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@akantoniou.bsky.social
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Writer. And tired. So very, very tired.

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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#my9albums
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This sounds like a perfect idea for the next KNIVES OUT film.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“The communication of our thoughts by means of language, whether spoken or written, like every other object of mental exertion, constitutes a peculiar art, which, like other arts, cannot be acquired in any perfection but by long and continued practice.” — Peter Mark Roget
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent news about the Bodelsen reissue. My copy is the renamed movie tie-in edition
The Silent Partner
Now a major film starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer & Susannah York
Anders Bodelsen
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sunday roasts and Pixar movies with the family. Living the good life.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fight to save @princecharlescinema.com continues…
open.substack.com
Prince Charles Cinema closure threat returns
Plus: Restaurants charging diners to pay the bill • Bring back the Woking 925 • Forest bike crime spree • TfL weight-loss advert loophole
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A FIFTH heatwave? In this economy?
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 1961: Something Wild 1962: Le Doulos 1963: Hud 1964: Kwaidan 1965: Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors 1966: Harper 1967: Branded to Kill 1968: The Swimmer 1969: Marlowe
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I like big bats and I cannot lie…
static.klipy.com
Creepy Haunting Smile
ALT: Creepy Haunting Smile
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
But Dredd is a Judge - and Judges are not ordinary men!
GAZE INTO THE FIST OF DREDD!
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Don’t scratch my soca
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Blogged! Reassuringly late, it’s past time for Listomania! My Favourite Films of 2025.
straybullets.blogspot.com
Listomania! My Favourite Films of 2025
Sensei: You know what freedom is? Bob: What? Sensei: No fear. Just like Tom fucking Cruise. - One Battle After Another A 2020 study conduc...
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As fatuous closing sentences go, this one from The Guardian is a belter.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Temperatures have now hit the “hardened chewing gum that had become part of the pavement is now squishy again” portion of the heatwave 🔥
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold.”
Doctor Who Will Return
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sadly, yes
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Very sad to hear of the passing of Tony Stella. I’ve been admiring his stunning artwork for the @arrowvideo.bsky.social releases of HARD-BOILED and THE KILLER sitting in pride of place on my shelves for weeks now.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." - from an IBM employee training manual (1979)
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
DEAD GRANDMA - The 80-second long one-shot horror movie that won a jury prize at Slamdance m.youtube.com/watch?si=Yli...
m.youtube.com
DEAD GRANDMA
YouTube video by DieDieVideo
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
😮‍💨😮‍💨
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“And Introducing Max Cady as Himself”
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s that special time of year when @alcs.co.uk reminds everyone that flesh & blood creators, writers and writing have value and there are people out there reading the things we’ve written. Thanks, as always, for the payment, the appreciation and the incentive.
media.tenor.com
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Lovely bit of news to start the day
bbc.co.uk
Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection
The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools." -- Ray Bradbury
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” — JG Ballard
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I’d forgotten how poor the Greek accents were in Season 2 of THE WIRE. A meandering mashup of Indian and Russian tics.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
2025 @letterboxd.social Wrapped
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
PSA: My favourite animated show of the 21st Century, the surrealist metatextual all-ages masterwork THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL is now available on @netflixuk.bsky.social
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Looney Dunes: Back in Arrakis
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It isn’t Christmas until Anthony Michael Hall staples a snowman to his forehead #SixSeasonsAndaMovie
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Cup a soup with a bourbon chaser
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
An oral history of *those* Tango ads. I did not know Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
theguardian.com
‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads
‘Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, “You English guys are crazy!”’
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Running from the ravenous undead was the only thing that motivated me to start running. Ecstatic that Zombies, Run! has been saved. Long live Runner 5!
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
😮‍💨
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“The orange one is president – Fascist god in motion.” variety.com/2025/music/n...
variety.com
Heaven 17 Plans New Version of ‘Fascist Groove Thang’ Calling Out Trump Instead of Reagan: ‘It’s Not Going to Get Any Less Relevant, Is It?’
Heaven 17's new wave classic '(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang' has become a danceable protest song, with new lyrics calling out Trump.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Open auditions for the latest regeneration of the Master aren’t going very well.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
First week of September = Running around like Ray Liotta in the final act of GOODFELLAS
media.tenor.com
a man in a car with his mouth open
ALT: a man in a car with his mouth open
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Happy Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day to all who celebrate!
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A bobbing sea of bucket hats on the Metropolitan Line this evening - harbingers that Oasis are playing Wembley again tonight.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Finally did it! It took a while wading through the wildly misguided stodge clogging up the second half of the second season of TWIN PEAKS, but I’m clear of the blockage. Onwards now to FIRE WALK WITH ME in the great memorial rewatch.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Holy shit, that’s amazing!
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I know you can’t top one of the greatest taglines of all time, but at least put in a little bit of effort #Superman
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Probably a good time to encourage everyone to read (or re-read) EM Forster’s “The Machine Stops”, published back in 1909 and terrifyingly prescient. Here’s a free pdf
cs.ucdavis.edu
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Better late than never! Here they are - My Favourite Films of 2024
straybullets.blogspot.com
Listomania! My Favourite Films of 2024
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place ...
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It’s taken decades for this realisation to hit me, but a hard deadline is without a doubt the most valuable tool in the box for me to get the good stuff done and out there.
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." — Douglas Adams
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Ordered Themroc, and discovered that OC & Stiggs was in the package as well. Thank you!
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Time to fight to save the Genesis chng.it/4wjCGGBZ9y
chng.it
Save Genesis Cinema
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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AKA @akantoniou.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Favourite movie that takes place in NYC
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