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John Featherstone
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Writer: #TheCinemaOfCancelledStars, #Ringtone and #TheDrowningAirman.

You can also read "Robin Hood & The Stuntman Lost In Time" here: https://latereviewer.com/2024/11/26/robin-hood-the-stuntman-lost-in-time/
Except that's Scott Fitzgerald.

#BookSky
January 22, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Michael Curtiz with his cast and crew behind the scenes of #CaptainBlood (1935).
January 19, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Michael Curtiz on the set of #CaptainBlood (1935).

#FilmSky
January 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Conquering the hills of #Sheffield one run at a time...

#RunSky
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM
A little restructuring during this round of edits...

#TheCinemaOfCancelledStars #BookSky
January 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Fearlessly tackling the legendary hills of #Sheffield on a wintry evening. Again, my time could be much better but in my defence, I did this on annual leave so...

#RunSky
January 13, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I battled through snow and ice to visit the Robin Hood for Sunday dinner because there really is nothing I won't do for England's finest archer.

Barmaid: "That's nineteen fifty-nine, please."

Me (thinking): Hmmn, the year Flynn died...

#PubSky
January 11, 2026 at 1:01 PM
January 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Very VERY far from my best time or distance (I've run 10k in less time than this), however, I took a route that was two-thirds up #Sheffield hills so I'm not beating myself up.

#RunSky
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Thanks to @jpgjo77.bsky.social for my amazing #Bogart coasters!

#FilmSky
December 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
4/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary:

Battleship Potemkin (1925): propagandist
Dragonwyck (1944): atmospheric
Safety Last! (1923): vertiginous
The General (1926): genius
Die Hard (1988): explosive
Home Alone (1990): skyfall

#FilmSky
December 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
3/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary:

Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads (2025): incredible
Jaws (1975): bloody
The Devil's Bat (1940): stupid
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025): unnecessary
The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957): disappointing

#FilmSky
December 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
2/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary:

Ballerina (2025): violent
Superman (2025): confused
Friendship (2024): unfocused
The Naked Gun (2025): surprising
The Life Of Chuck (2024): embarrassing
This Is Spinal Tap (1984): funny

#FilmSky
December 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
1/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary:

Nosferatu (2024): risible
A Real Pain (2024): poignant
The Apartment (1960): corporate
The Rock (1996): bombastic
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025): long
The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2025): beautiful

#FilmSky
December 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My heating has packed up so...

#HeatSky #PubSky
December 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I didn't see anything but I visited the beautiful Kino cinema in Rye today.

#FilmSky
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I was a little bit gutted my lovely hotel didn't assign me to the Roger Moore 007 room but I'll live (and let die).

#JamesBond #TheSaint #UNICEF #FilmSky
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
We ended up having Tap-booze with Gemma, whose date had stood her up.
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Throwback to October 2018 when @latereviewer.bsky.social and I watched #BrideOfFrankenstein (1935) in the catacombs of St. Leonard's Hospital, York.

#FilmSky
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Occasionally meandering but overall a page-turner with a VERY bold and shocking claim at its heart...

#Wow #BookSky
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Promotion for The Man In The Iron Mask at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

#HollywoodsGreatestYear #FilmSky
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"This time, John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly."

"That was Gary Cooper, asshole."

John McClane is spot on - but he could also point out that they actually ride off into the afternoon sun, what with the film taking place at High Noon and all.

#FilmSky
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt was #BOTD 130 years ago. Here he is executing his famous death-defying feat in #ZorrosFightingLegion (1939).

#Stagecoach #RaidersOfTheLostArk #HollywoodsGreatestYear #FilmSky
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"It was a foretelling of how a boy who wants desperately to have a father who will protect him finally realises that that father exists in himself."

- Stewart Stern, screenwriter of #RebelWithoutACause (1955), on its opening.

#FilmSky
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It's #GatSaturday - me, @donny222.bsky.social and @curiodik1dik2.bsky.social working through #LittleCaesar (1931), #ThePublicEnemy (1931) and #Scarface (1932).

Tommy Guns, pineapples, speakeasies, incest, murder and booze all in their pre-Code glory.

Follow me for mini 'reviews' later, #FilmSky.
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM