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Scottish, part-time film critic • Editor-in-Chief @TAKEONECinema.net • ✍️ Vague Visages, Film Inquiry, Cultured Vultures, Little White Lies & ++ •🎙️📻 Co-producer Cinetopia on EH-FM •
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The stats for lists on Letterboxd delivered me a little image that feels like an ideological statement on my part.
Have I missed something or are folk just setting off fireworks more than two weeks before November 5th these days?! Heard them 4 days in a row now!
I have to be honest, the most benign weirdness of The Way Things Are Right Now™ is social media accounts of official arms of the US government turning into some authoritarian variation of it-was-better-in-my-day Instagram accounts
Of course American fascism is just consumerist slop.
Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.
Response to an email with editing notes today told me "God you've got a good editing eye" and I'm a giant nerd, inject that statement into my veins.
The reason 3D Sonic games have never worked is they can never recreate that pathetic little thrill from making him run so fast he nearly goes off the side of the screen.
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I feel like this rant should be in white text on an orange background behind a black and white photo of a skinny young Ewan McGregor.
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
I always end up spending money on at least two public tickets I didn’t need to, and one of them this year I could have easily gotten through the P&I platform and not wasted money when my daughter turned out to be sick that day 🤷‍♂️
I heard this noise in my head reading these <shudders>
Swing When You’re Winning - Robbie Williams, No Angel - Dido, The Beatles’ ‘1’ compilation, some flavour of Queen Greatest Hits, whatever Susan Boyle’s first one was called
Based on the film’s title in the actual piece it’s ’Die My Love’, but this has never been a definitive or satisfying answer for me, because by that logic The Irishman is called I Heard You Paint Houses.
Back in news…is the new Lynne Ramsay ‘Die My Love’ or ‘Die, My Love’…? <eyelid twitches again>
The most important question: Is the new film 'Jurassic World Rebirth' or 'Jurassic World: Rebirth'? Hollywood's negligence and inconsistency over colons - and punctuation in film titles generally - has my eyelid twitching again.
#LFF - Die My Love: I’d be lying if I say I think this is Lynne Ramsay’s strongest work, as I don’t think the script has the same tightness and discipline as others, but nobody is making films like Ramsay. I’m looking forward to writing about this one.
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A review of Die My Love (2025)
I’d be lying if I say I think this is Lynne Ramsay’s strongest work, as I don’t think the script has the same tightness and discipline as others, but nobody is making films like Ramsay. There’s a deli...
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Back in news…is the new Lynne Ramsay ‘Die My Love’ or ‘Die, My Love’…? <eyelid twitches again>
The most important question: Is the new film 'Jurassic World Rebirth' or 'Jurassic World: Rebirth'? Hollywood's negligence and inconsistency over colons - and punctuation in film titles generally - has my eyelid twitching again.
The focus on the pod feed is currently Mission: Impossible, but @jimgr.bsky.social & @simonxix.com will saddle up The Dinopod once again soon for #JurassicWorldRebirth. Publication date TBD soon, as they need time to chew over the film, much like a Dilophosaurus on Dennis Nedry.
It’s not a horror movie but I saw Terminator 2 waaay too young. Scared the shit out of me.
What horror movie did you see WAY too young?

Mine was Poltergeist.
If you’re a parent of a small child the time of year in question is any day ending in ‘y’.
love that we've reached that relaxing point of the year when it's impossible to guess whether you're, say, just feeling a bit tired and run down, or if you're going to wake up tomorrow morning with your throat and sinuses on fire, ready to spend three days in bed feeling like hell
I’ve never seen a movie at a drive-in. I *have* watched Jaws sitting in a boat in a swimming pool though.
Name a FIlm you saw at a Drive In Theater.
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I can now give my unfiltered opinion that Alien: Earth had things it did well, but it had many more things it did extremely poorly, that I don't understand why this was the vehicle for this story, didn't think it handled its themes well or originally, and the season finale was absolutely dreadful.
Instead of shouting “It’s legal tender!” for currency, I’ll be shouting “It’s valid vocabulary!” for ‘outwith’ and ‘squint’
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Or you find a way to regulate campaign spending. People can donate what they want, but there is then a limit to what can be spent by a party or candidate. The USA may be too far gone to enact this meaningfully, but that’s probably the answer - regulate spending, not donations.
Finally unfollowed someone for reposting Jeff Wells into my timeline. Please stop. The world was better when I knew nothing of that odious little toad.
I stopped putting anything beyond the minimum into SEO years ago. First of all, it’s a moving target with unreasonable overheads for small operations (the AI nonsense is just the latest iteration), and, secondly, to ‘optimise’ you write in a way that is totally unnatural to either write or read.