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Alan Maxwell
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I'm a Fifer. I love the following:
FILMS! (Scottish, Irish, documentary, short films, horror, cult movies)
MUSIC! (Everything from traditional folk to electronic weirdness)
THEATRE! (Especially Scottish and Irish)
BOOKS!
HAGGIS!
Letterboxd: GhostOfTheRegal
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Cartoon Saloon's Oscar-shortlisted Irish animated short EIRU is now available to watch online, but only for a couple of days!

watch.animationshowcase.com/landing/695f...
On-Demand Viewing Portal
watch.animationshowcase.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
January 14, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Cartoon Saloon's Oscar-shortlisted Irish animated short EIRU is now available to watch online, but only for a couple of days!

watch.animationshowcase.com/landing/695f...
On-Demand Viewing Portal
watch.animationshowcase.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Choosing to believe that he's either deliberately on the wind-up or else one of his teammates has hilariously edited his response before it made it to print. Please, please, please let one of these explanations be true.
this, from West Ham's Freddie Potts, is the single worst "five famous people you'd invite to dinner" I've ever seen
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
It had to happen eventually.

Now watching:

I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
January 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Been a while since I had a bit of vintage Euro-crime action. Time to give this Damiano Damiani one a whirl. Cardinale! Nero! Cobb! What a combo.
January 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Another night, another Graham Reid offering. First viewing of this evening: You, Me & Marley (1992)

Now can someone please stick Lorna online?
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Could be the year for people who like movies about people hiking in the Scottish Highlands.
January 13, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Delighted to have stumbled across "A Dunfermline Ghost Story" from 1892
January 12, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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🪬🧿 Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland

#scotland #dunfermline #travel #beautiful #history
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
First glance at my Letterboxd stats for 2026 so far. Inconclusive.
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
There's a handful of Screen Two plays on the iPlayer at the moment so next up tonight I'm off to Belfast for a Graham Reid double bill.
January 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Fans of quality Scottish TV drama, you've only got about a month left to watch the entire Scots Quair trilogy on the BBC iPlayer.
January 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Lazy evening in front of the telly. Decided to revisit a couple of films I've not seen in years: a Scottish-set wartime thriller and the Irish Godzilla.
January 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Then and (sadly) now.

The Orient Express (latterly Robins), Dunfermline
January 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Further update... All the Walls Came Down is now on Youtube; Retirement Plan has now moved to Disney+ in the UK

letterboxd.com/ghostofthere...
Oscar Shortlisted Short Films 2026
All 45 of the short films shortlisted for the 2026 Oscars. I will add links (legit only) to view them as I find them - see notes. Let me know if I've made any errors.
letterboxd.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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i love how you have to whisper in a library. there should be more whisper-only spaces. speak softly if you must speak at all
January 7, 2026 at 9:28 PM
There are no words for how much I hate this smug little shitebag.
January 7, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Bloody typical that Scotland's men finally qualify for a World Cup again and by the time it kicks off Europe is going to be at war with the host nation.
January 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I'm that rare person who actually liked the finales of both Game of Thrones and Lost, but am tempted to go for Quantum Leap. Now that was an ending.

Also, does the Limmy's Show Christmas Special count?
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:

What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I have a tiny (barely visible) scar on my forehead where I was hit by a double VHS copy of the BBC's acclaimed 1990s documentary series Cold War.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.

😅
January 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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I'm always bleating on about Play for Today & similar anthology formats & how important they are for television- so this is a public service announcement that there are 13 archive episodes of Screen Two currently on iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Screen Two
Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1980s and 1990s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Don't think I've seen this since it first aired when I was a kid so decided to revisit it tonight. Now watching Dr Who: The Five Doctors, aka Dr Who: Tom Baker Can't Be Arsed
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I know people complain about film trailers showing too much of the film but at the same time they should ideally show that at least something happens. Can't say this one grabbed my attention. Anyway, it's Scotland, so obviously I'll still watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2W...
‘THE NORTH’ (2026) Official UK Trailer | Scottish Highlands Hiking Drama
YouTube video by Indie Film Trailers Worldwide
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
My final tally for 2025:

- 562 feature films
- 723 short films
- 50 books
- 157 gigs
- 109 theatre productions

Hurrah for the arts.
January 6, 2026 at 7:25 PM