John Featherstone
@johnfeath.bsky.social
Writer: #TheCinemaOfCancelledStars, #Ringtone and #TheDrowningAirman.
You can also read "Robin Hood & The Stuntman Lost In Time" here: https://latereviewer.com/2024/11/26/robin-hood-the-stuntman-lost-in-time/
You can also read "Robin Hood & The Stuntman Lost In Time" here: https://latereviewer.com/2024/11/26/robin-hood-the-stuntman-lost-in-time/
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John Featherstone
@johnfeath.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Robin Hood & The Stuntman Lost In Time
Old friend and occasional site contributor John Featherstone recently introduced the classic 1938 Errol Flynn film at one of Late Reviewer’s favourite cinemas, and shared a great story and so…
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I had the honour of introducing #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood (1938) at #Sheffield's Showroom Cinema as part of #ArtOfAction season.
Here, masterfully reworked as a Q&A by @latereviewer.bsky.social is what I said about one of the greatest stunt teams ever assembled...
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Here, masterfully reworked as a Q&A by @latereviewer.bsky.social is what I said about one of the greatest stunt teams ever assembled...
latereviewer.com/2024/11/26/r...
"It's as if I've taken love heroin and now I can't ever have it again..."
I always had a soft spot for this and I probably always will but on tonight's viewing I was struck by how much silence and how many long pauses there were in the dialogue. Bit bored...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0125...
I always had a soft spot for this and I probably always will but on tonight's viewing I was struck by how much silence and how many long pauses there were in the dialogue. Bit bored...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0125...
Notting Hill (1999) ⭐ 7.2 | Comedy, Drama, Romance
2h 4m | PG-13
www.imdb.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"It's as if I've taken love heroin and now I can't ever have it again..."
I always had a soft spot for this and I probably always will but on tonight's viewing I was struck by how much silence and how many long pauses there were in the dialogue. Bit bored...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0125...
I always had a soft spot for this and I probably always will but on tonight's viewing I was struck by how much silence and how many long pauses there were in the dialogue. Bit bored...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0125...
December 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Sweet thanks. I love reading about old movies.
December 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Sweet thanks. I love reading about old movies.
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I love it! And I hope Toby found his grandfather 😁
To this day "you speak treason" "fluently" is one of my favorite exchanges
To this day "you speak treason" "fluently" is one of my favorite exchanges
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I love it! And I hope Toby found his grandfather 😁
To this day "you speak treason" "fluently" is one of my favorite exchanges
To this day "you speak treason" "fluently" is one of my favorite exchanges
"He was runnin' from the day he was born..."
Remarkable in that Austin Butler is as good as possible and Tom Hanks absolutely dreadful but mainly in that in 159 minutes you learn almost nothing about Elvis himself. So much gloss but so little insight.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt3704...
Remarkable in that Austin Butler is as good as possible and Tom Hanks absolutely dreadful but mainly in that in 159 minutes you learn almost nothing about Elvis himself. So much gloss but so little insight.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt3704...
Elvis (2022) ⭐ 7.3 | Biography, Drama, Music
2h 39m | PG-13
www.imdb.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"He was runnin' from the day he was born..."
Remarkable in that Austin Butler is as good as possible and Tom Hanks absolutely dreadful but mainly in that in 159 minutes you learn almost nothing about Elvis himself. So much gloss but so little insight.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt3704...
Remarkable in that Austin Butler is as good as possible and Tom Hanks absolutely dreadful but mainly in that in 159 minutes you learn almost nothing about Elvis himself. So much gloss but so little insight.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt3704...
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I remember my dad watched it and he was really annoyed they killed off the Kevin Spacey character. One of my favourites too.
December 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I remember my dad watched it and he was really annoyed they killed off the Kevin Spacey character. One of my favourites too.
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"The old man's still an artist with a Thompson..."
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
Miller's Crossing (1990) ⭐ 7.7 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
1h 55m | R
www.imdb.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"The old man's still an artist with a Thompson..."
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
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"We are prisoners of our past..."
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
Random Harvest (1942) ⭐ 7.9 | Drama, Romance
2h 6m | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"We are prisoners of our past..."
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
Reposted by John Featherstone
"When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left..."
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
White Christmas (1954) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy, Musical, Romance
2h | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left..."
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
Reposted by John Featherstone
"You look better than Veronica Lake..."
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
L.A. Confidential (1997) ⭐ 8.2 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2h 18m | R
www.imdb.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"You look better than Veronica Lake..."
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
Reposted by John Featherstone
"It's almost as if you welcomed it..."
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) ⭐ 7.8 | Drama, History, Romance
2h 8m | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"It's almost as if you welcomed it..."
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
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"But you might save the next one..."
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
In Bruges (2008) ⭐ 7.9 | Comedy, Crime, Drama
1h 47m | R
www.imdb.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"But you might save the next one..."
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
Reposted by John Featherstone
Them: "The book is always better than the film."
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Them: "The book is always better than the film."
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
Reposted by John Featherstone
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by John Featherstone
I was a little bit gutted my lovely hotel didn't assign me to the Roger Moore 007 room but I'll live (and let die).
#JamesBond #TheSaint #UNICEF #FilmSky
#JamesBond #TheSaint #UNICEF #FilmSky
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I was a little bit gutted my lovely hotel didn't assign me to the Roger Moore 007 room but I'll live (and let die).
#JamesBond #TheSaint #UNICEF #FilmSky
#JamesBond #TheSaint #UNICEF #FilmSky
"The old man's still an artist with a Thompson..."
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
Miller's Crossing (1990) ⭐ 7.7 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
1h 55m | R
www.imdb.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"The old man's still an artist with a Thompson..."
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...
"We are prisoners of our past..."
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
Random Harvest (1942) ⭐ 7.9 | Drama, Romance
2h 6m | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"We are prisoners of our past..."
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...
Them: "The book is always better than the film."
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Them: "The book is always better than the film."
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee."
Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"
Reposted by John Featherstone
Happy Birthday to the mighty Humphrey Bogart!
#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
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#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
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Sailing Into The Danger Zone – Passage To Marseille (1944)
A Special Feature by John Featherstone. “I want to reach the danger zone by nightfall…”
latereviewer.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Happy Birthday to the mighty Humphrey Bogart!
#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
latereviewer.com/2021/10/05/s...
#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
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"When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left..."
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
White Christmas (1954) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy, Musical, Romance
2h | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left..."
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh...
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...
Happy Birthday to the mighty Humphrey Bogart!
#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
latereviewer.com/2021/10/05/s...
#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
latereviewer.com/2021/10/05/s...
Sailing Into The Danger Zone – Passage To Marseille (1944)
A Special Feature by John Featherstone. “I want to reach the danger zone by nightfall…”
latereviewer.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Happy Birthday to the mighty Humphrey Bogart!
#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
latereviewer.com/2021/10/05/s...
#FilmSky
🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽
latereviewer.com/2021/10/05/s...
"You look better than Veronica Lake..."
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
L.A. Confidential (1997) ⭐ 8.2 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2h 18m | R
www.imdb.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"You look better than Veronica Lake..."
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...
"It's almost as if you welcomed it..."
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) ⭐ 7.8 | Drama, History, Romance
2h 8m | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"It's almost as if you welcomed it..."
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...
"But you might save the next one..."
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
In Bruges (2008) ⭐ 7.9 | Comedy, Crime, Drama
1h 47m | R
www.imdb.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"But you might save the next one..."
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons.
Utterly brilliant.
#FilmSky
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM