James Mcloughlin
@jamesamcloughlin.bsky.social
Film and fiction writing. ✍️ in New Critique, Engelsberg Ideas, DMovies, Penumbra Magazine, Valley Press, 10:10 Press, and more.
https://thelinesman.substack.com
https://thelinesman.substack.com
These are the films that had the most impact on me in 2025.
What are yours?
#filmsky
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What are yours?
#filmsky
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(my) 2025 in film
Movies that made my year
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December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
These are the films that had the most impact on me in 2025.
What are yours?
#filmsky
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
What are yours?
#filmsky
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
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◽Tomorrow, Thursday 4 December◽ Join Clare Carlisle, author of TRANSCENDENCE FOR BEGINNERS and Thea Lenarudzzi, author of THE TOWER in conversation with Frances Wilson at the Italian Institute. This event is free, sign up here: iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_event...
The Tower and Transcendence for Beginners. Thea Lenarduzzi and Clare Carlisle in conversation with Frances Wilson
ICI London and Fitzcarraldo Editions present the forthcoming books by Italian author Thea Lenarduzzi and Clare Carlisle, both published in September 2025. Join Thea Lenarduzzi, author of The Tower, an...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
◽Tomorrow, Thursday 4 December◽ Join Clare Carlisle, author of TRANSCENDENCE FOR BEGINNERS and Thea Lenarudzzi, author of THE TOWER in conversation with Frances Wilson at the Italian Institute. This event is free, sign up here: iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_event...
I have to thank @cmatbaby.bsky.social for bringing my listening age down by a decade or two here #SpotifyWrapped
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I have to thank @cmatbaby.bsky.social for bringing my listening age down by a decade or two here #SpotifyWrapped
Been a while since my last post, but things have definitely been happening.
Here, I’ve written about some of them - and a film that shook something in me…
thelinesman.substack.com/p/on-choosing
Here, I’ve written about some of them - and a film that shook something in me…
thelinesman.substack.com/p/on-choosing
On choosing
Shoplifters, FilmStack, and what makes a family
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November 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Been a while since my last post, but things have definitely been happening.
Here, I’ve written about some of them - and a film that shook something in me…
thelinesman.substack.com/p/on-choosing
Here, I’ve written about some of them - and a film that shook something in me…
thelinesman.substack.com/p/on-choosing
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'One night he decided to hire a rickshaw from Soho to Bethnal Green. Pete was toking from his crackpipe all the way when, out of nowhere, a gang from an estate began to chase us with machetes.'
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
The Albion Rooms
La Belle et la Bête.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
'One night he decided to hire a rickshaw from Soho to Bethnal Green. Pete was toking from his crackpipe all the way when, out of nowhere, a gang from an estate began to chase us with machetes.'
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
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Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
In the Shadow of St Paul’s
A taste for the finer things in life.
www.the-fence.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
Is there change afoot in British cinema?
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
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#film #cinema #UK #substack
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
#film #cinema #UK #substack
Sacred Shadows
Britain’s new wave of spiritual cinema
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September 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Is there change afoot in British cinema?
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
#film #cinema #UK #substack
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
#film #cinema #UK #substack
F1: The Movie is pure popcorn entertainment.
There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
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There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
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Cinema's impossible sport
Maybe you can't write it after all
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July 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
F1: The Movie is pure popcorn entertainment.
There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
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Let’s take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks… open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
First Acts: Peaky Blinders
Storm's a-brewing in post-war Brum
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May 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Let’s take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks… open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
It is interesting that even though he references toxic male literary culture and isn’t taking an adversarial stance, so much of the response on here has been very hostile or sneering.
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
New independent press to focus on male writers
Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It is interesting that even though he references toxic male literary culture and isn’t taking an adversarial stance, so much of the response on here has been very hostile or sneering.
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The perils of literary ambition
John Dos Passos and the lost Great American Novel
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April 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The perils of literary ambition
John Dos Passos and the lost Great American Novel
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April 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The perils of literary ambition
John Dos Passos and the lost Great American Novel
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April 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Watched the first couple of episodes of the latest season of Black Mirror yesterday. Some decent bits of state-of-the-world observation but mostly quite ham-handad, subtle-as-a-sledgehammer analogies. Bete Noire in particular was toe-curlingly bad. #tv #BlackMirror
April 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Watched the first couple of episodes of the latest season of Black Mirror yesterday. Some decent bits of state-of-the-world observation but mostly quite ham-handad, subtle-as-a-sledgehammer analogies. Bete Noire in particular was toe-curlingly bad. #tv #BlackMirror
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a few months back i had the immense pleasure of sitting down with brady corbet at curzon soho to talk about the brutalist – it was very very rewarding and hopefully you'll enjoy it too!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQHe...
Conversations @ Curzon | Brady Corbet on The Brutalist, shooting on film and being a child actor
YouTube video by Curzon
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April 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
a few months back i had the immense pleasure of sitting down with brady corbet at curzon soho to talk about the brutalist – it was very very rewarding and hopefully you'll enjoy it too!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQHe...
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Tried to watch a movie on Netflix last night, but it wasn’t available in my subscription tier. Found the movie and its 2 sequels on Amazon for $10, and it was delivered this morning. Plus there’s no commercial breaks. After all these years, physical media remains the best way to watch at home.
April 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Tried to watch a movie on Netflix last night, but it wasn’t available in my subscription tier. Found the movie and its 2 sequels on Amazon for $10, and it was delivered this morning. Plus there’s no commercial breaks. After all these years, physical media remains the best way to watch at home.
There’s the secret, and then there’s the secret beyond the secret.
New short fiction.
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New short fiction.
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Headspace
A short story
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April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There’s the secret, and then there’s the secret beyond the secret.
New short fiction.
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
New short fiction.
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
