John Hodson
@mgcroadster.bsky.social
Journalist since '73, now retired, film geek for longer. Rejoiner, lefty, love films of all eras. Recovering Man Utd. fan of six decades. Uses admiration of John Ford as a Rorschach test. No followers without a profile - sorry!
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John Hodson
@mgcroadster.bsky.social
· Sep 8
"...Just £30 covers the cost of a good night’s sleep, a hot meal and the vital wrap around support that can help people move onto more stable accommodation. It’s a lifeline that changes lives..." #homelessness
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Great to see @gmmayorscharity.bsky.social is here! Please follow and support!
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New limited editions, box sets, and a certain Stanley Kubrick (erotic thriller) Christmas movie are at your fingertips this holiday season. For lovers of movies and physical media, here are the 4Ks and Blu-rays to shop for now.
A 2025 Blu-ray Gift Guide for Movie Lovers
New limited editions, box sets, and a certain Stanley Kubrick (erotic thriller) Christmas movie are at your fingertips this holiday season. For lovers of movies and physical media, here are the 4Ks and Blu-rays to shop for now.
www.vulture.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New limited editions, box sets, and a certain Stanley Kubrick (erotic thriller) Christmas movie are at your fingertips this holiday season. For lovers of movies and physical media, here are the 4Ks and Blu-rays to shop for now.
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Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
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Imagine if you’re a coeliac searching for gluten free recipes. AI generated stuff might include ingredients you shouldn’t be eating. It isn’t checked properly. Coeliacs should be hyper aware about ingredients because this slop might cause debilitating illness. It’s irresponsible.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Imagine if you’re a coeliac searching for gluten free recipes. AI generated stuff might include ingredients you shouldn’t be eating. It isn’t checked properly. Coeliacs should be hyper aware about ingredients because this slop might cause debilitating illness. It’s irresponsible.
Harold Shand klaxon...
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Harold Shand klaxon...
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Nigel Kneale klaxon! Legendary TV horror THE STONE TAPE (1972) is on @TalkingPicsTV on Friday! 'Kneale returned to the ghost story on several occasions in his career, but The Stone Tape stands as perhaps his finest single work in the genre' BFI www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/898626...
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Nigel Kneale klaxon! Legendary TV horror THE STONE TAPE (1972) is on @TalkingPicsTV on Friday! 'Kneale returned to the ghost story on several occasions in his career, but The Stone Tape stands as perhaps his finest single work in the genre' BFI www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/898626...
"you'll be visited by three spirits"
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"you'll be visited by three spirits"
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
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Bee thinking about Orson Welles & John Candy, as you do, which led me to this.
‘Move your camera’
‘Move your camera’
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bee thinking about Orson Welles & John Candy, as you do, which led me to this.
‘Move your camera’
‘Move your camera’
Watched PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES again, a couple of days ago. John Candy is still hilarious and touching by turns, blows Martin's performance away. I want to throw stuff at the screen at that simpering, perfect, little middle-class wifey portrayal at the end. He's back from New York, not 'nam.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Watched PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES again, a couple of days ago. John Candy is still hilarious and touching by turns, blows Martin's performance away. I want to throw stuff at the screen at that simpering, perfect, little middle-class wifey portrayal at the end. He's back from New York, not 'nam.
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My @vanityfair.com oral history of PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES, released on this day in 1987:
'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' at 35: An Oral History of One of the Most Beloved Road Movies Ever Made
Starring Steve Martin and John Candy, the John Hughes road trip comedy had a nearly four-hour runtime at one point. Hear from cast, crew, and Hughes' family about the classic.
www.vanityfair.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My @vanityfair.com oral history of PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES, released on this day in 1987:
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I actually have started writing down my favorite, trusted online recipes in a binder because I am not sure the sites will survive.
When I traveled overseas last year, I bought a paper travel guide, something that I never thought I would do again.
When I traveled overseas last year, I bought a paper travel guide, something that I never thought I would do again.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I actually have started writing down my favorite, trusted online recipes in a binder because I am not sure the sites will survive.
When I traveled overseas last year, I bought a paper travel guide, something that I never thought I would do again.
When I traveled overseas last year, I bought a paper travel guide, something that I never thought I would do again.
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It's about that time....
Let's slash open a Plot of Fear 4K and see what's inside!
Get your copy here:
4K tinyurl.com/bdfkfdpm
Blu-ray tinyurl.com/bdfn94n8
Let's slash open a Plot of Fear 4K and see what's inside!
Get your copy here:
4K tinyurl.com/bdfkfdpm
Blu-ray tinyurl.com/bdfn94n8
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It's about that time....
Let's slash open a Plot of Fear 4K and see what's inside!
Get your copy here:
4K tinyurl.com/bdfkfdpm
Blu-ray tinyurl.com/bdfn94n8
Let's slash open a Plot of Fear 4K and see what's inside!
Get your copy here:
4K tinyurl.com/bdfkfdpm
Blu-ray tinyurl.com/bdfn94n8
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The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
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I think this is the first album I ever heard played on a car cassette player (getting a lift with the Dudleys). It was the first time I heard an album 'version' that was different to the single, and the first time I realised how some albums go off on side two.
youtu.be/bZHVQ_J9wfE?...
youtu.be/bZHVQ_J9wfE?...
David Bowie - Let's Dance
YouTube video by Ziggy's Stardust
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I think this is the first album I ever heard played on a car cassette player (getting a lift with the Dudleys). It was the first time I heard an album 'version' that was different to the single, and the first time I realised how some albums go off on side two.
youtu.be/bZHVQ_J9wfE?...
youtu.be/bZHVQ_J9wfE?...
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"I got the idea for Modern Love after hearing I'm Still Standing on the radio," explains Bowie. "I thought, fucking hell, Elton must be coining it in, I'm having some of that!"
youtu.be/HivQqTtiHVw?...
youtu.be/HivQqTtiHVw?...
David Bowie - Modern Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by David Bowie
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"I got the idea for Modern Love after hearing I'm Still Standing on the radio," explains Bowie. "I thought, fucking hell, Elton must be coining it in, I'm having some of that!"
youtu.be/HivQqTtiHVw?...
youtu.be/HivQqTtiHVw?...
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‘Sweet Smell of Success’ is “a bleak and unsparing depiction of obeisance before power in a morally bankrupt culture,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
‘Sweet Smell of Success’ is “a bleak and unsparing depiction of obeisance before power in a morally bankrupt culture,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
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Nigel Farage isn’t the only one trying to silence critics with legal threats. If you’re punching up at power, we’re on your side:
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
Standing up for speaking out | Good Law Project
Farage isn’t the only one trying to silence critics with legal threats. If you’re punching up at power, we’re on your side.
goodlaw.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Nigel Farage isn’t the only one trying to silence critics with legal threats. If you’re punching up at power, we’re on your side:
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
https://goodlaw.social/el2g
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Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
The Radiophonic Workshop – Adventures In Time And Space
“I first came across Desmond Briscoe on the moon!” laughs Dick Mills. “Plot On The Moon was a radio serial about two mad scientists who went to the moon and – as you do – fell in love with a Moon M…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
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My ★★★ review of Glen or Glenda on @letterboxd: boxd.it/bPPxmD
#265moviereview #PrimeVideo #filmsky 📽️
#265moviereview #PrimeVideo #filmsky 📽️
A ★★★ review of Glen or Glenda (1953)
A transvestite commits suicide because she doesn’t want to be arrested for the fourth time dressing up as a woman. The police detective who responds to the case seeks out the advice of a psychiatrist ...
boxd.it
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
My ★★★ review of Glen or Glenda on @letterboxd: boxd.it/bPPxmD
#265moviereview #PrimeVideo #filmsky 📽️
#265moviereview #PrimeVideo #filmsky 📽️
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Take a minute.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Take a minute.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I just received this Istvan Szabo box set in the post.
How fantastic. What great work you so, Second Run
How fantastic. What great work you so, Second Run
The wait is over! Our ISTVÁN SZABÓ Box Sets have arrived!!
Wonderful to see them in the real world. Website discount price of £37.99 until release date - 8 Dec!
www.secondrundvd.com/release_szab...
Also at Amazon UK tinyurl.com/4bckyaa2
@diabolikdvd.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bzhjmvcx
and usual outlets
Wonderful to see them in the real world. Website discount price of £37.99 until release date - 8 Dec!
www.secondrundvd.com/release_szab...
Also at Amazon UK tinyurl.com/4bckyaa2
@diabolikdvd.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bzhjmvcx
and usual outlets
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I just received this Istvan Szabo box set in the post.
How fantastic. What great work you so, Second Run
How fantastic. What great work you so, Second Run
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Great essay! Now I‘m in the mood to watch Edge Of Darkness again.
We have many fans of this series on Bluesky, which makes me very happy.
#FilmSky #EdgeOfDarkness
Great essay! Now I‘m in the mood to watch Edge Of Darkness again.
We have many fans of this series on Bluesky, which makes me very happy.
#FilmSky #EdgeOfDarkness
Still incomparable. Still essential. Forever timely. "The Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock, which states that the Earth self-regulates after destruction, swirls mysteriously through the plot and names a group with which Emma was involved."
Why Edge Of Darkness Makes So Much Sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Great essay! Now I‘m in the mood to watch Edge Of Darkness again.
We have many fans of this series on Bluesky, which makes me very happy.
#FilmSky #EdgeOfDarkness
Great essay! Now I‘m in the mood to watch Edge Of Darkness again.
We have many fans of this series on Bluesky, which makes me very happy.
#FilmSky #EdgeOfDarkness
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Anyone enjoying the current re-runs of vintage Call My Bluff on BBC Four might like to check out the show's cameo appearance ten minutes into this barking mad NF Simpson parody. I remember watching this in 1973 and being flabbergasted.
Elementary My Dear Watson (1973)
YouTube video by TV Gold
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Anyone enjoying the current re-runs of vintage Call My Bluff on BBC Four might like to check out the show's cameo appearance ten minutes into this barking mad NF Simpson parody. I remember watching this in 1973 and being flabbergasted.
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This week! Friday 28th November at 10:10pm THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi-horror #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This week! Friday 28th November at 10:10pm THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi-horror #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro
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The UK Premiere of the 4K restoration of William Friedkin’s white-knuckle thriller SORCERER hits our biggest screen daily from 9th January - for real this time. Experience the explosive, new version, sourced from the 35mm original negative.
🎟️ : buff.ly/bv1jZia
🎟️ : buff.ly/bv1jZia
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The UK Premiere of the 4K restoration of William Friedkin’s white-knuckle thriller SORCERER hits our biggest screen daily from 9th January - for real this time. Experience the explosive, new version, sourced from the 35mm original negative.
🎟️ : buff.ly/bv1jZia
🎟️ : buff.ly/bv1jZia