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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 11h
Wow Check out this Arabic posters substack.com/@kingpolly/n...
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Polly Alea (@kingpolly)
Arabic posters are allergic to being boring
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h
Gaza documentary NAZA beats Avengers Endgame: Encore to top Italian box office
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Gaza documentary NAZA beats Avengers Endgame: Encore to top Italian box office
Award-winning, Guardian-produced film focused on Israel’s mass killing of civilians extends run after sold-out screenings NAZA, the award-winning documentary about Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, has opened at No 1 at the Italian box office, beating rival titles including Avengers Endgame: Encore, which came in at No 2. The 80-minute film was booked for a three-day run in Italy, but after sold-out auditoriums and positive audience reaction, its release window will be extended. On its opening day on Monday, the documentary took a total of €451,872, with a per site average of €1,153. Continue reading...
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 30/09/2026
I wrote about Danny Boyle’s hymn to The Sun “Ink” and Lance Oppenheim’s celebration of trash tv “Primetime” for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social (No paywall) www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
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What Danny Boyle gets badly wrong about The Sun
Ink is an advert for the old media that skirts over the damaging journalism Rupert Murodch’s tabloid unleashed
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David📎 @thestrovinator.bsky.social · 15h
🎥Films That Influenced Me - Film 6 - Blazing Saddles - the next, a quick warning my list is really long. If you think this is 'okay' but a 'bit childish' & 'slow in the second part' then probably don't read this! #FilmSky #BlazingSaddles #film #movies therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Films that influenced me – Film 6 – Blazing Saddles (1974), another in my long, long list, be interesting to know how many other people list films like this and what they are! Mr. Mel Brooks makes wha...
Yet another film that really influenced me – as a young lad in the UK American humour was not always going to appeal to me but Mr. Mel Brooks a genius at the genre and so good and giving you …
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 14h
Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 14h
The disparity and inequality in wealth can be seen in the fact that when I fart the BBC doesn’t report it but when Jim Ratcliffe does it’s all over the news
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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 18h
I still get a real thrill when I see the cover of Connery by the peerless @www.johnbleasdale.com in the wild. The Great Unwatched by Plumeria is available to pre-order, featuring John and many other critics and writers. Forward by @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 30/09/2026
I wrote about Danny Boyle’s hymn to The Sun “Ink” and Lance Oppenheim’s celebration of trash tv “Primetime” for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social (No paywall) www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
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What Danny Boyle gets badly wrong about The Sun
Ink is an advert for the old media that skirts over the damaging journalism Rupert Murodch’s tabloid unleashed
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 29/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
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Plumeria @plumeriapics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@mattglasby.bsky.social @kathughes.bsky.social @megwalters.bsky.social @leilalatif.bsky.social @davidhughesbluey.bsky.social @www.johnbleasdale.com @carriecnh12.bsky.social + more!
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Plumeria @plumeriapics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗢𝗪 🚨 The Great Unwatched: 200 Must-See Movies You May Have Missed (paperback, out Nov 2) is a must-have collection of must-see movie recommendations, chosen by a diverse group of critics. Limited gold edition for pre-orders only! plumeriapics.co.uk/shop
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 28/09/2026
Gnarly is one of those words I’m going to stop using
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 28/09/2026
This was not a good look
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 28/09/2026
A few years ago. And not at all stoned.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 28/09/2026
ICE is everywhere now. It’s operating with impunity and it is deporting more people than ever before.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
not sure about this new Enid Blyton
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 28/09/2026
Not one right wing or centrist voter will switch to Labour because of this. Many Labour voters however will be looking elsewhere come elections
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 26/07/2026
Lies Movies Tell 2 Everywhere is Empty open.substack.com/pub/jbleasda...
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/09/2026
Ah! Books from my youth
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/09/2026
Lies Movies Tell: 21. High-Schoolers are in their twenties/thirties jbleasdale.substack.com/p/lies-movie...
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Lies Movies Tell: 21. High Schoolers Are in Their Twenties
“Films fib at 24 frames per second,” Jean-Luc Godard
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David📎 @thestrovinator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎥Films That Influenced Me - Film 5 - The Amazing Mr.Blunden - said I wasn't going to do this anymore, but I love doing it; my BlueSky friend and influencer himself @www.johnbleasdale.com encouraged me - I adore this film - I did at 10 and I do at 64 therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/t...
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Films that influenced me – Film 5 – The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972), I can’t resist doing this, even if it is for my own ego, I hope anyone reading this enjoys it though. Another Lionel Jefferies film,...
Another Film The Influenced Me. The Amazing Mr. Blunden, Lionel Jefferies proved to me, even as a young child he knew how to create and direct interesting and different stories. His legacy is with …
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/09/2026
Lies Movies Tell: 21. High-Schoolers are in their twenties/thirties jbleasdale.substack.com/p/lies-movie...
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Lies Movies Tell: 21. High Schoolers Are in Their Twenties
“Films fib at 24 frames per second,” Jean-Luc Godard
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/09/2026
Lies Movies Tell: 14. Fist Fights Are Fun jbleasdale.substack.com/p/lies-movie...
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Lies Movies Tell: 14. Fist Fights Are Fun
"Cinema fibs at 24 frames per second" - Jean-Luc Godard
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/09/2026
Did no one notice that Rising Sun Connery is You Only Live Twice Connery with a beard?
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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
CHE 2023 56,66 US SA 20 GAN
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
SLONKIN' FAT DOINKS WITH A FUCKIN DRAGON
SQUICHE
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NEW: Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja has been arrested on suspicion of showing support for a proscribed organisation outside of Labour's party conference in Liverpool – the first under the tenure of Andy Burnham
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Massive Attack musician arrested at Palestine protest outside Labour conference
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Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Happy #Caturday #SaturdayMotivation #GraceKelly #kitten #cat #cinema #film #photo
Grace Kelly holding a kitten
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 26/09/2026
Ok. Let’s start with an easy one. Genocide. Yay or nay.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 26/09/2026
Final draft?
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 26/09/2026
I can’t help but feel we’ve been concentrating a bit too much on language and not enough on seizing the Means of Production
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 26/09/2026
While we’re doing the corruption that accepting funds from crooked oligarchs brings into football, why don’t we also address what it does to the property market and other areas where these fucks launder their ill-gotten gains?
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 26/09/2026
My latest for The New World about a wonderful short film documenting the weird story of the Afghan Spaceman who made Pashto the 4th language spoke from space www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
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The Afghan who went to space
A filmmaker’s obsession with Afghanistan’s forgotten cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand becomes a deeply personal journey into his family’s past
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026
Like Smarties.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026
Timothee Chalamet can buy his own
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026
Tommo is like George RR Martin naming a villain. He just takes an ordinary name and changes one letter: Joffrey instead of Jeffrey; Tommo instead of Tommy. They’re both stupid named cunts in the end. And probably he’ll suffer a similar pie related death
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026
I think it’s important that social media make you happy. If it doesn’t it has no place in your life
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026
Preorder The Great Unwatched and find the hidden gems your watchlist needs @plumeriapics.bsky.social @letterboxd.social plumeriapics.co.uk/shop
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026
According to Israeli officials it was the opposite of a walk out
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026
The opposite of genocide
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026
Brand New WRITERS ON FILM Jon Spira talks Mike Hodges director of Get Carter, Flash Gordon, The Terminal Man and Morons from Outer Space podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I still wear the overcoat I bought (1988) in homage to the top-right one quite often in autumn/winter. www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews...
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026
I feel like my entire idea of cool and style is embodied completely by Harry Angel in Angel Heart.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026
Brand New WRITERS ON FILM Jon Spira talks Mike Hodges director of Get Carter, Flash Gordon, The Terminal Man and Morons from Outer Space podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026
Totally agree. We’ve been double thinking these fascists for far too long. Tiptoeing around hoping they’ll go away. We need to be as energetic, loud and confrontational as they are. Sending them back to the kennels from which they slouched.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026
DAU Natasha is a film of two halves. The first is a character portrait of a middle-aged canteen worker souring on life and looking for love. The second reveals how a police state brutalizes the vulnerable. Darkness comes in how the victim is Stockholmed into their own brutalization. Powerful.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026
Continuing my deep dive into DAU I watched DAU Degeneration which is not for the faint hearted. The casting of neo Nazis to play neo Nazis, the onscreen slaughter of a pig and the six hours of growing oppression is grueling. By the end I felt I was in the Institute and being experimented on
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daniel Thomas has been arrested by Hampshire Police
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 23/09/2026
You are who you pretend to be so be careful who you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 23/09/2026
The only democracy in the Middle East etc
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism
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Mamdani Delivers $131 Million Settlement For DoorDash Drivers
The Mamdani administration said the settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in the city’s history.
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