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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've never watched The Shining. Perhaps I will with the kids this evening. So heartwarming!

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now over to Downing Street for a general update on everything

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ArtAsiaPacific reported last week that a coalition of Philippine artists and creatives have been organising a series of activities aimed at preventing the establishment of a 1,600-hectare AI manufacturing hub planned by Pax Silica, a US-led initiative. www.artasiapacific.com/news/philipp...

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Said Hopkins ‘"That Temple Drake, now, there was a thing. Just give me a nice un-standardized wretch like Temple three times a year! Give me the complex ladies, and I'll interpret the daylights out of them."

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Miriam Hopkins was a relative newcomer when she was cast as a judge’s wayward granddaughter in ‘The Story of Temple Drake’ (1933). Far from loving the frivolous roles that would best fit her bubbly blondness, Hopkins was delighted to be cast as Temple.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Heat will be getting a rewatch in honour of Mr Kilmer. Farewell sir.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

And giving Farage and his ilk a nightmare because the last thing he wants is a united Europe

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

morphs before our eyes into someone who is determined to confirm to societal expectations of women by the end of the movie.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Her husband (Leslie Banks) takes it all with surprising good humour. But Jill is punished for her transgressive behaviour by having to deal with Betty’s kidnap. The rebellious woman from the start of the film,

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

At the beginning of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Jill Lawrence (Edna Best) breaks all of the conventions of motherhood and being a wife. She openly flirts with another man in the company of her husband, and does not seem at all maternal towards her daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam).

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The movie so good that Alfred Hitchcock made it twice - The Man Who Knew Too Much. The first one was in 1934, and side by side with the 1956 version proves itself the ‘racier’ offering. I’m going to do a deep-dive this week into how & what it tells us about cinema reflecting society at both points

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

There's a new issue in the shops (Viz 344). As ever, sorry no refunds. shop.viz.co.uk/viz344bs

A Viz letter accompanying a very small picture of the new issue: School teachers really are amazing aren't they? Thirty-five years ago, Mr Woodley told me I would never amount to anything and fair play to him, he was absolutely spot on. Dave, Cape Cod

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Munson was to die by suicide in 1955. A sad end to a career that encompassed Broadway and Gone With The Wind.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

While not quite PC now, Ona Munson’s haughty performance as ‘Mother’ Gin Sling in Josef Von Sternberg’s The Shanghai Gesture (1941) adds much to the film’s jaded atmosphere. There’s a connection between her and Gene Tierney’s Poppy that all the opium in the world cannot erase.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

History will not be kind to her. She knows full well she’s lying.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I was down on him yesterday. But this is extraordinary

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Because this moral censorship was not in force in 1931/1932, Hui Fei’s revenge murder is seen as well-deserved, and Shanghai Lily gets the guy in the end. #oldhollywood #hollywood #hollywoodhistory #oldmovies #movies #blackandwhite #marlenedietrich #annamaywong

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The ‘fallen women’ of 1932’s Shanghai Express, played by Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich, would be an impossibility once the Hays Code was implemented in 1934. They would have to be seen to be on a moral journey, and punished for their ‘transgressions’.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Me, superstitious af: HELLO MR MAGPIE, HELLO MR MAGPIE, HELLO MR MAGPIE Magpie: wow everyone is so polite

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Mrs O’Brien (Anita Sharp-Bolster) tries to warn the feckless David, but carrying on with Valerie Stockley (Sandra Dorne) proves to be a fatal mistake. Not a top-drawer film, it’s supernatural aspect provides enough interest without requiring too much of an emotional investment.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The House in Marsh Road (1960) went straight to television in the United States, where it was known as Invisible Creature. The creature in question is Patrick the Poltergeist who takes a dim view of David (Tony Wright)’s behaviour towards his long suffering wife Jean (Patricia Dainton).

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

She would disagree that she is influenced by anyone

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

And she doesn’t listen to anyone else. Her fatal flaw.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

What is clear even a quarter of the way through this is that Truss’s career trajectory after her 49 days in ‘power’ is fuelled by spite, arrogance, incredulity and a complete inability to laugh at herself.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Frank Sinatra sailed a little too close to the wind reputationally with his mob connections. Here he is in 1950 with mobster Aniello Dellacroce, who later became an underboss of the Gambino crime family #hollywood #vintagehollywood #classic #legends #sinatra #blackandwhite #history

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My dad has placed a bet on him being the winner too

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Like the class doofus won a raffle to be popular for the day but is still a massive doofus

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

1981 was the year of Sam Neill being the most intense bastard in cinema

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

But Hearst’s news rags did much to turn the public against the comedian, and despite returning to the industry, his mega-star career was never the same.

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA @clmeadows.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers had a field day with stories about the trial of Roscoe Arbuckle for the murder of Virginia Rappe in 1921. Hearst himself said that the scandal ‘sold more newspapers than the sinking of the Lusitania’. Arbuckle had been a fan favourite, and was finally acquitted .

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