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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 13h

All the filmic goodwill from London Film Festival instantly dispelled by watching The Woman in Cabin 10 back at home. Absolutely hopeless.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 18h

My cold makes it sound like I've smoked 500 cigarettes since the last episode. My usual squawk will return, so enjoy it while it lasts.

The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast @backpagepod.bsky.social · 1d

New episode! We played the following computer games then talked about them:
- Silent Hill f
- Ghost of Yotei
- No, I'm not a Human
- Baby Steps
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- New Golden Idol DLC

Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/30GK...

What We've Been Playing (Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill f, Baby Steps, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Revisited)

open.spotify.com

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d

It's bad to get high on your own supply, but I'm still laughing about this now.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d

Well, nice to meet you. My throat is a bit wrecked by a cold, otherwise I would have said a proper hello. Have you got other films booked in?

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d

Also bumped into a Back Page listener , who I rudely didn't catch the name of. Hope you also enjoyed the film, person of good podcast taste!

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d

Really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man - feels less frivolous than Glass Onion and is elevated by a really winning Josh O'Connor turn (he's more the lead than Craig, and it really works). Great fun watching it with a huge, responsive crowd - you never really get that in a half empty Odeon in Bath.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 2d

Heading to the London Film Festival for the first time, get a bit of Knives Out 3 action. Any day with a new mystery film is a good day.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, absolutely amazing show. Couldn't believe they managed to pull it off.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 3d

Justified enters the elite club of TV shows that ended well. Must be the magic Walton Goggins touch - this and The Shield are two of the stronger final seasons I've seen.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 3d

Give Steve a go on Netflix - great little British film, feel like it'll fly under the radar, despite starring Cillian Murphy. Small and profound!

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 3d

Might just leave this paused on the TV forever.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 5d

I don't want to give my enemies the correct answer.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 7d

As good a pinball videogame as I've played. This properly melted my brain last year.

XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION @xenotilt.bsky.social · 18d

XENOTILT IS NOW OUT FOR PLAYSTATION 5! store.playstation.com/en-us/produc...

XENOTILT

HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION

store.playstation.com

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 7d

It was all worth it, then! (Er, I would double check all those facts.)

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 8d

I love how hard Aidy Bryant sells every line in Platonic. Character could be a total dud in someone else's hands. Another great part of a quietly excellent show.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 8d

Deserved a bit more chat - should have included it in the ten.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 8d

I think calling it foul drainage is unnecessarily cruel. It's natural produce. No shame in it.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like I'm getting some real karmic backlash for this obnoxiousness.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 9d

If I could have any superpower, I'd ask to be more assertive when talking to builders.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 11d

Would pass 125 Park Road trekking to Future London offices, always struck by its rounded sci-fi edges. Back in Bath, spotted the Herman Miller Factory on canalside COVID strolls. It looks like it was built from slabs of Caramac; how cool to have a little chunk of building history in our back garden.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 11d

I know naff all about architecture, but it's notable that both Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw died in the same month. Became aware of them through a brilliant BBC doc The Brits Who Built The Modern World, and felt the tiniest connection to Farrell/Grimshaw's early work.

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 12d

"Can you use your wish to get us cigarettes"

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 14d

I did not have a comedy gold Sean Penn performance on my 2025 bingo card. One of the many wild highlights of One Battle After Another. First five star film I've seen in yonks.

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible. 10/10, no notes

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 14d

unraveled
unraveledpress.com • 2h
Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn't aiming at ground and firing at people's heads again.
[photo of a person who appears to have been shot in the face by a rubber or pepper bullet, they say this in the alt text even!]

cecil
@fendoffthedemons.bsky.social • 1h
fuck this is awful. that's definitely targeted. also, small reminder that alt text needs to be descriptive. "raven, a white person with brown hair, shows an injury on their face from being shot by ICE"

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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 14d

Nah, you did a great job (apart from losing your passport at E3 and giving me a heart attack).

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