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Marie Phillips

@mariephillips.bsky.social
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Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor. Free newsletter at mariepphillips.substack.com

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 9h
DJ at the controls.
A blue-grey oriental cat sits on a warm amplifier and studies her owner with hauteur.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 7h
That's Life is the reason I am still suspicious of any foods containing guar gum.
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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 16h
That’s Life! was just incredible. Its two most famous moments are a man being movingly celebrated by the now grown Jewish children he got out of Nazi Germany & a dog saying “sausages”. No other programme has ever had that range.
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Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · 15h
taking a moment to admire this reasonably literal sleeve for the German release of Pussycat's Mississippi, which seems to have accumulated a gallery of furious cats
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 15h
SLUGGO’S THURSDAY SPECIAL
P1- SLUGGO’S THURSDAY SPECIAL 
NANCY WATCHES AS SLUGGO WORKS AT A LOCAL CAFE 
CUSTOMER: A DISH OF SPAGHETTI 
SLUGGO: A MILE OF ROPE
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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 20h
I love this poem. It features in the excellent Faber Book of Movie Verse, which is probably the poetry book I return to most often.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remembering the time I met a certain former Labour leader and he told me he'd only ever read one novel, Anna Karenina, and the only thing he could remember about it was that it was 600 pages long. This was after I had told him I was a novelist. Feel free to speculate.
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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All over great work from the entrants in this year’s Abbey Road music photography awards but I adore this pic of Warren Ellis (with Larry & Piglet) by Manuel Vazquez, a finalist in the portrait category. Those boots. With running shorts. #majordude
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Allez tous vous faire reskeeter ! Ruven Afanador
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Love Hypothesis: the romcom LIVES! letterboxd.com/marie_philli...
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A ★★★½ review of The Love Hypothesis (2026)
Sexy consent! Sexy consent! Great chemistry between the adorable leads, ludicrously nerdy science dialogue, and huge character development expressed through the transition from black to extremely dark...
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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love a good film podcast so I'm enjoying listening to Fade Out with the great @mariephillips.bsky.social talking about Nicholas Ray. And boy there's some stories here. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-wcz9f...
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Fade Out @fadeoutpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI
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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We get mosquitoes every night of summer, even with the windows shut. Lights out - we're hearing them. Hunting for them before they hunt for us. Every night. Lights out, lights on. Trying to oust them. Half mad with the tedium. The other half mad with being bested. Summer is the cruelest months.
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Jack Nicholson: Here's Johnny! (Shining)
Alt: Jack Nicholson looking crazy in The Shining
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because of all the fuss, I have now listened to Choosin' Texas. It's Country Dancing On My Own, isn't it?
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beautiful essay by Karl Knights about finding his identity as a young queer poet in rural Suffolk www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/169...
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This Be the Place: My Actual Huh
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant being adorable. Interviewer Ryan Gilbey wisely just winds them up and lets them go.
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‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars
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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning. This is my cat Joe, in a photo taken five minutes ago. As you can see, Joe regards me with wry amusement; he is patient up to a point with the length of time it takes to serve breakfast, but tries to hide his frustration. Joe is glad to see the end of the stormy weather. Namaste!!
Joe the cat
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I speak as a huge fan of the previous four but that is the worst film I’ve seen in 2026, by a significant margin.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ahoy! It’s Carole Lombard, 1933. Photo by Irving Lippman.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had such an incredible time making this podcast, thank you so much to Rob Kelly for having me on. We had a thorough rake through the life and work of Nick Ray, culminating in the swan song that is Lightning Over Water, the remarkable pseudodocumentary he made with Wim Wenders about his own death.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just returned from the world of Toy Story 5, and oof. It's ugly out there. letterboxd.com/marie_philli...
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A ★ review of Toy Story 5 (2026)
Unspeakably depressing. Unfunny, charmless and cynical, with an icky relationship with the tech that’s supposedly being critiqued but is paying the bills. All the voice actors, inevitably and through ...
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm biased but this discussion of Nicholas Ray's career between @mariephillips.bsky.social and Rob Kelly is utterly magnificent.
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Fade Out @fadeoutpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New FADE OUT! @mariephillips.bsky.social fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fo64/
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Sophia Grene @sophiagrene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The exception is our Irish red and white setter Cinnamon, who has yet to work out what ‘sleepy’ looks like.
Irish red and white setter lies on a blue bed in a crate on a red floor. She is looking up adoringly at someone out of shot, while her tongue lolls out happily.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Blue Heron: an exceptional film, but a very, very hard watch letterboxd.com/marie_philli...
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A ★★★★★ review of Blue Heron (2025)
This is an exceptionally well made film of extraordinary power, but it is also utterly devastating from start to finish, and I advise you to think carefully whether it is something that you can cope w...
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 20/08/2026
i've been going to a weekly support group called Hope but every once in a while they skip a week
calendar event: No Hope Today
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byelilo @byelilo.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
“drink water” for what? just to piss again? life is a prison
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scpnyc.bsky.social @scpnyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's Blue. I have high standards and only sit for adorable dogs.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Travelling in your own private rail car! This is 100pc my dream www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
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In the Private Jet Age, the Quiet Allure of Private Rail (Gift Article)
Private train cars may seem like a relic of the past, but for some rail fans, nothing beats having — or renting — your own sleeper car.
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scpnyc.bsky.social @scpnyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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JT Lindroos @oivas.com · 26/09/2026
Iggi, #saunacat returns. Is there a better way to spend a cold and rainy #caturday than lounging in the sauna? I think not. 🔥😸 #catsky #iggi
Iggi cat stretched out in the sauna
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Paulette Goddard is #caturday
Publicity shot for The Cat And The Canary (1939).
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The chaotic keycutters near the station (rogue boots and batteries in grey plastic tubs) now has a name. I love it. It sounds like something from Borges and thus gives validation to the disorder and entropy of the shop, allowing it to exist within the unreliable ontology of a Borgesian short story.
The key cutters on Station Road is now called The Old Pharosian Cobbler. I am willing to believe that this is an Egyptian reference as opposed to the proprietor being an old boy of Dover Grammar School.
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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve walked 3.84 miles today, which is good practice for next month*, but also I’m exhausted. 😬 *I’ve pledged to walk 100 miles during October for Ovarian Cancer Action, which is 3.22 miles a day on average. This might not seem much but I’m on drugs and stuff. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
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My Walk 100 Miles in October Challenge
Help Jane Hill raise money to support Ovarian Cancer Action
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every Eye (Isobel English, 1956) spoke to me more profoundly than any book in years. It's a work of interiority more than incident, cutting deep into the life of a girl who yearns to be a pianist but is discouraged by her elders and loses for a long time the ability to live passionately. Exquisite.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This dog!! #Nico
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RRose @dawphin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Matchbox, 26 September
Spanish-influenced makeup and hair, woman looking to her right. SAKURAI at bottom, Japanese characters.
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it’s *fall, fuckers. Yes, also autumn, shitheels.
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When you're trying to get everything finished for 4pm but your cat would like you to double-check the feeding schedule first.
A blue-grey oriental cat stands on a Macbook, staring deep into the eyes of its owner with a look of imperious hauteur.
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Style for the day. Madeline Hurlock with her Borzoi, c1924. Source: The Canine Aesthetic of Art Deco.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the most important news from history today is that it’s the 39th anniversary of the (US) release of The Princess Bride—and what better way to mark the day than remind ourselves of Cary Elwes’ story about André the Giant and the enormous, life-altering, earth-shaking fart?
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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh btw. I'm doing a show called Spunk In My Eyes at the inaugural Plymouth Comedy Festival in February. It’s about dealing with ovarian cancer as an exhausted woman in my sixties with an intense hatred of positive mindsets and spiritual woo-woo. www.plymouthcomedyfestival.com/events/jane-...
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Jane Hill: Spunk In My Eyes | Plymouth Comedy Festival, Plymouth Comedy Festival, University of Plymouth
Jane Hill brings Spunk In My Eyes to the SU Lounge at Plymouth University Students’ Union. Jane’s candid, blackly comic show tackles cancer, courage and the exhausting pressure to stay positive with h...
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Whistle Down The Wind probably should have been five stars, but there is one unnecessarily annoying character in it. Yes, I'm brutal that way.
Gattaca *** 1/2
Crime 101 ***** (look I just love it OK)
Whistle Down the Wind **** 1/2
Tuner *** 1/2
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some tickets still left for the Saturday matinee (tomorrow!) of Lara Ricote's Edinburgh Best Show Nominee INKLING at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London. I saw it last night and it was so wonderful and funny and moving and strange and wild. I loved it. parktheatre.co.uk/events/lara-...
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Lara Ricote: Inkling - Park Theatre
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show Nominee 2026. INKLING is a show about How to Salute to the Mystery of Being Alive (ok?). Might that be of intrigue?… To you? Big kisses to...
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ginger Rogers with cat, and with husband, William Marshall. Photo by Nina Leen for LIFE magazine, 1961. In summer stock performing Bell Book And Candle. LIFE reported, as soon as the photos were done, "the cat jumped out of Ginger's arm and sank sharp teeth right into her husband's neck."
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 23/09/2026
And Cruise by fire, Cruise by water Cruise in the sunshine, Cruise in the night time Cruise by high ordeal, Cruise by common trial Cruise in your merry merry month of may
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This headline took me SO LONG to understand this morning. Admittedly I was tired but it's torturous. [Don't buy The Sun.]
Picture of Duchess Kate with headline 'Cruise that with Kate & Wills?'Same picture / headline but this time included to the left is a smaller pic of Kate & Wills with Tom Cruise and David Beckham
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Black Bag! Black Bag! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize
The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist
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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. A patch of stained/flaky plaster on the wall that looked like a witch. 2. Vomiting up a living, thrashing tapeworm. 3. The eventual expansion of the sun and annihilation of all life on earth. 4. Lifting a toilet seat and finding an animate demonic head
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