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'You never saw so many phonies in all your life' Cinema/history/books. Dundela Loyal. Belfast.
A real pleasure to host this event - two perfectly complementary books about our continuing obsession with digging things out of the ground, with two funny, wise and intelligent authors. A grand night was had by all.
19.10.2025 09:22 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Very much enjoying the reviews from the AMC Screen Unseen showing of Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind. 'Dude, like WTF?!' 'I didn't pay for this screening and I still felt ripped off'. Peak programming.
19.10.2025 08:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just wrote the sentence 'we are exploring the Armagh-Portadown corridor'.
17.10.2025 15:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Injured Player Gives Thumbs-Down While Being Carted Off Field
Injured Player Gives Thumbs-Down While Being Carted Off Field
14.10.2025 22:00 β π 1578 π 109 π¬ 16 π 12Delighted to be talking to Geoff Dyer and Joe Dunthorne tonight at Crescent Arts Centre as part of @belfastfestival.bsky.social. Some tickets still available. See you there!
14.10.2025 07:10 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0I read Judge on Trial in the 90s in one of that short time when Czech writers ruled the roost in fiction. What a life, from Nazi concentration camps to the repression of communist totalitarianism, and all the while scratching out human stories.
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One Battle After Another was very much worth all the hype. I don't have much of an analysis to offer yet, as it is still reverberating around my head, but I'd watch it again in a heartbeat.
04.10.2025 10:09 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Found this fascinating piece from the director, John Hanson, about self distributing the film in the 70s. Selling a film is a lot like starting a union. filmmakermagazine.com/76108-its-a-...
29.09.2025 14:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Saw the brilliant 'Northern Lights' @queensfilmtheatre.bsky.social on Saturday as part of the @cineredis.bsky.social tour. A wonderful film, a sort of snowy 'Days Of Heaven', about the founding of the Nonpartisan League in 1916 North Dakota. Remembering is a radical act.
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I'm introducing Neil Jordan's classic 'Angel' on Friday @queensfilmtheatre.bsky.social as part of the @cineredis.bsky.social tour. So if you fancy hearing me bang on about Showbands, saxophones and political violence before watching the film, do come along.
queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/Angel
Bookseller Crow shop window
Shocked beyond belief to hear (via the shopβs IG account) of the death of Jonathan Main, the stalwart of Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace.
I only met Jon once but we chatted online for years and he was so very funny, interesting, and knowledgable (with apt cynicism) about the book world. RIP Jon.
Ach John that's terribly sad news. I'd bought a book or two from him down the years and always enjoyed his wise and funny presence on the old Twitter. I took a few recommendations from him that always turned out winners. Maybe rest easy.
02.09.2025 20:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump Angry Not A Single Visiting European Leader Wearing Lederhosen, Tiny Hat
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18.08.2025 21:30 β π 2298 π 221 π¬ 31 π 16Some excellent refreshed gems coming to @queensfilmtheatre.bsky.social as part of the @cineredis.bsky.social tour. Including Defence of the Realm and Neil Jordan's Angel. Gabriel Byrne and Stephen Rea at their brooding best.
18.08.2025 19:46 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Saw Ghost Dog, Way of the Samurai last night QFT- every bit as brilliant and strange as it was when I saw it in 99. Whittaker's finest piece of action, but it's the idea and celebration of cultural crossover that struck me most. Joyous.
16.08.2025 11:44 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fading Light hits Tyneside Cinema with Cinema Rediscovered. Set in North Shields in the late 80s. Mixing drama & documentary to create one of Amber Collective's most unforgettable portraits of the North East. 18-20 Aug.
sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/tyneside-cinema-in-fading-light-1
Report from our event last night at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
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Late Shift at the QFT was an excellent watch. One shift in the life of a nurse, dealing with death, depression, and despicable behaviour in a Swiss hospital. Really moving, even if it was a stressful watch, with the exceptional Leonie Benesch at its heart.
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Delighted to be involved again with Belfast International Arts Festivalβs Talks and Ideas programme this year in Oct and Nov. Click here to see whatβs on, and a few highlights follow:
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A really interesting, often moving set of essays on film and cinema published by Paper Visual Art - captured the deeply personal connection that we have with film, with some very raw memory wrapped up in screens and circumstances.
09.08.2025 09:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Another year with the rip roaring Duns. Green, white and dynamite
08.08.2025 16:18 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for the write up, I listen to the match on the radio for most of the day - a solid match for both teams, with an added dash of intrigue with the Rew brothers at the wicket.
07.08.2025 07:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A cracking days cricket in Radlett sees Somerset beat Middlesex in front of a bumper #OneDayCup crowd. Read our report from @tonybishop1.bsky.social here
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A pleasure to interview Terry George and Jim Sheridan after a matinee of the moving and thought provoking revival of Terry's 'The Tunnel'. It's always refreshing to see art about the Troubles from the time itself. Go see it if you can. Produced by Brassneck at the Lyric, go see it if you can.
03.08.2025 09:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tom Holland recommends Richard Beardβs Universal Turing Machine in todayβs Times summer reading special:
26.07.2025 07:24 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0Got to spend some time at the wonderful @cineredis.bsky.social in lovely old Bristol, bathing in the waters of cinema history. Such a brilliant festival in a brilliant venue. I'm remotely introducing Neil Jordan's 'Angel' on Saturday evening if you're down that way. Long live cinema.
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