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David Cairns
@dcairns.bsky.social
Film maker, film critic, film teacher, film lover, fool for film
THE BEATLES GET BACK. In which Peter Jackson swallows Michael Lindsay-Hogg and tries to digest him. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/c...
Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf-Aids
No, we’re not doing noirs all month, that might get monotonous. I do love a good noir, though. By way of a change, I just finished watching THE BEATLES GET BACK which I’d have to admit …
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November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I WALK ALONE interestingly anticipates some more modern crime flicks -- Leone, Boorman... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/n...
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Jacob Elordi is good and all, but he's not, like, better than Peter Hinwood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by David Cairns
11/7/52: B #filmnoir maestro Phil Karlson w/Kansas City Confidential - #noirvember
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Crowther, unhappy: nytimes.com/1952/11/29/a...
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Manny Farber: archive.org/details/nati...
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I just knew I'd like MURDER BY CONTRACT this time, even though I didn't last time. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/h...
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I look at a single take from TOUCH OF EVIL. But not the usual one.
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A Touch of “Touch”
So yes, TOUCH OF EVIL. A single shot. No, not that one. I thought I’d try closely analysing a little bit of it I always enjoyed, but I quickly found so much detail there that I’ll have …
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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
THE DEVIL'S RAIN is a bad movie with a good movie trying to get out, but the good movie is treated like Whack-a-Mole. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/i...
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by David Cairns
#DiadelosMuertos #Samhain #Halloween A long time ago in #Scotland, #Halloween wasn't anything like its current iteration. We went with the old Celtic tradition of 'guising.' According to AI Overview 'guising' comprises - 'children dressing up in costumes to go door-to-door,
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Strangely, there seem to be no movies of Arthur Machen's work. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/r...
Rhymes with “Blacken”
Arthur Machen is really terrific. And according to the IMDb, unless I’m much deceived, he’s never been adapted to film. Ambrose Bierce has countless adaptationsm the Inaccurate Movie Da…
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November 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Film people please follow my wife @monsterfromid66.bsky.social In a nice way, I mean.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Again there was a silence — a silence as of consummated Evil brooding above its unnameable triumph." An original ghost story, comprised of 25 different paragraphs swiped from the page 66s of 25 different collections. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/p...
Page 66: The Crimson Toe
Here’s an original ghost story constructed from random passages chosen from twenty-five different page sixty-sixes (and a couple of sixrty-fives where sixty-six was blank) in numerous differe…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
NOSFERATU: better in German? dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/r...
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
When did Dario Argento's DEEP RED acquire this new (to me) scene? dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/j...
October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
More seasonal scariness. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/u...
October 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
An important message... from Mars!
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hello! I am the Baron or Terror and I want to suck your brain out or something. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/t...
October 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
beautiful sky for driving in
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
KING KONG VS GODZILLA is beneath the dignity of all involved except, apparently, me.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM