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Talking all the way through movies, for money. Contributor for 88 Films, Arrow Video, Eureka, Sight & Sound, and more. Spent 19 years covering East Asian cinema and pop culture for NEO Magazine; 17 years talking to drummers for Rhythm.

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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Too vile for words
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Josie Ho is amazing in Dream Home!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you want to know what the UK is like, the man referred to in this clip was appointed to the House of Lords.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something tells me that Christina Ricci is a hell of a parent. I love seeing parents who teach their children right from wrong, and to stand up for what's right.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Judo officiating is notoriously poor in these instances. I've seen people choked unconscious and the ref just stands there oblivious.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disgraceful!
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 02/10/2026
Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...
humanists.uk
Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools
Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Largest prison population in the world - land of the free.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shocking!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just love Crypta. Only seen them once but they were great
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With the new one, I found the first half much stronger than the second. Never managed to top the suspense of the farmhouse sequence for me.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They're trash but very entertaining trash
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's horrifying
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's obviously AI.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tthoughts on Na Hong-jin's Hope westwatchesmovies.substack.com/p/hope-sinks...
westwatchesmovies.substack.com
Hope Sinks Eternal
Na Hong-jin’s long-awaited return is a frantic chase to nowhere
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He's a thug and a convicted kidnapper.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have you seen his latest excuse for a column today? Imagine telling 24 million people they should just give up and let Xi do whatever he wants.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'll give you an alibi
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Aw yeah!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Has any government ever been so fearful of their own people?
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's remarkable to me. He was a disastrous leader.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
300 is basically an ode to eugenics. dorkarama.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/3...
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300 – A Love Letter To Adolf
Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s comic 300 is wildly popular amongst young men of a certain demographic. As a fight journalist covering MMA, one question I often asked fighters was &#8216…
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Billy and the Boingers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran youtu.be/Ve0MPWQrG2g?...
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Billy And The Boingers ‎– I'm A Boinger
YouTube video by skawashers
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Cas/Strix 🔜 MagicCon Atlanta @strixhavendropout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Saw this and died
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Minnie Chan, a senior reporter who covered defence issues for the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post (SCMP), was last heard from in October 2023."
RSF approached the SCMP for comment, requesting information about Chan’s current employment status, confirmation of her detention and the nature of any charges, as well as information about what support is being provided to the journalist in the event she is detained. At the time of publication, the SCMP had not replied.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wearing a t-shirt?
static.klipy.com
Fred Armisen: Right To Jail
ALT: Fred Armisen: Right To Jail
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I really wanted to like Seven Swords much more than I did
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A wonderful movie, so beautifully shot and designed!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
National Security is whatever Beijing says it is so shut up and go to prison for remembering when we turned the military on our citizens.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Marge Simpson bollard. #WorldBollardAssociation
A concrete bollard painted to look like Marge Simpson.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Seven years in prison for remembering state violence.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An absolute turkey! Would the franchise be improved if it became a period piece, set during the Cold War?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Insomnia sucks! Hope you manage to sleep!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Are they doing Tai Chi Walking?
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's an amazing speech but not the first time audiences heard Chaplin's voice in a film, and not the first time he speaks in The Great Dictator. His voice is heard as early as Modern Times (1936).
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Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@uniofgreenwich.bsky.social is hosting Michael and Jake from @ghibliotheque.bsky.social to launch the new book, Ghiblipedia, on 16th Sept. Entry is free. Come to hear them talk about books, podcasts, Ghibli, anime - and ask questions! Please share this post. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opening-th...
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Opening the Ghiblipedia
Join us for an evening of all things Studio Ghibli, where we talk with The Ghibliotheque Authors and Podcast Hosts.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No thank you!!
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.
verbatiminvestigations.com
Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It has been far too long since I saw this movie
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honestly, just tragic. A society that devours its young has no future but that is what the CCP has in the cards for Hong Kong, while Wong and many nameless others have sacrificed so much to defend their home
theguardian.com
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case
Wong, 29, is accused of urging foreign powers to impose sanctions, blockades and other hostile measures against China
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you for trying!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What the hell? Who wrote and edited that? Bleurgh.
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think her face is a different shape - but thank you! It's a mystery!!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One! Bwahahaha. I'm so old. Get in the trash, young people.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"831 打死人" On 31 August 2019, HK police descended onto Prince Edward MTR station and assaulted every commuter in sight
Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I think it's kind of cute that the young people are discovering Zeppelin. It's not the first time - youtu.be/k1OdgfEhzgM?...
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Kingdom Come - Get It On (official video)
YouTube video by kingdomcometv
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I love that movie!
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thatdavidwest.bsky.social @thatdavidwest.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So spectacularly great!
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