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Matthew Castle
@mrbasilpesto.bsky.social
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Magazine killer, podcast maker. Co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1h
Heading to the London Film Festival for the first time, get a bit of Knives Out 3 action. Any day with a new mystery film is a good day.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, absolutely amazing show. Couldn't believe they managed to pull it off.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d
Justified enters the elite club of TV shows that ended well. Must be the magic Walton Goggins touch - this and The Shield are two of the stronger final seasons I've seen.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d
Give Steve a go on Netflix - great little British film, feel like it'll fly under the radar, despite starring Cillian Murphy. Small and profound!
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 1d
Might just leave this paused on the TV forever.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 3d
I don't want to give my enemies the correct answer.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 5d
As good a pinball videogame as I've played. This properly melted my brain last year.
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XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION @xenotilt.bsky.social · 16d
XENOTILT IS NOW OUT FOR PLAYSTATION 5! store.playstation.com/en-us/produc...
XENOTILT
HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 5d
It was all worth it, then! (Er, I would double check all those facts.)
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 6d
I love how hard Aidy Bryant sells every line in Platonic. Character could be a total dud in someone else's hands. Another great part of a quietly excellent show.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 6d
Deserved a bit more chat - should have included it in the ten.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 6d
I think calling it foul drainage is unnecessarily cruel. It's natural produce. No shame in it.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 7d
I feel like I'm getting some real karmic backlash for this obnoxiousness.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 7d
If I could have any superpower, I'd ask to be more assertive when talking to builders.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 9d
Would pass 125 Park Road trekking to Future London offices, always struck by its rounded sci-fi edges. Back in Bath, spotted the Herman Miller Factory on canalside COVID strolls. It looks like it was built from slabs of Caramac; how cool to have a little chunk of building history in our back garden.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 9d
I know naff all about architecture, but it's notable that both Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw died in the same month. Became aware of them through a brilliant BBC doc The Brits Who Built The Modern World, and felt the tiniest connection to Farrell/Grimshaw's early work.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 10d
"Can you use your wish to get us cigarettes"
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 12d
I did not have a comedy gold Sean Penn performance on my 2025 bingo card. One of the many wild highlights of One Battle After Another. First five star film I've seen in yonks.
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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 12d
Incredible. 10/10, no notes
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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 12d
unraveled unraveledpress.com • 2h Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn't aiming at ground and firing at people's heads again. [photo of a person who appears to have been shot in the face by a rubber or pepper bullet, they say this in the alt text even!] cecil @fendoffthedemons.bsky.social • 1h fuck this is awful. that's definitely targeted. also, small reminder that alt text needs to be descriptive. "raven, a white person with brown hair, shows an injury on their face from being shot by ICE"
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 12d
Nah, you did a great job (apart from losing your passport at E3 and giving me a heart attack).
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 12d
I aged a million years in 2017, but the games were good.
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The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast @backpagepod.bsky.social · 13d
New episode! The best games of 2017. A great year for games, but a challenging year for Matthew Castle. It's almost three hours long. Sorry!

Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0Q45...
The Best Games of 2017
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 13d
Evil Oachis from the alley round the back.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 14d
A much more successful version of what The Plucky Squire later did, I thought.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 14d
That Chronoscript trailer looked great - Deskworks previous (similar) game RPG Time: The Legend of Wright is a proper underrated gem. One of the, like, five videogames that is actually funny.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 15d
I was randomly served Jesse James Bolero a few weeks ago and became immediately obsessed.
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Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social · 15d
Second case of the final Rise of the Golden Idol DLC is brilliant - a detective love letter to one of the best to ever do it.
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