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Leigh Singer

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Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more https://vimeo.com/user11355665 “Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jan 13

“How does it feeel…?”

Might as well start this Bluesky account by sharing my @sightsoundmag.bsky.social review of Dylan biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN and how, despite good intentions, it gets Tangled Up in Bob.

Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · Jan 13

“A key strength of James Mangold’s film is its occasional attempt to nimbly navigate actuality, to get at a more impressionistic idea of the truth.”

Leigh Singer reviews upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. In cinemas Friday.

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A Complete Unknown review: ballad of a freewheelin man

Timothée Chalamet’s commitment is admirable and director James Mangold’s choice to focus to Dylan’s 1960s rise to fame pays off, but this film struggles to balance the conventional notes of a music bi...

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 17d

Just a reminder of what an absolute c*nt Farage is: he wants to scrap the benefits of people who legally work and pay their taxes in Britain, yet the greasy f*cker happily slurps down his fat EU pension - paid for by the very European citizens he spent years spewing bile at. Parasite in a suit.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 24d

pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.

Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 27d

It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get?
And the answer is… none.
None more disappointed…

As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review: Metal fatigue

Rob Reiner’s follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29d

More of Kirk’s “reasonable opinions”

Someone else shared this.
Various comments Kirk has made.

-Gay people should be stoned to death
-Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband
-No one should be allowed to retire
-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
-British Colonialism was what "made the world decent"
-The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out
-Religious freedom should be terminated
-Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"
-MLK Jr was "an awful person"
-The Great Replacement Theory is reality
-Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID
-Vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid"
-Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment
-Women's natural place is under their husband's control
-Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control
-George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't
-The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"
-Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates
-Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
-Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization
-Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 29d

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen

Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN

No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Werner Herzog (Happy Birthday!)

MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · Sep 5

HBD New German Cinema legend Werner Herzog!!
Daring choices in a career of relentless exploration
More:
Spectacular interview: nyti.ms/3doO4Tu
Novel - rev via @msorrento.bsky.social: filmint.nu/werner-herzo...
@leighsinger.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

Where to begin with Werner Herzog

A beginner’s path through Werner Herzog’s visionary cinema of eccentric adventure and ecstatic truth.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s that time again…

A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival.
Meantime, feast yer eyes!

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Aug 18

Met him once to talk about his… chocolates. But such a down-to-earth guy, zero pretensions & talent to burn that, despite impressive credits, you felt was often under appreciated. Still, Billy Budd, Collector, Teorema, Madding Crowd, Superman II, The Hit, Priscilla QOTD, The Limey… RIP Terence Stamp

Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Aug 16

Pravda.

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · Aug 16

This shameful photo will haunt Americans for centuries.

“Depressing and disgusting sight: U.S. soldiers on their knees, laying out the red carpet for a murderous fascist dictator. The United States has fallen so very low, so very quickly.”

Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is so depressingly true re: the arts / of criticism. But in the bigger picture I also go back to shitheel Tory politician Michael Gove’s phoney Brexit shibboleth that British people “have had enough of experts” to justify anti-intellectual, knee-jerk populism & how to control / profit from it.

Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · Aug 13

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Aug 13

Et tu, @bsky.app?

If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here.

filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Aug 10

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience… have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London

Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is fantastic, urge you to listen, especially if you think Still Bill is one of the most underrated albums out there…

Kirk Hamilton @kirkhamilton.com · Jul 13

The season finale of Strong Songs is about "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers. 🎶

It's also about Withers' music more broadly, and why such a seemingly ordinary guy might write such extraordinary songs. I think it was a great note to go out on.

I hope you all dig it - thanks, as always, for listening!

S07E10 - "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers

For the Season Seven finale, Kirk takes a look at Bill Withers' enduring hit "Lean On Me." In the process, he takes a broader look at a bunch of Withers' other most famous songs to better understand h...

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨new video essay 🚨

How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever?

The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it…

How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience
for @lwlies.com.

Full video here:
youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jul 24

New album cover art drop, courtesy of the fab European Film Festival Palić, FIPRESCI jury

Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jul 11

no words... but also no action taken by any governments to this ongoing slaughter, so it just continues. insanity.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yesterday Palestinian mums & kids were queuing at a clinic to get nutritional supplements when Israel attacked. At least 15 people were killed, including at least 9 children.

James Elder from UNICEF tells how one of those young children had spoken their first word that morning - mama

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jul 11

thanks, Jonathan!

Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jul 11

🙏

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · Jul 7

A Penguin editor looking around their office this morning.

The cop at the end of Usual Suspects looking around his office and seeing the objects that inspired the story

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jul 4

“Your producers were so preoccupied with whether they COULD, they never stopped to think about…” yadda yadda yadda, rinse & repeat

Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · Jul 4

At its best, Rebirth replicates some of Jurassic Park’s magic, but Gareth Edwards' blockbuster-savvy direction can’t save the subpar script.

@leighsinger.bsky.social reviews Jurassic World Rebirth, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Jurassic World Rebirth review: prehistory repeating

At its best, Rebirth replicates some of Jurassic Park’s magic, but Gareth Edwards' blockbuster-savvy direction can’t save the subpar script.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jul 4

A really insightful interview with David Cronenberg by @hannahstrong.co.uk for @lwlies.com

Little White Lies @lwlies.com · Jul 4

As The Shrouds finally debuts in UK cinemas, the master of the macabre gets personal about grief.

In conversation with David Cronenberg:

David Cronenberg: 'You don’t want to bore people with how sad you…

But then, a year later, I realized that I did get it, and I did like it, and wanted to make the movie. And so it came together in the kind of fusing of…

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jul 4

Good sound, good writer.

Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social · Jul 4

For @avclub.com I tapped into the legacy of #spinaltap

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Spinal Tap defined a real genre with a fake band

The Spinal Tap rockers led by Christopher Guest played real music, shot direct cinema, and changed mock-docs forever.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jun 30

All just a little bit of prehistory repeating… reviewed Jurassic World Rebirth for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social

Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · Jun 30

Jurassic World Rebirth review: prehistory repeating

At its best, Rebirth replicates some of Jurassic Park’s magic, but Gareth Edwards' blockbuster-savvy direction can’t save the subpar script.

www.bfi.org.uk

Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · Jun 25

in this utter sh*tshow of a world, we need to celebrate the positives when they come. fantastic news from NYC
#ZohranMamdani

New York Magazine @nymag.com · Jun 25

There is no real precedent in U.S. history for socialist Mamdani apparently winning the Democratic nomination for mayor in New York City, writes columnist Ross Barkan.

Zohran Mamdani Just Remade American Politics

There is no real precedent in U.S. history for socialist Mamdani apparently winning the Democratic nomination for mayor in New York City, writes columnist Ross Barkan.

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