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Ah, great! It looks like a great edition of a really terrific book.

You’re welcome!

I didn’t buy it and it looks like it’s still available

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This trend for prioritising the demands of fiction over the truthful representation of real people and their lives is something that I think is a real issue - I wrote a whole thread about this in regards to the Ed Gein series on Netflix
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Abertoir in 2026: an update - Abertoir Team Abertoir’s been taking a breather after our massive 20th anniversary edition and we’ve made a decision: we’re taking it down a notch for 2026. We’re

Team Abertoir’s been taking a breather after our massive 20th edition and we’ve made a decision: we’re taking it down a notch for 2026. There won’t be a big 5-day festival in 2026, but we’re certainly not going to be dormant – far from it!

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‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr...

A great photographer (incidentally, director of the game-changing 1971 Blaxploitation film SHAFT as well); if I were in London I would visit this expo for sure.

🇬🇧 TikTok video by Keir Starmer

Unfortunately not
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Countdown to them having to take this down because someone realises that the song they're using for their soundtrack famously uses multiple homophobic slurs.

Learned the other day that Calvin Robinson is also from Mansfield, which supports your thesis

"We've ended up in the wrong place by carefully and deliberately navigating directly towards it."

Ag reat set-up - a wanted man being escorted back to the US for the death penalty meets a terminally ill woman on a cruise ship and they fall in love, each unaware of the other's status - and a first-class supporting cast including the wonderful Aline MacMahon, plus a killer closing shot. Fantastic.

Deadline today at 5pm! If you are a parent or carer in the UK screen industry who would like a week of time away please do apply. CV and a cover letter saying what you’d do with the week. #raisingfilms @raisingfilms.bsky.social

To Chantelle, somewhere in Nottingham - I agree with your friend with the very loud phone voice on the number 68 bus, that guy from France who you're talking to online who won't show his face on cam very probably is a catfish and it is, at the very least, a massive red flag.

The title card for the film 'One Way Passage' (1932). Over a shot of a cruise ship we get the names William Powell & Kay Francis, then the title, then Directed by Tay Garnett.

Tonight's viewing:

Found these in Sainsbury’s!

My considered review of both of these products:

Gun Crazy is a terrific shout

Films that influenced Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘THE BRIDE!’ THE BRIDE! stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, Penelope Cruz, Jake Gyllenhaal and director Maggie Gyllenhaal share the films that influenced their new film. Make sur...

Just saw that @letterboxd.social shared a list of films that influenced Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! and now I have a goal to watch every movie on that list I haven’t seen!

PS- go see The Bride! as soon as possible!

#HorrorSky #FilmSky #TheBrideMovie

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A packet of each of the aforementioned items

Do you want Creme Egg-flavoured Oreos or Cherry Bakewell-flavoured Jaffa cakes with your tea?

A screengrab of a headline reading 'Champions Chelsea unloved but unstoppable'.

There was definitely a bit of that around for Mourinho's second spell at Chelsea 14/15, along with the idea that their boring pragmatism was taking the fun out of the game.

A paperback copy of Cliff Twemlow's The Pike, featuring the title in big silver reflective letters over an illustration of a sharp=toothed pike mouth. The tagline reads 'A Cold relentless killer from the murky depths', and there's a tag in the top right corner which reads 'Soon To Be A Major Film'

We hosted a screening of this for @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social a while back - Twemlow is such an interesting figure. I managed to pick up a copy of The Pike years ago - worth a read!

Ah, brilliant - thanks!

The greatest car crash I have ever seen in a film. The Appointment is remarkably unsettling. Great movie.

'Naff' just means uncool, unfashionable. There's another slang meaning with the term 'naff off', which is just a milder way of saying 'piss off' (as in 'go away').

Sounds interesting, thanks - I'll try and track it down

Glad to hear you're doing okay!

That sounds like a really interesting interview - do you have a link to the whole thing by any chance?

I need to get on it!

That’s the same one I have - yeah, it’s also really good

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They is great but McCoy’s other Hollywood-related book I Should Have Stayed Home is worth seeking out too. (Always thought that those ‘Hard-Boiled’ and ‘Perverse’ tags would be great on a t-shirt)