James Topham
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
- A US-backed coup? In Latin America? Unprecedented!
- Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s
- My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed
- Well, the FIFA Peace Prize people really have egg on their faces
- New Years, new me. Not like those other 42 times.
- Ah shit, I nearly went the whole year without thinking about the Roman Empire
- READING 2025: Enjoyed the always compelling (if sometimes problematic) BALKAN TRILOGY by Olivia Manning, especially after briefly visiting Bucharest a couple of years ago and falling a little bit in love with it.
- I’m very tired from all this sitting and eating
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- READING 2025: Went on a Kazuo Ishiguro run in March filling in some of my blanks from his back catalogue: PALE VIEW OF THE HILLS, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS and re-read the wonderful, dream-like THE UNCONSOLED
- A special day, on which we celebrate the noble box, that lets us carry the many as though they be but one
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- THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored. ME: it was authored. By me.
- Putting turkey in sandwiches, curries, pies, using it as cavity wall insulation, stuffing mattresses with it, putting it beneath acrobats to break their fall
- The prosthetics in this Colin Firth movie are incredible #KingsSpeech
- There were reportedly tensions on set between Caine and Rizzo the Rat, a notorious method actor, who refused to break character even when the cameras weren’t rolling
- God bless us, every one.
- Bit sad (especially at this time of year) but we had an accident at ours last night. Everyone’s okay, but I’m santa now.
- Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?
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- In accordance with the tradition
- He wants to murder you.
- Shit. I just realised that I am the same age and LOOK EXACTLY LIKE Alan Rickman in Die Hard
- THE FLY (1986)
- And when you saw only one set of footprints on the beach? That was the invisible killer robot I invented to wreak revenge on my enemies.
- I’m now so old I don’t recognise half the Knives Out cast
- Going to like and retweet this
- Why “water sommelier” when M’aitre d’H20tel was right there
- The plural is Carls Junior — like Attorneys General
- *sits backward on his chair* Sabrina Carpenter? You know who else was a carpenter?
- Happy Skynet becomes self-aware day, don’t forget to leave out your chatgpt prompts tonight or the machines might not come
- She’s a 10 but she doesn’t outline
- I quite like “Ground Control to Major Tom”
- Question asked in complete earnestness: is it the demons who are KPOP and they are being hunted? Or the demon hunters who are KPOP and the demons they’re hunting are just standard everyday demons?
- Is he using THE SUBSTANCE?
- BTW all of Snoop Dog’s family have names that work on Smurf rules
- “Welcome to… JURASSIC PARK!”, I say, opening the door to the room my cat is in.
- If he’s male, then strictly speaking he’s a draculo
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- I’m completely blown away: just saw someone taking a selfie at the fringe not featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge
