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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 1d

Great movie

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 1d

How many accidents lead to traumatic injury vs car journeys? That’s the stat I’m imagining

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · May 26

If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business. It is organized crime.

Like those dependent on slavery, child labor, or wage theft, it should go out of business as soon as possible.

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 1d

Kill it already

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tulletilsynet @tulletilsynet.bsky.social · 1d

Your terms are acceptable

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 1d

Air bags & statistics I would guess

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 1d

What jump scare made you nearly pee yourself?

For DEAD DUCK CULT FILM FESTIVAL founder Sebastien Toursel it was REC.

Saturday 1 Nov, Savoy Cinema, Nottingham: New French Extreme All-dayer

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Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/40w9...

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 1d

Today... a grieving widower, Jimmy, drives around London at night being tailed by a Ford Cortina. He gives it the slip but soon gets a call. It's about his dead wife. She owes them £753k. This is the 1st he'd heard of it. Not my problem says the caller.

What story do you see in this picture?

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 2d

Today... is the 11th week running of constant rain. The world had stopped coming out. It was like the pandemic & the likes of Gary were forced to deliver door to door. A posh wanker in Fitzrovia failed to tip & threatened a bad review. Soaking wet Gary knocked him out & moved in.

Writing prompt

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 3d

Today... Terry resisted Doug's invite for a pint. The bus was late & then stuck in traffic. He got off to walk the 3 miles but bumped into Doug & ended up in the pub. Hurrying home he was hit by a car. In the ambulance, blood loss was too great. He was DOA.

What story do you see in this picture?

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 5d

Great podcast in the can with Dead Duck Film Club about his inaugural cult festival of the New French Extreme Horror movement... Saturday 1st Nov, 2025, four films on the big screen at the Savoy Cinema, Nottingham, and panel for just £20: Titane, High Life, Revenge and Martyrs

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 7d

An interesting list for sure, Stuart. But almost exclusively English language! Intrigued by which one got nominated 4 times. 2001?

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 7d

And many of the choices are watched on tv at home because it was on … so not surprising to be dominated by English language

Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a largely uk USA pool of people and rarely fave films so it’s films from before you’re 18

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 7d

I've compiled a list on @letterboxd.social of all the films chosen by my guests on the podcast 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 7d

Today... Shoeless Peter wanders in a daze across London to the last place he was at. He spots some discarded mocassins by an alley. Before he reaches them a shovel sized claw grabs them. Only he sees this. He dares to investigate, but once in the alley, he is eaten by a creature.

Writing prompt

Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 8d

How do you know when an instrumental post-rock track is done?

Matt Harvey of We Lost The Sea talks about making the album A SINGLE FLOWER & 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

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Nicola Pittam @nicolap.bsky.social · 15d

So honoured to be featured as a guest on @Leytonrocks podcast 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

(The full list of all Stuart's podcasts : podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...)

Nicola Pittam on why you should turn your screenplay into a novel and Movies That Changed Your Life: Dangerous Liaisons, Once Were Warriors, Point Break

Podcast Episode · 3 FILMS THAT HAVE IMPACTED EVERYTHING IN YOUR ADULT LIFE: A Britflicks Podcast with screenwriter Stuart Wright · 09/23/2025 · 37m

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 15d

Should you turn your unsold screenplay into a novel?

@nicolap.bsky.social explains how and why on the latest episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...

Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2Ov2...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18d

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to

Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 22d

What film did you think would be dumb, but after watching it, you fell in love with it?

For filmmaker Jonathan Sequeira, it was ROBOCOP

3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life:

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Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3sZK...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23d

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

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Stuart Wright @stuartwright.bsky.social · 26d

I think you’re onto something

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · 26d

I'm starting to feel there should be a new, very 21st century illness, that I'd simply call 'internet poisoning'.

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