John Hodson
@mgcroadster.bsky.social
Journalist since '73, now retired, film geek for longer. Rejoiner, lefty, love films of all eras. Recovering Man Utd. fan of six decades. Uses admiration of John Ford as a Rorschach test. No followers without a profile - sorry!
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #FilmSky
A #Noirvember rewatch for Mr Powell's brilliant Mr Marlowe, the first of the fantastic Mann/Stewart westerns in dazzling 4k, a dull origin story for an extraordinary man, and an utterly charming screwball comedy...
A #Noirvember rewatch for Mr Powell's brilliant Mr Marlowe, the first of the fantastic Mann/Stewart westerns in dazzling 4k, a dull origin story for an extraordinary man, and an utterly charming screwball comedy...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #FilmSky
A #Noirvember rewatch for Mr Powell's brilliant Mr Marlowe, the first of the fantastic Mann/Stewart westerns in dazzling 4k, a dull origin story for an extraordinary man, and an utterly charming screwball comedy...
A #Noirvember rewatch for Mr Powell's brilliant Mr Marlowe, the first of the fantastic Mann/Stewart westerns in dazzling 4k, a dull origin story for an extraordinary man, and an utterly charming screwball comedy...
Drop some REDHEADED
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Drop some REDHEADED
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"A half-timbered car..."
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"A half-timbered car..."
Mrs H and I have just had to remind each other that we met for the first time on November 5, 1975. We've been a couple for 50 years. Blimey.
Our first Christmas, Ann bought me Queen's 'A Night At The Opera' and I bought her Carole King's 'Tapestry'. We still have them. We are *so* old...
Our first Christmas, Ann bought me Queen's 'A Night At The Opera' and I bought her Carole King's 'Tapestry'. We still have them. We are *so* old...
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mrs H and I have just had to remind each other that we met for the first time on November 5, 1975. We've been a couple for 50 years. Blimey.
Our first Christmas, Ann bought me Queen's 'A Night At The Opera' and I bought her Carole King's 'Tapestry'. We still have them. We are *so* old...
Our first Christmas, Ann bought me Queen's 'A Night At The Opera' and I bought her Carole King's 'Tapestry'. We still have them. We are *so* old...
On Wednesdays we wear black 🐰🎬
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
On Wednesdays we wear black 🐰🎬
Drop something WHITE ❄️🐇🖤🦢🦴
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Drop something WHITE ❄️🐇🖤🦢🦴
There are a lot of hot takes on this right now, when the only one that matters is...
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
There are a lot of hot takes on this right now, when the only one that matters is...
... Peter Vaughan over there...
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
... Peter Vaughan over there...
I posted this to my film blog in February 2007. Today is Remembrance Sunday. So I remember...
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I posted this to my film blog in February 2007. Today is Remembrance Sunday. So I remember...
You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber
Post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
For a slightly more forensic and nuanced investigation of the whole BBC impartiality row, look to the inestimable Alan Rusbridger writing in The Independent... The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump - share.google/uadEsuTA2GmS...
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
For a slightly more forensic and nuanced investigation of the whole BBC impartiality row, look to the inestimable Alan Rusbridger writing in The Independent... The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump - share.google/uadEsuTA2GmS...
On Fridays We Dance!
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
On Fridays We Dance!
They'll have to correct that cover art though...
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
They'll have to correct that cover art though...
Bloody hell; and that's it - a perfect six hours of TV. Forty years old and as relevant as the day it was broadcast. Perhaps moreso...
"I think you're wrong. If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win..."
"I think you're wrong. If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win..."
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Bloody hell; and that's it - a perfect six hours of TV. Forty years old and as relevant as the day it was broadcast. Perhaps moreso...
"I think you're wrong. If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win..."
"I think you're wrong. If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win..."
"What's money got to do with it? Money doesn't come into it. You would still be dead and so would mum..."
Rewatching EDGE OF DARKNESS on Blu-ray, the quality of which is streets ahead of iPlayer. By God, that first episode is an even more emotional assault course than it was 40 years ago...
Rewatching EDGE OF DARKNESS on Blu-ray, the quality of which is streets ahead of iPlayer. By God, that first episode is an even more emotional assault course than it was 40 years ago...
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"What's money got to do with it? Money doesn't come into it. You would still be dead and so would mum..."
Rewatching EDGE OF DARKNESS on Blu-ray, the quality of which is streets ahead of iPlayer. By God, that first episode is an even more emotional assault course than it was 40 years ago...
Rewatching EDGE OF DARKNESS on Blu-ray, the quality of which is streets ahead of iPlayer. By God, that first episode is an even more emotional assault course than it was 40 years ago...
THE CANDIDATE (1972)
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
THE CANDIDATE (1972)
I don't think about horror films in that way now; but as a kid I recall watching THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER for the first time, and the sight of poor dead Willa, her hair billowing in the current, stayed with me, well, for ever after... #FilmSky
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I don't think about horror films in that way now; but as a kid I recall watching THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER for the first time, and the sight of poor dead Willa, her hair billowing in the current, stayed with me, well, for ever after... #FilmSky
Two from HMV, one from Rarewaves and 4kUHD where applicable...
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Two from HMV, one from Rarewaves and 4kUHD where applicable...