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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 5h

"But any critic, or indeed anyone uttering criticism, that seems to think that if they dislike a work it must obviously be bad? They can go take a long walk while I unfollow them and remove their sites from my bookmarks."

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #307: How bad is bad?

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Where do ghosts stand (or float?) in the rogue’s gallery of the supernatural? Do they scare us – and, if not, what is their storytelling purpose? How do our three films fit into all of this? And, last but not least: would you fall for the romantic advances of a character played by George Sanders?"

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #10: I ain’t afraid of no ghost

It’s spooky season once again, which means that for our October podcast, A Damn Fine Cup of Culture turns to the creepier side of things. And what could be creepier than ghosts? Except: while…

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"My English teacher commented in the margin that he didn’t get why I’d waste my essaying skills on an inferior book like that. I remember thinking that was beside the point. It was new. It had excited my brain. Why did quality have to come into it?"

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #306: Be more unhinged

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And it sounds an alarm every time the next batch of releases is announced. Composed by Philip Glass, I hope.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m not sure I dare to play the climactic boss fight against The Molyneux.

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Hitchcock has a talent for building an atmosphere of mystery and hostility in this gothic environment, but the script is also a key reason for its success. Like a good horror story, a sunny, happy world is slowly revealed to have dark secrets lurking in the shadows."

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One Best Picture After Another #13: Rebecca (1940)

Welcome to One Best Picture After Another – where I attempt to watch all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture, starting at the very beginning. And attempt to answer two simple qu…

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I like the film, but whenever I watch it I feel I’d enjoy rewatching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid more.

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Which, of course, is a fascinating phenomenon: do each of us remember films not only differently in tone and emotional impact, but does everyone actually add and subtract scenes to films we see, so that if we talked about it and compared, this would make for a whole library of imagined cinema?"

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #305: Movie scenes only existing in my head (I think..)

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Because it’s in my nature” would be an appropriate punchline for many a cat story. It’s just that scorpions don’t purr, which is 80% of why pro-cat works so well.

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Hud can certainly be described as a revisionist Western, taking the tropes and iconography of the genre to tell a darker story about a country built on the myth (or lie?) of rugged individualism."

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Criterion Corner: Hud (#1319)

There is a certain thrill to seeing a movie star of tremendous charisma, a leading-man type we’re drawn to, play a character that is offputting. Certain stars we got to know as villains: Will…

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I bounced off of PW, playing in VR, which makes me think that AC and AC-likes may just not be for me.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Obviously you need to write for Doctor Who.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ag, I thought so. Either this one or 🪏🚢, and that one seemed less likely.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Any hints as to what film it is? Or will we have to wait for an upcoming Filmbulletin? 😜

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have to say I’m not a fan of the look: there’s something too smooth to it, especially compared to the rest of the graphics. I’m wondering if there’d be some kind of pixelation shader that would make the character look more in tune with the 3D-ified pixel art?

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The moustache… it haunts me.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Certainly a good choice, as there are films you should definitely not watch when you’re ill. As a kid, I saw Doctor Zhivago (not my choice at the time) when I had a flu, and I swear the film never ended and is still going on.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A bad adaptation doesn’t mean a story can’t be adapted well. Black Dahlia could’ve been a good film with a better script and better direction.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like it? Now that we know it’s not all porny? Psh!

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"There’s an underrated skill in making an epic that feels like we’ve gone on a proper journey. Many films don’t really manage it, even with a wearying long runtime. Yet I felt I’d seen an epic by the time of the intermission, and that’s not even halfway through."

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One Best Picture After Another #12: Gone With The Wind (1939)

Welcome to One Best Picture After Another – where I attempt to watch all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture, starting at the very beginning. And attempt to answer two simple qu…

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking forward to meeting him already!

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let's get David Simon to talk to Kermit & Co. Not sure yet whether it should be Treme with Muppets, Generation Kill with Muppets or The Deuce with Muppets.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@punkyfins.bsky.social looks back to the 1990s in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees.

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Mara isn’t the cypher that video game protagonists often are. She is clearly defined, through what she says and does as much as through what she doesn’t do. Her clothes, hair, posture: even rendered in blocky pixel art, all of these give us an impression of who she is."

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They create worlds: Perfect Tides: Station to Station (2026)

One of the things that video games can do magnificently is create worlds. These posts are an occasional exploration of games that I love because of where they take me. Gamers love choice. They love…

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did you check your spam filter?

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gotta say, for me Le Carré's world looks like late '70s, early '80s European TV, colour scheme and all. It might be different if my first Le Carré film had been The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, but my formative experience was with the two Smiley series.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Could this look any more Kentucky Route Zero?

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"When I read this blog and people reminisce about the media that influenced them, this is the part that fascinates me. What did those movies and shows do to us? What do they say about who we were and who we still are now?"

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #302: This blew me away

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"When You Can’t Take It With You begins, it is all too easy for Capra's detractors. We’re introduced to Evil Businessmen and their bullying aides that are so two-dimensional they feel straight out of a ’60s live-action Disney film about a Talking Car or a Magic Dog."

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One Best Picture After Another #11: You Can’t Take It With You (1938)

Welcome to One Best Picture After Another – where I attempt to watch all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture, starting at the very beginning. And attempt to answer two simple qu…

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sorry, there’s a more obvious addition: DLSS 5 mode. (It just installs and runs RDR2 in the background.)

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

VR mode or GTFO. Well, that or nude mod.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Squadron 42 was part of the original pitch, and arguably it’s why a lot of the original backers (fans of Wing Commander) signed up. Also, it was always supposed to be released before Star Citizen.

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Episodes feel like you’re being told a ghost story – the mystery unravelling as Sapphire and Steel investigate. Nothing is going to lean on impressive visuals to scare you, just the haunting quality of the ideas on display."

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #301: The Nightmare Fuel of “Sapphire And Steel”

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also known as the Reverse Hornby.

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Matt Kimmich @thirith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t really know what it is about them, but I love being a passenger in multiplayer car/heli rides, just hanging out, chatting, enjoying the scenery. Sometimes more so than the more traditional gameplay that follows.

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