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It got ripped off. Let's just be honest about this.

"This is how I access Bluesky..."

"Splash" deserves to be in there purely for Hanks' line "Mr Mango On My Shoulder".

Also, for providing enough material for "The Shape Of Water" to plunder and win a "Best Original Screenplay" Oscar for.

DROP YOUR TOP 5 WOMEN DIRECTORS 🎬

I'm going with "Working Directors", and the ones I'm most interested to see what they do next, so:

Autumn DeWilde
Rose Glass
Cate Shortland
Lorene Scafaria
Jessica Lee Gagné (because her "Severance" episode was staggeringly good.)

Wish this was a "10" list.

Going to follow @autumndewilde.bsky.social, because I absolutely loved her "Emma" on this list...

I can't think that A Fall Of Moondust has enough action for Bigelow. I'd give her Forever War, maybe.

I'm not sure I'd want to see any of those movies, though!

Whenever somebody new follows me, I immediately check out their profile. If they have 0 to 300 posts and 47 thousand followers, they're instantly muted and blocked.

I won't lie...looking at that picture makes me feel slightly nauseous. It's like watching a men's public lavatory, as technology.

Very interesting, the lack of decent science fiction movies from women directors.

I'll be honest - going through the list of women-directed films, there were a lot that I just had zero interest in watching. Come on girls: make more interesting subject matter! We'll watch them!

I like the more claustrophobic feeling here, and the lower camera angle.

Also, I like looking at blousy dames across the room.

I can't resist a list, so as International Women's Day draws to a close, here's my #filmsky Top 40 of favourite movies directed by women (so far).

When the first Martian Tripod comes stalking over the treeline...well. You know --

YouTube video by jimboj Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon in The Trip - James Bond & Liam Neeson

The Duelling Roger Moores in the Trip was great...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRV...

Yeah, that's pretty much all I want it for. The new sensors are appealing. You could say "just get a Fitbit/whatever", but the added Apple Stuff is a bonus for my all-Apple architecture.

Plus, Snoopy watchface complication.

Is the Apple Watch battery even replaceable? I keep meaning to buy one for health monitoring

I replaced a non-responsive home button on an iPhone once. That took me 5 hours!

I was relieved when it powered-up, I won't lie.

Brand new OEM Apple keyboard, too - not an eBay third party. Feels I'm writing with a new machine. The old keyboard keys were honestly horrible beneath. It's amazing how much clag builds-up. And I'm a neat freak who washes his hands regularly.

Just bought that last week. I'm now evangelical about it. Absolutely AMAZING flavour.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Sometimes I know my limitations. I gave my Wand Company Phaser to a friend to replace the plastic ten-turn dial with a metal one, as I knew that I would screw it up.

I did. I've fixed everything from Volvos to washing machines to iphones with online guides. This was...challenging! I don't want to do that again!

It was! The tear-down I didn't mind. But the machine itself's old, and been torn-down and built-up numerous times. I knew there were a couple of shortcuts I could take. But there were nearly 100 screws holding the keyboard in. Should have taken 5 hours...took me closer to 7. But it all works.

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Okay, folks. I've done a complete tear-down and rebuild on a MacBook Pro before. It was hard. Today...the same, with the kink of replacing the keyboard. Something so daunting, even iFixit.com don't have a guide and suggest doing something else.

6 hours I'll have a fixed machine, or be weeping.

Genuinely, right now, the new Bombay Spiced Red Leicester With Mango Chutney Cheese I picked up at Aldi earlier this week, which is absolutely phenomenal.

"Name your fave film from the year you were born."

Yelling, shrieking, panicking. "Best of the best"?

My favourite moment...the whole crew watching for several seconds as the Predator scanning beam rakes slowly along, yet nobody has the initiative to pull 7's leg in.

Watched Netflix's War Machine, which is exactly what you'd expect if you pureed Predator, War Of The Worlds, Battle Los Angeles, Aliens, and Battleship down to 100 minutes.

Alan Ritchson is good enough that he deserves more-developed material.

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Oh, just for you...

How I arrived on Bluesky...

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🧡

• The Tarnished Angels
• Freud's Last Session
• "Something Big"
• KIss Of The Spider Woman (2025)

#filmsky