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Tony Cogan
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Website: coogsreviews.wordpress.com
The Wicker Man Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4IjvDAEHkBsga7fh6frMdn?si=QshLUX1KRI-P7Yz7ZHi71A
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/2...
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review
When it was first announced that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland would be going back to the “28 … Later” series a few years ago, I expected it to be an initial one and done and if th…
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January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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The Voice of Hind Rajab Review coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...
The Voice of Hind Rajab Review
This is a hard film to watch and it needs to be. During the Israeli occupation of Gaza there have been countless war crimes committed against the Palestinian people, this film being focused on the …
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January 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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Alice Tinker from The Vicar of Dibley
January 17, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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My round up of all the films I saw from 2025 coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/2... #2025infilm
2025 End of Year Retrospective
So we’ve come to the end of 2025 and thank goodness the year is over. I’ve had some great experiences personally, spending 2 weeks in New Zealand and seeing locations from Lord of the R…
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January 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Not just my favourite musical but my favourite film overall youtu.be/MXq-NuS24fg?...
January 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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That was clearly a Zelda branded ocarina #taskmaster
January 2, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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My @letterboxd.social round up of the year.The third year where Wallace and Gromit rewatches has put Nick Park as my most watched director
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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@chopperfireball.bsky.social you've got one in the final episode of Stranger Things
January 1, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
April 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Whenever anyone asks about the greatest film streak from a director my answer has always been Rob Reiner's run from Stand By Me to A Few Good Men. An incredible talent who will be deeply missed. Rest in Peace.
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Cheltenham Film Festival: Palestine 36 Review coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/c...
Cheltenham Film Festival: Palestine 36 Review
I think it’s best that I start out by saying that the ongoing genocide in Gaza is one of the great evils of the world today. The displacement and violence towards the Palestinian people and t…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Cheltenham Film Festival: Pillion Review coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/c... @filmcheltenham.bsky.social
Cheltenham Film Festival: Pillion Review
After a week at the London Film Festival I came to Cheltenham in time for the Cheltenham Film Festival. I’ve done a few screenings of films at this festival in the past but this is the first …
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October 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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So we're going to find out who robbed the Louvre #taskmaster
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The Democratic Party after the Graham Platner story broke
October 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Of potential interest to @patrickhwillems.bsky.social, Apple are doing what looks to be a full TV series of train action youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7R...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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London Film Festival 2025: Finding Optel Review coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/l... #lff #lff25 #londonfilmfestival
London Film Festival 2025: Finding Optel Review
So we’ve now come to my final film of the 2025 London Film Festival. I’ve had a great time at the festival and seen a lot of great films and I wanted to end with another more obscure on…
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October 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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London Film Festival 2025: Rose of Nevada Review coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l... #lff #lff2025 #londonfilmfestival
London Film Festival 2025: Rose of Nevada Review
I’m starting to come to the end of my time covering this years London Film Festival and I wanted to make sure that, before I finished, I saw at least one film in the main competition. Songs of Forg…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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London Film Festival 2025: Is This Thing On Review coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l... #lff #londonfilmfestival2025 #bfilondonfilmfestival
London Film Festival 2025: Is This Thing On Review
Going back to the films I’ve been watching at the London Film Festival, this is the last of the big gala films that have been on at the festival that I’ve seen. As a director, Bradley C…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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My review of D(e)ad from @izball.bsky.social and @crapaport.bsky.social coogsreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/d...
D(e)ad Review
Moving away from the films I’ve seen as part of the London Film Festival, over the past few months I’ve become more of a fan of the comedy that’s being shown on Dropout. Having st…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM