John Bleasdale
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The Magic Hours: the Life of Terrence Malick
Darkness Visible: the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World/Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
https://open.spotify.com/show/7LMnm5Gfb42qUV5qLdymMp?si=CC_zOz5ERTWFm_iij8ImAg
Darkness Visible: the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World/Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
https://open.spotify.com/show/7LMnm5Gfb42qUV5qLdymMp?si=CC_zOz5ERTWFm_iij8ImAg
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me by Christopher Wood
With Chris Eels and I
On 'The James Bond Book Club' with the erudite and entertaining
#jamesbond #jamesbondbook
#jamesbondbooks
#jamesbondnovel #jamesbondnovels
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With Chris Eels and I
On 'The James Bond Book Club' with the erudite and entertaining
#jamesbond #jamesbondbook
#jamesbondbooks
#jamesbondnovel #jamesbondnovels
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James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me
Podcast Episode · The James Bond Book Club · 20/11/2025 · 57m
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November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me by Christopher Wood
With Chris Eels and I
On 'The James Bond Book Club' with the erudite and entertaining
#jamesbond #jamesbondbook
#jamesbondbooks
#jamesbondnovel #jamesbondnovels
podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/t...
With Chris Eels and I
On 'The James Bond Book Club' with the erudite and entertaining
#jamesbond #jamesbondbook
#jamesbondbooks
#jamesbondnovel #jamesbondnovels
podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/t...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
There are people dying of old age who have never known a world without Gray’s Anatomy
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
There are people dying of old age who have never known a world without Gray’s Anatomy
My new piece @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Will HAL kill Hollywood?
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Will HAL kill Hollywood?
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Will HAL kill Hollywood?
After years of scary AI movies, the tech is now portrayed as heroic – just as the industry’s humans come into its sights
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
My new piece @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
Will HAL kill Hollywood?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
Will HAL kill Hollywood?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
You can’t be okay with this and agree with that whole shining city on the hill bullshit.
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
You can’t be okay with this and agree with that whole shining city on the hill bullshit.
Train Dreams is such a beautiful film. And joins the list of the best Terrence Malick films Terrence Malick didn’t direct. Joel Edgerton gives the performance of his career. Restrained and subtle. Will Paxton provides the narration and there’s a sense of deep time few films achieve.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Train Dreams is such a beautiful film. And joins the list of the best Terrence Malick films Terrence Malick didn’t direct. Joel Edgerton gives the performance of his career. Restrained and subtle. Will Paxton provides the narration and there’s a sense of deep time few films achieve.
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Celebrity hate is politics by proxy. Sweeney is an actor, and in my experience actors are not necessarily the people you want to be going to for your politics
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Why do people hate Sydney Sweeney?
The White Lotus actress is a registered Republican, but that isn’t a reason to troll her – our idea of liberal Hollywood is a myth
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Celebrity hate is politics by proxy. Sweeney is an actor, and in my experience actors are not necessarily the people you want to be going to for your politics
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Funny because it’s true
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Funny because it’s true
Lies the Movies Tell: 1. Almost Everyone Is Beautiful
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Lies the Movies Tell: 1. Almost Everyone Is Beautiful
An ongoing list of the mendacity of the movies
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November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Lies the Movies Tell: 1. Almost Everyone Is Beautiful
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I think film directors should try not to use aerial shots unless there are aircraft in the film as part of the narrative. Aerial shots in westerns for instance are just dumb. And those Shining shots in horror movies are the zombie cliche which will never die!
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think film directors should try not to use aerial shots unless there are aircraft in the film as part of the narrative. Aerial shots in westerns for instance are just dumb. And those Shining shots in horror movies are the zombie cliche which will never die!
I’m getting really bored of all these junket interviews where the “journalist” tries to hit a personal note with the interviewees and create a moment.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’m getting really bored of all these junket interviews where the “journalist” tries to hit a personal note with the interviewees and create a moment.
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If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
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Do you use Overcast to listen to us? The new design there looks pretty cool.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Do you use Overcast to listen to us? The new design there looks pretty cool.
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Didn’t even know this existed. This would have been the Christmas present I coveted most when I was eight - and I suspect that I would have been a little shocked.
The James Bond Book Club returns with a new episode on Christopher Wood’s The Spy Who Loved Me open.spotify.com/episode/7zQe...
James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Didn’t even know this existed. This would have been the Christmas present I coveted most when I was eight - and I suspect that I would have been a little shocked.
Udo Kier
Over 200 films
RIP
Over 200 films
RIP
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Udo Kier
Over 200 films
RIP
Over 200 films
RIP
The sound design on Takeshi Miike’s Audition by Kenji Shibasaki is amazing
“Kiri kiri kiri”
“Kiri kiri kiri”
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The sound design on Takeshi Miike’s Audition by Kenji Shibasaki is amazing
“Kiri kiri kiri”
“Kiri kiri kiri”
Bruce Willis: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
YouTube video by Funny Or Die
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November 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I can’t live if living is without you
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I can’t live if living is without you
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
And evil Penfold didn’t think to say anything until now ?
Bill Barr was in the Oval Office when Trump told Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot George Floyd protestors. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley was also there. Secretary Esper said the order would be illegal.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
And evil Penfold didn’t think to say anything until now ?
A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
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Best comic panels. Go.
November 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Best comic panels. Go.
I can’t live if living is without you
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I can’t live if living is without you
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
I can’t live I can’t give anymore
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