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Pick: 'Death Race 2000' is on @TogetherukTV at 0000. Indeed, not the remake/prequel/whatever, but the original pulpy kitschy sci-fi satire by Paul Bartel! It's gloriously goofy, delightfully distasteful, and probably other stuff that alliterates. https://t.co/XJ1r6lEvLz
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Tomorrow's pick: 'Kind Hearts & Coronets' is on @Film4 at 1705. Arguably the ur-Ealing Comedy. Like the best ones, it's all very crime focussed. Here it's moider! You should probably watch it. You've probably already seen it, but what's one more time? https://t.co/ylsFglSjLu
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Pick: 'Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit' is on @BBCOne at 1415. Okay, so this is largely an excuse to post the trailer with Tom Baker, which seemed to disappear in favour of the US trailer at some point. But here it is, in its glory(?)! https://t.co/JB79hOcDmE
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Pick: 'Johnny Mnemonic' is on Sky Mix at 2100. Ah, the heady days when 80gb was deemed an unfathomable amount of storage. (2021, apparently.) This film has a poor reputation, but honestly it's one of those that's fun-bad rather than regular-bad. https://t.co/OotqLrPIOw
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Pick: 'Alien' is on @BBCThree at 2200. A film that needs no introduction… so I'm not going to write one. https://t.co/uWZYW4NnBA
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Pick: 'I Am Not A Witch' is on @Film4 at 0155. A fascinating satirical drama about modern witchcraft allegations. It's very handsomely made. It's also not as heavy-going in its approach as one might expect from the subject matter. https://t.co/pgDh83g0Jd
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Pick: 'Second Coming' is on @Film4 at 0150. debbie tucker green's slow paced psychodrama is strange and highly ambiguous. It's also fascinating. https://t.co/qC07L0i2ph
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Tomorrow's pick: 'Woman on the Run' is on @TalkingPicsTV at 0900. A nifty female focussed film noir, featuring Ann Sheridan as a hardboiled housewife trying to track down her apparently ne'er-do-well husband before either the mob or the cops do. https://t.co/CuRCdywldW
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Pick: 'If Beale Street Could Talk' is on @BBCTwo at 2300. https://t.co/YJw1RmUGPz
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Pick: 'His House' is on @BBCTwo at 0100. It's spooky season, and you know what that means? Spooky house films! This one has a reason for why they don't just leave the bloody (spooky) house! https://t.co/GZqiZC0mc8
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Pick: 'Dune (Part 1)' is on @ITV 1 at 2115. I'll level with ya; I'm think the first part of Villeneuve's Dune adaptation is just okay. It feels like it's playing it rather safe after Lynch's, but it does set up the second which is pretty great. https://t.co/UCJ3wyFej3
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Pick: 'Slow West' is on @Film4 at 0225. A Scottish Western. The part of the Old West is played New Zealand. Fun, fun. Anyway, it's an odd blend of western and coming-of-age story that makes for an interesting watch. https://t.co/4MmsSHO1D9
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Pick: 'See How They Run' is on @Film4 at 2100. With rights to The Mousetrap tied up, they made a murder mystery about The Mousetrap instead. An okay lighthearted mystery, presumably greenlit as a result of Knives Out's success… which is on straight after. https://t.co/crDHPQo0KN
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Tomorrow's pick: 'Dr Terror's House of Horrors' is on Legend Xtra at 1100. The first of Amicus' anthologies, intended as an homage to 1945's 'Dead of Night'. While the frame has issues compared to their later efforts, there's still a lot of fun to be had. https://t.co/WlDo9bihQz
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Pick: 'Climax' is on @Film4 at 0155. Hey, do you like long takes? Boy, do Film4 have a film for you tonight! …Tomorrow? What even is time, etc., etc. https://t.co/qfV92GhUpd
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Pick: 'Night Tide' is on @RewindTVUK at 0005. An odd romantic quasi-horror mystery thing. It never really comes together in the same way as some other independent Bs of the era, but it has some gorgeous mise-en-scène and a dreamlike tone. https://t.co/jq3RMdsPHg
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Pick: 'Sweet Charity' is on @BBCTwo at 1200. The film directorial debut of Bob Fosse; a melancholic number from the dying days of the big movie musical. Despite having come straight from stage version, he makes full use of the change in medium. https://t.co/xrQL3XW2ym
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Pick: 'High Noon' is on @5ACTION_tv at 1650. That's not noon! Bah! Anyway, yeah, the proto-revisionist western… this trailer suggests they had no idea how to market it back in the '50s. https://t.co/QPEUsPlAU3
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Pick: 'The Railway Children' is on BBC Four at 1900. BBC Four actually has a bunch of good films on tonight, but I'm going for this one, because how often do they show The Railway Children in the evening? (Stick around, kids! Carrie's on after!) https://t.co/GKgh82IXcu
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@DeadbeatFlmClb @Film4 #WomanAtWar is a great film whichever way you look at its genre. We hope those up late tonight to see it on #Film4 will love it.
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