James Mcloughlin
@jamesamcloughlin.bsky.social
Film and fiction writing. ✍️ in New Critique, Engelsberg Ideas, DMovies, Penumbra Magazine, Valley Press, 10:10 Press, and more.
https://thelinesman.substack.com
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'One night he decided to hire a rickshaw from Soho to Bethnal Green. Pete was toking from his crackpipe all the way when, out of nowhere, a gang from an estate began to chase us with machetes.'
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
The Albion Rooms
La Belle et la Bête.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
'One night he decided to hire a rickshaw from Soho to Bethnal Green. Pete was toking from his crackpipe all the way when, out of nowhere, a gang from an estate began to chase us with machetes.'
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty.
www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...
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Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
In the Shadow of St Paul’s
A taste for the finer things in life.
www.the-fence.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
Is there change afoot in British cinema?
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
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#film #cinema #UK #substack
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
#film #cinema #UK #substack
Sacred Shadows
Britain’s new wave of spiritual cinema
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September 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Is there change afoot in British cinema?
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
#film #cinema #UK #substack
Possibly.
Read my latest on the move from the kitchen sink to mystical hijinks:
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
#film #cinema #UK #substack
F1: The Movie is pure popcorn entertainment.
There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
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There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
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Cinema's impossible sport
Maybe you can't write it after all
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July 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
F1: The Movie is pure popcorn entertainment.
There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
There are loads of great boxing films.
But why not football?
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
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Let’s take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks… open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
First Acts: Peaky Blinders
Storm's a-brewing in post-war Brum
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May 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Let’s take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks… open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
It is interesting that even though he references toxic male literary culture and isn’t taking an adversarial stance, so much of the response on here has been very hostile or sneering.
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
New independent press to focus on male writers
Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It is interesting that even though he references toxic male literary culture and isn’t taking an adversarial stance, so much of the response on here has been very hostile or sneering.
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
What exactly is wrong with a press that focuses on publishing male stories?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The perils of literary ambition
John Dos Passos and the lost Great American Novel
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April 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The perils of literary ambition
John Dos Passos and the lost Great American Novel
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April 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The perils of literary ambition
John Dos Passos and the lost Great American Novel
open.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Watched the first couple of episodes of the latest season of Black Mirror yesterday. Some decent bits of state-of-the-world observation but mostly quite ham-handad, subtle-as-a-sledgehammer analogies. Bete Noire in particular was toe-curlingly bad. #tv #BlackMirror
April 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Watched the first couple of episodes of the latest season of Black Mirror yesterday. Some decent bits of state-of-the-world observation but mostly quite ham-handad, subtle-as-a-sledgehammer analogies. Bete Noire in particular was toe-curlingly bad. #tv #BlackMirror
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a few months back i had the immense pleasure of sitting down with brady corbet at curzon soho to talk about the brutalist – it was very very rewarding and hopefully you'll enjoy it too!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQHe...
Conversations @ Curzon | Brady Corbet on The Brutalist, shooting on film and being a child actor
YouTube video by Curzon
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April 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
a few months back i had the immense pleasure of sitting down with brady corbet at curzon soho to talk about the brutalist – it was very very rewarding and hopefully you'll enjoy it too!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQHe...
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Tried to watch a movie on Netflix last night, but it wasn’t available in my subscription tier. Found the movie and its 2 sequels on Amazon for $10, and it was delivered this morning. Plus there’s no commercial breaks. After all these years, physical media remains the best way to watch at home.
April 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Tried to watch a movie on Netflix last night, but it wasn’t available in my subscription tier. Found the movie and its 2 sequels on Amazon for $10, and it was delivered this morning. Plus there’s no commercial breaks. After all these years, physical media remains the best way to watch at home.
There’s the secret, and then there’s the secret beyond the secret.
New short fiction.
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New short fiction.
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Headspace
A short story
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April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There’s the secret, and then there’s the secret beyond the secret.
New short fiction.
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
New short fiction.
open.substack.com/pub/thelines...
You can opt out of this system and just buy the DVD. Stop giving streaming services your money.
Netflix added THE OUTRUN w/ Saoirse Ronan, but you can't watch it if you have an ad-supported plan.
You have to pay $10 more to upgrade to ad-free, or you're out of luck.
So I paid Apple $6 for a VOD rental — of a film that's on a streaming service I pay for. What a shell game. #FilmSky #Streaming
You have to pay $10 more to upgrade to ad-free, or you're out of luck.
So I paid Apple $6 for a VOD rental — of a film that's on a streaming service I pay for. What a shell game. #FilmSky #Streaming
March 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
You can opt out of this system and just buy the DVD. Stop giving streaming services your money.
I also watched The Outfit (2022) yesterday, avec Mark Rylance.
It’s a solid and stylish chamberpiece. Rylance is good in an icy, composed way.
Overall the film lacks a bit of energy and feels overwrought but was enjoyable enough.
It’s a solid and stylish chamberpiece. Rylance is good in an icy, composed way.
Overall the film lacks a bit of energy and feels overwrought but was enjoyable enough.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I also watched The Outfit (2022) yesterday, avec Mark Rylance.
It’s a solid and stylish chamberpiece. Rylance is good in an icy, composed way.
Overall the film lacks a bit of energy and feels overwrought but was enjoyable enough.
It’s a solid and stylish chamberpiece. Rylance is good in an icy, composed way.
Overall the film lacks a bit of energy and feels overwrought but was enjoyable enough.
Today’s film:
March 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today’s film:
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50 years since its premiere, Arthur Penn’s NIGHT MOVES remains a cinematic gem that demands—and rewards—multiple viewings.
Dive into this masterful neo-noir with Gene Hackman at his finest: cinephiliabeyond.org/arthur-penns...
#FilmSky
Dive into this masterful neo-noir with Gene Hackman at his finest: cinephiliabeyond.org/arthur-penns...
#FilmSky
March 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
50 years since its premiere, Arthur Penn’s NIGHT MOVES remains a cinematic gem that demands—and rewards—multiple viewings.
Dive into this masterful neo-noir with Gene Hackman at his finest: cinephiliabeyond.org/arthur-penns...
#FilmSky
Dive into this masterful neo-noir with Gene Hackman at his finest: cinephiliabeyond.org/arthur-penns...
#FilmSky