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I mean, seriously, why do English sportspeople do this? It gets them every time. And every time the rest of us just point and laugh...

Women's Cricket World Cup 2025: 'No doubt' England beat South Africa to make final, says Alex Hartley Former spinner Alex Hartley says England's improvement throughout the group stage puts them as favourites to beat South Africa and reach the World Cup final.

Ohhhh....

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Schoolboy error there! #plus22 #livi #thistle

Imagine not loving football.... #uclsemifinal

Convicted Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament Bulgarians Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova attended an event in the Palace of Westminster, the BBC finds.

BBC News - Russian spies attended Brexit event in Parliament
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two things:
1. Of course they fucking did!
2. The Bulgarian version of James Bond must be pretty shit. Sitting in Westminster committee rooms all day?

"No, Mr Bonderov, I expect you to listen and take notes!"

#firstlistenreview
Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
Loved it. It's up there with the very best of TV On The Radio.

Hang on, isn't he a Viz character?

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Trump blinked first. Hahahahahaha

JD Vance is such a dweeb!

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Allez les bleus! #grrrrrrrr #France #Scotland #sixnations #m6n

And that's me done for another year. But hopefully, I'll make it along to at least one more film festival before GFF26.

Watch this space!

And finally (eventually, after 35 films), my #GFF25 Top Ten:

1 - U Are The Universe 🇺🇦
2 - Sharp Corner 🇨🇦
3 - Ghostlight 🇺🇸
4 - My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸
5 - Tornado 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 / 🇬🇧
6 - Two To One 🇩🇪
7 - Peacock 🇦🇹 / 🇩🇪
8 - Meanwhile on Earth 🇫🇷/🇧🇪
9 - Nocturnal 🇰🇷
10 - Meat 🇬🇷

A ★★★ review of Make It to Munich (2025) GFF25 Closing Gala - World Premiere Look, it's hardly the best documentary or storytelling you'll ever see, and it is all a little holiday video-ish. There are moments that hints at depths and insight...

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MAKE IT TO MUNICH ★★★
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A ★★½ review of Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) Original and visually arresting. It's so colorful, it's almost headache-inducing. But while others seemed to be chuckling along merrily throughout this, I just never thought it that funny. I'm probabl...

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BOYS GO TO JUPITER ★★½
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A ★★★★ review of Meanwhile on Earth (2024) Many of the best films place the audience in a difficult position, a moral challenge and ask them to reflect who they would react Here, the question is how far we might go to have a loved one back? As...

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MEANWHILE ON EARTH ★★★★
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A ★★★½ review of Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (2024) This succeeds on the strength and chemistry of the protagonist friends. The moment we realised that one of them has died of an overdose (not really a spoiler as it basically is the event that drives t...

#GFF2025 #Letterboxd #Day3
SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING ★★★½
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A ★★ review of Went Up the Hill (2024) Have you ever seen Limmy's brilliant "Magret! Magret!" sketch(es)? Man, they have the greatest punchline. Anyway... rather awkwardly, that sketch flashed back into my mind on a couple of occasions whi...

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WENT UP THE HILL ★★
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A ★★★★ review of Nocturnal (2025) The Koreans do stuff like this so well, eh? On reflection, the plot is over-convoluted and filled with false turns and red herrings - but it speeds along at such a pace that you don't notice and don't...

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NOCTURNAL ★★★★
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A ★★½ review of Hearts of Darkness: The Making of the Final Friday (2025) I generally love documentaries about filmmaking and reflections on specific films. Usually though, I know a little about the subject beforehand. Unfortunately, I haven't seen Jason Goes To Hell (or ma...

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HEARTS OF DARKNESS: THE MAKING OF THE FINAL FRIDAY★★½
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A ★★★ review of Andrea Gets a Divorce (2024) Bone dry humour. More chuckles then big laughs, but Minichmayr delivers such a winning performance that she earns our sympathy amid the tragicomedy.

#GFF2025 #Letterboxd #Day3
ANDREA GETS A DIVORCE ★★★
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A ★½ review of Stationed at Home (2025) Sorry to kill the initial buzz, guys, but.... It's established early on that this is going to be a meandering tale of "odd characters" a la Jim Jarmusch. And the not-very-good Jarmusch at that. Compet...

#GFF2025 #Letterboxd #Day10
STATIONED AT HOME ★½
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A ★★ review of Stealing Pulp Fiction (2024) This starts off small and amiably enough. The writing is never strong or particularly funny though, but it manages to keep its balance on the quirky tightrope that it stands on. But having set up its ...

#GFF2025 #Letterboxd #Day9
STEALING PULP FICTION ★★
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A ★★★½ review of The Return (2024) This sticks fairly close to the Greek mythology story as I recall it. Which is both a blessing and a curse. The whole suitors storyline is faithful but just appears really weird here. The opening thir...

#GFF2025 #Letterboxd #Day10
THE RETURN ★★★½
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OK, so because I've been juggling lots of things, it looks like I've missed a few films in this thread, so the rest of my catch up posts may not be in chronological order....

A ★★★½ review of Meat (2024) Early scenes reminded me of The Beasts. But the protagonists take a very different action early on leading to a very different film. Why directors persist with annoying, needless shaky cam I do not kn...

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MEAT ★★★½
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A ★★★ review of Zero (2024) Pacey and adrenaline filled, but the story doesn't quite match up - it's just a bit messy and I found it hard to describe coherently afterwards. But it really does capture city life in Dakar. Scene se...

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ZERO ★★★
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A ★★★½ review of Restless (2024) First of all, I never want to watch this film again - but that is because it is so effective in delivering such an anxiety dream that induces such sickening dread and stomach churn. Even all of the hu...

#GFF2025 #Letterboxd #Day8
RESTLESS ★★★½
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A ★★★ review of McVeigh (2024) A very cold and chilling recreation of McVeigh's movements and motivations up to the Oklahoma bombing. Constantly unsettling, it wrong-footed me a couple of times - like when we finally meet a charact...

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MCVEIGH ★★★
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