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"I enjoy all the meats of the cultural stew". Lover of cinema, music, football and countless other things. I play the drums and try to write scripts.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's Christmas until I see this bitch fly out the window.
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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30 years ago today, Casino (1995) hit theaters—a brutal, opulent Scorsese epic about power, greed, and the fall of a Vegas empire.

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Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 30th Anniversary • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Tim Pelan This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect of one story out of Vegas for the past ...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I don't like cricket, oh no... I love it. #Ashes
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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RIP Mani. Just the opening bassline to the instrumental half of this alone...
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I Am the Resurrection - Remastered 2009
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
22 years and I'm still waiting on a sequel.

This (excellent) article is tiding me over for now.
22 years ago today, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World sailed into cinemas.

Revisit Peter Weir’s epic craftsmanship in our deep dive

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November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
With the shitty weather and the end of the working week taking its sweet ass time, there's only one thing for it... Pat Benatar at full blast.
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
50/50 as to whether this leads us to 12 Monkeys dystopian future or 28 Days Later dystopian future.
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Two things are perplexing me on this Monday evening. Call My Bluff and Andre Rieu.
October 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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You could strangle a Smurf with one hand.
October 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The Color of Money at 39: Scorsese at his smoothest, Newman in peak form, and Cruise announcing himself to the world. Style, rhythm, and redemption in every frame.

Read Cinephilia & Beyond’s deep dive

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Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Tim Pelan After 'The Last Temptation' was cancelled in ’83, I had to get myself back in shape. Work out. And this was working out. First 'After Hours,' on a small scale. The idea was that I should ...
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October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Two positives are that at least I don't have to do a load of running around and the first death is usually the most memorable.
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Nutrigrain bar and a mountain dew
Nutrigrain bar and a mountain dew
Nutrigrain bar and a mountain deeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww
October 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If I ever injure myself I will always follow it up with "My eye! The doctor says I'm not supposed to get pudding in it."
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025) #filmsky
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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R.I.P. Claudia Cardinale, one of world cinema's most beautiful women.

The renowned Italian-Tunisian actress -- who starred in more than 130 feature films -- died today, September 23, 2025, age 87.

She passed away in Nemours, near Paris, surrounded by her children.

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September 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I know I shouldn't care. It's just a popularity contest decided by a handful of journalists, but that was daylight robbery for the Women's Ballon d'Or.
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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28 years later, L.A. Confidential is still a flawless crime classic.

Cinephilia & Beyond looks at how Curtis Hanson built a timeless noir:

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Noir Cut to Look of the Period, Not About the Period: The Sunny, Seedy ’50’s Underbelly of Curtis Hanson’s ‘L.A. Confidential’ • Cinephilia & Beyond
L.A. Confidential poster art by Vlad Rodriguez By Tim Pelan I came to it because of Ellroy. When I read 'L.A. Confidential,' I just got hooked on the characters, got caught up emotionally in their ind...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Me, waiting for my local garlic garlic garlic (i got my tulips, so many kinds)
September 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Aug 30, 1967: Point Blank premieres in San Francisco. 58 years later, Boorman’s brutal, dreamlike noir with Lee Marvin still stings.

Cinephilia & Beyond takes you back: cinephiliabeyond.org/point-blank/
‘Point Blank’: John Boorman’s Amalgamation of American, British and French Filmmaking Styles • Cinephilia & Beyond
Point Blank poster art by Tony Stella https://www.tony-stella.com/ By Koraljka Suton British filmmaker John Boorman started out by making documentaries for the BBC before getting a chance to direct hi...
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August 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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48 years ago today

Released on this day in 1977, Lust for Life, the second studio album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release and his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot earlier in the year.

#punkrock #iggypop #lustforlife #history #punkrockhistory #otd
August 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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This is valuable information, unlike every other periodic table I've seen.
August 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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This, actually works. For me at least.
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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August 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Lot of fans having a meltdown already? It's the first game of the season.
August 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM