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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 4m

I enjoyed this enormously - a great reminder to a show I remember from childhood. Even to young me, Kenneth Williams' voice was just fabulous to listen to.

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Galloping Galaxies: Rentaghost in Space?

YouTube video by Stuart Millard

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 1h

Also visually it’s about creating a striking “real” world within the graphic style of computer games at the time.

But big games are now aiming for levels of photo realism. So what are you designing the world within the computer for.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 2h

Gloria Swanson at Studio 54! An actual in-the-wild instance of “X could have…”

Leticia García 🇵🇸 @ms-golightly.bsky.social · 3h

Kate Harrington, Truman Capote y Gloria Swanson en Studio 54. 1978

[Ron Galella]

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 2h

I agree - "Manhattan" is now one of the hardest of films to try and separate the art from the artist when rewatching. But its often hard to avoid even slight lines in other films that now hit different. Even just the appearance of an incredibly cool teen girl character lands differently.

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 13h

117. Andrzej Żuławski’s peculiar blend of pretentious hysterics and visual sheen finds probably its most comfortable home in early eighties horror. “Possession” is weird and visually engaging but also annoyingly pompous and overly actorly. At its most effective, though, it’s truly unsettling.

Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani in “Possession”

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 13h

116. “Tron” remains a glorious visual feast, sitting well within the tradition of seventies sci-fi psychedelia alongside eighties visual bombast. The story loses stream in the final third, but it’s carried along by a great sense of fun.

Cindy Morgan and Bruce Boxleitner in “Tron”

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 20h

115. “Ghost Stories” is a curious adaptation. Its fidelity to the source material means it recreates scares that were fabulous on stage but just seem ok here. And while it strengthens the overarching narrative in clever ways, it doesn’t really fix its fundamental problem - it still lacks impact.

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 22h

While Tadhg's video on the fall of Assad just feels so bizarre after his comedy depictions on the coup in Niger. Where the fall of "Baz" in Niger was the source of much hilarity - but when it comes to Syria we really need to pay respectful silence to His Grace Bashir Al-Assad.

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 22h

Liam's far from the worst but there's something weird in posters who post endlessly about how they are so pure in their despair over the situation in Gaza because, they unlike others, have not lost their humanity. Then occasionally add that Ukrainians in Russia can go get fucked, the Khokhols.

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 1d

The frothing hypocrisy of the pro-Brexit Telegraph is breathtaking.

Telegraph newspaper headline

The hypocrisy of the European Union is breathtaking
Given how easy it is to get across the Channel this way, the added friction of travel to the Continent is a pointed insult
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The European Union has seen finer days. Its ageing population is about to enter a steep decline, driven by tumbling birth rates. Geopolitically, it is fast becoming an irrelevance, as talks on Ukraine, on Israel and on the future shape of the global security order are carried out above its head. And economically it is moribund, a drifting hulk tangled in a sargasso sea of regulations, watching enviously as American and Chinese tech companies build the industries of the future.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 1d

Bitterly disappointing. It lacked the free wheeling invention of the first film, in favour of too many callbacks. And the way it still managed to involve Jeffrey Jones was just bizarre.

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 1d

"Visually it is an absolutely stunning film, made moreso by the realisation that all of what you see on screen is quite real. No CGI, no greenscreens, and as much natural light as they could capture"

Six Damn Fine Degrees #255: Excalibur (1981)

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d

Next week in the WSJ: Guys did you realise pizza is actually delicious? Who knew!

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 2d

It does amaze me, though, that this was made around the same time as "Aliens". And somehow cost much more.

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 2d

Toshiro Mifune in Italy for the Venice Film Festival (1961).

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🌸MurmurLilies🌸 @murmurlilies.bsky.social · 25d

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game

screenshot from the TV show Columbo. the titular character Columbo is shown standing at the edge of a driveway, looking down at golden retriever who is happily basking on the pavement in front of him. the subtitles read: "You're a real friendly boy, aren't you? Oh, you're a girl."

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 2d

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 3d

I remember visiting Almouth and assuming it’d be pronounced something like Ol-muth. But the locals said “Al Mouth” pretty much as written. Right. So next day I went to the neighbouring Alnwick so assumed pronounced Aln-Wick?

No, that’s Annick.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 3d

The great thing about seeing pics of Young Conservatives is that I think back to what I looked like at nineteen, and I feel a little less square.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 3d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 3d

oh yes, definitely not defeatist. Aragorn’s coronation is a triumph even though we know Gondor itself will one day pass.

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