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Don't get me wrong - there's been some duds....

But we've watched some brilliant random films this way, which we would never have picked up if only based on reviews / critics etc

Plus ... Always feels 90's nostalgic to go off cover art 🥰 (some of them don't hold back lol!)

Some faves 🍿
The Wailing
Oculus
The Oddity
Lights Out
It Follows
Talk to Me
Dark Skies
The Ritual
Get Out
Barbarian
Drag me to Hell
The hole in the ground
Host
Unfriended
Rec (Spanish one)
Orphanage (Spanish one)

Oldies but goodies 📽️
The Blob (1988)
In the Mouth of Madness
The Shining

Absolute stellar choices 👌🏻

Rewatched both so many times and high up on faves list

It's a good ppl test!

Hubby rented it to see my reaction (he knows me well 🤣)

Bonus: Hubsters mate runs one of the last indie UK rental shops (@snipsmovies.bsky.social)

& We’ve picked films purely by cover art and taglines #OldSchoolRentalVibes
And discovered new faves

Recommend 🍿
The Wailing
Oculus
The Oddity
Lights Out
It Follows
Talk to Me
Dark Skies
The Ritual
Get Out
Barbarian
Drag me to Hell
The hole in the ground
Host
Unfriended
Rec (Spanish one)
Orphanage (Spanish one)

Oldies but goodies 📽️
The Blob (1988)
In the Mouth of Madness
The Shining

Watched Society for the first time a few months ago - with no idea of plot

Peak awkward 80s cheese… then the “shunting” hit and my jaw hit the floor.

Horrifying. Glorious. I’m still recovering 🤮 😲🫨 😂

Added to my read list 😊

The falsity and the reality.

#Essar doesn't care about nature. It keeps on #Greenwashing and pretending #Stanlow will become the world's first decarbonised refinery while it keeps on pumping and dumping pollution into the environment.

The fossil fuel industry is lying to you.

Had a cracking time at the #ChesterRaftRace — big thanks to Chester Grosvenor 76 Round Table!

Great vibes, creative rafts, and plenty of splashy fun. 🛶💦

Electric buses help boost Norwich air quality levels Improvements in air quality in Norwich are being attributed to 76 electric buses put into service.

Good job Norwich.

“A fleet of battery-powered buses is being credited with bringing air quality in a city within legal limits”

'Now is not the time to turn our backs on nature': Leading scientists issue warning to PM ahead of Spending Review EXCLUSIVE: More than 35 nature experts urge government to ensure nature is properly valued in all economic decisions and reaffirm UK climate leadership ahead of COP30 Summit

Top academics write to Prime Minister urging him not to turn his back on nature and recognise its importance to his growth plans. www.businessgreen.com/news/4414781...

Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Predicts In audio obtained by DeSmog, Bjorn Lomborg told a Fraser Institute event in Vancouver that the technology is way too expensive to be viable.

UK taxpayers are footing part of the £22 billion bill for CCS - just to let polluters keep polluting while cheaper, proven renewables get sidelined.

Why pay fossil fuel companies to delay the inevitable?

www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...

#ThinkAgainRachel

Read my SubStack with @sioldridge.bsky.social below

Why Rachel Reeves shld not make further funding pledges to burn gas with #CCS #SpendingReview

🚨 @thecccuk.bsky.social recommend up to £136bn for power stations burning gas and £128bn for burning biomass with CCS (BECCS) to 2050

🙌 me. 🙌
I needed to know this 🙂

Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty Thames Water must pay a £104.5m penalty for sewage breaches and £18.2m relating to shareholder payouts.

Pathetic. The most successful money laundering operation in the UK.

Nationalise it now

BBC News - Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty
www.bbc.com/news/article...

two men in suits and hats are standing next to each other with the hashtag #sinnersmovie on the bottom ALT: two men in suits and hats are standing next to each other with the hashtag #sinnersmovie on the bottom

Blown away with #Sinners .... Came for the vampires stayed for .... WOW, everything!

Absolutely blown away
LOVED it and encourage everyone to see it, so we get more movies like this

tinyurl.com/NZT-FID-SM explains how the Govt effectively "insured" the fossil fuel industry for losses on a new carbon capture project

@goodlawproject.bsky.social and I don't think this was lawful, see post below, and it raises wide issues around about governance, transparency and democracy

Oooooo yes !
Forgot Talk to Me - enjoyed that too!

Will have to see if my local DVD rental @snipsmovies.bsky.social has Apocalypse Clown 🤡 💀

tinyurl.com/NZT-FID-SM explains how the Govt effectively "insured" the fossil fuel industry for losses on a new carbon capture project

@goodlawproject.bsky.social and I don't think this was lawful, see post below, and it raises wide issues around about governance, transparency and democracy

@frightya.bsky.social @nerdhorrormedia.bsky.social

Some of my fave horror films of the last 20(ish) years

What's yours?

👋🏻 fellow horror fan 😊

Labour is chucking cash at a carbon capture con – so we’re taking action | Good Law Project A fossil fuel project in Teesside has landed a £10bn subsidy for a fairytale technology. But the government’s carbon sums don’t add up.

A fossil fuel project in Teesside has landed a £10bn subsidy for a fairytale carbon capture technology -recent studies show the plant’s total emissions would far exceed any carbon stored under the sea

Read more about this second, new challenge to Net Zero Teesside
goodlawproject.org/labour-is-ch...

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Every mind-bending TV show:

Thanks for the tip ☺️

UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level - BBC News Government-backed heat pump installations in the UK reached record levels for 2024.

That's why it's so great to see stats like this now 😃

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can't wait to get ours 💚

a person is holding a piece of paper that says " buy do not question authority " ALT: a person is holding a piece of paper that says " buy do not question authority "

Never been more relevant

Accurate holographic posters about Donald Trump and Elon Musk.