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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 5h

JAY KELLY is a deceptively slow-moving gentle comedy that hits harder than you might realise on a first watch. It doesn’t contain the visceral anger of Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY: it’s melancholy & wistful, despite the brilliant cheesecake gags.

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#JayKelly #LFF

JAY KELLY**** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Day 3

JAY KELLY is a film with a simple and arguably trite message: those who pursue success at all costs end up not alone but lonely. Inevitabl...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 13h

Not without its flaws, but still funny and moving. Tuner feels like Leo Woodall’s breakout feature film leading role. I am amazed it doesn’t have distribution yet.

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#Tuner #LFF

TUNER**** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Surprise Film

Documentarian Daniel Roher, who won an Oscar for NAVALNY, returns to our screens with his first fiction feature. Co-written with Robert Ra...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 14h

Watched #Tuner last night at the #LFF. You have to wrap your head around some outlandish plotting but Leo Woodall is very strong in the central role and it has a gonzo energy and dialogue with music reminiscent of Whiplash. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 1d

Really loved #Olmo - a heart warming and funny coming of age story set in late 70s New Mexico. Watch it at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

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#LFF

OLMO**** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Day 2

OLMO i s a funny, heart-felt, glorious film about a good kid trying to get the girl of his dreams while real life gets in the way. The kid ...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely loved Rian Johnson’s new #KnivesOut film #WakeUpDeadMan! Works as murder mystery and as social satire on Maga’s unfeeling religiosity. Josh O’Connor is fantastic as a young earnest priest and Daniel Craig is just a bloody good time.

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#lff

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Opening Night Gala

Rian Johnson has done it again with another fantastically fun and wickedly tricksy murder mystery - the third in his Knives Out franchise....

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 2d

Complex thoughts. Technically accomplished. Very tough to watch.

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#onebattleafteranother

Complicated thoughts on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER**

Paul Thomas Anderson - PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, THE MASTER, INHERENT VICE ..... a master film-maker whose film I admire and ad...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 2d

Hands down my film of the year. Unrelentingly tense and frighteningly real. What would you do, as President, if the USA were under nuclear attack?

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#AHouseOfDynamite #filmsky #moviereview

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE*****

Director Kathryn Bigelow ( THE HURT LOCKER ) and writer Noah Oppenheim ( JACKIE ) have created a stunningly good film that keeps your pulse ...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #LFF to all who celebrate.

Two 20-somethings derp around Melbourne in Sophie Somerville’s #Fwends - playing at this year’s festival.

Review:

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#filmsky #moviereview

Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 4d

I also spent a lot of time thinking about how every mainstream UK critical voice is white. So this film made me very sad on a number of fronts.

#onebattleafteranother

Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 4d

I spent a lot of time thinking about other comedy capers set against the backdrop of violent white nationalism (eg O Brother). Love that film. Watched it from the comfort of safe complacency.

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 4d

Okay. One Battle. An hour too long. Appreciated a lot of it in theory. Particularly the score and some of the performances (esp Regina Hall). I can see why every single reviewer loves it. But I found it unbearable to watch a comedy caper set against a backdrop of ICE raids.

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 6d

Khartoum***** is a superb documentary telling the story of five of the 10 million Sudanese displaced by the latest military coup. Along the way, hear discussions of what Sudanese identity even is. Watch it at this year’s BFI #lff

KHARTOUM***** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Preview

Khartoum is an evocative name but the capital city of Sudan has been ravaged by its latest military coup. Apparently, Sudan is a country th...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 6d

Debut feature writer-director Zain Duraie's SINK*** is a beautifully acted film about a perilously unboundaried relationship between a mother and her mentally ill son in contemporary, middle-class Jordan. I found it somehow held me at a distance, but I admired it.

Watch it at this year’s BFI #lff

SINK aka GHARAQ*** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Preview

Debut feature writer-director Zain Duraie's SINK is a beautifully acted film about a perilously unboundaried relationship between a mother a...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 6d

Writer-director Imran Perretta's #Ish is a beautifully made and emotionally searing coming-of-age drama set in Luton - a multicultural town that’s still facing the same racially motivated policing and tug of war for the souls of its teenage boys as it did when I was growing up in the 80s.

#lff

ISH***** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Preview

Writer-director Imran Perretta's ISH is a beautifully made and emotionally searing coming-of-age drama, set in contemporary Luton - a shitt...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 6d

THE TRAVELERS***** is David Bingong's own journey from Cameroon to Spain, with a group of young men of courage, good humour, but fully aware of the risks. This is playing at the BFI #lff and is urgent and impressive - truly a film for our times.

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#thetravelers

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 7d

What a delightful, heart-warming surprising documentary #SingingWings is!

Playing soon at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

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SINGING WINGS**** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Preview

SINGING WINGS is the absolutely delightful debut feature doc from director Hemen Khaledi. It features the warm and spiky seventy-something...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 7d

Oof, didn’t get on with Robin Petre’s Grierson Prize nominated doc Only On Earth** either. Stunning visuals of wildfire prone Northern Galicia but not without its longeurs.

#lff

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 7d

LOVE, BROOKLYN** is a gentle earnest romantic dramedy with a side order of social commentary about gentrification.

The film washed over me like a warm breeze. Inconsequential and forgettable but not entirely unpleasant.

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#lff #filmsky

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REDaction Gooners @redactionafc.bsky.social · 12d

FUCK PGMOL

FUCK JARRED GILLETT

FUCK LIVERPOOL

FUCK CHELSEA

FUCK MAN UNITED

FUCK TOTTENHAM

THE ARSENAL

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 14d

Binged House of Guinness, great fun though clearly historically nonsense. Good to see Joff having a laugh.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · Sep 10

These gun-happy dicks will make martyrs and victims out the worst people. This isn't the way.

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · Aug 6

Showing my age here but the new Paul
Weller covers album is superb.

#musicsky

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · Aug 6

Celine Song's follow-up to her wildly, and rightly, praised debut feature PAST LIVES, MATERIALISTS, is a dud. It wasn't funny or romantic, it didn't have a lot of dramatic tension, and it casually used sexual assault as a plot device. Just no.

#materialists #pedropascal #dakotajohnson #chrisevans

MATERIALISTS*

Writer-director Celine Song's follow-up to her wildly, and rightly, praised debut feature PAST LIVES is a dud. I just don't get it. It was...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · Aug 6

#TheLifeofChuck is a half a wry dystopian depiction of trying to live a banal life in climate ravaged America and half a weird montage of dance scenes. I didn’t get it at all. Part of the issue is that #TomHiddleston is himself a dancing meme so it takes you out of the story. Mark Hamill great tho’

THE LIFE OF CHUCK**

I don't get the Toronto film festival audience hype for the latest Stephen King adaptation, THE LIFE OF CHUCK . It barely feels like a film ...

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · Aug 5

Obnoxious nepo baby. I think I hate her more than I hate Gywneth Paltrow.

Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · Aug 5

"I was 16 years old, alone in the city. It felt terrifying. Other kids were going home to their parents and their tutors, and I was at Paris Fashion Week with a chemistry or algebra textbook"

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HAPPY GILMORE 2 Star Margaret Qualley is COSMOPOLITAN's 60th Anniversary Issue Cover Star! - Tom + Lorenzo

At just 30 years old, Margaret Qualley has more than a fair share of critically acclaimed roles under her belt. And this year, she stars in four major

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