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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 29/09/2026

In Alan Alda’s THE FOUR SEASONS, the friend group judges Nick for fathering a child at the scandalous age of… Forty-three.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

9/19/80: Ordinary People D Robert Redford 🙏 / W Alvin Sargent w/Sutherland, MTM, Hutton, Hirsch More @kphipps3000.bsky.social: thereveal.substack.com/p/the-80s-in... @billsimmons.bsky.social / @seanfennessey.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/4mjG... @rafiews.com: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

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In praise of Robert Redford’s Ordinary People

Redford’s directorial debut holds its ground as one of cinema’s most moving explorations of loss and guilt.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 16/09/2026

Hadn’t read a book this fast in a while. Loved it, loved it.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/09/2026

Wrapped Venice competition with one of its great surprises, Marco Bechis’ tight dictatorship thriller BACK TO BUENOS AIRES. Here’s me for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Back to Buenos Aires – first-look review

Marcho Bechis' tense drama documents a man's return to a country where he endured brutal treatment in order to testify against the perpatrators.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/09/2026

Wrapped Venice competition with one of its great surprises, Marco Bechis’ tight dictatorship thriller BACK TO BUENOS AIRES. Here’s me for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Back to Buenos Aires – first-look review

Marcho Bechis' tense drama documents a man's return to a country where he endured brutal treatment in order to testify against the perpatrators.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 09/09/2026

It feels ironic that Casey Affleck’s gothic horror, built upon the notion of inviting one in, is so relentlessly intent on shutting us out, writes @rafiews.com Company – first-look review from #Venezia83

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Company – first-look review

Casey Affleck's sombre gothic horror is over laboured despite an intriguing premise.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 08/09/2026

I adore LIGHT OF MY LIFE, so it breaks my heart to say COMPANY is a messy, aimless bundle of wasted promise. Here’s me for @lwlies.com (in a spoiler-free review of a film that is very easy to spoil): lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Company – first-look review

Casey Affleck's sombre gothic horror is over laboured despite an intriguing premise.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 08/09/2026

Victor di Marco and Márcio Picoli’s London spreads its narrative tentacles with the eagerness of first-time filmmakers hungry to tackle many concerns at once, finds @rafiews.com #Venezia83

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London – first-look review

Victor di Marco and Márcio Picoli's portrait of a queer and disabled sex worker asks interesting questions but underserves an intriguing premise.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026

In her English language debut, Lili Horvát hones in on the parallels between our starved curiosity for the alien and our frustration at the mysteries of our own kind #Venezia83

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My Notes on Mars – first-look review

Lili Horvát’s English language debut stars Mackenzie Davis and Rupert Friend as a starcrossed couple.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026

Danny Boyle sets the scene for an evisceration of the mighty Rupert Murdoch, but never quite lands a killing blow, finds @rafiews.com #Venezia83

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Ink – first-look review

Danny Boyle's take on the rise of Rupert Murdoch and The Sun fails to spin a convincing yarn.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 02/09/2026

Venice has started on a sour note this year. Here's me on Danny Boyle's misguided INK for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Ink – first-look review

Danny Boyle's take on the rise of Rupert Murdoch and The Sun fails to spin a convincing yarn.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 03/09/2026

Desperately missing Twitter polls as I struggle with a burning issue on the ground in Venice: do the Mara Sisters look alike?

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 18/08/2026

I’m the first one in my family’s long lineage to read this combination of words

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 07/08/2026

This Woody Harrelson quote from Michael Winterbottom's WELCOME TO SARAJEVO just struck me like a hard blow to the face.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The tech that young ppl generally embrace is stuff that helps them rebel, allows greater self-expressivity, creates a shared generational vernacular. AI ain't it. In fact AI corrals new thinking into stale, billionaire-owned algorithmic patterns that are the opposite. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z's Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry

Gen Z is increasingly skeptical about AI, according to a new survey, because of its perceived negative impact on humanity.

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Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They let me get a little spicy on main over *that* NYT op-ed. So without further ado…a few cents on David Ellison’s plea to the American people to let him win this round of Monopoly. Full story at the link 👇

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 30/07/2026

I have, as the kids say, secured the goods.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 28/07/2026

Denis Villeneuve’s The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 27/07/2026

Watched The Odyssey at the multiplex yesterday and the packed theatre actually made me a tad emotional. I live in a fairly small city, and most of the time there’s barely half a dozen people in a screening. The waitress at the restaurant nearby said it’s the busiest week they’ve had in years.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 19/07/2026

PLOT TWIST 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/07/2026

Everyone I root for in this World Cup loses

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For most of my life, my pinnacle (as yet unfulfilled) relationship goal has been to have my hair washed on the deck of a boat like in DEAD CALM. RIP to the wonderful Sam Neill who played bad guys and good guys, but who had a specialist talent for making decency the sexier option, even vs Billy Zane.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/10/2025

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

SAM NEILL

GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR

If you were to commit a murder,

how would you do it?

It's got to be big! No slipping

something into someones drink, that's just

pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a

stain on the road. There's probably a couple

of people I'd put under a steamroller,

but I won't say who they are, otherwise

when they see a steamroller coming

their way they'll be on full alert. And

steamrollers don't go very fast...

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 13/07/2026

Many, many great Sam Neill films, but the first to come to my head this morning is the lovely Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Playing the silent grump is a trap to lesser actors, but Neill plays Hec with this palpable undercurrent of tenderness that struck me deeply at the time and still does, now.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 13/07/2026

I enjoy the use of “moonwalk” here as it makes it seem like the film now has to make its way backwards towards paying audiences $1 billion back

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 13/07/2026

Every time the World Cup comes along, I feel an urge to pick a Premier League team to support and then am brutally reminded of how maddeningly expensive stadium tickets are in the UK. We’ve seen better days in Brazil, sure, but I still managed to watch my team at the stadium every single week.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ROSE OF NEVADA rips

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 13/07/2026

I would like to approach the bench at the court of tiniest causes and plead my case: if you recline your seat on an hour-long flight, you have no consideration for others and I dislike you.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/07/2026

Everyone I root for in this World Cup loses

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 24/06/2026

Not to be a boomer but VAR is ruining football x

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 01/07/2026

This Senegal loss just destroyed me. My god, I love football but it can be so very cruel.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 30/06/2026

PARAGUAY 🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾🇵🇾

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 25/06/2026

God I love the World Cup 🇪🇨

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 25/06/2026

[after referee annulled a penalty kick for Germany] Actually…

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 24/06/2026

God has punished me by having to listen to Scottish commentators go from saying it was no foul before the VAR break to spending the full hydration break changing their minds

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 24/06/2026

Not to be a boomer but VAR is ruining football x

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 20/06/2026

Had my wisdom teeth removed two days ago and this Ivory Coast goal against Germany almost made me rip my stitches

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