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26. Culture Journo. Dad Joke Bandit. 1/3 of @oooweeooo pod. PayMelancer ➡️ @empiremagazine • @moviemarker • @whynowworld • @yahooentsuk & more✍🏻 He/Him.🍅
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Still thinking about Aftersun. Today, *THE* shot. And I’m thinking about it because it distils in a single frame some heavy things I’ve grown up with and experienced since becoming a father that it overwhelms me to see on screen. I feel like this one’s going to need a thread 🧵:
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Honestly one of the best things I’ve seen in a while. Absolute genius work from
@Victordemartrin
#MissionImpossible
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My favourite customer at the cinema came back today for the first time since last February and I nearly cried. He’s a lovely Scottish man called Eddie - he’s 87 years old and has been going to the cinema since 1939, when he watched King Kong as a little boy. He loves sci-fi and
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“I could retire and be the curator of this place.”
“You know I really think you might.”
Oh, RTD. You clever, clever man.
#DoctorWho
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cinema means to us all. Didn’t intend to ramble on, but here’s to Eddie - 82 years of big screen adventures and no sign of stopping or slowing down, the man is an absolute hero and I just felt like I should say something on here about him because he makes my job a joy🍿❤️
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is a sucker for special effects. While many of us hated films like F4NTASTIC and don’t give Avatar or Jurassic World huge props, Eddie is blown away by the effects and revels in talking about the plots in great detail and regaling us with stories of old creature features and how
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I feel I should add that my soft spot for Eddie goes deeper than our shared love of film. My grandad sadly passed when I was only 6, but there’s something in Eddie’s turn of phrase and humour that sparks off my hazy memories of him, in some small way bringing him back to me❤️
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they stack up against each other. It was very apt that his big comeback today was for Godzilla vs Kong, a film he was excited for even all the way back before COVID - he couldn’t have been more happy to be back. Plus I gave him my staff tickets of course 😅 The great thing with
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Eddie, aside from his hi-vis vest and zest for life and cinema, is how much he takes the time to chat with the staff at the cinema and how we’ve gotten to know him over the years. He always asks after me and how my writing is going (he was buzzing for my
@empiremagazine
gig), and
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is a lot about working in retail/hospitality that is challenging, infuriating, and downright hard to convince yourself is worth the stress, but I consider myself lucky to have met a man like Eddie through working at the cinema. He embodies the very best of what bricks & mortar
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he’s the same with all of us, taking an interest and supporting us. In return, we treat him like the VIP guest he is. As we understand it, Eddie used to come to the cinema with his late wife, and continues to do so to keep that shared passion alive. He writes thoughts on all that
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he watches in his little journals, and it genuinely makes my day every time he comes through our doors. I’d like to think he gets as much joy from seeing us as we do from seeing him - it’ll be a devastating day when back row, centre seat at the latest blockbuster is empty. There
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Do you ever think how lucky we are to be alive at a time where
@StephenGraham73
is kicking about, putting in some of the best, most exhilarating screen performances of our time? To have come through so much, and to have stood so strong, is remarkable. Britain’s finest? Maybe...
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Still absolutely nuts to me that RRR didn’t even get a nod for International Film, let alone Best Picture. In a better year, it would’ve won the whole fuckin’ thing. Every time I hear “Naatu Naatu” I feel so alive! Tollywood is where it’s at!
#Oscars
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Film Twitter is divided on almost everything, but surely one thing we can all agree on is that if you’re someone who leaves a mess in the cinema, then you’re someone who doesn’t deserve cinema in the first place.
Signed,
The guy who cleans that shit up every day.
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Crushed to just be reading about the passing of Michael Gambon. A tremendous actor, and one of the men whose work on screen shepherded me through my childhood. Also a feature in one of my all-time favourite behind the scenes clips, which I’ll add here! Rest easy 🤍
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Honestly kind of glad Miyazaki didn’t show up to the
#Oscars
so he didn’t have to see the medium he’s hesitated his life to reduced to a cheap “Hands up who got their kids to fill the ballot” joke. I fear we won’t see an animated film up for Best Picture/Director any time soon…
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I’ve spent my life as a film lover wishing I could’ve been there for Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon, Lang’s Metropolis, Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet, Kubrick’s 2001, Lucas’ Star Wars, Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, Jackson’s LOTR. But I was here for Villeneuve’s
#Dune
- cinema’s next leap.
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Daniel Craig gets it.
The cinema experience is about more than bricks and mortar and movies.
It’s magic. Unfathomable, incontrovertible, incorruptible, unbelievable magic.
Thank you
@Terri_White
,
@edgarwright
, and the folks at
@empiremagazine
for printing this issue 🙏❤️
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In the most candid moment of the film, Sophie asks Callum about his 11th birthday, and we learn that his parents didn’t even remember it, let alone celebrate it. This is revealed in the black mirror of a turned-off TV, true life captured in a dimension accessible by memory alone.
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It is, to try and be as direct as possible, a singularly stunning visualisation of a lifetime of love and self-loathing, of gratitude and the weight that brings to bear on the shoulders of someone who never believed they deserved a single beautiful thing in their life.
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One moment in Aftersun that has really stuck with me is when Sophie and Callum have their photo taken and we see it develop in real-time. It’s memory itself. Something made, then frozen in time; the moment will never change, even as you do, but how you see it will. It’s stunning.
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Though it’s clear that Callum dotes on his daughter, and vice-versa, there is a constant tension between the father he is trying to be and the man that he is as a result of his turbulent childhood and a gnawing sense that he can’t reconcile how young he is with how old he feels.
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Throughout Aftersun, we - like the adult Sophie - are tasked with piecing together a portrait of her father in the spaces between the words he says, the things she films, and the fragmented memories she has of that epochal trip to Turkey from her childhood.
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As beautiful as Call Me By Your Name, as gnarly as Suspiria, and as transfixing as both, BONES & ALL floored me. Timothée Chalamet has never been so vulnerable, nor enigmatic, while Taylor Russell offers labyrinthine depth opposite. A road movie quite unlike any other. Wow.
#LFF
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Just a reminder that The Last Jedi was a great film. Not just a great Star Wars film, or a great blockbuster film, or a great sci-fi/fantasy film, but a bona fide fantastic piece of cinema. We didn’t know how lucky we were to get it, and I only hope one day we get more like it.
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And yet, for all the messiness and question marks left hanging over Callum and Sophie and what becomes of their relationship, Aftersun emerges as a poignant paean to the unique bond that exists between a father and his daughter, to love, and to the moments that truly matter.
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@NickdeSemlyen
I’m still loving how he chose this question on bees, and how brilliantly he answered it 😅
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@Andr6wMale
When my fiancée and I lost our first child, I couldn’t be there, couldn’t hold her hand, couldn’t even walk her to the hospital door. I never got to see my baby. My heart aches for all who’ve endured so much as our government sacrificed so little. I’m so sorry, and wish you well.
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It’s always hurt me, but I didn’t realise just how much until my little girl was born. I look at Matilda and I never want to look away; I hold her and never want to not feel her weight bearing on my chest, her hair tickling my chin. How could I ever do anything but just love her?
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His parents forgot his birthday; he can’t really afford that nice rug; he can’t reconcile the love he has for his daughter with the depression he is consumed by, with the sense that life has dealt him a hand he is grateful for but unequipped to play in a way he can be proud of.
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Having just finished The Crowded Room (review 🔜 for Empire), I’m struck by how phenomenal a lead performance can be with material that’s so… well… not. Tom Holland is extraordinarily, career definingly good here, especially at the show’s business end. A year off well earned!
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For Star Wars Visions 3 (if, fingers crossed, it happens), I’d love to see new entries from
@LAIKAStudios
,
@Tippett_Studio
,
@mexopolis
, and
@breakthrufilms
feature. Which other animation studios/animators would you like to see turn their efforts to that galaxy far, far away?
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“I have to go. I’m a big girl now.”
I’m not the first to say it, and I certainly won’t be the last, but Bluey’s ‘Sleepytime’ really does stand up as one of the best episodes of anything. Only as visually stunning as it is emotionally flooring, in just 7 minutes it says so much.
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No card, no cake, no nothing - I spent the day in my room, playing games and counting how many Facebook friends said happy birthday, knowing no number I hit could fill the hole of that denied affection.
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Sophie has just corralled some poor unsuspecting holidaymakers into singing happy birthday to her dad, which he looks down at not with awkward glee, but instead with a sort of screwed up incredulity that Mescal masterfully captures in his tense physicality and searching eyes.
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It’s the moment that the tower of strength you have tried to build from your broken parts for your baby falls apart and crumbles, when years of pain and an overwhelming wish to be free of it in the present knocks you out. Callum doesn’t believe he deserves the love that he feels.
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And yet, because of a love I was denied growing up, every loving moment we share breaks me just a little inside - and when she lets the light she brings into this world shine back on me in any way, I can’t really help but fall apart. Which, waffling done, leads me to *THE* shot.
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It’s a memory that clearly hurts and has shaped Callum, an act of neglect that’s doubtless spurred him to try and give his daughter everything he never had - even if, as she reminds him, he can’t always afford to. It hurt me to watch, because… well… my parents forgot my 13th.
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@ThatsOurLewis
I’ve never known Eddie come out of a blockbuster without a huge smile on his face - genuinely, the idea of a 400ft lizard going toe-to-toe with a 360ft gorilla with full on BIFF! BAM! POW! action is Eddie’s personal idea of heaven itself 😊 I’ll quiz him on it when he’s next in!
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This cross-fades into a shot of Callum alone in his hotel room, hunched as if barely holding himself together, sobbing and breaking down. It’s a whirlwind of emotions, and a scene that again hurts, because it’s one I have myself lived.
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@Benwking82
@Victordemartrin
You don’t have to think it’s real to appreciate the idea behind it…
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Some words on the state of play with cinema, an industry I work within and adore dearly and deeply.
@vuecinemas
@cineworld
@MerlinCinemas
@ODEONCinemas
@picturehouses
@CurzonCinemas
@Cinema_UK
@filmstoriespod
#SaveTheCinema
#FilmTwitter
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A few brief musings on Ted Lasso, which I only recently discovered and yet have - as many others before me have too - fallen totally for its positivity, and specifically for me at least its quiet power in unpicking the roots of ingrained toxic masculinity ⚽️❤️
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🎉 I GOT THE JOB 🎉 Lucy, Matilda, and I will be leaving small-town Wales for a fresh start in Chester, where I’ll be working at the gorgeous
@StoryhouseLive
! The role allows time to still chase writing work too, so here’s to a productive, prosperous, and very exciting 2022! 🥳
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@NickdeSemlyen
That’ll be because it’s one of the best (family friendly at least) action films of the past 20 years! Still waiting for the sequel 😬😬😬
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Thinking about how, in the Knives Out commentary,
@rianjohnson
says he loves having a good end credits song because it’s nice for the ushers cleaning the cinema screen. “Movie ushers, this one’s for you!”
What a genuinely lovely, fiercely brilliant guy ❤️
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One of my favourite things about
#TheMitchellsVsTheMachines
is how ingeniously it suffuses nature and technology to comment on how blurred the lines have become between the two. The way that the green cuboid prisons float like the aurora borealis across the sky is just beautiful.
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The Force is strong in my family…
Welcome to the world Matilda Rey Eloise King!
Born 1:41pm, June 18th 2021, weighing 6lb 4oz.
Dad loves you little sprout, our perfect rainbow baby and the most beautiful girl in the world, of course 🌈
I’m utterly overwhelmed by you Tilly 💙
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Walking home after a late shift and can confirm that Hold My Hand does kind of make you wish you had a motorbike honestly… and some aviators… and possibly also an aircraft of some sort. Can’t wait for Lady Gaga’s Oscar performance in 2023!
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A year ago today, when I was contemplating giving up writing because I felt like I’d never get to where I wanted to be, I got this DM. It would be no exaggeration to say it has gone on to change my life in so many ways.
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@simonmayo
It’s been a torrid time for the entirety of the film industry, from the ticket-holding customers to the top brass, but Eddie is just brilliant. When he first told me he was in his mid 80s three years ago I took a double take - the man has treble my energy at almost 4x my age!
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@mattzollerseitz
Having had a rough year with losing my baby, I’ve discovered that it is enough to achieve ‘being alive’, as you say. Sometimes it’s an accomplishment to just be here. Beyond that though, in your darkest hours, you’ve continued with your work to give us all some hope. Thank you🙏
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I’d try and be cool about this, but I can’t. Thanks to
@Terri_White
and
@MrIanFreer
, today a lifelong dream came true. My words have found their way into
@empiremagazine
. I could cry... I have cried. Not bad for a working-class lad eh? WILD!
Thank you ❤️
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How about sharing your
@letterboxd
top 10s of all time this fine Wednesday morning? I’ll start!
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Guys like Kevin McCarthy are the blueprint for what proper film journalism should be. Passionate, knowledgable, curious questions — it’s what interviewees want, and it’s the least interviewers should expect of themselves. I can’t imagine any other way of being in this industry.
Loved geeking out and talking filmmaking with Zendaya & Florence Pugh.
Every time I've interviewed Zendaya, I've always been struck by her awesome passion for the craft of filmmaking.
Here's Zendaya's answer & then I'll post Florence Pugh's in the thread.
#DunePartTwo
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If you ever wondered what the complete UK (and Region Free) Criterion Collection looks like, then here you go folks - and I’ll be watching them all in 2022! If anyone’s keen, I’ll keep a thread w/ packshots, thoughts etc. as I go 😊 I’ve seen a fair few, but want to go all in 📀
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Finally in and seated - here to see a man about The Bat. Catch you on the other side folks
#TheBatman
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Why did nobody tell me Cyrano is such a swoon-worthy, sonorous, poetic, incredibly easy on the eye - not to mention very clever - musical adaptation of the classic Rostand play? The letter-writing scenes, Peter Dinklage’s performance, and The National’s soundtrack? Stunning! 👏🏻
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@SongWarmonger
He really, truly is 😊 if it wasn’t unprofessional/not actually allowed, I’d ask for his number and chat about films with him every day. He inspires me in so many ways!
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Essie Davis gives one of the best performances of the year in The Murmuring. The way she embodies the simultaneous feelings of being totally lost and obsessively searching in the aftermath of loss just ripped me apart. Any house without them there becomes haunted. Just stunning.
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This will always be one of the most real moments in talk show history. The way the audience go from laughter at the question to collective awe at Keanu’s answer, the truth held within Reeves’ words, and the handshake after from Colbert, it’s just pure magic.
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Genuinely think Barry Keoghan is the most interesting, dynamic, and exciting young actor working today. I’ve said it before, but his fearlessness in the roles he plays, how he never goes for the reading or expression you expect yet always lands on something real, is remarkable.
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“One of the best films in my 80, eight zero, years of going to the cinema. It’s up there with Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park.”
Eddie, my beloved 87 year old cinema customer, LOVED
#JungleCruise
and said it’s an instant classic.
The only review you’ll ever truly need
@TheRock
😁
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Mr & Mrs King at last 🤍
(Many more photos to come… be forewarned!)
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@ZoeRoseBryant
Yes, but have you considered the evocative power of “WAR MOVIE GOES BWAAAAAAHMMMMMM!!!”?
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#TheLastOfUs
is a masterclass in the art of adaptation, and the next evolution in zombie storytelling on screen. It’s brutal and beautiful in equal measure, and it’s so great largely because its cast and crew recognise that everything the story needed is right there in the game.
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Watching THE GREATEST LOVE STORY NEVER TOLD and seeing J-Lo and Ben Affleck just chilling on the couch writing the absolute madness that is THIS IS ME… NOW, playfully ribbing each other all the while, has made me get the whole Lofleck/Afflopez deal. They’re dorks! It’s adorable!
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The current state of film criticism;
If you like a popular film, you’re a shill hack. If you don’t, you’re a stuck-up snob. If you like an art house film, you’re a critics’ critic. If you don’t like an arthouse film, you’re just trying to keep mainstreamers onside. Such fun 👍🏼
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🚨 BIG LIFE NEWS FOLKS! 🚨
Lucy and I have loved having a baby so much that we decided “What the heck? Who needs sleep, sanity, or a moment’s peace anyway? Let’s do it all again!” And so that is what we have done! Wedding in December, Baby No. 2 in January - bring it on! 🩵🩵🩵
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Compare Billie Piper’s grace, tact, and class to what the berk she used to be married to is spouting on the daily, and you’ll be reminded of the astonishing strength of that woman. Absolute fucking hero. Shouldn’t have to be, of course — but she is. Different class.
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PSA: the absolutely exquisite Ali & Ava is now streaming on
@NetflixUK
. It’s a gorgeously romantic, fibrously human, proudly working class feature of extraordinary grace and Loachian social realism. Clio Barnard is such a phenomenal filmmaker - don’t deprive yourself of her work!
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@BootstrapCook
@KCKubrick
I’m thinking a lot today about my fiancée’s hand I couldn’t hold, my baby’s face I never saw when she miscarried in 2020. The burden of guilt and grief for not being there, the anger and outrage at the government, eats away at my soul. Thank you so much for this - I needed it ❤️
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Lucy’s in active labour now, and I’m being let in with her, so I’ll catch you guys on the other side as I’m very much dedicating all my energy and attention to my incredible fiancée - wish us luck! ❤️
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Watched Sherlock Jr. (which turns 100 this year!) with my two-year-old earlier, and got all emotional when she — as I did when I first watched the film — saw Buster land in the car and went “WOW! That’s very good!” with a big smile on her face. Magic of the movies, folks! 🎥
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I get choked up just thinking about this one. “Picture a wave…”
What is the most powerful image from a TV show finale that's always stuck with you?
I'll start.
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I don’t know if I’d be writing on film now had I not started collecting CC releases in 2016. I’ve learned so much from these films, experienced so many emotions watching them - they’ve genuinely changed my life. They are THE ultimate in physical media. Thanks for the memories. 🫡
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - count ‘em. Five stars for Wild Blue Yonder, an episode of
#DoctorWho
that arrived in a shroud of secrecy, and is destined to become one of the most talked about eps of modern Who. My first 5* review for Empire too - and what a thing to give it to! 💪🏻
"This spaceship-in-a-bottle episode isn’t just an instant Who classic — it’s one of 2023’s finest hours of TV to boot."
The Doctor and Donna found themselves stranded in second special
#DoctorWho
episode Wild Blue Yonder.
Read the Empire review now:
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I’ve Barbened and I’ve Heimered and I’ve had both literal and figurative blasts with both. What a day to be a lover of film, and what a potent reminder of the irreplaceable, exquisite joy of the bricks and mortar cinema experience. Long may it live on!
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How do you like them tomatoes (that’s the quote, fairly sure)
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It’s another cover-to-cover corker from
@empiremagazine
this month, with an incredible
@ChrisHewitt
cover feature on Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic Rebel Moon sitting alongside a smorgasbord of great news, reviews, features, and more! Also, look at
@paulshipper
’s stunning sub cover 😱
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If you want to see Zoe Saldaña kicking ass in a non-franchise sci-fi blockbuster, check out The Adam Project. It’s an Amblinesque adventure with action, timey-wimey shenanigans and heart aplenty.
@VancityReynolds
has never been better, and it’s become a real comfort watch for me.
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Today marks the first time I’ve ever earned more from writing in a month than from my day job, which feels like some kind of milestone. Whether it is or isn’t though, I’m celebrating 🎉🎉
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Just got another Empire commission!!! 😬😬😬
This is getting dangerously close to becoming a bit of a regular thing 😅
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@812filmreviews
It’s such a deliciously grim piece of Southern Gothic cinema - was incredibly impressed with what Holland brought to the table, and the ensemble as a whole was just crazily impressive. A brutal watch but one of those rare types that I’d gladly see again and again.
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If you have
@mubi
(and why wouldn’t you? It’s £1 right now!) then do yourself a favour and watch Only You. Sensual, serrated by its depiction of life as it really is, and deeply intimate, it’s a masterclass in naturalism and Josh O’Connor and Laia Costa are simply electrifying.
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“I will love you forever; whatever happens.”
Welcome to the world Lyra Gwen Juniper King. Born at 10pm prompt on January 23rd 2024, weighing 7lbs 7.5oz. My heart is full, my head is spinning, everything is chaotic, and all is well. I am, simply, so very in love already. 🩵
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@mattzollerseitz
I think every loss is unimaginable to all except the person experiencing it. The intensity and specificity of the pain is loaded with all of your memories, future plans, hopes, fears, dreams, regrets, all of it... we can’t imagine it for someone else. Here’s to healing though man
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