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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · 2d

Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/06/4...

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic, The Long Walk is a throwback to the days of the B-movie. In its …

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · 5d

I love this. Will see it again. And the podcast is surely the first of many discussions: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/03/4...

457 – One Battle After Another

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. By far Paul Thomas Anderson’s most expensive film, with a budget some four or five times what he’s used …

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 19d

King Trump state visit to the UK: New photo released.

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Sep 3

een it twice now; didn't think much of it the first time but thought I might have been in the wrong mood; now, I'm more convinced the faults are with the fim. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/4...

453 – The Shrouds

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. A psychosexual thriller that’s neither psychosexual nor thrilling enough, The Shrouds is a disappointment. The…

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Sep 1

A discussion of Willi Forst's marvellous Maskerade:

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · Aug 28

8/28/69 John Frankenheimer curio The Gypsy Moths
w/Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman + Sheree North
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Madeleine Probst @maddyprobst.bsky.social · Aug 27

London Friends!

Not to be missed at Ciné Lumière Sun 7 - Thu 18 Sept presented by Cinema Mentiré

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 26

I gather Tim Key isn't as well-loved by others as he is by Mike. I'd never heard of him, hadn't seen him in anything, and was completely charmed.. One of those uneven films that provide more depth, feeling, and humour than some of the more polished ones: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/26/4...

452 – The Ballad of Wallis Island

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Mike loves Tim Key. This much has been true for some time, and he’s thrilled to discover that the comic poet&#…

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 26

PS if any of you have written on Bemberg, Lita Stantic and/ or Luis Ospina, I'm happy to add the link/reference to the blogpost if you provide me with it.

José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 26

I was very taken with was the effervescence, energy and brilliance of Amina Ferley Yael and Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha who introduced the Maria Luisa Bemberg programme Cinema Rediscovered. This podcast is the result of wanting to know more notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/24/j...

José Arroyo in Conversation with Cinema Mentiré on Maria Luisa Bemberg

I was lucky enough to see Maria Luisa Bemberg’s SEÑORA DE NADIE (NOBODY’S WIFE, 1982)and YO, LA PEOR DE TODAS (I, THE WORST OF ALL, 1990) at this year’s CINEMA REDISCOVERED in Bri…

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 22

All these new comedies starring comedians I'd never heard of that are uneven but have depth and are funny. I'm liking the shift from all the bros improvs of yesteryear. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/22/4...

451 – Friendship

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. We talk adult male friendships, stress and surreality in our discussion of Friendship, in which oddball everyman Tim…

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sometimes you read a new book and love it so much you want to speak to its author and find out more. This is what happened to me in relation to Ryan Gilbey’s IT USED TO BE WITCHES: UNDER THE SPELL OF QUEER CINEMA.
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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · Aug 18

Signed up. I couldn’t have written my Black Archive books on Kinda and Warriors’ Gate without the access to the Written Archive. So many other researchers and writers depend on this too and so many books about television and radio culture would be poorer without it.

Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:

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Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · Aug 14

Whilst JD Vance comes to the UK & lectures us about freedom, his administration seems to be intent on turning the US into a police state.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Aug 14

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.

BIG crowd of people shouting at police.

"Fuck you!"

"What is wrong with you!"

"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Aug 14

Enjoy your Insta & WhatsApp & FB with turbocharged hate speech & conspiracy.

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · Aug 14

Jesus CHRIST www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 13

It has some laughs and Pamela Anderson but even so we couldn't understand why people are liking it so much and spend most of the podcast trying to like it and finding fault. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/13/4...

450 – The Naked Gun (2025)

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. The Naked Gun is rebooted with Liam Neeson in the part that was once Leslie Nielsen’s, and he shows just how h…

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 11

The civilian/ professional distinction is an important one.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · Aug 11

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 11

Bondi: "Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 9

Richard and I compare two versions of The Killers (with a sideline to a third, Tarkovsky's student film): notesonfilm1.com/2023/07/14/t...

Thinking Aloud About Film: The Killers (1946 & 1964)

In the podcast we compare the two films, a noir and a neo-noir, the 46 version made stars of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. We then compare both to the Tarkovsky 1956 student version of the…

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 9

Criss Cross and The Killers are masterpieces, and Criss Cross an undersung one.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · Aug 8

BOTD #FilmNoir maestro Robert Siodmak!! MCCT5 5)Cry/City 4)File on Thelma J 3)Criss Cross 2)Phantom Lady 1)Killers
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Robert Siodmak: Dark Visionary

A retrospective dedicated to one of Hollywood’s most enduringly influential yet too-little-celebrated Film Noir helmers, featuring an assortment of new 4K digital restorations of his signature films.

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Martin Murray @drmartinmurray.bsky.social · Jul 24

Good. Defamatory lying on social media is the aggressive business model of the 21st Century - pioneered by Alex Jones and copied by Candace Owen. It’s like a hostile takeover bid on a personal level. Horrible, disturbed and disturbing.

French president and wife sue rightwing US commentator Candace Owens for defamation

Owens has claimed that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that French president is controlled by CIA

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 6

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José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social · Aug 2

Where have they gone?

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