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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 7h

Enjoyed the surprise film at the London Film Festival last night, which was a genuine surprise as I knew nothing about it - Daniel Roher's first fictional film TUNER, starring Leo Woodall as a piano tuner with acute hearing who gets caught up in criminal safe-cracking. Fun stuff

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 1d

Great kick-off to the London Film Festival last night with the new Knives Out film WAKE UP DEAD MAN. Another intricate, clockwork puzzle script that manages to skirt deeper themes about death while still being political and funny. Please make a fourth one of these @rianjohnson.bsky.social

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 5d

New Animal Farm paperback cover just dropped

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 7d

It's still quite a buzz to see people reacting to Grand Theft Hamlet so positively - this blog here is possibly the most thoughtful, perceptive and well-written response I've seen so far:

www.bruisermag.com/lambertgilre...

Much respect @bruisermag.com x

OCCUPYING THE MAGIC CIRCLES OF GRAND THEFT HAMLET [BRUISER RESEARCH] - BRUISER

Elizabeth Lambert and Philip Gilreath on Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane's virtual, violent exploration into adapting Shakespeare

www.bruisermag.com

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 8d

Wanna fall in love with movies again?

As we get surrounded by sequels and AI slop, go and watch ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER if you'd like reminding of what proper filmmaking is.

Thrillingly made stuff, and could not be more politically topical. See it on the biggest screen you can

Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 9d

The new Labour Party all the Sensible Centrists wanted - literally letting Nigel Farage dictate their policies

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 12d

One finished, one started.

Indie game fans eating well this autumn

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 15d

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 16d

Mimi! Sorry I missed this, BlueSky notifications sometimes don’t come up. Yes that’s Jimmy, though he barely uses it x

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 17d

Stop this nonsense

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 18d

Grand Theft Hamlet has made the final four nomination shortlist for a prestigious Grierson Award! Really delighted for the whole team x

Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 18d

Thinking a lot about ANDOR these days

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 19d

I don't watch much anime these days, but the chance to see some in the cinema was intriguing, especially with the crap weather yesterday, so I went to see DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE. Didn't always know what was going on, but the animation and action sequences are incredible

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 22d

Tonight I sat in a theatre bar and two white people insisted to me that blackface was actually pretty funny, black people weren’t actually offended by it, and the pushback against it was all from white people “just looking to be offended”.

Ah yes, the notoriously liberal arts

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 23d

Finished watching the second series of WEDNESDAY on Netflix, which got me thinking about the franchise as a whole. 30s comic strip, 60s TV series, three 90s films, a stage musical, two recent animated films, and now this. Nearly 100 years of a pretty simple idea. And more to come

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 27d

It’s actually completely insane that he said this out loud

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · 27d

White people, who have said nothing about the genocide of non-white people, getting upset when one single extremely racist white man is killed, should sit down and think about how that looks

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm in this.

Out in October x

deadline.com/2025/09/hedd...

‘Hedda’ Review: Tessa Thompson And Nina Hoss Start A Fire In Nia DaCosta’s Wildean Reimagining Of Ibsen’s Classic Play – Toronto Film Festival

‘Hedda’ review: Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss start a fire in Nia DaCosta’s Wildean reimagining of Ibsen’s classic play – Toronto Film Festival

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · Sep 7

These are my main thoughts on Alien: Earth

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Mark Oosterveen @markoosterveen.bsky.social · Sep 6

Delighted to report that, having screwed up the finale of their last two attempts to end this show, the last episode of DEXTER: RESURRECTION bucks the trend and is supremely satisfying. Would devour a second series of this if they end up making one, greenlight it please x

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