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Political reporter for BBC Radio Surrey. Film buff
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Some thoughts on the late Gene Hackman: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Sam Peckinpah was born 100 years ago today @jessicakiang.bsky.social on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and 1974, the year when road movies began to run on empty www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Hard to overstate the importance of David Lynch to cinema in the last forty years. Mulholland Drive is the film of his that I admire most, but what a legacy

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As I tentatively start to post here,a piece on the reaction from councils in Surrey to the government's targets for more homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Since IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is on the ol' timeline again, let me recommend Kim Morgan's 2017 essay. Her view of Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell)—💔: "Someone has not been having such a wonderful life, and it’s not George Bailey." thenewbev.com/blog/2017/12...

submitted 87 days ago • 19 comments

Another Surrey council sounds the bankruptcy alarm as 'all scenarios' point to reserves running out by as early as 2027 'unless difficult decisions' are made. Huge spending and service cuts are coming. #LDReporter

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Every now and then I like to look at David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of Film just for the ending of the first paragraph of the Cary Grant entry. No truer words.

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Peter Weir is 80 What a track record: The Cars That Ate Paris Picnic at Hanging Rock The Last Wave Gallipoli The Year of Living Dangerously Witness The Mosquito Coast Dead Poets Society Fearless The Truman Show Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World The Way Back

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RIP Alain Delon His enigmatic, knowing and coolly detached performance in Melville’s massively influential Le Samourai is, to use a much abused word, iconic. He was also a perfect Tom Ripley in Plein Soleil.

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First Bluesky post and I guess it’s going to be about Matthew Perry. Difficult to get across how huge Friends was when it first came out. Chandler was my favourite character. Favourite pairing was him and Rachel. This is my favourite scene. youtu.be/Dwv6L19HI7c?...

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