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John Nugent

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Reviews editor at Empire magazine (@empiremagazine.bsky.social) thenuge.co.uk

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 26/08/2026
NOT OKAY
Tim Curry and Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo, and Rizzo the RatDolly Parton and Missy Piggy
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There needs to be some reason for London to exist beyond buying and selling bits of it for profit. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Review: Ew... Read our ★ review: www.empireonline.com/movies...
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
One of the most impressive examples of Posting Through It
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A bit different, this. I have written a piece for @thefence.bsky.social, one of my favourite magazines, about mermaids. Yes, mermaids. Last year I went to a village in Kent to witness a few of them plying their trade. Had a lot of fun writing my report. Would love if you gave it a read.
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My review of The Odyssey, a very very very good film
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A genuinely terrible start to the day. Awful. No coming back from this
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
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Lee CroNina's The Mummymoto 💀 @spacecoyote.com · 13/07/2026
let us not forget one of his greatest roles
Molloy the cat burglar from the Simpsons episode "Homer the Vigilante", voiced by Sam Neill
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Xan Brooks @xanbrooks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill. So many great, knotty performances, so many bold choices, such a consistently interesting career & still - shamefully - this interview snippet was the first thing I thought of
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/07/2026
The most powerful lore explanation you can ever produce is "don't worry about it"
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 29/06/2026
Thank you Google maps for protecting the cow's privacy
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This film looks utterly evil (complimentary). Love this Eggers interview from @mrgodfrey.bsky.social
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This month’s subscriber cover is a mythical depiction of Odysseus’ storm-battered boat, illustrated exclusively for Empire by Paul Shipper. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our third cover variant sees Tom Holland as Telemachus in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Get a copy: www.greatmagazines.co.uk/empire-augus...
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our second cover variant sees Anne Hathaway as Penelope in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Get a copy: greatmagazines.co.uk/empire-augus...
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Matt Damon is Odysseus Empire's The Odyssey issue has three collectible covers – as we spend two days on set with Christopher Nolan, his cast and crew, following their globe-spanning journey to bring the ultimate myth to life. On sale 2 July. Read more: empireonline.com/movies/news/...
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’ve recommended this app to more close friends than I can count. Got no affiliation with it at all (and it works in limited cities) but I’m spreading the word because I swear to god it has changed my movie-going life and we must keep it alive. apps.apple.com/us/app/parad...
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App Paradiso - Cinemas & Movies - App Store
Téléchargez l’app Paradiso - Cinemas & Movies développée par Guillaume Galuz dans l’App Store. Consultez les captures d’écran, les notes et avis, les astuces…
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My review of Michael — a film which, quite frankly, takes the Michael.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.
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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I went to see Interstellar at the Royal Albert Hall last weekend, with a live score by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the original soundtrack organist Roger Sayer. It was a profoundly emotional experience, which I've written about here.
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I saw Interstellar with a live orchestra – and it left me weeping
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi masterpiece is even more emotional with the power of live music – and a 70ft organ, writes Empire's Alex Godfrey.
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
One of the silliest things I have done in my ten years of working for Empire magazine.
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Mike Ryan @mikeryan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Since 2011 anytime I interviewed anyone involved in OCEANS TWELVE I’ve asked them a version of, “Since Tess knows she looks like Julia Roberts, does everyone else on the team know they look like famous people?” I finally put all of their answers together in this post
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In 'Oceans Twelve' Tess Looks Like Julia Roberts, So Do They Know They All Look Like Famous People?
This piece is literally 15 years in the making. I've been obsessed with one particular plot point of Steven Soderbergh's Oceans Twelve since I first saw it 22 years ago (wait, what?) and anytime I've ...
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
@ezwrites.bsky.social Hi Esther - hope you're well! Do you mind dropping me an email? Would love to commission you for something if you're interested. john@empiremagazine.com
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
we say “o’clock” because time is irish
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Liked Project Hail Mary very much.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The long 2010s are finally over
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Kate Erbland @katerbland.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 30/01/2026
I know people love to deservedly praise John Candy's improvisation in HOME ALONE, but Catherine O'Hara is equally amazing. She's rolling with all of his choices and is deep within his emotionality and frivolity, responding to him with equal ease. It's stellar acting work by her.
Catherine O'Hara amusingly staring at John Candy as he plays clarinet in Home Alone.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 30/01/2026
january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I said what I said.
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
He knows exactly what he's doing.
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One reunion to rule them all. The Lord Of The Rings fellowship celebrates 25 years of cinema’s greatest fantasy saga in Empire’s world-exclusive reunion issue – featuring brand-new interviews, cast photos, and more. On sale Thursday 15 January. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Tomorrow. 4PM GMT.
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Here is the main feature from Issue 26, an oral history of the print magazine in the 21st century. Featuring interviews with Alex Bilmes, Ian Hislop, Jo Ellison, Graydon Carter, Andrew Neil, Richard Benson, Kate Spicer, Chris Floyd and @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social. www.the-fence.com/rumours-of-o...
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Rumours of Our Death
Print Ain’t Dead, Baby
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Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Absolutely devastated by the news about Rob Reiner. By all accounts a good man, and an incredible director. I wouldn't be who I am without his run of '80s classics - and his wife Michelle shaped those because their love story fundamentally changed When Harry Met Sally, for the better.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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Tom Davidson @tomdavidson92.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The journey begins… Christopher Nolan’s #TheOdyssey is revealed on Empire’s world-exclusive cover – the first look and first word on an epic like no other. On sale Thursday 20th November. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Tomorrow, 4pm.
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Hanna Thomas Uose @hannamade.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Wrote a little bit about my horrible habit of abandoning books... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Novels I haven’t finished reading are piling up by my bedside. What if that’s a good thing? | Hanna Thomas Uose
Authors are sounding warnings about the length of the modern attention span, but my series of abandonments is a sign of something else, says author Hanna Thomas Uose
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I have written a lot of negative reviews in my time but I don't think I will ever write a review as quietly damning as Charli xcx's Letterboxd review of A Complete Unknown
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Nick de Semlyen @nickdesemlyen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This is a big one 🔥 For our new issue I got to head to New Zealand to shadow James Cameron for 2 days, as he perfects Avatar: Fire And Ash. Eyeball-searing subs-cover art by Fire And Ash concept artist Dylan Cole. On sale Thursday. Available to order online from Monday. Subs copies dropping soon!
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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Go beyond The Grid 🚨 Empire’s world-exclusive Tron: Ares issue revs up – going on set with the cast and crew bringing Light Cycles, identity discs and rogue AIs into the real world. On sale Thurs 3 July. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Pulitzer for John for this.
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John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I had a lot of fun writing this month's Fantastic Four cover feature. Ralph Ineson has finally settled the question of who is more evil: Galactus or Finchy from The Office.
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