed, whether it is still London-centric and whether fresh stories need to be told on television.

Click below to watch ⬇️

[The 286 Project @the286project]

@CinemaSleuths @ApplePodcasts @Spotify @YouTube Currently listening to this. One of my favourite films and I agree with you both that Thief is better than Heat.

[Cinema Sleuths @CinemaSleuths]

MEW EP! This week, we join James Caan on his quest to escape a life of crime in Michael Mann's THIEF (1981).

Listen to our take here: https://t.co/EuX3fl6sJD

Also on @ApplePodcasts, @Spotify, and @YouTube!

#CSMovies #Thief #Moviepodcast

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

Michael Mann chose the diner for the iconic coffee shop scene in Thief for a reason. In 1971, he stopped there for coffee with a woman he was just getting to know. “At that exact booth over the freeway,” he said. “We wound up sitting there talking all night.” That woman was his future wife, Summer. Fifty years later, they’re still together.

[The 286 Project @the286project]

Best movie poster I have seen in years.

[The Retro Reminiscer @RetroReminiscer]

Obsession (2026)
Art by Michael Sapienza.

[The 286 Project @the286project]

@RetroReminiscer Incredible. Best movie poster I have seen in years.

[The 286 Project @the286project]

Good to have @chegscott209 back.

[Craig Scott @chegscott209]

🚨 CFFT: Same circus, new clowns?

Does the madness always have to accompany the magnificent in boxing these days? We talk Pyramids, ‘Billion Dollar Baby & the BBC, the Schofields and Boxing anti-Social’s (latest) demise

Great to be back #boxing #CFFT

🔗 https://t.co/eINxnKnShO

[Craig Scott @chegscott209]

🚨 CFFT: Same circus, new clowns?

Does the madness always have to accompany the magnificent in boxing these days? We talk Pyramids, ‘Billion Dollar Baby & the BBC, the Schofields and Boxing anti-Social’s (latest) demise

Great to be back #boxing #CFFT

🔗 https://t.co/eINxnKnShO

[The 286 Project @the286project]

@RihnAndrew Fantastic!