Claire Meadows MA
@clmeadows.bsky.social
▪️A life spent between pages, politics & celluloid ▪️Author and film historian▪️’Mildred Pierce in Adaptation’ out now on Kindle
MAGA going through Pope Leo’s old tweets:
May 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
MAGA going through Pope Leo’s old tweets:
Mark Carney’s face all the way through that conference
May 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Mark Carney’s face all the way through that conference
The postman: behave yourself
Wizard:
Wizard:
April 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The postman: behave yourself
Wizard:
Wizard:
Me that day I decided to cut my fringe hours before a whole day of meetings in London:
April 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Me that day I decided to cut my fringe hours before a whole day of meetings in London:
Happy Easter all xx
April 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happy Easter all xx
When your mate shows you a picture of the man that broke her heart and he looks like this
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
When your mate shows you a picture of the man that broke her heart and he looks like this
Am quoting big chunks of Murder on the Orient Express to a bemused audience. The 1974 version. Any other version is a travesty.
April 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Am quoting big chunks of Murder on the Orient Express to a bemused audience. The 1974 version. Any other version is a travesty.
My husband and I having a barney in Tescos because I ‘waste so much food’ and I counter that I can’t remember absolutely fucking everything
April 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
My husband and I having a barney in Tescos because I ‘waste so much food’ and I counter that I can’t remember absolutely fucking everything
Totally devoted to sitting outside even after it’s nearly eight, the sun’s gone in and it’s actually not that warm at all. Has to be forced indoors on the promise of a pack of Schmackos.
April 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Totally devoted to sitting outside even after it’s nearly eight, the sun’s gone in and it’s actually not that warm at all. Has to be forced indoors on the promise of a pack of Schmackos.
My husband when he thinks he has a neutral face staring at noisy kids in McDonalds
April 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My husband when he thinks he has a neutral face staring at noisy kids in McDonalds
Peering through the kitchen window like the ghost of fucking Christmas past
April 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Peering through the kitchen window like the ghost of fucking Christmas past
Can we add tariffs to the dog?
April 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Can we add tariffs to the dog?
Heat will be getting a rewatch in honour of Mr Kilmer. Farewell sir.
April 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Heat will be getting a rewatch in honour of Mr Kilmer. Farewell sir.
When you’re basically ungovernable and make a spectacle of yourself on every occasion when you’re in public
April 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When you’re basically ungovernable and make a spectacle of yourself on every occasion when you’re in public
Me two days before pay day:
March 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Me two days before pay day:
Started watching this on the treadmill this afternoon and I must say that Brian Laundrie has big Chris Watts energy.
March 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Started watching this on the treadmill this afternoon and I must say that Brian Laundrie has big Chris Watts energy.
At the beginning of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Jill Lawrence (Edna Best) breaks all of the conventions of motherhood and being a wife. She openly flirts with another man in the company of her husband, and does not seem at all maternal towards her daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam).
March 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
At the beginning of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Jill Lawrence (Edna Best) breaks all of the conventions of motherhood and being a wife. She openly flirts with another man in the company of her husband, and does not seem at all maternal towards her daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam).
The movie so good that Alfred Hitchcock made it twice - The Man Who Knew Too Much. The first one was in 1934, and side by side with the 1956 version proves itself the ‘racier’ offering. I’m going to do a deep-dive this week into how & what it tells us about cinema reflecting society at both points
March 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The movie so good that Alfred Hitchcock made it twice - The Man Who Knew Too Much. The first one was in 1934, and side by side with the 1956 version proves itself the ‘racier’ offering. I’m going to do a deep-dive this week into how & what it tells us about cinema reflecting society at both points
Me when my husband comes and stands next to me while I’m working, smiling, because I know it’s something he’s fucked up on his computer and needs me to sort it out
March 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Me when my husband comes and stands next to me while I’m working, smiling, because I know it’s something he’s fucked up on his computer and needs me to sort it out
A proper old-school slab of horror from 1981 that I found on Kindle Unlimited and am enjoying immensely. Nazis encounter dark forces in an old Transylvanian fortress. Very peak-era James Herbert.
March 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A proper old-school slab of horror from 1981 that I found on Kindle Unlimited and am enjoying immensely. Nazis encounter dark forces in an old Transylvanian fortress. Very peak-era James Herbert.
In the vampire movie pantheon, these guys went the hardest.
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In the vampire movie pantheon, these guys went the hardest.
While not quite PC now, Ona Munson’s haughty performance as ‘Mother’ Gin Sling in Josef Von Sternberg’s The Shanghai Gesture (1941) adds much to the film’s jaded atmosphere. There’s a connection between her and Gene Tierney’s Poppy that all the opium in the world cannot erase.
March 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
While not quite PC now, Ona Munson’s haughty performance as ‘Mother’ Gin Sling in Josef Von Sternberg’s The Shanghai Gesture (1941) adds much to the film’s jaded atmosphere. There’s a connection between her and Gene Tierney’s Poppy that all the opium in the world cannot erase.
Me when I don’t get what I want
March 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Me when I don’t get what I want
Kicking off that it’s snowing with the cashier in Tescos
March 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Kicking off that it’s snowing with the cashier in Tescos