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Ross Maclean

@rossmaclean.bsky.social
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Freelance film critic and broadcaster, so likes films a fair bit. Appears on BBC Radio Scotland. Member of London Critics’ Circle.

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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This was a bit good.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A Ross’s Second Year of Live Music™ bonus event and one of the most amazing things my eyes have ever beheld. A few hours ahead of the huge gig I had travelled for, an unannounced rooftop Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds gig in a narrow Brighton lane. An event that will live with me forever.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Game of Thrones: The Mad King was one of the most astounding things I’ve ever seen on a stage. Genuinely awestruck at points. The material lends itself well to the Shakespearean gravitas it’s afforded by @the-rsc.bsky.social and the performance space and puppetry is something else.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Went to see Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day and the end credits incorrectly credit Alex Macqueen as Alexander Armstrong. Never seen the likes in a finished film before. How does that slip through? Can assure you it was definitely Alex Macqueen in the film.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Me when I saw that I happen to cross paths with her tour when I’m in Paris over the weekend, so now I have tickets for a third gig.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Privileged to get to be part of @nicolameighan.bsky.social’s last edition of Afternoons on BBC Radio Scotland later from around 3.30pm. Ostensibly there to talk about this week’s films but mostly happy just to be basking in her glow. You should all be tuning in to the whole show!
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Should have spent more time Mullan their options.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Bold of them to consider the new László Nemes a Scottish classic.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ok
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Top tip for upstart events producers putting on big corporate branded events and charging the public £55 a ticket: If the subject of your event is famous for his probing interviews, hire a proper interviewer to conduct the onstage interview and don’t think one of your (1/3)
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Out of context Obsession
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The first big weekend of the summer…
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Outstanding night at the Steve Mason book event tonight. Sounds like a fascinating approach to musical memoir and the chat was perfectly steered and guided into fascinating areas by the incomparable @nicolameighan.bsky.social
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Would love to see the data on this. By “take road trips” do they just mean ‘drive somewhere’?
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Jack White in Paris and Newcastle it is then.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Honestly can’t stop thinking about this gig. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a band make such a virtue of the Hydro before, or ever seen a moment quite as special as this there. x.com/realtimbooth...
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Angine de Poitrine Autumn for me! ⚫️🙌⚪️
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m enjoying this glorious return to sitcom situations retrofitted around a well known phrase. ‘Bills included’ is a phrase often seen in tenancy ads. His name is Bill. He stays with his tenants so he’s included. Lovely stuff.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I see whether or not you are looking forward to SNL UK is the new culture war.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
My hot take is that I’m happy with every single award at last night’s #Oscars. Nothing I can get mad about. Sure, there are a couple I’d *like* to have seen but, yeah, they were all good.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
5 minutes in and we’ve already had the anti-this. #oscars
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
He may not have delivered on his long-awaited MySpace pledge of some Jaffa Cakes but it was a pleasure to finally see one of my longterm favourites @edgarwright.bsky.social giving great Glasgow Q&A tonight at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
When the actual number is a nice round 25, why would you write it up as “nearly 30”?
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Incidentally, One Day: The Musical was really wonderful. Brilliantly captured a 90s Brit romcom vibe (right down to a performance channeling Hugh Grant) and powerfully staged in the round. Run, don’t walk (and definitely don’t cycle) to get a ticket.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not sure I can quite wrap my head round this being @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social. Talk about a revamp for One Day: The Musical. We’re sat on stage I guess!
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Lotta Tourette’s experts logging on tonight. Feel awful for John Davidson, a man who has done so much good work, to have his condition and intentions scrutinised like this on the biggest platform he’s ever had and in an age of worldwide social media armchair analysis.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Galashiels shoutout at the #EEBAFTAs klaxon!
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The only thing that’s disappointing about Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC is that we came sooo close to getting the remastered version of this footage and didn’t.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Going to see Jodie Comer performing in Prima Facie while Louis CK plays to a sold out crowd in the building right next door is quite the vibe.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Jason Statham’s little lighthouse island in the film Shelter was filmed on Uri Geller’s Lamb island in the Forth, just off North Berwick (he’s thanked in the credits and everything). Yes, the same island where he just granted Trump presidency. www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Oh, just @stereogum.com using one of my images to illustrate their story over on Facebook without any credit.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Was at a gig tonight where a good 60% of the crowd looked like this.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’m Alan Partridge as Best Picture nominees #Oscars2026  A thread:
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Only on a second viewing of The Bone Temple did it click that Jack O’Connell’s Scottish accent is basically the exact same one employed by Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy in Trainspotting.
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ALT: a man with long blonde hair and a beard is wearing gold chains and a black jacket with the bone temple logo in the background
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 reading done. www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Rian Johnson absolutely understands.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Happy Hundredth, Dick!
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Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Thing is as Nepo parent, you’re in a bind, you aren’t going to hinder your kids professional progress to make a political point. But surely you just say yes, their background helped.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
There’s something hilarious, and a bit sad, about Robbie Williams announcing a handful of smaller low-key gigs in venues with a bit of cred (I mean by ‘smaller’, places like the Barras — hardly the back room of a pub) and then going “that’ll be £140 please”.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Jack White brings out Eminem
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Look, I’m not anti-toilet break but: “Screening as one film for the first time ever” “There will be a 10 minute interval between the two films”
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
As someone who loves Suspiria, Blade, Bacurau, Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves etc etc, why is it when I think of Udo Kier this is the first film that comes to mind? What a career and what presence though. RIP.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Ah’m no fae Yoker, I’ve got nae business being here.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Like the world’s coolest tourist, I went to both these places today.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
You can definitely count me in the pro-Alpha camp. Many layers to unravel but I was totally immersed. And luckily came with a fascinating, wide-ranging Q&A with Julia Ducournau and Tahar Rahim, at once both touching and with scintillating nuts and bolts technical insights.
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I’d absolutely go to a tour of The Killers just singing Warren Zevon songs. youtu.be/tWrdK1MZEW0?...
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The Killers | Lawyers, Guns And Money | Full Performance | Live @ The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2025
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Me watching Lily Allen on March 2nd, 2026: “Wait, a *what* palace? I thought I was visiting a dojo.”
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Ross Maclean @rossmaclean.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Oh, he’s beautiful!
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