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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 6h

The London Film Festival starts next week, and I will be speaking on the panel for this discussion, in case anyone would like to come and say hello!

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had a much-needed laugh last night watching COYOTE VS ACME, which takes the classic Road Runner / Wile E Coyote cartoons and turns them into a (surprisingly realistic) courtroom drama about commercial law. Very funny. Mind-boggling that the completed film was originally shelved

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The biggest cheats in the history of sport

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Slightly surprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed the new RESIDENT EVIL film over the weekend, which is much more of a comedy than its marketing would suggest. Almost a spoof at times, it's like watching someone play one of the games who is very bad at playing them. Scary, gory but fun

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remember when all the centrist dads insisted this guy was a decent man of principle? Well, he's working for Palantir now. Will they reflect on this? No, they will not.

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone else watching LANTERNS? Great idea to repackage superhero tropes as a standard police procedural. It's got much more in common with something like True Detective than anything like Superman. Really intriguing so far, hope they stick the season landing

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@lffstubs.bsky.social HAVE 2 x tickets for INK gala, October 12th, 9pm 2 x tickets for A LONG WINTER gala, October 14th, 8:45pm WILL SWAP FOR: 2 x tickets for ELSINORE gala, October 7th, 7:15pm 2 x tickets for THE DEBUT gala, October 18th, 7:15pm

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can confirm - SILO season 3 finale is an absolute banger, this series is low-key one of the best TV shows around at the moment. Hope they nail the final season next year...

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feels like people are really sleeping on SILO. The third series takes a little while to get going, but when it does, it really nails the best parts of the books. Smart, topical, deeply human - it's the best kind of science fiction and the best reason to have Apple TV x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is going to make more money than any single entertainment product (from any medium) in all of human history www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbz...

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Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look

YouTube video by Rockstar Games

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There was always much more to Dolly Parton than the people who dismissed her realised. I think she enjoyed keeping it that way. Rest in peace sweetheart x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Got to see my good friend of 27 years get married in paradise last weekend

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Haunted and heartbroken by PHOEBE BRIDGERS again, whose new album The Lost Weekend has made me stop what I'm doing several times today and stare at the wall. Hard to overstate just how accurately she's managed to soundtrack the emotional background noise of the last ten years x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed Olivia Wilde's new film THE INVITE, an excruciating comedy of sexual manners and relationships, which is now streaming on Apple TV. Hilariously written and performed, and a great set text for blocking and composition for all you film nerds out there

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Puerto Rico, amigos. There are worse places to be x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON season finishes strong. One more to go. As we all know, endings in this franchise can be hard to land. Hope they get it right this time...

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I would urge all the new fans of The Odyssey to read responses to it, especially by women. Like this poem by Margaret Atwood:

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My workplace for the past three weeks

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Superhero fatigue is real, but somehow the Spider-Man films, animated or otherwise, seem to overcome it. The new live-action movie BRAND NEW DAY is the latest example, a breezy reminder that these things used to be simple and fun

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The new CHARLI XCX album has John Cale, Marc Jacobs and Martin Scorsese on the cover. The final song features David Cronenberg. It's full of bangers. I don't quite know what is going on but I'm very much here for it

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's pretty rare that I watch a film twice at the cinema (in the space of a week), but then... this is THE ODYSSEY. It's not perfect, but it's still a monumental achievement, every scene has so much to discuss and think about. It's also making stupid people very angry. Good.

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's good, folks. It's really, really, really good.

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Enjoyed the new Netflix film VOICEMAILS FOR ISABELLE, which is as much about grief as it is about romance - probably why it's so effective. Also manages to get around its somewhat creepy premise by acknowledging the creepiness, and bonus points for using my favourite Robyn song

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh my word. Okay, this could end up being very funny, I must admit #EnglandDRCongo

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON has now reached the level that Game of Thrones managed at its peak, where every episode is a massive OMG moment

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Don't know whether it was delirious relief at the heatwave dissipating, but I watched THE SHEEP DETECTIVES last night and found it oddly delightful. Hugh Jackman and some talking sheep solve a murder. Pure cinema. Seriously though, it's weirdly interesting and very sweet x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Toy Story 5 is... fine. It's fine. Well-animated, well-written, yadda yadda yadda, all the usual stuff you'd expect from Pixar. None of which is easy, of course. But like the fourth one, something about it feels unnecessary. The third film ended so perfectly. No need for more.

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hoo boy, HOUSE OF THE DRAGON is back, and it starts with one hell of a bang. Does this show do anything quietly? Low-key? Understated? No. Do I want it to? Also, no.

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

An abject failure in every possible way. Should be a lesson in the uselessness of centrism. Please don’t fall for this nonsense again x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day, old man. Still think about you all the time, you mad bastard. Love you x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Seems like we're spoiled for choice with horror movies lately, but there's a love letter to the genre on Apple TV right now called WIDOW'S BAY that's like the best Stephen King series he never wrote. Short episodes, each kind of standalone, scary and oddly very funny. Recommended

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Shame to read that the new MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE film didn't do well with critics and at the box office. It's not perfect but it's about as decent a movie as you could expect from the source material, and miles better than the 1987 attempt. Surprisingly funny and well-written x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My current jam. Constantly on repeat. I may need an intervention

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

If you're stuck inside this rainy weekend, I'd recommend watching SPIDER-NOIR on Prime Video, especially with the delightful option to do so in black and white, which makes the whole vibe make a lot more sense. Nicolas Cage perfectly pitches the old-fashioned 1930s tone x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is absolutely heartbreaking. Dying from grief at the age of 56 while her country is bombed to smithereens. No words for how sad this makes me. PERSEPOLIS (both the comic and the film) is a masterpiece, read it, watch it, remember her x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Horror films continue to tear it up at the box office (reflecting real life socially and politically, as usual), and while not the best recent example, perhaps the most impressive is BACKROOMS, due to it being defiantly its own thing, and directed by a fucking 20-year-old kid...

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Just a reminder, before people start minimising this, that almost the entire Labour Party in its current form was meticulously shaped and staffed by Peter Mandelson. Almost every new MP elected in 2024 was personally hand-picked by him. They are all his kind of people.

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