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Sarah Manvel

@cairdiul.bsky.social
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Film critic, out-of-print author, 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇮🇪Londoner. Let's be parasocial acquaintances immediately

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15m
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
📽️ My 150th film review of this year is a great one: HORIZON CHAPTER TWO #Venezia81 is quite the banger about male power, female survival and the limits of kindness in an awful world. Kevin Costner is doing important work here and we need to get behind it movieswetextedabout.com/horizon-an-a...
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'Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2' Review: An Ambitious Big-Sky Experience
The most anticipated film of the Venice Biennale this year was the epic Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, which landed with something of a whimper instead of the bang it truly deserves. Kevin Cos...
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
He strides around Horizon: An American Saga looking very disappointed in everybody and wearing an entire wolf pelt over his shoulders which is uh intriguing, if you see what I mean
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
While I'm thinking about HORIZON, let me stress one of the characters, who is easily six and a half feet tall, spends his time wearing an entire wolf pelt across his shoulders. It is quite the strongest look I've seen in a while (Jon Beavers, CALL ME) movieswetextedabout.com/horizon-an-a...
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'Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1' Review: Costner's Riveting Epic (Cannes)
There was one movie at this year’s Cannes Film Festival which was a passion project for the director that got all the attention: Megalopolis. But there was another movie, a passion project for the dir...
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
HORIZON AN AMERICAN SAGA CHAPTER 1 is out tomorrow and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Kevin Costner makes this epic look *very* easy, I have a soft spot for Sam Worthington, and Jon Beavers makes quite the impression movieswetextedabout.com/horizon-an-a...
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'Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1' Review: Costner's Riveting Epic (Cannes)
There was one movie at this year’s Cannes Film Festival which was a passion project for the director that got all the attention: Megalopolis. But there was another movie, a passion project for the dir...
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Someone tell Jon Beavers I'm prepared to do my patriotic duty as an American to be his unsuitably older girlfriend
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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1h
FFS - we'd only just got it back! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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HMV to close Oxford Street store after three years
HMV says it is looking for a new site in London's West End, but its current site is "unviable".
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 57m
I think you are doing a good and the right thing but I have given up on that unfortunately
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 58m
Is it the fault of these not at all bigoted men that their tastes are so noble and refined that no woman is capable of meeting their exacting standards? We certainly shouldn't worry our pretty little heads about it
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 59m
In pretty much any line of work it is simply a coincidence that no woman has ever done anything good enough or interesting enough for these open-minded men to pay attention to, much less like or enjoy
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 1h
Men do this so often and get so angry when they are called out on it
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 3h
Dear God, it's going to star Sacha Baron Cohen
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Who would like to plan to hire me in 2027 or whatever to review "The Popinjay Cavalier?" I am an American who knows a lot about movies and also quite a bit about the London theatre scene sarahsnewideas.com/2025/12/30/2...
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2025 in theatre
Counting this up there’s 55 shows mentioned in this round-up; please hire me to write about the theatre scene in London for you! One of the key highlights was the one-two punch of Stephen Rea and G…
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Carmen CP @carmenchloie.bsky.social · 3h
I almost vibed with Elsinore but the montage-biopic complex sunk the film. My review for Movies We Texted About #LFF movieswetextedabout.com/elsinore-rev...
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‘Elsinore’ Review: A Towering Performance in Maudlin Packaging (London Film Festival)
Hamlet is an Everest, as director Richard Eyre (Johnny Flynn) announces to his assembly of actors early on in Elsinore, Simon Stone’s film opening the London Film Festival. The title role alone has 41...
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 4h
Sigh. When your racial prejudices are considerably stronger than either your sense of solidarity or your self-awareness
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 4h
General reminder for the London Film Festival crowd: INK uses AI
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 7h
obviously the new carly raes from the last month are perfect, and one explicitly a queer anthem. hilary duff is only just setting out on her path but carly is the actual millennial kylie minogue, been on this path for over a decade now, and doing it just impeccably. listen to emotion sides a and b
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 6h
Lecturer (Education) in Modern Irish Literature 20th and/or 21st-century Queens University Belfast 9 months (starting 1 January 2027) hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 17h
If you think technology will solve your problems you don't understand technology—and you don't understand your problems. —Laurie Anderson
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you have not seen DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER, a hilarious coming of age film set in the same dull part of southeast London as PILLION, please indulge yourself
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Obviously I will be reviewing PILLION properly very soon, but one final comment: the slutty little glasses situation in this movie kicks the ones worn in Jurassic Park Rebirth into dust
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This is just to say I have eaten in the Bromley Pret a Manger Next to where Colin and Ray have their first encounter in PILLION Forgive me I am never going to think about anything else on Bromley High Street ever again So sweet So cold
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I have spent several Christmases in Bromley without anything as exciting as the events in PILLION 📽️ happening to me but that aside the movie is a very sexy depiction of one relationship's shifting sands of power and control movieswetextedabout.com/pillion-film...
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'Pillion' Film Review
The greatest glory of Pillion is that its sexual boldness is in service to an important point about self-determination and personal desire. We can watch this for the action, the message, or both. Thou...
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 18h
people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.
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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 19h
When I see this at AFI Fest, this will be the third documentary I’ve seen in a month that used AI. The other two times, it was super-distracting, cheap-looking and could’ve been done other ways at the same cost or just cut out altogether. Stop using this crap.
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Murky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 18h
Busy weekend out and about taking photos for upcoming posts. Hopefully get about three hours in tomorrow too. Support the Murky Depths here. Cheers www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 23h
That's VIP heaven and I am not so fancy
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 23h
The two twelve year old boys who were graffiti-ing the street furniture around the bus stop with what they clearly thought was ninja finesse fortunately did not notice half the adults at said bus stop were visibly thinking "bless"
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Jimmy Carr shows up on camera in this documentary to reassure Janey Godley that the public furore about her resurfaced racist tweets didn't matter because the decision makers were on her side and that's all that counts
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For the second time in my life I have earned a seat in heaven: for the second time Jimmy Carr walked past me, and once again I did not punch him. My god I am a saint, being kind to someone undeserving
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clever casting and a real feel for raw human feeling means SENSE AND SENSIBILITY 🎥 intrigues, but it surprises because its story of adult emotions achieves a U rating. Herbert Nordrum's life is about to change movieswetextedabout.com/sisters-befo...
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Sisters Before Misters in the Winning 'Sense and Sensibility' (Film Review)
In the UK Sense and Sensibility has a U rating – suitable for all – which is the equivalent of an American G rating. For a movie about the romantic travails of two adult sisters this is an incredible ...
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
PAPER TIGER 📽️ relies on its characters being so idiotic that I watched it astonished that I, a child at the time this was set, was smarter then than all these adults. Why is such stupidity getting such high praise? movieswetextedabout.com/paper-tiger-...
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'Paper Tiger' Doesn't Stand Up (Cannes 2026 Film Review)
It’s a trope seen more often in romantic comedies, but on this level at least Paper Tiger innovates: it is the rare thriller that relies on The Idiot Plot. The only way everything in Paper Tiger happe...
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reports of AI agents "acting on their own" are such sci-fi bullshit. If you are driving a car 80mph, jump out, and the car crashes through a house, I guess the car was "acting on its own."
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@alexanderchee.bsky.social woman in front of me has one of your books in her lap x
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Always fascinating to see American football fans having to navigate their greatest fear: public space shared with people of different interests They are so bad at it, and whenever I see it I always hope I wasn't as bad as them when I was one (the really irritating thing is I doubt it)
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reboosting my review of THE BRIDE! because of yet another critic appearing on my timeline who has seriously misunderstood the film. Maggie Gyllenhaal being a genius was not the hill I thought I'd need to die on this year but here we go
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My review of THE BRIDE! has been filed, but the short version is that it's a movie made for revenge, with an extremely obvious central metaphor, and I don't understand how almost everyone has missed it
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thanks for your patience! I can't believe Maggie Gyllenhaal got away with this. THE BRIDE! 📽️ is the best metaphor for being an actress I can imagine movieswetextedabout.com/maggie-gylle...
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Maggie Gyllenhaal has her revenge on Hollywood with The Bride! (Film Review)
A lot of people are missing the point of The Bride! because they don’t want to consider the price paid for our entertainment. This is possibly because, in service to its original concept, this barnstorming horror movie contains only two original ideas not directly lifted from other films. The first ... Read more
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have a lot of thoughts about this, and none of them are polite
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ooh I have been quoted! And don't they look thrilled about it! www.digitalspy.com/movies/a7409...
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Near-perfect Oasis documentary that 'sets a new high bar' is streaming in the UK - with new footage
Relive the concert (or watch it for the first time if you were unlucky).
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Seeing The Social Reckoning has reminded me I do need some new fingerless gloves, ideally cashmere, ideally c. £30, please recommend me all your favourite shops
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We'll find out in a few weeks
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It was for a date. There was not a second one
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Devastated to report that the only music in the film was some really bad rapping (but there was indeed the attitude and language the sign tried to warn us about)
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Eh, there's enough anger and contempt to go around, I think
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Melodic if true
A sign warning that the movie I am about to watch "contains homophonic attitudes and language"
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No kidding, right
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