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Mike McCahill

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Film journalist for the Guardian, Telegraph and Little White Lies. No static at all.

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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On QUEEN AT SEA and VERNON, FLORIDA, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/9hG8f
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Cinésthesia
Feelings. On film.
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy "No More DIGGER Trailer at the Cinema" Day
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On QUEEN AT SEA and VERNON, FLORIDA, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/9hG8f
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Cinésthesia
Feelings. On film.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"You have to grab the audience by the soul." This is good - and it's so rare nowadays to see such a long and probing interview with an artist whose work fully merits the deeper dive: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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AR Rahman: Asian Network Interview
AR Rahman chats to Haroon Rashid about his career producing music for some of India’s most iconic films, his international successes, AI and working with Hans Zimmer.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On Lance Hammer's QUEEN AT SEA, now showing: shorturl.at/YjFdO
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Distress signals: "Queen at Sea"
We can't be certain that the UK release of Queen at Sea  has any direct correlation to Andy Burnham's plan to urgently reform social care, b...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On HEART OF THE BEAST, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM [below], PRESSURE and BAD APPLES, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/pEIe3
Two sheep watch over a younger sheep, armed with a chainsaw which it wields over a pumpkin, in a scene from SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On HEART OF THE BEAST, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM [below], PRESSURE and BAD APPLES, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/pEIe3
Two sheep watch over a younger sheep, armed with a chainsaw which it wields over a pumpkin, in a scene from SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On David Ayer's HEART OF THE BEAST, now showing: shorturl.at/I7MSe
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The dogs of war: "Heart of the Beast"
Heart of the Beast  finds two grizzled, battle-scarred Hollywood veterans allowing a dog to guide them. For Brad Pitt, the goal is to contin...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On Jonatan Etzler's BAD APPLES, now showing: shorturl.at/0ziFo
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Elementary errors: "Bad Apples"
A quiet crisis in filmmaking: the industry that once gave the world To Sir with Love , Grange Hill  and Clockwork Mice  seems to have comple...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New on last week's UK chart - RAYE, Miley and Julian Barratt's stand-in. (Bring earplugs.) theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-37-se...
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Week 37: September 11-17, 2026
National Noise Week
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On Anthony Maras's PRESSURE, now showing: shorturl.at/EDaFx
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The gathering storm: "Pressure"
Well, British film industry, you've really outdone yourself this time. The season's first example of the well-made British period film - it ...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER [below] and LEVITICUS, plus a Jeremy Thomas obit and the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/xyazh
Liam Gallagher, wearing parka and sunglasses, places a tender kiss on his guitar-clutching brother Noel's shoulder in a black-and-white image from the doc DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thirteen albums in, their lowest ever chart position. There's a lesson there.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER [below] and LEVITICUS, plus a Jeremy Thomas obit and the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/xyazh
Liam Gallagher, wearing parka and sunglasses, places a tender kiss on his guitar-clutching brother Noel's shoulder in a black-and-white image from the doc DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'd forgotten that 30 ROCK (Netflix) had a James Franco subplot back in 2010.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New on the first chart of September: Olivia Rodrigo, Alex Warren and Fontaines D.C. theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-36-se...
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Week 36: September 4-10, 2026
Subtext and gossip
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
After last week's dim blaze of publicity, the new "tells it as it is" Proclaimers album has stormed the UK Top 86 at...
Screengrab of this week's Official Album Chart, showing the new Proclaimers album at #85.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
WUNMI MOSAKU [whispering]: hello
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Choose your fighter: youtu.be/zIePLycYlKc?...
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Goodbye America: The Critics Roundtable From Hell | SCTV
YouTube video by SCTV
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER, now showing: shorturl.at/FOQdJ
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Oh brother: "Don't Look Back in Anger"
So it goes. Blur reunite, successfully, and document the occasion with not one but three   separate documentaries . Oasis do likewise, no l...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On Adrian Chiarella's LEVITICUS, now showing: shorturl.at/zTitN
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Eye of God: "Leviticus"
The ongoing horror renaissance here brings off something genuinely radical: installing an unabashedly queer chiller at the heart of the mult...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My Telegraph obit of the producer Jeremy Thomas, who died last week: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK [below], THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE/LA FEMME INFIDELE, THE INCOMER, LATE FAME and KNIGHTFALL, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/6OSPC
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK [below], THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE/LA FEMME INFIDELE, THE INCOMER, LATE FAME and KNIGHTFALL, plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/6OSPC
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, which returns to cinemas tomorrow: shorturl.at/Ovqnd
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Indy revival: "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
This back-to-front, Benjamin Button -ass movie summer began with substandard Spielberg ; it closes with a reminder of the young master opera...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wasn't expecting the Rage Against The Machine cover.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My interview with Aamir Khan at the BFI as part of July's London Indian Film Festival is now available to view online: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
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Watch Aamir Khan in Conversation - BFI Player
The star of Lagaan, Dil Chahta Hai and 3 Idiots gives a rare on-stage conversation about his extraordinary career.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Brief thoughts on 1969's THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE, back on UK screens from Friday as the flagship film of the BFI's Claude Chabrol season: shorturl.at/wSnxN
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Anatomy of a murder: "The Unfaithful Wife/La Femme Infidèle"
The flagship film of the BFI's current Claude Chabrol season, 1969's La Femme Infidèle , lures us in: it opens in sundappled soft focus, bef...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cycling has just had its "oh Aggers" moment.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On Ben Fortune's KNIGHTFALL, streaming from Monday: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Knightfall review – low-rent gender-flipped Bond knock-off swaps Aston Martins for Minis
Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott’s no-nonsense spy heads a game cast that includes Ian Ogilvy and Roger Moore’s son Geoffrey, but this austerity actioner lacks tension
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On Kent Jones' LATE FAME, now showing: shorturl.at/PGxdT
Bespectacled, greying poet Ed Saxburger (Willem Dafoe) stands before a mail sorting rack in a still from Kent Jones' LATE FAME.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On Louis Paxton's THE INCOMER, now showing: shorturl.at/Bpy5k
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Island of daft souls: "The Incomer"
The Incomer  feels like Universal and Focus Features angling for another The Ballad of Wallis Island  - last year's biggest sleeper hit - an...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline showing a defecting Reform councillor locking hands with his new Labour colleague.The "new best friend" meme, showing two young men locking hands together under the text "Friendship ended with NIGEL Now ANDY BURNHAM is my best friend".
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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Well, not 'officially' at least ;) youtu.be/HOfV5ps06tg
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Propaganda - Jewelled / Jewel / Duel [RAC Rally Report]
YouTube video by Rally Impact
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Something for everyone. On FACES OF DEATH, BETHLEHEM KUDUMBA UNIT and SHAUN THE SHEEP: FARMAGEDDON [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/yVwGG
Woolly lamb Shaun the Sheep reaches a cautious hand out towards a blue-and-purple alien standing in a barn, in a scene from Aardman's 2019 animation SHAUN THE SHEEP: FARMAGEDDON.
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Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Autumn is here. Warm yourself on the glow of Jonathan Demme's humanism and the ferocity of Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, aka "the most beautiful home movie ever made". 📽🍂 Next week at The Castle Cinema, with intro by the amazing @pamhutch.bsky.social. thecastlecinema.com/programme/11...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Something for everyone. On FACES OF DEATH, BETHLEHEM KUDUMBA UNIT and SHAUN THE SHEEP: FARMAGEDDON [below], plus the weekend charts and picks: shorturl.at/yVwGG
Woolly lamb Shaun the Sheep reaches a cautious hand out towards a blue-and-purple alien standing in a barn, in a scene from Aardman's 2019 animation SHAUN THE SHEEP: FARMAGEDDON.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
On the new FACES OF DEATH, streaming from Monday: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable
A retelling of the 1978 ‘video nasty’ follows an online content moderator faced with steadily more appalling footage but reverts to generic bloodletting
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The best opening thirty seconds of any single released in the 1990s. (Yes, including "Spaceman".)
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New on this week's UK chart: bonus tracks, dropped beats and a touch of the Bublés. theeartrumpet.substack.com/p/week-35-au...
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Week 35: August 28-September 3, 2026
Drop that discount lager!
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On Girish A.D.'s BETHLEHEM KUDUMBA UNIT, now showing: shorturl.at/XQsVa
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Little town: "Bethlehem Kudumba Unit"
We say "a star is born" without attaching a specific timeframe to the process. Turns out it can be as rapid as two weeks. It was, after all,...
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Captain Sir Keir Starmers, stood at a lectern, and declaiming "there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom".The diarrhoea man from the Pepto-Bismol ads.
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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Absolute masterpiece of TV.
Hello Hugh
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Of all these pairings, Ben Folds Five x Abel Ferrara remains the most surprising.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On COYOTE VS. ACME, TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, VISHWANATH & SONS, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS [below], SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE and LA LA LAND, plus the weekend charts/picks: shorturl.at/eTjSG
Sat in a convertible, sunglasses-sporting boy racers Dom Toretto and Brian O'Conner (Vin Diesel and Paul Walker) look toward the camera in a still from Rob Cohen's 2001 film THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On COYOTE VS. ACME, TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, VISHWANATH & SONS, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS [below], SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE and LA LA LAND, plus the weekend charts/picks: shorturl.at/eTjSG
Sat in a convertible, sunglasses-sporting boy racers Dom Toretto and Brian O'Conner (Vin Diesel and Paul Walker) look toward the camera in a still from Rob Cohen's 2001 film THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS.
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Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New on this week's UK singles chart: Phoebe Bridgers, Fontaines D.C. and my favourite song of the year so far. shorturl.at/wg2NU
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Week 34: August 21-27, 2026
Waltzes and weddings. Plus: that other thong song
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Cuban Boys @thecubanboys.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
💥 The Cuban Boys, chart topping pop terrorists of the millennium, are back! 💥 Featuring the voice of Tony Wilson, supported by the Tony Wilson Archive and endorsed by Tony's son Oli 'Praxis Makes Perfect' is streaming from tomorrow! Stay tuned for more from the Peel faves' glorious comeback...
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Miles Pen @militarypenguin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You're all contractually obligated to read this comment Rob Paulsen made on a Tim Curry interview in 2025
Rob Paulsen - Voice Actor

I had the remarkable privilege to work with Tim a few dozen times.
Kind, generous, playful, naughty and a TOTAL pro. A couple years ago, at NY Comic Con, I was in the green room having lunch and Tim
came in in his chair. Of course, I was aware of his stroke, so l walked over knelt down and said, "Tim! It's Rob Paulsen. We
worked together on..." he looked me and said, "I know who you are,
you fucking wanker." It was like a blessing from the Pope. Utterly
unique. Unstoppable. A total star.
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