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John Featherstone
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Writer: #TheCinemaOfCancelledStars, #Ringtone and #TheDrowningAirman.

You can also read "Robin Hood & The Stuntman Lost In Time" here: https://latereviewer.com/2024/11/26/robin-hood-the-stuntman-lost-in-time/
It was great to have #ElmoreLeonard, my favourite novelist, back - even if it was for only 96 pages.

#BookSky
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I only knew the basics of #ClarkGable's life so this brilliant biography was a fascinating, page-turning eye-opener about the King of Hollywood.

A very interesting and latterly very-troubled man and I expect this'll send me back to #RedDust, #ManhattanMelodrama and #TestPilot.

#BookSky #FilmSky
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Accidentally went out dressed as Redford in Three Days Of The Condor (1975).

#FilmSky
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This is the calibre of shot you get when the director of your movie is an ex-fighter pilot and your leading man has done 98 hours' flying time in preparation.

#Wings #WFWWW #FilmSky
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Facebook Memories tell me it's 9 years since I lent my mum #TeamOfRivals.

#BookSky
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Tell your jailers you're planning to escape without telling your jailers you're planning to escape.

#BookSky
October 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Two of the greatest character names in cinema history here, from Gold Is Where You Find It (1937).

#FilmSky
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A great anecdote about Samuel Goldwyn to kick-start your Monday.

#FilmSky
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Metaphor for my whole life in my Year 9 diary.
September 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Framed Italian poster for #TheGreatWaldoPepper (1975), hanging on my landing.

#RobertRedford #FilmSky
September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The first / sit-on-hands (not literally) read-through: all I can do is turn the pages, can't scribble, cross out, highlight typos etc. - a necessary agony to give me an idea of the story as a whole.

Wish me luck!

#TheCinemaOfCancelledStars #BookSky
September 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Fresh off the HP DeskJet 2820e," as they say.

#TheCinemaOfCancelledStars #BookSky
September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
An absolutely amazing night at the world premiere of Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads, here in #Sheffield where the film was shot 41 years ago. I can't stress enough how much I want @craigimann.bsky.social and Robert Nevitt's brilliant documentary to be seen as widely as possible.

#FilmSky
August 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🎶 🎶 🎶

"Oh, Mark Owen
Oh, Mark Owen,
Oh, Mark Owen's Clementine,
You peaked at number three-eee,
But his career,
Died on the vine."

🎶 🎶 🎶

#FilmSky #MusicSky #MarkOwenSky
August 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Please can 5 - JUST 5! - more people follow me to get me to 150?

Oh, and take a look at my pinned post!

#FilmSky #BookSky #RunSky
August 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Stop crying, will you? You're getting married. That's what you wanted."

"I don't want it now."

"Why not? Don't you love Artie?"

"Of course I love him. I always will. I... I'm not in love with him anymore, that's all."

"What happened?"

"You did..."

#SunsetBoulevard #FilmSky
August 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Glorious three-strip Technicolor at The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford today.

#TheGardenOfAllah #AStarIsBorn #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood #TheWizardOfOz #GoneWithTheWind

#FilmSky
August 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My first run up and down the brutal hills of #Sheffield in three years hence the slow time and pace.

#RunSky
August 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The opening shot of #TheFrontPage (1931) really is something else - and there are several others in the movie that almost match it.

#FilmSky
July 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Nooooooooo!

#FilmSky #DogSky
July 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Weird to think this four-year-old scamp* bullying #CharlieChaplin in #ThePilgrim (1923) would go on to write three #DirtyHarry movies half a century later as well as doing script work on #DasBoot and #TheGodfatherPartIII.

#FilmSky

*Dean Riesner
July 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The greatest drunk purchase of my life: abebooks, 2005... Classic #WarnerBros. screenplays printed in the 1970s.

(Apart from #IAmAFugitiveFromAChainGang; got that in Manchester Waterstones in 1999).

#FilmSky #BookSky
July 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Nearly thirty years of collecting BFI Classics and they turned down my pitch for #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood (1938) 😪

#FilmSky #BookSky
July 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Here's how forties film star Veronica Lake dealt with a Weinstein back then.

Superb final line.

(Can't recall where I read this, sorry.)

#FilmSky #BookSky
July 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Scott Eyman researches and writes consistently-brilliant books about the Golden Age of Hollywood and his biography of Louis B. Mayer, #LionOfHollywood, is no exception.

I raced through it and I think any fan of #TheMovies, especially the old ones, would too.

#BookSky #FilmSky
July 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM