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Retired academic. Author of Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur, British Low Culture, Kung Fu Cult Masters, BFI book on The League of Gentlemen.
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TV tonight: pop art pioneer Pauline Boty gets the documentary she deserves

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Barely listened to these since they first came out, but giving them a spin or two today.

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Christopher Frayling talks Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone with a dessert of Vampire podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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Distinctly unwell today - dizziness and nausea came out of nowhere last night. I'd booked to go and see Double Indemnity this afternoon but that was no longer a realistic option.

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The energy I bring to Bluesky.

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This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK. Extraordinary.

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🇺🇦🤝🇬🇧 Zelensky thanks the UK for its support and announces a meeting with King Charles III tomorrow. PM Keir Starmer emphasizes that Zelensky is always a welcome guest and that British aid will continue.

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At the Barbican awaiting Kim Deal.

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US 🇺🇸 people may be interested to see the headlines on the three most right-wing, popularist UK 🇬🇧 newspapers today...

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#NowWatching No particular reason ...

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Off to see Kim Deal at the Barbican tonight. youtu.be/osOWmt5YYuw?...

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Holy Silver Screen! The Dynamic Duo battle their biggest villains in a feature length film! 🦇 BATMAN (1966) 3:35pm starring #AdamWest #BurtWard #CesarRomero #FrankGorshin #LeeMeriwether family fun #TPTVsubtitles Have your shark repellent spray ready!

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Listening now - an exceptional episode.

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lol @ plaid shirt guy swinging at ants that the fx team was sadly unable to composite into the shot

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The energy I bring to Bluesky.

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Off to see Kim Deal at the Barbican tonight. youtu.be/osOWmt5YYuw?...

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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

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my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth

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As a kid watching Red Dawn in the 80s, I definitely though the Russian takeover of the US would involve at least *some* tanks

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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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So much of The Last Showgirl emphasises the deglamourisation of Pamela Anderson, but then Jamie Lee Curtis with her Trump-tan is like "Hold my vodka and tonic".

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin coming to BBC4 from the 11th of March.

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The Nightingales w/ special guest Thomas Truax on sale now www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

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Today's delivery, which features my favourite 1930s Horror film.

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"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

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Gene Hackman, 1930-2025 Seen here shooting Night Moves with Arthur Penn, 1974

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In the 1970s, the film every Bengali family seemed to know was the Poseidon Adventure. The mums loved the soppy melodrama, and cried over Shelley Winters. And everyone cried when Hackman's magisterial lead performance reached its watery end. A memorable introduction to a glittering career.

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youtu.be/BXPl_wr2QNw?...

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That thing in The Monkey where characters wish really hard but the wrong people die might well be the signature horror trope of 2025.

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#rip Gene Hackman

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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. I think it was this one - bought with some Christmas money (or possibly a record token) in 1973.

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I'm sure nothing bad could possibly happen if I eat this, I'll just have a little slice. Anyone else hear that ditty? #TheMonkey #BlackBearUK

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If The Holdovers had some demonic possession added to it, it might be a bit like this.

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Crabs on the rampage reprint with a foreword by ME

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PETITION UPDATE! Thank you for all your support thus far! Negotiations with the landlord have resumed & are now feeling more positive that we will be able to get a lease without a break clause. There is still a long road ahead. Read the statement from Managing Director Ben Freedman in the images.

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Booked for Stranglers/Buzzcocks gig at the Roundhouse in November - a kind of Last Man Standing double-header.

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Booked a trip to Berlin for late April/early May!

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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