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I regret I want to see The Fuckboat
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I regret I want to see The Fuckboat
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Dan Stevens, the next Udo Kier? Place your bets now
Forgot about him! Veers between arthouse, schlock-horror and blockbusters, and clearly no quality control whatsoever. Very much here for The Weird Performances of Dan Stevens.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Dan Stevens, the next Udo Kier? Place your bets now
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Also I don’t know if you know this but Robin Hood prince of thieves is “what if the Vietcong was in medieval Europe” and it’s one of the best fucking movies of the 90’s
Very funny to me that no Robin Hood movie has come close to besting the Kevin Costner Robin Hood. Like I love that movie but it is not a good movie. It’s like nobody else has figured out “wouldn’t it be cool if the Vietcong were in medieval England”
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Also I don’t know if you know this but Robin Hood prince of thieves is “what if the Vietcong was in medieval Europe” and it’s one of the best fucking movies of the 90’s
Ugandan sweet potatoes a fiver at Lewisham market
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Ugandan sweet potatoes a fiver at Lewisham market
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Helen MacInnes' Decision at Delphi: All her books are extremely solid, highly enjoyable thrillers and I don't understand how she isn't way more famous or why they haven't all been filmed.
December 30, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Helen MacInnes' Decision at Delphi: All her books are extremely solid, highly enjoyable thrillers and I don't understand how she isn't way more famous or why they haven't all been filmed.
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Helen MacInnes' North from Rome: Her books, so carefully plotted, so visual, so precise, so full of action and so romantic, deserve a revival! Is anyone writing like her these days?
June 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Helen MacInnes' North from Rome: Her books, so carefully plotted, so visual, so precise, so full of action and so romantic, deserve a revival! Is anyone writing like her these days?
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Helen MacInnes is ripe for rediscovery. Her thrillers are rock solid from start to finish, involve long chases with deadly stakes across various European landmarks, and don't always end with justice done
July 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Helen MacInnes is ripe for rediscovery. Her thrillers are rock solid from start to finish, involve long chases with deadly stakes across various European landmarks, and don't always end with justice done
Helen MacInnes' The Unconquerable: WHEN is she going to get her due? Her books are incredible, vivid anti-Nazi thrillers, this one about the fall of Warsaw in 1939, with a gift for describing physical danger and human emotion that's becoming rare. An entertaining and vicious page-turner.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Helen MacInnes' The Unconquerable: WHEN is she going to get her due? Her books are incredible, vivid anti-Nazi thrillers, this one about the fall of Warsaw in 1939, with a gift for describing physical danger and human emotion that's becoming rare. An entertaining and vicious page-turner.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY is one of the greatest movies ever made but tonight I learned the unhappy news that TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY could have been the best movie ever made
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY is one of the greatest movies ever made but tonight I learned the unhappy news that TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY could have been the best movie ever made
I am in a hall with a royal box where a friend of mine once attended a gig where the band had hired a Queen Elizabeth impersonator to sit in said royal box and enjoy the show. She is by no means a royalist but she said it was an incredible vibe
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I am in a hall with a royal box where a friend of mine once attended a gig where the band had hired a Queen Elizabeth impersonator to sit in said royal box and enjoy the show. She is by no means a royalist but she said it was an incredible vibe
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This is disgraceful toadying to someone who could well be dead, out of office, or both by the time this reanimated corpse knuckle-drags itself to the screen. Some context: Ratner directed the state-approved Melania doc that is coming to Prime, so he's now a friend of The Family. >
I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is disgraceful toadying to someone who could well be dead, out of office, or both by the time this reanimated corpse knuckle-drags itself to the screen. Some context: Ratner directed the state-approved Melania doc that is coming to Prime, so he's now a friend of The Family. >
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Sinéad O'Connor Airport!
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Sinéad O'Connor Airport!
Pleased to see the bar where the drunken friend of a friend tried to pull my top off once back in 2001 or so has finally gone out of business. Revenge is a dish best served, even if it takes a while
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Pleased to see the bar where the drunken friend of a friend tried to pull my top off once back in 2001 or so has finally gone out of business. Revenge is a dish best served, even if it takes a while
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN 📽️ is about the art of the steal, as Josh O'Connor walks away with the entire thing. It's good and it's funny but it's nowhere near as much fun as the first two. Though Glenn Close better get her Oscar!!!! movieswetextedabout.com/wake-up-dead...
'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' Film Review: Rian Johnson's Crisis of Faith
The formula established in Knives Out and Glass Onion has been changed in Wake Up Dead Man. The series of good old-fashioned murder mysteries solved by gentleman detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) ...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
WAKE UP DEAD MAN 📽️ is about the art of the steal, as Josh O'Connor walks away with the entire thing. It's good and it's funny but it's nowhere near as much fun as the first two. Though Glenn Close better get her Oscar!!!! movieswetextedabout.com/wake-up-dead...
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A new poster for Bi Gan's Resurrection, opening December 12.
See the trailer + read our review: thefilmstage.com/tag/resurrec...
See the trailer + read our review: thefilmstage.com/tag/resurrec...
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A new poster for Bi Gan's Resurrection, opening December 12.
See the trailer + read our review: thefilmstage.com/tag/resurrec...
See the trailer + read our review: thefilmstage.com/tag/resurrec...
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absolutely massive news from the EU's top court! while it doesn't force every EU country to perform same-sex marriages, it *does* require them to recognise same-sex marriages from other countries the same way they recognise other foreign marriages
it's a big step!
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
it's a big step!
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
absolutely massive news from the EU's top court! while it doesn't force every EU country to perform same-sex marriages, it *does* require them to recognise same-sex marriages from other countries the same way they recognise other foreign marriages
it's a big step!
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
it's a big step!
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Also, evergreen post: I hate Thames Water
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Also, evergreen post: I hate Thames Water
Once again I have had to tell a recruiter something I have been saying since 2009 about not going back to a particular line of work and I would really like to know when the topic will be dropped
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Once again I have had to tell a recruiter something I have been saying since 2009 about not going back to a particular line of work and I would really like to know when the topic will be dropped
Got wordle in two 🤓
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Got wordle in two 🤓
Tonight's deep thought: is there a reason pajamas are mostly plaid?
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Tonight's deep thought: is there a reason pajamas are mostly plaid?
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The grilled cheese scene in CHEF (2014) is immaculate food cinema. Salute!
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The grilled cheese scene in CHEF (2014) is immaculate food cinema. Salute!
I have just had to watch myself on video for a thing so if anyone needs me I'm going to be crying about my hair for a while
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have just had to watch myself on video for a thing so if anyone needs me I'm going to be crying about my hair for a while