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Big on cats and movies. Film writer and programmer often seen on Variety, Little White Lies, The Playlist, Letterboxd and more. Views mine, for better or for worse. 📧 For work: [email protected] 👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else. www.rafiews.com
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Dying at Jeff Bezos’s graphic design is my passion wedding invite

What

Just woke up and saw the Iran news:

Found out Sex and the City was available on Netflix in a country I was visiting and proceeded to download four full seasons on my phone to continue rewatching it in the UK

Watching the Titan submersible Netflix doc with my big-boat-specialist engineer husband and I can actually sense him falling a little less in love with me every time I open my mouth to make yet another uninformed observation

One of the greatest mornings of my life

What

This is precisely why there is only one (1) true perfect biopic

There are many problems with our current biopic-saturated media landscape but none more pressing than a persistent casting error: choosing already famous people to play their much more famous counterparts. All we can see is the actor, and biopics (largely) ask for the very opposite.

An Edgar Wright 007 would be the final nail on the coffin of the United Kingdom of Great Britain

Oh, to be proposed to with the axolotl engagement ring

In praise of Kathleen Chalfant, who gives one of the year’s finest performances in FAMILIAR TOUCH, Sarah Friedland’s superb first feature. Opens Friday, June 20, at Film Forum: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Incredible headline

This film is so very beautiful and one of those you must see as big as humanly possible

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Sad to admit it finally happened to me: the first thing I look for now when browsing hotel rooms is a comfortable working station

Very late to the game but have wept like a baby watching the very earnest, very lovely A MAN IN THE INSIDE. God bless Stephen McKinley Henderson and the great casting work all around by Allison Jones and Emily Buntyn.

Having to go through security again in a connecting flight is one of the most inefficient things about many inefficient things about flying

Obsessed with how they’re dressed for vastly different events

God bless Dakota Johnson’s press tours

Thank you to the lovely @ellakemp.bsky.social for finally cornering me (complimentary) into getting some proper headshots done (for the first time in my camera-shy life) in Cannes so I can now retire this COVID-era selfie I have used for the last five and half years

What is this world we're living in

First time trying to dictate an email and —

Please lord wash away from me the urge to rewatch the whole of SCANDAL

Somewhere within our evolutionary process minds like mine have adapted to forget the horrors of a 7-hour train journey to be able to book them again and again. But at this very moment, with still three hours ahead of me, the horrors seem unforgettable.

I would like to thank myself from three weeks ago who made a batch of delicious lentil soup and froze it for a time of need. Possibly the smartest thing I’ve ever done.

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