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Working my way through the Tomb Raider remasters and we need to stop making Lara Croft South England posh when at the zenith of her powers (TRs 2&3) she was audibly from Derbyshire. Lara must sound like she could explode a dinosaur, but also plausibly be living at Emmerdale's Home Farm.

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The loveliest thing about the Pamelaissance has been to see her unabated joy at these longer form opportunities to talk Film so articulately. Someone give Pam a podcast

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Surely an underappreciated aspect of why American high school teenagers of Film & TV were so aspirational to British youth was their loosey goosey carrying around of big chunky textbooks. Nary a jotter or rucksack in sight.

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Love this Laura Nyro cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFxS...

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Watching Funny Face, the film which posits that Audrey Hepburn would be received by the modelling industry with skepticism. Pictured: me aged 10 at Niagara Falls

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Thank you to the My Brilliant Friend Season 4 set dresser for introducing me to the poster for GUERRE STELLARI, which the artist presumably saw while recovering from cataract surgery

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Continue to be staggered at how good the HBO My Brilliant Friend series is, and baffled that an adaptation of an ostensibly popular book series has left such little cultural footprint. I know of no one on Earth who has watched it who I didn't cajole into watching it.

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Rewatching My Brilliant Friend’s early seasons and making memes for absolutely nobody but myself

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Thinking again about local sewing shop Helen’s Alterations and how much that sounds like the title of a gentle comedy for older people where Imelda Staunton must get her groove back

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Going for a triple bill of Black Narcissus, Benedetta and The Devils, the crème de la crème of Nuns-in-Trouble cinema™

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Nastasha Romanenko: *waxes lyrical upon the START II treaty and the existential threat of improperly stored and dismantled nuclear materials* 8 year-old me: *nods sagely*

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Walking through Queens Park thinking about the Battle of Langside like

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“Never again to revisit the scene of my boyhood in Surrey, romping with my schoolchums in the fens and spinneys”

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Le Samouraï/Charade forms a great double bill for fans of japery on the 1960s Paris metro

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Didn't think this could possibly get anymore camp and then Faye launched into a Cantonese Tori Amos cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL1Ybl8QW5U&ab_channel=Andreadionett

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With hindsight, incredible how Curb posits Larry David might be an annoying spouse for Cheryl Hines to have

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Enjoying all the meats of our cultural stew: visiting the Burrell Collection and realising you are familiar with The Thinker as it was key evidence in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

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Am guessing they actually announced this onstage during this recording but this remains the funniest possible title for a Buckingham Nicks bootleg

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