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peterbradshaw1.bsky.social
Peter Bradshaw
@peterbradshaw1.bsky.social
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Guardian film critic. My new book, The Body In The Mobile Library And Other Stories is out now. Kindly click on the link: https://amzn.eu/d/3ZFMXjo
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 4h
My vlog on How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/JMgLvzdYON8?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews HOW ARE YOU? IT’S ALAN (PARTRIDGE)
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5h
My vlog on Kirk Jones’s I Swear is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/uSivRunLmJU?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews I SWEAR
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 2d
Really looking forward to reading from The Body In The Mobile Library next Thursday at the Cork International Short Story Festival with @paul_mc_veigh - click here for details: www.corkshortstory.net/thursday.html
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)
Urchin review – Harris Dickinson’s homelessness drama is a terrific directorial debut
The Triangle of Sadness and Babygirl actor has made a strong, singular and sometimes surreal first film behind the camera, with a superb central turn from Frank Dillane
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of The Severed Sun (dir. Dean Puckett) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
The Severed Sun review – folk-horror nightmare that harks back to The Crucible
A widow with an ungodly secret challenges the patriarchal abuse of an oppressive religious community in Dean Puckett’s English chiller
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of Mr Blake At Your Service (dir. Gilles Legardinier) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Mr Blake at Your Service review – John Malkovich does worst French accent ever in baffling comedy misfire
Gilles Legardinier’s broad dramedy set in a chateau, co-starring Fanny Ardant and Émilie Dequenne, is an ordeal to watch. Sacré bleu!
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight (dir. Embeth Davidtz) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight review – heartfelt child’s-eye view of last days of Rhodesia
Embeth Davidtz stars and directs, with outstanding performances from Zikhona Bali and seven-year-old Lexi Venter as Bobo as white minority rule ends
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of the re-release of The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) (dir. Terence Fisher) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
The Curse of Frankenstein review – Hammer horror with Lee and Cushing shows how it should be done
Terence Fisher’s crisply told 1957 classic is unencumbered with good taste and delivered with absolute conviction
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of the re-release of GoldenEye (1995) (dir. Martin Campbell) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
GoldenEye review – Pierce Brosnan’s ‘sexist, misogynist dinosaur’ makes his Bond movie debut
The 1995 spy adventure introduced Brosnan as 007 and Judi Dench as M – blending high-octane action with a cheeky post-Soviet self-awareness
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of A House Of Dynamite (dir. Kathryn Bigelow) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice this summer and gets its UK release today)
A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback
Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d
My review of The Smashing Machine (dir. Benny Safdie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice this summer and gets its UK release today)
The Smashing Machine review – Dwayne Johnson only possible casting as crisis-riddled UFC champ Mark Kerr
Former pro wrestler Johnson takes on the role of man-mountain Kerr who goes into meltdown when the unthinkable happens – he loses
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 9d
Great piece by Nathaniel Rich in the New York Review Of Books on Percival Lowell - the eccentric astronomer who thought he’d discovered life on Mars and accidentally invented science fiction www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Mars Is Heaven! | Nathaniel Rich
Percival Lowell was convinced that he had found proof of life on Mars, but his real achievement was to make Americans dream of a future there.
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 9d
How long before Tilly Norwood writes her first cosy crime novel?
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 13d
My review of Invention (dir. Courtney Stephens) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Invention review – meta indie docu-fiction has a deadpan take on truth and healing
A woman inherits the patent for a healing machine from her quack father in this exploration of grief, in which a number of low budget film-makers cameo
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 13d
My review of The Dead Of Winter (dir. Brian Kirk) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Locarno in the summer and gets its UK release today)
The Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller
Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastiness
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 13d
My review of Brides (dir. Nadia Fall) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Brides review – teenage girls head to Syria for IS and marriage in powerful and poignant drama
Two friends leave the UK and head to Turkey on their way to marry Islamic State jihadis in this spirited drama directed by Nadia Fall
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 13d
Despite mobile technology, Andy Burnham should surely keep faith with our treasured political traditions by installing forty phone lines at his house
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 14d
My vlog on Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is up here: youtu.be/3DKR_M_8Xls?... - please click, watch, share and subscribe
PETER BRADSHAW reviews ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER feat. Leonardo DiCaprio
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 14d
Some thoughts on the late Claudia Cardinale www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Claudia Cardinale had toughness, charisma and sensual allure. Yet Hollywood just couldn’t do her justice
The smouldering star of Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½ and The Leopard had her best roles in Italian cinema
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 19d
Good piece by Freddie Hayward in @newstatesman.com on the new dysphemism - uglifying language in the service of political panic and clampdown www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
Trump has redefined the language of politics
Coarse language now makes politicians look authentic.
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 19d
Here’s @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on forty years of journalistic work against the mendacity and mediocrity of big-money and vested interests www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 20d
My review of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir. Kogonada) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review – Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell play the game of love
Giddy romantic fantasy sends its two commitment-phobe leads on a magical road trip through their pasts that may lead them back to love
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 20d
My review of Ebony & Ivory (dir. Jim Hosking) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Ebony & Ivory review – definitely not Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder in silly, surreal indie comedy
A pop icon and a musical legend meet on the Mull of Kintyre in 1981 and dress up as sheep in Jim Hosking’s daft, deadpan offering
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 20d
My review of Happyend (dir. Neo Sora) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Happyend review – Orwellian Japanese high-school drama is brilliantly dystopian
Teen romance and paranoid surveillance collide to dysfunctional effect in Neo Sora’s beguiling debut future set in an oppressive near-future
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 20d
My review of One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper
Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction
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