John Hodson
@mgcroadster.bsky.social
Journalist since '73, now retired, film geek for longer. Rejoiner, lefty, love films of all eras. Recovering Man Utd. fan of six decades. Uses admiration of John Ford as a Rorschach test. No followers without a profile - sorry!
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John Hodson
@mgcroadster.bsky.social
· Dec 21
Done all your Christmas shopping but still have that one person left to buy for?
Gift a Bed! 🎁
For £32, you can provide a night of much needed rest for someone who would otherwise have nowhere safe to sleep.
Save the stress and gift a bed today.
www.gmmayorscharity.org.uk/gift/p/gift-...
Gift a Bed! 🎁
For £32, you can provide a night of much needed rest for someone who would otherwise have nowhere safe to sleep.
Save the stress and gift a bed today.
www.gmmayorscharity.org.uk/gift/p/gift-...
If you can, please support this; from his early teenage years, our late son James did what he could to support Manchester's homeless, whether it was a gift, food, or simply a kind word. It's a charity that means a lot to us & we give every year...
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Bob Fosse’s made his feature directorial debut adapting his hit stage musical “Sweet Charity” into an unconventional musical comedy. It was released on this day in 1969: crookedmarquee.com/crooked-marq...
Crooked Marquee’s Bad Romances: Sweet Charity — Crooked Marquee
Our round-up of anti-Valentine's fare continues with Bob Fosse's feature directorial debut, adapting his hit stage musical into an unconventional musical comedy.
crookedmarquee.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Bob Fosse’s made his feature directorial debut adapting his hit stage musical “Sweet Charity” into an unconventional musical comedy. It was released on this day in 1969: crookedmarquee.com/crooked-marq...
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For Valentine’s Day, why not watch Marty’s romance about wanting the wrong thing at the right time in the wrong society. Nothing says true love like choosing duty while your heart quietly sets itself on fire. boxd.it/d7Pnkd
A ★★★★★ review of The Age of Innocence (1993)
Watching The Age of Innocence to kick off Valentine’s Day felt almost mischievous. This is not a movie about grand gestures or reckless abandon. It is about the kind of love that tightens your throat ...
boxd.it
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
For Valentine’s Day, why not watch Marty’s romance about wanting the wrong thing at the right time in the wrong society. Nothing says true love like choosing duty while your heart quietly sets itself on fire. boxd.it/d7Pnkd
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Film-wise: at 6.55pm, One Day on Film4. At 7.50, Dirty Dancing on ITV2. At 9pm, Sleepless in Seattle on Film4, Blades Of Glory on TLC, Mask Of Zorro on Legend Xtra or The Matrix on Sky Showcase. At 9.35, The Taste of Things on BBC4. At 10pm, Bullet Train on C4. At 12.30am, The Predator on C4 #telly
February 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Film-wise: at 6.55pm, One Day on Film4. At 7.50, Dirty Dancing on ITV2. At 9pm, Sleepless in Seattle on Film4, Blades Of Glory on TLC, Mask Of Zorro on Legend Xtra or The Matrix on Sky Showcase. At 9.35, The Taste of Things on BBC4. At 10pm, Bullet Train on C4. At 12.30am, The Predator on C4 #telly
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"The Silence of the Lambs" was released 35 years ago today (Happy Valentine's Day!). Here's something I wrote for Flavorwire about its most fascinating stylistic flourish:
Celebrating the Least Influential Element of the Very Influential ‘Silence of the Lambs’
Originally published on Flavorwire, 2/11/2016 The Silence of the Lambs , which hit theaters 25 years ago Sunday, was one of the most influen...
jasondashbailey.blogspot.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM
"The Silence of the Lambs" was released 35 years ago today (Happy Valentine's Day!). Here's something I wrote for Flavorwire about its most fascinating stylistic flourish:
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Since there is a new Dracula that is apparently pursuing the "tragic lost love" backstory, I want to talk about my favorite Drac, which is Louis Jourdan in the 1977 BBC miniseries COUNT DRACULA.
February 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Since there is a new Dracula that is apparently pursuing the "tragic lost love" backstory, I want to talk about my favorite Drac, which is Louis Jourdan in the 1977 BBC miniseries COUNT DRACULA.
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Yes, I loved it too. Very funny. Surprisingly funny. Elegiac but in a lowkey way. A film where you’re punched in the face by your brother and you buy him a beer in response. Ida Lupino, wonderful.
February 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Yes, I loved it too. Very funny. Surprisingly funny. Elegiac but in a lowkey way. A film where you’re punched in the face by your brother and you buy him a beer in response. Ida Lupino, wonderful.
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Scorsese and Schrader's examination of cultural crisis and its inadvertent side effects in Taxi Driver (1976). A long read for its 50th Anniversary. medium.com/cathode-ray-... #Filmsky
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
The legacy of Scorsese’s odyssey through New York’s underbelly and the masculine existential crisis of the 1970s.
medium.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Scorsese and Schrader's examination of cultural crisis and its inadvertent side effects in Taxi Driver (1976). A long read for its 50th Anniversary. medium.com/cathode-ray-... #Filmsky
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Kim Novak is 93 today.
She's great in everything, but especially so in MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) opposite Fredric March.
Delbert Mann's achingly bittersweet May-December romance written by Paddy Chayefsky is on YouTube and you should watch it.
youtu.be/YOoQBjewyms?... #FilmSky #BOTD
She's great in everything, but especially so in MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) opposite Fredric March.
Delbert Mann's achingly bittersweet May-December romance written by Paddy Chayefsky is on YouTube and you should watch it.
youtu.be/YOoQBjewyms?... #FilmSky #BOTD
February 14, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Kim Novak is 93 today.
She's great in everything, but especially so in MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) opposite Fredric March.
Delbert Mann's achingly bittersweet May-December romance written by Paddy Chayefsky is on YouTube and you should watch it.
youtu.be/YOoQBjewyms?... #FilmSky #BOTD
She's great in everything, but especially so in MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) opposite Fredric March.
Delbert Mann's achingly bittersweet May-December romance written by Paddy Chayefsky is on YouTube and you should watch it.
youtu.be/YOoQBjewyms?... #FilmSky #BOTD
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Keep thinking about the pub in Small Prophets being called the "Open as Usual". It's a tiny gag, but it made me smile.
February 14, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Keep thinking about the pub in Small Prophets being called the "Open as Usual". It's a tiny gag, but it made me smile.
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I'll be at Huddersfield Literature Festival @huddlitfest.bsky.social talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales', Fri 15th May, 2pm-3pm, Heritage Quay. Book here: www.huddlitfest.org.uk/event/these-... (Book due out Feb 26th, can be preordered.)
February 14, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I'll be at Huddersfield Literature Festival @huddlitfest.bsky.social talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales', Fri 15th May, 2pm-3pm, Heritage Quay. Book here: www.huddlitfest.org.uk/event/these-... (Book due out Feb 26th, can be preordered.)
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Followed up with this beauty, another legendary bootleg of studio rarities (and a dynamite thrash through Interstellar Overdrive) - this was the only place you could find Zabriskie Point outtakes, now you can access all the sessions officially in various permutations
youtu.be/_Ts8Ayjch3k?...
youtu.be/_Ts8Ayjch3k?...
February 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Followed up with this beauty, another legendary bootleg of studio rarities (and a dynamite thrash through Interstellar Overdrive) - this was the only place you could find Zabriskie Point outtakes, now you can access all the sessions officially in various permutations
youtu.be/_Ts8Ayjch3k?...
youtu.be/_Ts8Ayjch3k?...
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Donald Trump v the BBC: it should be easy to know side you’re on. We should rally to the cause of public service broadcasting before it’s too late app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72423/...
Trump’s attack on the BBC is a harbinger of much worse to come
The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to the American billionaires who control much of US media
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Donald Trump v the BBC: it should be easy to know side you’re on. We should rally to the cause of public service broadcasting before it’s too late app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72423/...
I've always found it hard to review films I really love and the work of my favourite directors because, I think, I'm afraid that I won't do them justice. Hence, I hesitate before trying to express my feelings for Ford, or trying to decipher Sam Peckinpah. As if it matters...
February 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I've always found it hard to review films I really love and the work of my favourite directors because, I think, I'm afraid that I won't do them justice. Hence, I hesitate before trying to express my feelings for Ford, or trying to decipher Sam Peckinpah. As if it matters...
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Tonight, 8pm in Cambridge for the first time ever, and for one night only, "Not Truly Dead" - three gripping ghost stories by M R James.
what's stopping you picking up the last few tickets?
ntdcambridge.eventbrite.co.uk
what's stopping you picking up the last few tickets?
ntdcambridge.eventbrite.co.uk
Not Truly Dead - Three Ghost Stories by M R James
Three tales of the restless dead, by the master of the English ghost story.
ntdcambridge.eventbrite.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Tonight, 8pm in Cambridge for the first time ever, and for one night only, "Not Truly Dead" - three gripping ghost stories by M R James.
what's stopping you picking up the last few tickets?
ntdcambridge.eventbrite.co.uk
what's stopping you picking up the last few tickets?
ntdcambridge.eventbrite.co.uk
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SCALA!!! The soundtrack album, out now from Barry Adamson and @muterecords.bsky.social.
February 14, 2026 at 1:36 AM
SCALA!!! The soundtrack album, out now from Barry Adamson and @muterecords.bsky.social.
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This really made me laugh, just an endless parade of amusing lines of dialogue:
"Why is it, the only time a wife knows how you feel is when you feel it for another woman?"
"The only nice thing you can say about men is they're all the same."
"Why is it, the only time a wife knows how you feel is when you feel it for another woman?"
"The only nice thing you can say about men is they're all the same."
February 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This really made me laugh, just an endless parade of amusing lines of dialogue:
"Why is it, the only time a wife knows how you feel is when you feel it for another woman?"
"The only nice thing you can say about men is they're all the same."
"Why is it, the only time a wife knows how you feel is when you feel it for another woman?"
"The only nice thing you can say about men is they're all the same."
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February 14, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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In a slight change of tone, it’s also 35 years since Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme And Untold ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Tales: Hannibal, Clarice, Tally, Hackman, And A Discarded Scary Ending
The Silence of the Lambs turns 25; untold tales from Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally on only horror film to win Best Picture Oscar
deadline.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:59 AM
In a slight change of tone, it’s also 35 years since Silence of the Lambs
Today's ongoing earworm...
February 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Today's ongoing earworm...
BBC Winter Olympics commentator having a small crisis, as the cold numbs his extremities, and he begins to hallucinate about better times...
"... This is so much harder than it may seem... watching from the comfort of your sofa... with a Rich Tea... and a cuppa..."
"... This is so much harder than it may seem... watching from the comfort of your sofa... with a Rich Tea... and a cuppa..."
February 14, 2026 at 11:39 AM
BBC Winter Olympics commentator having a small crisis, as the cold numbs his extremities, and he begins to hallucinate about better times...
"... This is so much harder than it may seem... watching from the comfort of your sofa... with a Rich Tea... and a cuppa..."
"... This is so much harder than it may seem... watching from the comfort of your sofa... with a Rich Tea... and a cuppa..."
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This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:43 AM
This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.
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Law and Order (1932) is one of the best Westerns of all time. Everyone needs to see it, especially now that it's been restored and is available on an excellent Blu-ray from Kino Lorber:
kinolorber.com/product/law-...
kinolorber.com/product/law-...
Oh wow that was really really good. A very morbid and unsettling western—The ending surprisingly unceremonious and pessimistic.
I’m watching Law and Order (1932) and omg it’s baby Andy Devine!!! I only recognized him because of the voice lol
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Law and Order (1932) is one of the best Westerns of all time. Everyone needs to see it, especially now that it's been restored and is available on an excellent Blu-ray from Kino Lorber:
kinolorber.com/product/law-...
kinolorber.com/product/law-...