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space pirate, robot whisperer, word wrangler, marteau sans maître, purveyor of weapons of mass deconstruction – formerly bylined at Birth.Movies.Death

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 2h
Man whose wife is, like, 90% artificial here
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 2h
Heck of a career pivot from THE WIZARD OF OZ’ Wicked Witch Of The West
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 13h
Glen Powell out there really trying to speedrun Chris Pratt's career.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 13h
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS doesn't fuck around: barely 2 minutes in some guy gets attacked by a crab monster, 5 stars
Poster for the 1957 movie ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS. A swooning woman in a teensy swimsuit is depicted being attached by a monstrous crab
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Personally, I'd start by not spending action-blockbuster money making an eco-satire
theguardian.com
Digger may lose $150m after Tom Cruise film bombs at the box office
Alejandro G Iñárritu’s critically panned satire took just $20m globally in its opening weekend, against a reported $150m production budget and $100m marketing spend
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMAN is barely 71m long and yet 55m in there still hasn't been any attacking or 50fting
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This fucking movie is following me around various podcasts and online film games, and I presume the only way to exorcise this is to actually watch it
Poster for the 2011 movie NO STRINGS ATTACHED. Natalie Portman has her head attached to some other woman's body at a physically impossible angle, but still smiles at Ashton Kutcher as he sits on a bed failing to put his trousers on while she buttons her shirt
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big day in Chip News
Screenshot of two articles trailed in the topmost carousel on The Grauniad website. On the left, "Are chips ever worth £11? Probably not", and on the right "Row over viral Amsterdam chip shop lands in court"
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Annoyingly, I can't find a VERITY showing that works for my diary this weekend
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Turns out that I'd managed to conflate CAPE FEAR and THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER when they are in fact completely different movies about Robert Mitchum playing a piece of shit.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When we come to the end of the year, let's not overlook the fact that James Cameron had a legit flop in 2026
Promotional image for the 2026 movie HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR LIVE IN 3D
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean, they could have gone with an actual Paramount/Warners co-production: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, a movie about age and wisdom which ends with the main character shrivelling up and dying.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hilarious that they've sent SCRUBS show runner Aseem Batra out there to quash the notion HEAVILY implied in the first two episodes of the new season that they're going to kill Dr. Cox.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not going to criticise anyone recommending what are plainly SF movies for horror season: got to take the wins where we can
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chabrol's 1994 version of L'ENFER, working from Clouzot's script and starring Emmanuelle Béart, is a fine film in its own right and well worth pairing with HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO, but that mesmerising test footage of Romy Scheider painted in light hints at a lost masterpiece of film art
theguardian.com
Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries – ranked!
From tropical disasters and doomed sci-fi epics to bribing Orson Welles and fending off a puma, we rate cinema’s most revealing glimpses behind the scenes
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UNCHARTED 5 release date: confirmed
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under witch trial rules, I believe she now goes free
theguardian.com
Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Going to guess that "Unfortunately, we ran into an issue when attempting your delivery." is Amazonese for "We didn't manage to put it on the fucking van."
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Got a new work laptop this week, which not only has double the memory and a processor which isn't a total turd, but also the Windows 11 update that allows you to put the Start button in the bottom left corner of the screen where it belongs.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The recent Ukrainian sci-fi film "U Are the Universe," the story of a man alone in the vastness of space, is incredibly moving, bleak, hilarious, and inspiring. @repino1.bsky.social on the reasons why this "miraculous" film deserves a wider audience
reactormag.com
So, You Want a Dark, Serious, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Project Hail Mary? Try U Are the Universe - Reactor
A gorgeous and moving Ukrainian sci-fi film that deserves the widest possible audience.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A heartwarming tale of men exhibiting positive behaviour towards women who happen to have a small boy with them. Wait a second now…
theguardian.com
The kindness of strangers: Two helicopter pilots flew down low to wave to my three-year-old son – he was beside himself with joy
My son adores helicopters, so we waved as hard as possible as it flew past. Then it suddenly looped and came back around
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Greeted by the usher at PRIMETIME like
An image macro of Chris Hansen overlaid with the text "Why don't you take a seat?"
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm really not one for shitting on stuff that a) hasn't been made yet and b) I'm very unlikely to see anyway but fuck me, aren't there any other families with stories to be told in this galaxy far, far away a long time ago?
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fell behind on my magazine reading again to such an extent that I ended up reading two issues of a weekly in the wrong order. Back on track now...
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No, I haven't heard, or heard of, that song. Should further musical opinions be required, I'll be over here listening to the new Dimensional Holofonic Sound album.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Once again, fandom being a cancer is not a new thing
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yo Apple TV, I also have some stuff about a failed relationship I would like to work through in public, can a brother get another mediocre ten-episode TV season?
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Has this article informed much of my viewing choices this weekend? Perhaps... I mean, obviously I already have copies of TRANCERS, INSEMINOID and DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS, but much to enjoy here.
bfi.org.uk
10 great sci-fi B-movies
Ahead of our Blu-ray release of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space and a big-screen celebration of Roger Corman’s centenary, we sift for gold among the pulp pleasures and cheapo ingenuity of the sci-fi...
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Will an AI suck my dick? It says it will, and I am already blasting rope."
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
A simple doodle showing a man, Conan Doyle, waving his diploma over his head. Underneath the doodle it says: Licensed to kill
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can primarily tell when artwork is human made because it rewards you for zooming in instead of punishing you
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The curators at the Sex Toy Museum do great work: the vibes are immaculate.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It has been documented that stirring the tanks regularly reduces the risk of prostate cancer. Crank them hogs, boys, or you're just storing up problems for the future. Along with sperms.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Doing the drag film double bill this evening and the quality whiplash when going from PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT straight into TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR is just BRUTAL.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oasis pulling the "Here's some once in a lifetime reunion gigs" followed by "Here's a whole new tour" routine is exactly why I look upon bands getting back together with such suspicion no matter how much buried hatchets narrative is spackled on top.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This season is SO good already. Hard to believe that Karina Longworth is a whole dozen years into this project which has only gotten deeper and more assured as it has gone along but still has the exact same intro, outro and format as its very first episode. Gold standard Hollywood history.
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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also here’s that video of Sleater-Kinney and Liz Phair covering Elastica that you might not have realized you were looking for, but you were: youtu.be/oAnYhz0N9Y4?...
youtu.be
Liz Phair & Sleater Kinney "Connection" (Elastica Cover) LIVE | Boston, MA | September 21, 2026
YouTube video by Concerts Hub
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quick, drop and give me more than three names for New York City…
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Have I been watching Looney Tunes compilations on YouTube? Mayyyyyybe…
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If Donald Trump is truly building a bunker within which to retreat while refusing to vacate the office of President, I propose letting him make his last stand, then just concreting up the entrances (using contractors who actually know what they're doing) and leaving him to it.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The existence of Space Station Regula-1 implies the existence of a Space Station Irregula-1
Space Station Regula-1 as depicted in STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s Sophia Loren’s birthday, which means it’s time for the photo of Sophia Loren checking out Jayne Mansfield’s rack
Sophie Loren checking out Jayne Mansfield’s rack at Romanoff’s restaurant in April 1957
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Got all my chores and tasks and projects for the weekend wrapped up by 2.30pm, so I am entirely justified in grabbing the last of the sunny weather with a pint and a magazine to read in the pub garden before they switch it to winter mode
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two thirds of the way through September really ought to be time that the shorts were back in the closet, but it's warm, sunny and humid enough that they're still in circulation.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HI, MOM! CANNONBALL! DEMON SEED CHOPPING MALL POLICE ACADEMY 6: CITY UNDER SIEGE All bangers, all the time. RIP.
variety.com
Gerrit Graham, Actor in ‘Phantom of the Paradise,’ Screenwriter and Grateful Dead Collaborator, Dies at 77
Gerrit Graham, actor in "Phantom of the Paradise" and many other films and TV shows who co-wrote a song for The Grateful Dead, died Tuesday.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shout out to all my Fantastic Fest fam: y'all have a great time this week. Be kind to each other, enjoy movies and tip your servers.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I guess we're in another one of those phases where Pitt makes a bunch of crowdpleasing stuff via Plan B (production house, not birth control) before doing something off the wall and interesting again. Wake me for that part. Mind you, it does kind of feel like he's competing with l'il Tommy C…
deadline.com
'World War Z 2' A Go With Brad Pitt Returning And Ed Berger Directing
Edward Berger is set to direct 'World War Z 2' with Brad Pitt returning to star.
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I'm reading the reviews correctly, the entire Oasis reunion tour was primarily a means of capturing footage for a documentary?
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That's just Christopher Walken in THE DEER HUNTER and I long ago conceded that I don't have that sort of game
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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Zack Snyder stick to ruining your own stuff challenge
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