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Alan Maxwell
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I'm a Fifer. I love the following:
FILMS! (Scottish, Irish, documentary, short films, horror, cult movies)
MUSIC! (Everything from traditional folk to electronic weirdness)
THEATRE! (Especially Scottish and Irish)
BOOKS!
HAGGIS!
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Only just discovered this book the other day entirely by accident in a bookshop and after skimming through it, I have to say that in a book covering over 400 films I am exceptionally proud of just how many of them I've seen.
"Scottish Films" by Mark Furst - the cover shows a film reel, some popcorn and a drink
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The latest in my "books I've read this year" thread and I have to say I just absolutely LOVED this one. Essential reading for anyone who loves the types of films that I love.
"How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime" by Roger Corman with Jim Jerome. The cover is black with a picture of a casually dressed Roger Corman with some flames and a giant claw behind him
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Just getting in a bit of pre-gig Performative Reading (tm). I don't use Instagram so please let me know if I happen to pop up on the Hot Dudes Reading account, cheers.
Close-up of an open book with a stage in the background set up for live music
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I'm a big fan of the 1980s "youngsters band together to save their hangout from rivals/evil property developers by using their special interest" genre. Having already seen it involving breakdancing, rapping and rollerskating, I think it's now time to see what aerobics has to offer. Tonight's film:
Film title Heavenly Bodies superimposed over an image of a beautiful young woman doing aerobics or something like that
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Another bumper update to the "books I've read in 2025" thread.
Picture of four books: Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland Since the 1990s; Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross; Eve in Ireland by Ailish McFadden; and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Saturday morning #Noirvember time.
Poster art for Two of a Kind (1951) starring Edmond O'Brien and Lizabeth Scott with the tagline "The kind that don't die in bed!" and O'Brien holding a gun while Scott appears to whisper in his ear
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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It's the Turksploitation/spaghetti western crossover I never knew I needed.
#NowWatching Django vs Kilink
Black and white picture of a man in a skeleton costume and mask, also wearing a cowboy hat and gunbelt/holster, with the gun in his hand
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Appropriately since the big Netflix movie everyone's talking about involves a guy putting stuff together that doesn't belong and creating a monster... I just made nachos with haggis, chorizo, sundried tomato and chipotle sauce
Mouthwatering photo of the above mentioned dish
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Took delivery of an extremely important parcel earlier.
Vinyl LPs of the soundtracks to the films Inseminoid and Raiders of Atlantis
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Bumper load of Irish-shot stuff on Talking Pictures catch-up service at the moment. Dementia 13 (Coppola/Corman shot around Dublin & Wicklow), The Siege of Sidney Street (Dublin pretending to be London), early border farce Blarney (around Dundalk) and Freedom to Die (Dublin).
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Dementia 13 artwork showing a woman emerging from a swamp in fright Siege of Sidney Street artwork shoing a man carrying a woman while in the background a gunfight goes on Black and white still of the title shot in Blarney, with the film's title imposed over an image of Ireland Black and white still showing the title of film Freedom to Die imposed over a rocky pattern
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Albums released today: it's a great day for fans of beautiful, intense, instrumental weirdness. Magnificent stuff.
Cover of Apeiron Anxiety by Field Lines Cartographer, showing a painting of an otherworldly looking landscape, a weird rock-like structure and a glowing orange sky with a partially eclipsed sun. At least I think that's what it shows, I'm genuinely not sure to be honest. Cover of album Gleann Ciuin by Claire M Singer, showing a close up of the pipes of a large church organ
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Tonight's #Noirvember choice. Playing it safe with the picture tonight lest the idiotic Bluesky moderation bot thinks I'm posting "graphic content" again.
Old cinema lobby card for 1957 film The Crooked Circle, showing a group of men chatting to each other, one of whom is clearly dressed for a boxing match
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Paid another visit to Scotland's oldest purpose built cinema tonight and only realised as I was leaving that a poster outside is advertising I Swear - in the very cinema where part of it was filmed. META!
An old but lovely cinema pictured in the night, light shining from its entrance, a couple of forthcoming movies advertised on posters outside, the cinema name HIPPODROME faintly visible in the darkness above. Close up of one of the posters, showing the film I Swear
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Okay forgive me for posting this image without the alt text, but it's the exact same image from my previous post and I'm assuming it was my description that triggered the idiotic moderation.
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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#Noirvember time again. Tonight's choice: Key Witness (1947)
Black and white still showing a man in a suit in the living room of a house, leaning over the corpse of a woman. A gun lies on the floor next to her.
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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It's #Noirvember time again.
Black and white screenshot from the film "Shield for Murder" showing the title in big white letters across the image of a police car
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Now watching what I assume will be an insightful, serious and scathing critique of partition and the legacy of colonialism.
Title card from the 1938 film Blarney. Black and white, with the film's title imposed over an outline of Ireland, with star Jimmy O'Dea's name above it and an original story credit for Harry O'Donovan beneath it
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The October horror has now finished which means it's time for #Noirvember once again. Kicking things off with a British noir in which Arthur Kennedy is the token yank, which I guess kind of makes this the Let Sleeping Corpses Lie of film noir.
Poster for the film Impulse in which the painted art shows a typically film noir montage of a couple embracing, a woman looking sexy, and a man looking concerned while handling a pile of notes
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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#31DaysOfHorror film #31 (or possibly #32). The grand finale to October's spooky viewing, it's time to bring out another Halloween tradition.
Sam, a little boy with in a cloth sack outfit including mask completely covering his head, with a hollowed out pumpkin full of sweets on someone's doorstep at Halloween, from the 2007 film Trick'r'Treat
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Ah, Scottish chippy, please never change
Sign in a chippy saying "all these chocolates can be battered £3"
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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#31DaysOfHorror film #30 (or #31 if you count both watches of Phantom of the Opera). An annual Halloween viewing tradition.
Screenshot from the animated TV movie of Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree featuring four kids in Halloween costumes looking at a smiling pumpkin
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Back for a second helping.
Art for Phantom of the Opera with live score, this time at GFT
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Only just discovered that a theory about why Ptolemy's iconic map of Britain & Ireland has Scotland bent over at a 90-degree angle towards the east is that it wasn't believed that life could survive that far north, which is pretty much the best summary of Scottish weather that I've ever heard.
Ptolemy's map of Britain showing that Scotland, rather than continuing north from England, bends over to the right hand side
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Another horror related night at the cinema. If you forced me to guess I'd go with Shelby Oaks.
Cinema screen showing title card for mystery horror screening at the DCA
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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#31DaysOfHorror films #24 to 28. HWFG
Schedule for All Day Horror Madness at GFT
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM