Vincent O'Connell
@vincentoconnell.co.uk
Writer and film maker, here for distraction, information and (occasional) enlightenment.
www.vincentoconnell.co.uk
www.vincentoconnell.co.uk
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Today is the day a very special man was born, sent to us many years ago to tell fantastic tales and bring messages of peace and understanding. Happy birthday Rod Serling!
December 25, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Today is the day a very special man was born, sent to us many years ago to tell fantastic tales and bring messages of peace and understanding. Happy birthday Rod Serling!
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This time of year can be hard for some of us.
Nine years ago a good friend of mine put his kids to bed on christmas night, said goodnight to his wife, went to a local park and committed suicide.
Help is out there.
spuk.org.uk
Nine years ago a good friend of mine put his kids to bed on christmas night, said goodnight to his wife, went to a local park and committed suicide.
Help is out there.
spuk.org.uk
Suicide Prevention UK Help & Support | SPUK Charity 1187866
If you’re going through a tough time and need someone to listen, contact us free. We won't judge you or tell you what to do. You don't have to face this alone x
spuk.org.uk
December 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This time of year can be hard for some of us.
Nine years ago a good friend of mine put his kids to bed on christmas night, said goodnight to his wife, went to a local park and committed suicide.
Help is out there.
spuk.org.uk
Nine years ago a good friend of mine put his kids to bed on christmas night, said goodnight to his wife, went to a local park and committed suicide.
Help is out there.
spuk.org.uk
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Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder’s rages,
Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.
Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder’s rages,
Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.
Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.
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4OD 📽️
Apocalypse Now
Broker
Carol
Chopper
Die Hard
Enys Men
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Home Alone
Local Hero
The Long Good Friday
Mean Streets
Memento
Memoria
The Missionary
Monos
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Open Range
A Room with a View
Shame
Apocalypse Now
Broker
Carol
Chopper
Die Hard
Enys Men
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Home Alone
Local Hero
The Long Good Friday
Mean Streets
Memento
Memoria
The Missionary
Monos
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Open Range
A Room with a View
Shame
iPlayer 📽️
Beetlejuice
Challengers
Citizen Kane
Coriolanus
The Dig
Doctor Zhivago
Election
Get Carter
Gladiator
The Graduate
Hell or High Water
The Ipcress File
Licorice Pizza
One Fine Morning
Oppenheimer
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Psycho
Raging Bull
Sense & Sensibility
Sicario
White Christmas
Beetlejuice
Challengers
Citizen Kane
Coriolanus
The Dig
Doctor Zhivago
Election
Get Carter
Gladiator
The Graduate
Hell or High Water
The Ipcress File
Licorice Pizza
One Fine Morning
Oppenheimer
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Psycho
Raging Bull
Sense & Sensibility
Sicario
White Christmas
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
4OD 📽️
Apocalypse Now
Broker
Carol
Chopper
Die Hard
Enys Men
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Home Alone
Local Hero
The Long Good Friday
Mean Streets
Memento
Memoria
The Missionary
Monos
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Open Range
A Room with a View
Shame
Apocalypse Now
Broker
Carol
Chopper
Die Hard
Enys Men
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Home Alone
Local Hero
The Long Good Friday
Mean Streets
Memento
Memoria
The Missionary
Monos
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Open Range
A Room with a View
Shame
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In 1953, Sands Hotel dancer - Sally McCloskey - climbed to the top of Mount Charleston in Nevada to perform an interpretive dance.
Meanwhile less than 40 miles away behind her an atomic bomb explodes on a Nevada Nuclear Test Site.
Meanwhile less than 40 miles away behind her an atomic bomb explodes on a Nevada Nuclear Test Site.
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
In 1953, Sands Hotel dancer - Sally McCloskey - climbed to the top of Mount Charleston in Nevada to perform an interpretive dance.
Meanwhile less than 40 miles away behind her an atomic bomb explodes on a Nevada Nuclear Test Site.
Meanwhile less than 40 miles away behind her an atomic bomb explodes on a Nevada Nuclear Test Site.
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If you work with freelancers, pay them on time. This is especially important at Christmas. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you work with freelancers, pay them on time. This is especially important at Christmas. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.
December 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.
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Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
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getting people back into theatres requires two things: a greater diversity of well-produced and marketed films, along with exhibitors working to build community around the idea of moviegoing
I am not sure how to get people back into theaters or if it's possible, but I do know that if the strongest remaining argument is "you SHOULD," or something about the holiness of the collective big-screen experience, the battle is lost. That has no traction with people who don't already believe it.
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
getting people back into theatres requires two things: a greater diversity of well-produced and marketed films, along with exhibitors working to build community around the idea of moviegoing
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Martin Parr, absolute mensch.
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Martin Parr, absolute mensch.
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB
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Please boost...people need to see this.
😭💔 A translator in the European Parliament burst into tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman, who miraculously survived the Russian shelling of Vinnytsia
🎞: Radio Liberty
😭💔 A translator in the European Parliament burst into tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman, who miraculously survived the Russian shelling of Vinnytsia
🎞: Radio Liberty
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Please boost...people need to see this.
😭💔 A translator in the European Parliament burst into tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman, who miraculously survived the Russian shelling of Vinnytsia
🎞: Radio Liberty
😭💔 A translator in the European Parliament burst into tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman, who miraculously survived the Russian shelling of Vinnytsia
🎞: Radio Liberty
Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
(The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com)
Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.
I love this one.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I love this one.
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Let's not do fireworks any more. We have lasers now. Just do laser shows without the bangs. Even loud music would be better than the bangs.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Let's not do fireworks any more. We have lasers now. Just do laser shows without the bangs. Even loud music would be better than the bangs.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
I swear the Labour gov are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Classifying opinion as terrorism, restricting the right to protest, digital ID, hostility to migrants, ending of trial by jury etc. They're not idiots, they know what they're doing.
‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries
‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries
David Lammy’s plans to cut the the number of jury trials in England and Wales. A defendant, a victim, a barrister, a KC, a judge and a juror have concerns
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I swear the Labour gov are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Classifying opinion as terrorism, restricting the right to protest, digital ID, hostility to migrants, ending of trial by jury etc. They're not idiots, they know what they're doing.
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Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer is available. If you haven’t already purchased a copy I encourage you to do so. I put a lot of work and heart into this one and if you enjoy my work I’d appreciate your support
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Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer - Sticking Place Books
John Bleasdale Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin ...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer is available. If you haven’t already purchased a copy I encourage you to do so. I put a lot of work and heart into this one and if you enjoy my work I’d appreciate your support
stickingplacebooks.com/darkness-vis...
stickingplacebooks.com/darkness-vis...
I highly recommend this thread.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I highly recommend this thread.
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Let us first see peace
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Let us first see peace
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The BBC, the press, the Universities, who next? The UK's key and core institutions are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Enabling, abetting, collaborating.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The BBC, the press, the Universities, who next? The UK's key and core institutions are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Enabling, abetting, collaborating.
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I have discovered a pile of Nigel droppings under my bed tonight.
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I have discovered a pile of Nigel droppings under my bed tonight.
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I'm already heading to the post office tomorrow with two copies in my rucksack, both soon to find their readers. Anybody up for making my trip even more worthwhile...?! 😜
A perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life this Christmas. Or for your lover who mistakenly thinks poetry's not for them!
Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy...!
Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy...!
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm already heading to the post office tomorrow with two copies in my rucksack, both soon to find their readers. Anybody up for making my trip even more worthwhile...?! 😜
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old