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Paul Costello
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Film watcher, podcaster (@fatalattractpod.bsky.social and The Yearbook Committee), D&Der, very occasional maker of pie. He/Him.

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fatalattractpod.bsky.social
New episode alert!

Episode 107: No Way Out (1987) - featuring special guest Livvy (@livvyagain.bsky.social) - is available now on your podcast app of choice. Links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Libsyn below:
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#NoWayOut #FatalAttractions #eroticthrillers
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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fatalattractpod.bsky.social
New episode alert!

Episode 106: The Page Turner (2006) - featuring special guest Anna Cale (@real-meaning.bsky.social) - is available now on your podcast app of choice. Links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Libsyn below:
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#ThePageTurner #FatalAttractions #eroticthrillers
Poster image for Denis Dercourt’s 2006 film The Page Turner.
May 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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alicemydaughter.bsky.social
I’m absolutely serious about this. Today I have registered the domain name womenforhumanrights.co.uk

Maybe this won’t be what sticks, but it’s a start.

Explainer about how I got to this choice in various conversations in the original 🧵

All humans welcome.
alicemydaughter.bsky.social Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · Apr 16
There must be hundreds of thousands of women in the uk who are the mums, sisters, aunts, partners, daughters and nieces of trans people. We need to form some sort of coalition of women against transphobia.
April 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
This is actually a really good book. You should absolutely get it.
willowcatelyn.bsky.social Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · Mar 31
I've been out for 12 trillion years and I never know what to do or say on Trans Day of Visibility. I wrote a book with Caden Mark Gardner on transness in cinema if you wanna read that. Stand up for trans people. Tell a trans woman she's a beautiful genius. IDK.

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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
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March 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
“For mash, get Smash.”
February 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Dean Jones singing “Being Alive” in the Original Cast Album: Company (1970).

No reason. Just because.

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Being Alive - Company OBC, 1970 - Dean Jones
YouTube video by BestArtsSondheim
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February 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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fatalattractpod.bsky.social
New episode alert!

Episode 104: Star 80 (1983) - featuring special guest Cat Lowe (@kittycostanza.bsky.social) - is available now on your podcast app of choice or Spotify. Libsyn link here:
fatalattractions.libsyn.com/episode-104-...

#Star80 #FatalAttractions #eroticthrillers
February 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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princecharlescinema.com
#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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alisonwillmore.bsky.social
A small thing in light of this shitty news, but it would be lovely if today were the day this GoFundMe for TWIN PEAKS actor Carel Struycken and his wife, who lost their home in the Eaton Fire, reached its target www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Goddammit.
a man is sitting in front of a microphone and says it 's such a sadness
ALT: a man is sitting in front of a microphone and says it 's such a sadness
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January 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
John Carpenter is 77.
He’s got zero tolerance for wind up merchants.
January 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Love this movie.
January 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
The Watermelon song from Dinner in America.

No reason. Just because.

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Watermelon Song from Dinner in America Film.
YouTube video by STARCHILD DEMON
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January 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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January 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
“I’m driving home for Christmas, I can’t wait to see their faces”
December 21, 2024 at 11:50 AM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Watched some video on Insta, got caught by the background music… sounds familiar… wait, is that……. It is.

It’s the opening theme from Short Circuit 2.

What a weirdly deep cut.
December 11, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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ctthumbs.bsky.social
Needless to say, if you haven't played It Takes Two yet, you absolutely should. It's one of the best co-op experiences out there
December 3, 2024 at 10:40 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Today’s earworm:

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D'Angelo - Unshaken (Audio)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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November 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Do I like it more this time?

Hmmm, maybe kinda. Didn’t feel as overlong as it when I first saw it, which I’d expect from a second viewing, now that I’ve got a better sense of its pace.

But, honestly, still found it derivative and unnecessarily convoluted. The shadow of The Dark Knight can…
paulcinephile.bsky.social Paul Costello @paulcinephile.bsky.social · Nov 24
Now onto everyone’s favourite… let’s see if I actually like it this time.

#NowWatching Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

www.imdb.com/title/tt4912...
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) ⭐ 7.7 | Action, Adventure, Thriller
2h 27m | PG-13
www.imdb.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Also still a banger. It’s (only just) the second longest film in the series, but also feels like the one that’s got the most out of its runtime. I appreciate that it’s maybe not something that everyone would regard as a plus, but it feels like it’s managed to work in a full season’s worth of…
November 24, 2024 at 6:36 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
It’s good, and the idea of their tech repeatedly breaking thereby forcing them to improvise is decent, but it does feel like some of the beats work better on paper than in practice (e.g. the sandstorm chase). And Renner’s character does feel at kind of a loose end.
November 24, 2024 at 4:14 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Still works like gangbusters. That cold open is a great, offering Tom a good chance to showcase range by way of Ethan’s attempts to bargain, threaten, beg and bluff against Hoffman, who is excellent as the bad guy.
November 23, 2024 at 11:53 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Nonsense. Truly just does not work. Even in the moments when craft is on display, it’s in service of a script that was wrong-headed from the start, and the wrong people are in playing it all out.
November 23, 2024 at 9:34 PM
paulcinephile.bsky.social
Still a banger. De Palma predictably directs it like he gives a shit.

Also, forgot that whole midpoint heist sequence is almost completely silent. One of those “don’t think you could do that now” kinda things.
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM