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Literature, cinema, classical music, art, Slavonic stuff, Shostakovich, Canadiana
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Astonishingly, mine is only the second review of this on #letterboxd. boxd.it/8zVQnT

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We’re watching the Alien films in narrative-chronological order. Dear God, let this be the worst. boxd.it/8LACk3

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I assume this book, being efficient, is only twelve sentences long.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

This was my pinned tweet when I was on Twitter. Somebody said “These were the characteristics of the Soviet red Chekists”, as if it was an argumentative ju-jitsu. With l’esprit de l’escalier I see I should have replied that indeed they were - just as they’re characteristic of the blue Chekists

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

So anyway, tonight we decided to watch a film about a tyrannical leader who dies, so everybody thinks they’re safe. But mysteriously, he keeps reappearing. He’s modelled on Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Beria - the sadistic rapist and paedophile who headed the NKVD. youtu.be/90LukX3eSgM?...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I’m looking at my Letterbox list of titles and how they run together to create enticing non-existent films. The Fall Guy Spaceman Take Care Downwind Brian and Charles, Loving Highsmith Old Queen Bees Lo and Behold, Irrational Man: Rams, Chicken and Men The Homesman Becoming Anita Ekberg

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Is a national realtor company blackmailing me for two grand in bitcoin for watching a naughty film on my laptop while being naive enough to leave the webcam on? Or is it just that their email address has been spoofed? Damien Lowe <[email protected]>

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Finally got round to watching Jackson’s “Get Back”. I know matching the soundtrack to the visuals was near impossible, but there are so many shots of the backs of heads with unrelated dialogue over the top or sounds emanating from unmoving lips, it’s like watching a cheap spaghetti western.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments