Jeremy J. Sharp
@jeremyjsharp.bsky.social
Just another silly Canadian.
Episode 4 of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is just a terrific episode of television, esp. for being a mere 30 minutes. And, damn, they nailed the casting for Ser Duncan: they couldn't have found anyone better than Peter Claffey, and he damned well showed that in this episode. Well bloody done.
February 7, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Episode 4 of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is just a terrific episode of television, esp. for being a mere 30 minutes. And, damn, they nailed the casting for Ser Duncan: they couldn't have found anyone better than Peter Claffey, and he damned well showed that in this episode. Well bloody done.
Genuinely adoring Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell as Dunk & Egg. They're just so delightful and charming together. They're great on their own, but just a lovely double-act together.
February 2, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Genuinely adoring Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell as Dunk & Egg. They're just so delightful and charming together. They're great on their own, but just a lovely double-act together.
Can't wait for Amazon's next sexpest-directed cinematic bribe, this one even closer to the president's interests:
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Can't wait for Amazon's next sexpest-directed cinematic bribe, this one even closer to the president's interests:
Something else which gets a surprisingly lengthy inclusion in the MCU: still, the only the X-rated film to win Best Picture.
January 31, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Something else which gets a surprisingly lengthy inclusion in the MCU: still, the only the X-rated film to win Best Picture.
a) Hahaha, you imagined we were entertaining joining your vile racket?
b) Not a letter, dipshit.
c) I hope Carney responds with this.
b) Not a letter, dipshit.
c) I hope Carney responds with this.
January 23, 2026 at 3:10 AM
a) Hahaha, you imagined we were entertaining joining your vile racket?
b) Not a letter, dipshit.
c) I hope Carney responds with this.
b) Not a letter, dipshit.
c) I hope Carney responds with this.
Finally watched FOXTROT (1977) after spotting it on Tubi a while ago-- and it's such a baffling film. It's so disjoitned, so fumbling, so stilted and incoherent. I reckon a lot was hacked out of it for some reason. At the time, it was praised for its cinematography, but I can't imagine why.
January 23, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Finally watched FOXTROT (1977) after spotting it on Tubi a while ago-- and it's such a baffling film. It's so disjoitned, so fumbling, so stilted and incoherent. I reckon a lot was hacked out of it for some reason. At the time, it was praised for its cinematography, but I can't imagine why.
Enjoyed the premiere of the Dunk & Egg show, and really liked Peter Claffey as Dunk. The lad playing Egg is very good, too, but Claffey has to thread the trickier needle of playing basic decency with charm and earnestness without becoming flat or boring. He's succeeding, too, so good on him.
January 19, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Enjoyed the premiere of the Dunk & Egg show, and really liked Peter Claffey as Dunk. The lad playing Egg is very good, too, but Claffey has to thread the trickier needle of playing basic decency with charm and earnestness without becoming flat or boring. He's succeeding, too, so good on him.
Now that 2025's gone, it seems safe to say that the truly groundshaking performance of the year came not from DiCaprio or Chalamet or some other star, but from a 14-y/o boy* from Manchester with no prior screen-acting experience. And it wasn't even close.
*at time of filming
*at time of filming
January 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Now that 2025's gone, it seems safe to say that the truly groundshaking performance of the year came not from DiCaprio or Chalamet or some other star, but from a 14-y/o boy* from Manchester with no prior screen-acting experience. And it wasn't even close.
*at time of filming
*at time of filming
When I was a kid, my mom got so tired of my renting STAR WARS from the video store that she just picked up something animated from the shelf and rented it instead. Later, I went to watch it while she and Dad were at work. Oooh, boy...
Anyway, guess what's on Prime now?
Anyway, guess what's on Prime now?
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 AM
When I was a kid, my mom got so tired of my renting STAR WARS from the video store that she just picked up something animated from the shelf and rented it instead. Later, I went to watch it while she and Dad were at work. Oooh, boy...
Anyway, guess what's on Prime now?
Anyway, guess what's on Prime now?
Thanks to @willharrisinva.bsky.social, I just learned that the great @jumblejim.bsky.social is on BSky, mostly posting his quick ratings of movies.
And, as if I needed reason to think more highly of him, Mr. Beaver was on one hell of John Gielgud run recently. That's just so pleasing somehow.
And, as if I needed reason to think more highly of him, Mr. Beaver was on one hell of John Gielgud run recently. That's just so pleasing somehow.
January 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Thanks to @willharrisinva.bsky.social, I just learned that the great @jumblejim.bsky.social is on BSky, mostly posting his quick ratings of movies.
And, as if I needed reason to think more highly of him, Mr. Beaver was on one hell of John Gielgud run recently. That's just so pleasing somehow.
And, as if I needed reason to think more highly of him, Mr. Beaver was on one hell of John Gielgud run recently. That's just so pleasing somehow.
So odd how BlueSky is naming Roddy McDowall as "trending" and then directing to a tonne of posts which don't even mention him. It's all POSEIDON ADVENTURE-related, but that's some bizarre AI-ish weirdness: does BSky just do some weird unapparent associating?
/btw, I still miss Roddy...
/btw, I still miss Roddy...
January 1, 2026 at 10:22 AM
So odd how BlueSky is naming Roddy McDowall as "trending" and then directing to a tonne of posts which don't even mention him. It's all POSEIDON ADVENTURE-related, but that's some bizarre AI-ish weirdness: does BSky just do some weird unapparent associating?
/btw, I still miss Roddy...
/btw, I still miss Roddy...
Were he somehow alive today, even Sterling Hayden would say, "No, THAT'S Jack. D. Ripper."
December 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Were he somehow alive today, even Sterling Hayden would say, "No, THAT'S Jack. D. Ripper."
Oh my... local TV station is now re-airing (of all things) the episode of THE A-TEAM guest starring L.Q. Jones and... wait for it... Boy George.
80s TV was a weird, wild f*cking thing. No wonder my generation turned out the way it did.
80s TV was a weird, wild f*cking thing. No wonder my generation turned out the way it did.
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Oh my... local TV station is now re-airing (of all things) the episode of THE A-TEAM guest starring L.Q. Jones and... wait for it... Boy George.
80s TV was a weird, wild f*cking thing. No wonder my generation turned out the way it did.
80s TV was a weird, wild f*cking thing. No wonder my generation turned out the way it did.
Was just occasioned to notice that Eva Marie Saint is now 101 years old-- and yet her centenary passed by almost entirely unnoticed. To think: she won her Oscar SEVENTY years ago...
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Was just occasioned to notice that Eva Marie Saint is now 101 years old-- and yet her centenary passed by almost entirely unnoticed. To think: she won her Oscar SEVENTY years ago...
Was inordinately happy with myself for getting this (i.e., figuring out the connection between the clues) on the second clue. Can't explain why without spoiling it, but I've capped the third clue as well so you can have a go.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Was inordinately happy with myself for getting this (i.e., figuring out the connection between the clues) on the second clue. Can't explain why without spoiling it, but I've capped the third clue as well so you can have a go.
Watching Colbert and learned that Sigourney Weaver got her first job in theatre from John Gielgud. Sir John gave many actors their first job, but famously including Alec Guinness about 40 years earlier.
To think, we owe Ellen Ripley and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Hobson from ARTHUR. Funny how it all goes.
To think, we owe Ellen Ripley and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Hobson from ARTHUR. Funny how it all goes.
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Watching Colbert and learned that Sigourney Weaver got her first job in theatre from John Gielgud. Sir John gave many actors their first job, but famously including Alec Guinness about 40 years earlier.
To think, we owe Ellen Ripley and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Hobson from ARTHUR. Funny how it all goes.
To think, we owe Ellen Ripley and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Hobson from ARTHUR. Funny how it all goes.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
/ following a very similar theme to Sylvia below, but I could put so many here...
/ following a very similar theme to Sylvia below, but I could put so many here...
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
/ following a very similar theme to Sylvia below, but I could put so many here...
/ following a very similar theme to Sylvia below, but I could put so many here...
Tte mind-bend for me is that the first film I saw McGovern in was LOVESICK-- as Dudley Moore's love interest-- when I was a kid back in 1983. And the reason I wanted to see it was that it had Alec Guinness in it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Tte mind-bend for me is that the first film I saw McGovern in was LOVESICK-- as Dudley Moore's love interest-- when I was a kid back in 1983. And the reason I wanted to see it was that it had Alec Guinness in it.
Until the DOJ balked at the price and so they settled for this guy.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Until the DOJ balked at the price and so they settled for this guy.
RAN, however, was Kurosawa's last masterpiece and it let Nakadai go all-out King Lear in the most fierce and elemental ways. He should've been Oscar-nominated for it, but sadly wasn't. Nakadai's entire career is exceptional, but Hidetora was Nakadai at his greatest. RIP.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
RAN, however, was Kurosawa's last masterpiece and it let Nakadai go all-out King Lear in the most fierce and elemental ways. He should've been Oscar-nominated for it, but sadly wasn't. Nakadai's entire career is exceptional, but Hidetora was Nakadai at his greatest. RIP.
Regardless, RELAY plays best not as a thriller but as an ode to the USPS and, especially, to the phone relay services for the deaf. Pretty sure the latter's never been so well or so prominently used in a film before.
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Regardless, RELAY plays best not as a thriller but as an ode to the USPS and, especially, to the phone relay services for the deaf. Pretty sure the latter's never been so well or so prominently used in a film before.
You know who we all need to see right now? Enrico Palazzo.
November 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
You know who we all need to see right now? Enrico Palazzo.
It remains true that the best thing about Tubi is that it's the only streamer where you'll find older oddball stuff that's pretty much otherwise been forgotten. Tonight, I stumbled on this-- and, sure, it's bad, but it's a real curio now, esp. for shots of mid-70s Hong Kong and Amsterdam.
October 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
It remains true that the best thing about Tubi is that it's the only streamer where you'll find older oddball stuff that's pretty much otherwise been forgotten. Tonight, I stumbled on this-- and, sure, it's bad, but it's a real curio now, esp. for shots of mid-70s Hong Kong and Amsterdam.
Who robbed the Louvre? Wrong answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Wrong answers only.