Robert Hutton
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Political sketches and film columnist for @TheCriticMag, co-host of classic cinema love-in @WarMovieTheatre. New spy book "The Illusionist" out now!
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Joined January 2010
The Illusionist is now out in paperback! It's the "enthralling", "superbly entertaining", "delightful", and "satisfying" true story of an eccentric genius who made magic into a weapon of war.
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RT @BriW74: What happens when you grow up in a house full of history books and especially books on the Napoleonic Wars? You write a book. N….
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One of the most colourful of Napoleon's Marshals, Michel Ney was best known as “The Bravest of the Brave” - an enduring symbol of heroism and inspirational leadership in battle. Ney was born a...
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RT @WarMovieTheatre: This week's classic episode of War Movie Theatre is on King Rat, the POW film like no other: Starvation! Class war! A….
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Just amazing stuff.
@RobDotHutton Rest assured no body doubles were required. A second chainsaw was an important redundancy given cutting through this much red-tape is no light work.
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This is really interesting. I now want points of comparison from previous decades.
Part of the reason we enjoy movies is that we get to see ideas and situations played out to people who are not us. We can then learn from what they did, what they didn't do, and how it worked out for them.
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Fascinated by this film, in which:.*we see two different chainsaws at work.*we never see a full body shot of Griffith wielding either of them when they're running.*we learn that chainsaws are not, in fact, very good at cutting up piles of paper.
Unemployment up, growth weak, debt soaring. Labour’s 300-page (Un)Employment Bill isn’t about workers’ rights - it’s a gift to their trade union mates. We can’t afford it. We’ll take a chainsaw to its job-killing measures. Politicians talk of cutting red tape: we’ll deliver.
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RT @JoeMurphyLondon: A great episode … Laurence of Arabia dissected by @RobDotHutton and Co
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Podcast Episode · War Movie Theatre · 14/08/2025 · 48m
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RT @BrianRaftery: Episode two of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED looks at the the making of Spike Lee's 25TH HOUR and Jonathan Demme's remake of THE M….
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RT @BrianRaftery: The first episode of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, my new @ringer podcast about how the George W. Bush era changed Hollywood, is….
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This may be a signal from @CPhilpOfficial that the Conservatives want to restrict the right to jury trials on this kind of offence. Or he may just be shooting his mouth off because it's a Friday afternoon in August.
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The two tiers here being "people who plead guilty" and "people acquitted by a jury".
It is astonishing that Labour councillor Ricky Jones, who was caught on video calling for throats to be slit, is let off scot free - whereas Lucy Connolly got 31 months prison for posting something no worse. The development of two tier justice is becoming increasingly alarming.
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RT @WarMovieTheatre: @HadleyFreeman @RobDotHutton @DuncanWeldon And in what we're going to pretend is a carefully coordinated strategy, it'….
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RT @WarMovieTheatre: We're replaying classic episodes of War Movie Theatre, starting with Casablanca: a romance, and film noir, but also an….
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RT @Peston: Peston’s Inbox: Going nowhere | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
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Keir Starmer’s going to have a very normal holiday because he’s a very normal guy
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Good news for tractor production.
President Donald Trump says he is directing officials to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after a report showed US job growth cooled sharply. Listen to that and the latest stories on Bloomberg News Now.
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RT @phil_tinline: PRISONER OF WAR is not a great movie. It's not even a great Ronald Reagan movie. But it was Hollywood's first serious a….
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RT @WarMovieTheatre: Every podcast has its breaking point. This week, we're watching the 1954 Ronald Reagan movie Prisoner Of War, which ex….
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