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Sam
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🎬 London-based film fiend chasing cult gems, dodging duds. Monthly Movie Challenges, hot takes & deep cuts. Dachshund Dad.

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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️
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1. The Holly and the Ivy – Christmas cheer meets quiet repression
2. Penny Serenade – Adoption, heartbreak and Grant looking stricken
3. Atonement – One lie, two lovers and a typewriter haunting Britain
4. Gigi – Parisian charm with a hint of dread
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: The Holly and the Ivy (a collage-style poster featuring the main cast around a Christmas motif, rated 3.5 stars with a like), Penny Serenade (a vintage Hollywood poster of Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, rated 2.5 stars), Atonement (a split poster showing James McAvoy in wartime above Keira Knightley in a field of flowers, rated 4 stars), and Gigi (a minimalist white poster with Leslie Caron’s stylised face, rated 2 stars).
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Decembinge 2025 🎄✨
31 nights. Full sleigh.

Crooners, miracles, misfits and murderous Santas — five festive strands of comfort, chaos and holiday magic gone slightly rogue.

From candlelight to carnage… follow the star.

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#Decembinge #MovieChallenge #FilmSky
Decembinge 2025 🎄✨ 31 nights. Full sleigh. Crooners, miracles, misfits and murderous Santas — five festive strands of comfort, chaos and holiday magic gone slightly rogue. From candlelight to carnage… follow the star. https://boxd.it/Qqdwg #Decembinge #MovieChallenge #FilmSky
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Noirvember 2025: 30 nights in the shadows.

Top of the stack: Criss Cross, Panique, He Ran All the Way, I Am Waiting, Yield to the Night.

Bottom of the bottle: Ruthless, Telegraph Hill, Moonrise.

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Vintage noir-style poster with a worn black background and distressed edges. Large cream lettering at the top reads “NOIRVEMBER 2025.” Below it, in deep red block text: “THIRTY FILMS, ONE DIMLY LIT ALLEY.” The lower half shows a silhouetted figure in a trench coat and fedora standing beneath a lone streetlamp, cigarette smoke curling upwards. The alley is slick with rain, and the figure’s long shadow stretches toward the viewer, giving the poster a moody, classic film-noir atmosphere.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️

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1. Yield to the Night – Diana Dors stares down the hangman and the patriarchy
2. Koyaanisqatsi – Humanity sprints while nature side-eyes us
3. Bedelia – Cat, mouse, and a very stylish murderer
4. Sabotage – Hitchcock toys with bombs and our nerves
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: Yield to the Night (Diana Dors in profile holding a cigarette against a red background, rated 4 stars with a like), Koyaanisqatsi (a cityscape streaked with red light trails, rated 4 stars with a like), Bedelia (a glamorous woman in a gold dress with two smaller illustrated figures beside her, rated 3 stars), and Sabotage (a vibrant poster of a city street with neon lights and an explosion motif, rated 3 stars).
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️

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1. Crime Wave – Noir so tight it squeaks
2. The President’s Cake – Iraqi chaos, one birthday at a time
3. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – Byrne unravels in glorious meltdown
4. The Sniper – ’50s male angst with a rifle attached
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings beneath. From left to right: Crime Wave (a red-toned noir poster of a man and woman in dramatic shadows, rated 4 stars), The President’s Cake (a cream poster with an ornate circular motif and Arabic text, rated 4.5 stars with a like), If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (a close-up of a distressed woman gazing upward under harsh lighting, rated 3.5 stars), and The Sniper (a blue-and-yellow poster with a man holding a rifle and multiple sight reticles showing women, rated 3 stars).
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Poster has pride of place!
Framed Escape from New York cinematic poster
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️

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1. Hollow Triumph – Noir doppelgängers and terrible decisions
2. Save the Tiger – Lemmon melts down in style
3. All the President’s Men – Journalism as paranoid thriller
4. Heroic Times – Hungarian myth painted in motion
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: Hollow Triumph (a noir poster of a man gripping a worried-looking woman, rated 4 stars with a like), Save the Tiger (a man in a coat standing alone on a grey, windswept beach, rated 4 stars with a like), All the President’s Men (a minimalist black-and-white poster featuring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, rated 4.5 stars with a like and marked as a re-watch), and Heroic Times (a stylised illustration of armoured warriors on horseback, rated 3.5 stars).
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky

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1. Too Late for Tears – Lizabeth Scott out-schemes the lot
2. The Element of Crime – Hypnosis and Europe in sodium-orange
3.Pitfall – Powell steps into temptation and meets Burr-shaped danger
4. Going My Way – Bing sings, the Church smiles
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: Too Late for Tears (a man gripping a woman as money spills in the background, rated 3.5 stars), The Element of Crime (a sepia-toned image of a man leaning over another figure, rated 3 stars), Pitfall (a classic noir poster featuring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Wyatt, rated 3 stars), and Going My Way (Bing Crosby as a cheerful priest walking with a woman, rated 2 stars).
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Noirvember 2025 🕵️‍♀️

30 nights. No alibis.

Grifters, femmes, and bad decisions photographed beautifully — seven strands of guilt, smoke, and moral decay.

Fugitive Shadows to Noir Beyond Hollywood… every story ends the same way: in the dark.

#Noirvember #MovieChallenge #FilmSky
Black-and-white poster for Noirvember 2025. A woman in a trench coat and fedora stands under a streetlamp, a cigarette between her lips and a pistol in her hand. Smoke curls in the fog. The text reads: NOIRVEMBER 2025 Fugitive Shadows Fatal Women & Doomed Desire Crime & Consequence Cops, Killers & City Streets Women at the Helm Women Behind Bars Noir Beyond Hollywood 30 Nights — No Alibis.
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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🎃 Shocktober 2025:

31 Nights, Seven Killer Strands, One Cursed VHS

Top of the tomb:
The Exorcist III, Angst, The Wailing, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Dracula.

Bottom of the pit:
Phantasm III, Black Sunday.

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#Shocktober #MovieChallenge #FilmSky #HorrorSky
Retro grindhouse-style poster with a distressed black background and bold beige and red lettering reading “SHOCKTOBER 2025 — 31 NIGHTS, ONE CURSED VHS.” Below the text, a red VHS tape drips like melting wax, its reels forming a skull’s eyes and mouth. A small white VHS logo sits in the bottom-right corner, completing the vintage horror aesthetic.
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky

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1. Zombie Flesh Eaters - Eye-gouging, maggot-munching mayhem

2. Witchfinder General – Puritanical Vincent Price goes full sadist

3. Alucarda – Nuns, screams, and satanic teenage angst

4. House of Dark Shadows – Fangs out, curtains ruined
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: Zombie Flesh Eaters (a decaying zombie face against a black background, rated 4 stars), Witchfinder General (Vincent Price in Puritan garb with flames and villagers, rated 4 stars), Alucarda (a woman with long dark hair and a red inverted cross, rated 3 stars), and House of Dark Shadows (a collage of gothic horror scenes with vampires and victims, rated 3 stars).
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Coming soon… #Noirvember

#FilmSky #MovieChallenge
A black-and-white poster for Noirvember 2025 shows a femme fatale standing in a foggy, rain-soaked city street at night. She wears a trench coat and fedora, cigarette between her lips, and holds a smoking revolver under the glow of a single streetlamp. The title “NOIRVEMBER 2025” appears at the top, the tagline “30 NIGHTS—NO ALIBIS” sits below, and a faintly glowing vertical list of strands runs along the right side: Fugitive Shadows; Fatal Women & Doomed Desire; Crime & Consequence; Cops, Killers & City Streets; Women at the Helm; Women Behind Bars; Noir Beyond Hollywood.
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Tomorrow’s #Shocktober film

#FilmSky #HorrorSky
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky #Shocktober
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky

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1. The Shout – Cricket, insanity, and the deadliest lungs in Devon
2. At Close Range – Walken’s moustache terrorises rural America
3. Anything Else – When Allen met American Pie
4. Went the Day Well? – Blitz spirit meets home invasion
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: The Shout (a man standing in sand dunes with a face looming in the clouds above, rated 4 stars), At Close Range (faces of two men in black and white with a gun sight graphic, rated 3 stars), Anything Else (a woman’s face inside a heart shape with a man leaning against it, rated 3 stars), and Went the Day Well? (two women operating a machine gun in a wartime setting, rated 3 stars).
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky
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1. The Howling – Hair today, gore tomorrow
2. Blue Moon – Rodgers opens Oklahoma!, Hart opens another bottle
3. Rental Family – Feelings available by the hour
4. The Fall of the House of Usher – Poe goes full fever dream
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: The Howling (a werewolf claw tearing through fabric, rated 3.5 stars), Blue Moon (a man and woman facing each other at a bar, rated 3 stars), Rental Family (a group of people sitting together on a couch inside a train carriage, rated 2.5 stars), and The Fall of the House of Usher (a red poster with a monochrome image of a man carrying a woman, rated 4 stars).
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky

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1. Mutiny on the Bounty – Ship of fools, led by egos
2. Creature from the Black Lagoon – Scaly lad just wants a cuddle
3. Tuner – Sound, crime, and chaos in perfect harmony
4. Walk on the Wild Side – Cats, sin, and Stanwyck stealing scenes
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: Mutiny on the Bounty (a stern-looking mariner with a ship in the background, rated 3.5 stars), Creature from the Black Lagoon (a monster carrying a woman underwater, rated 2 stars), Tuner (black poster with gold text, rated 4 stars), and Walk on the Wild Side (a woman in a green dress framed by cat eyes, rated 3 stars).
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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On this day in 1927, The Jazz Singer brought sound to cinema and silence to nuance. The first talkie—and most infamous blackface—proof Hollywood can innovate and offend in the same breath. #FilmFact #FilmSky
A black-and-white still from The Jazz Singer (1927). A man in a suit and tie smiles broadly while playing the piano, looking up toward an older woman beside him who leans in, smiling fondly. The scene captures a warm, domestic moment central to the film’s story.
October 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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This month, I'm diving into 31 horror films from a haunted video store. Technicolour bloodbaths, haunted houses, slashers, zombies & global nightmares.

31 nights of dread, static, & cursed VHS nastiness.

Be kind, rewind—if you dare...

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#Shocktober #FilmProject #FilmSky #HorrorSky
A horror-themed poster styled like a grimy VHS cover with tracking errors and bloodstains. The title reads: Shocktober 2025 – Seven Strands of Terror in glowing red text. Below, seven strands of the challenge are listed: 1. Blood in Technicolour 2. Things That Go Bump (And Scream) 3. Monsters, Mummies & Matinee Madness 4. Hack, Slash, Repeat 5. Horrors Without Borders 6. Mad Minds & Dark Descent 7. Apocalypse Now (With Zombies) The overall look is retro and sinister, like a banned video nasty rental sleeve.
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky
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1. Cat o’ Nine Tails – Argento ties himself in knots
2. Know Her Well – When chic despair meets a closed window
3. Blood and Black Lace – Catwalk carnage in technicolour
4. Hard Eight – PTA shuffles cards, smokes, and hustles
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: The Cat o’ Nine Tails (illustration of a black cat on a red background, rated 3 stars), Know Her Well (black-and-white photo of a woman’s face with a torn edge showing the title, rated 4 stars), Blood and Black Lace (a painted poster of a masked man looming over a woman in vivid colours, rated 3.5 stars), and Hard Eight (green poster with dice and portraits of the cast, rated 3.5 stars).
October 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This month, I'm diving into 31 horror films from a haunted video store. Technicolour bloodbaths, haunted houses, slashers, zombies & global nightmares.

31 nights of dread, static, & cursed VHS nastiness.

Be kind, rewind—if you dare...

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#Shocktober #MovieChallenge #filmsky #HorrorSky
A horror-themed poster styled like a grimy VHS cover with tracking errors and bloodstains. The title reads: Shocktober 2025 – Seven Strands of Terror in glowing red text. Below, seven strands of the challenge are listed: Blood in Technicolour Things That Go Bump (And Scream) Monsters, Mummies & Matinee Madness Hack, Slash, Repeat Horrors Without Borders Mad Minds & Dark Descent Apocalypse Now (With Zombies) The overall look is retro and sinister, like a banned video nasty rental sleeve.
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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This month, I'm diving into 31 horror films from a haunted abandoned video store. Technicolour bloodbaths, haunted houses, slashers, zombies and global nightmares.

31 nights of dread, static, & cursed VHS nastiness.

Be kind, rewind... if you dare...

#Shocktober #MovieChallenge #filmsky #HorrorSky
A horror-themed poster styled like a grimy VHS cover with tracking errors and bloodstains. The title reads: Shocktober 2025 – Seven Strands of Terror in glowing red text. Below, seven strands of the challenge are listed: 1. Blood in Technicolour 2. Things That Go Bump (And Scream) 3. Monsters, Mummies & Matinee Madness 4. Hack, Slash, Repeat 5. Horrors Without Borders 6. Mad Minds & Dark Descent 7. Apocalypse Now (With Zombies) The overall look is retro and sinister, like a banned video nasty rental sleeve.
October 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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This October, I'll be diving into 31 horror films from a haunted abandoned video store. Technicolour bloodbaths, haunted houses, slashers, zombies and global nightmares.

31 nights of dread, static, and cursed VHS nastiness.

Be kind, rewind... if you dare...

#Shocktober #MovieChallenge #FilmSky
A horror-themed poster styled like a grimy VHS cover with tracking errors and bloodstains. The title reads: Shocktober 2025 – Seven Strands of Terror in glowing red text. Below, seven strands of the challenge are listed: Blood in Technicolour Things That Go Bump (And Scream) Monsters, Mummies & Matinee Madness Hack, Slash, Repeat Horrors Without Borders Mad Minds & Dark Descent Apocalypse Now (With Zombies) The overall look is retro and sinister, like a banned video nasty rental sleeve.
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📚 School Daze September ✏️

(30 films) / (1 month) = total carnage.

Punk riffs, paper-plane coups, saviour teachers on the naughty step.

Full report card: boxd.it/Oib3i

#FilmSky #SchoolDaze #MovieChallenge
Smudged blackboard poster with white “chalk” handwriting. Header: “THE FINAL REPORT OF SCHOOL DAZE SEPTEMBER.” Stats line reads: “🎥 30 films • 🏫 5 strands • 📅 September 2025.” Below, a neat list of end-of-month awards: 🍎 Best in Class – Au Revoir les Enfants 📚 Teacher’s Pet – The Class 🎸 Best Extra-Curricular – We Are the Best! 🐝 Quietest Goosebump Inducer – The Spirit of the Beehive ✊ Most Likely to Start a Revolution – Zero for Conduct 💣 Most Likely to Detonate the Gym – Massacre at Central High 👩‍🏫 Best Substitute Teacher – Dangerous Minds 📝 Detention Award – The Initiation 🚫 Needs Improvement – To Sir, With Love / Lean on Me / Class of 1984.
September 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky
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1. The Broadway Melody – History made, patience tested
2. Lean on Me – Freeman lectures a brick wall
3. Vamp – ’80s neon trash with added teeth
4. Toni Erdmann – Dad jokes as psychological warfare
A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: The Broadway Melody (chorus girls in white costumes kicking against a yellow background, rated 2.5 stars), Lean on Me (red poster with silhouettes of Morgan Freeman and students, rated 2 stars), Vamp (a vampire face with jagged teeth and bright red lips, rated 2.5 stars), and Toni Erdmann (a woman’s blonde hair embraced by a man with a dark wig, title in turquoise text, rated 4 stars).
September 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM