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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 3h

Fuck Meta; consider them with the same opprobrium as you would 'X'.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 4h

I hate biopics. Except the few I don't hate.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 5h

FATHERLAND (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2026). Elegantly acted, impeccably directed, beautifully shot & framed, this melancholic, deeply affecting portrayal of Thomas & Erika Mann’s journey to both sides of a divided Germany in 1949 is an exquisite gem. Very much in the tradition of COLD WAR & IDA, >> #LFF

Black & white film poster for FATHERLAND, showing Sandra Huller behind the wheel of a car looking back through the rear window. Meanwhile, the man sitting next to her in the passenger seat is looking ahead.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 5h

Imagining a kind of THE TRUEMAN SHOW flick, every memory you have of anything good is replayed to you with actors who don't even vaguely resemble your lived experience, saying stuff that is totally risible. It's a horror film, natch...

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“For every The Remains of the Day (good book, good film), there’s a Scarlet Letter (good, bad), The Exorcist (bad, good) or The Da Vinci Code (double-bad, even worse).” Me on Louise Willder’s entertaining compendium of book-to-film disasters (and delights), The Book Was Better:

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The Book Was Better — the hazards of adapting novels for the screen

Louise Willder’s lively and entertaining compendium explores why the process often fails

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 5h

For me there are two strikes against Hobson that I can never get out of my mind. First, I really didn't see Jean Simmons maturing into Hobson in GREAT EXPECTATIONS. And the whole Profumo business - I see her in stuff and think 'she really doesn't know what's coming...'

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 5h

Trump's terror tactics against his critics; why did the Greens put their leader in a hole?; Kemi Badenoch’s myth-based inheritance tax proposals; why Hackney turned to high-rise housing; Mark Kermode on The Devils (1971); Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

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The Joy of Six 1592

Thom Hartmann says Trump is teaching America what every dictator knows: "When we think of strongman dictatorships we often imagine tanks in...

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 5h

Ha - nobody else does! It's a list that only a greetings card company could come with. Mine: The Searchers Bob le flambeur Invasion of The Body Snatchers The Killing A Man Escaped

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 6h

I don't care if it's as true to low-budget filmmaking as THE LIVES OF OTHERS was to the Stasi, this film had me cheering for an hour and a half with...oh, if only the French had an expression for "love of life". letterboxd.com/danielmudfor...

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A ★★★★★ review of Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Just as someone said Books about Books are the best books, so Films about Films make some of the best films. And in a script so packed with poetic and fearlessly pretentious aphorisms, I'm sticking wi...

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Paul Klein 👾 @paulkleinyo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#FrankandPercy benefits from the easy chemistry of Ian McKellen and Roger Allam even though it sometimes feels like scenes are missing. I was charmed by it, and laughed consistently. A lovely little film.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10h

An estimated 97% of households use the BBC's services each week. "Many, however, take the BBC for granted – until they’re deprived of it. A study in 2022 found that after nine days without it, 70% of those who’d said it was poor value changed their minds."

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What’s behind the BBC’s funding crisis? An expert explains

It means more programmes will face the axe as cost-cutting continues.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 7h

...*and* it reminds me I'm bloody 70. Pshaw!!!

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 7h

Someone sent me a birthday card that includes 'memorable moments in 1956' and a list of films released that year THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE SEARCHERS!! The day is *completely* ruined...

Birthday card; I mean, what kind of film list doesn't include The Searchers. Rubbish...

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 7h

Tell you what, I am going to cross pollinate this with my other project this month; this crowdfunder is currently at £115,957, if it gets to £117,000 by 6pm, I will watch for my horror challenge tonight whichever of my "Booby Prize" titles has the lowest score on Letterboxd; deal?

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 7h

The Eastgate Clock is my most detailed print yet. It started as a commission and isn't my usual subject matter, but it became a real labour of love. Now in my shop in a range of sizes. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...

Illustration of Chester’s Eastgate Clock

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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 7h

Tonight's horror double bill at tonight's Cellar Club on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social features 1970 Hammer horror The Horror of Frankenstein. You'll come for the scares, but stay for Triangle's Kate O'Mara, and a tortoise named Gustav. 10.55pm #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2025/11/25/t...

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The Horror of Frankenstein - film-authority.com

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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 7h

Thirty years after the show was first broadcast, cast and crew recall how it captured working-class life and politics

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Our Friends in the North still speaks to Britain

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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 7h

With doc Children of the Wicker Man due soon, time to look back at the 1973 classic with Edward Woodward + Christopher Lee. A withering depiction of how Scots view law enforcement, The Wicker Man vividly captures the warm welcome which awaits outsiders...5 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/10/16/t...

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 7h

But it has a *fabulous* centre piece duel.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 8h

SCARAMOUCHE. Every time...

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 8h

Today, I shall be mostly 'avin', sourdough discard crumpets...

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 8h

I'm haunted by 'you can't stop what's coming'. NCFOM is, in many ways, a horror film. Love it.

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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 9h

It being the anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde, here's the story of where he nicked Dorian Gray from. Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery. thelionandunicorn.com/2016/12/25/f...

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F. Anstey and the original Dorian Gray

ALWYN TURNER on the Victorian humourist who inspired Oscar Wilde.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Children's BBC's 1980 adaptation of The Bells Of Astercote by Penelope Liveley is as genuinely unsettling as any of the more celebrated Ghost Stories For Christmas aimed at adults. It deserves way more attention than it gets... timworthington.org/2019/12/09/a...

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Iain Hepburn @iainhepburn.me · 14/09/2026

Since we’re rapidly approaching the centenary, a retrospective on arguably one of the most important films of all time: www.thespoilist.com/building-and...

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Building and rebuilding Metropolis - The Spoilist

Metropolis began production in 1925. We look back at a century of changing reception, edits and reassembly.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't think I've ever laughed more and more often at a single moment of a movie than the opening credits of Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Even the library music tracks used to accompany them are hilarious. They knew exactly what to mess with and when. timworthington.org/2023/05/31/s...

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Special Møøse Effects: Olaf Prot

What are those four – yes, four – pieces of music used in the moose-festooned opening titles of Monty Python And The Holy Grail…?

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 9h

Morning people! My lovely “better half” @gailmyerscough.co.uk is having a bit of a slow old week in her amazing online shop - as you may know her designs are stunning. Why not pop along to her online shop and have a look around? www.gailmyerscough.co.uk?srsltid=AU7g... - please share this, cheers 👍👍

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Gail Myerscough | Art Prints, Cards & Homewares | Manchester

Bold illustrated wall art, greeting cards and homewares designed in Manchester. Inspired by architecture, music and mid century design. Made in the UK.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It was absolutely inescapably massive in 1989 - as was Prince's baffling theme single - but how does Tim Burton's Batman hold up now? I joined Still Any Good? (@stillanygood.bsky.social) to find out. Yes that *is* me talking about a DC character. Genuinely. timworthington.org/2025/06/01/b...

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Batman: Still Any Good?

Is Tim Burton’s 1989 take on Batman still any good? There’s only one way to find out…

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Our Spanish #FilmNoir screenings this #FilmNoirFest are all UK Premieres! #Spain #FilmNoir Join us to see recent restorations of Brigada Criminal (1950), A Sangre Fría (1959), La Muerte Silba un Blues (1964) and Rififí en la Ciudad (1963). More info: www.southwestsilents.com/copy-of-fest...

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Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 20h

On top of all the great DEVILS talk in here, what the great Mark Kermode has to say about the necessary subjectivity of film criticism is beautifully expressed

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 18h

An Edward Burns dramedy. Except it isn't dramatic, nor particularly funny. Just a gentle meander. People would think he was a genius if he was French. If Eric Rohmer made films with characters called The Murph.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 21h

If Dickens wrote a Southern Gothic novel, you’d have Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb. It’s just as good as the movie. A father was hung after stealing $10k but kept its location secret. The ruthless townspeople think his kids know & they want to get it. Here the kids are with a pawn shop owner:

He let his eyes stray again to the wonderful silver watch.
Hing Hang Hung! the words rang faintly through his daydreams like echoes of Miz Cunningham's tart little doorbell.
Then he looked again at the old woman herself. Why, she was really quite wonderful-this old fat woman! In the end, she got her hands on nearly everything in the world! Just look at her win-dow! There by the pair of old overshoes were Jamey Hankins's ice skates. There was old Walt Spoon's elk's tooth. There-his mother's own wedding ring! There was a world in that window of this remarkable old woman. And it was probable that when Miz Cunningham like an ancient barn owl fluttered and flapped to earth at last, they would take her away and pluck her open and find her belly lined with fur and feathers and the tiny mice skulls of myriad dreams.
I'll just bet my two little lambs would like a nice hot cup of coffee! cried the old woman, fidgeting at her iron spectacles with three fat fingers. Eh, now?
I don't care, said John gravely.
Willa never served them coffee at home; partly because it would stunt their growth and partly because it was so dear at the
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Miz Cunningham's kitchen, like her show window, was like the nest of a thieving black crow. Old clothes hanging on the water pipes and stove door handles. Old shoes in boxes by the door. Old hats in apple baskets beneath the window sill. And because old hats, old shoes, and old clothes bear forever the stance and shape and bulge of the mortal flesh that wore them once the house of the old woman was a place of reflective ghosts, of elbows and bosoms and shoulders long gone into the dust or wandered away down Peacock Alley to count their pennies on Poverty's own lean palm. John and Pearl sat moon-eyed at the

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Screen One | Essential Cinema @screen-one.net · 21h

THE PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA IS SAVED! 🎬 A new 25-year lease. No break clause. Over 168,000 people backing the campaign. One of Britain's great independent cinemas lives to screen another day. A huge victory for film lovers everywhere. Long live the PCC! ❤️ #filmsky #moviesky

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 21h

I recorded WIB on VHS when it was first shown on ITV. There was a power brown out precisely at *that* moment (spooky), only a couple of minutes gone, but I refused to watch the tape & didn't actually see it until Network released it on BD in 2020. Worth the wait...

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