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Sophie Mac
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"There were so many ways this didn't make sense that no one quite knew what to say."

"Like reflections in water, the movie light ripples across her face."

"A dark omelette on bleak toast."

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The Big C (2010-2012). If you didn't think cancer could make you laugh, you're wrong. Sure, at the very end it tore me to pieces, but up till then it was mainly laughing, Laura Linney, Alan Alda, Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, JB Hickey, Phyllis Somerville, Idris Elba. Currently on Netflix #TVSky
Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison and her doctor, Dr Todd Mauer played by Reid Scott. They're in his examination room and Cathy is looking back over her shoulder, away from Dr Todd.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This amused me far than it ever should have
A chip shop in Amsterdam called Chipsy King XL. The sign is orange and yellow and wooden frames of the pretty windows are green. It's an old building, but the sign is modern plastic.
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Cat poster for your Sunday. Don't think this really counts as graffiti, but I really like it as #StreetArt #Manchester
Small square illustrated cat poster. The background is orange. Thecat is blue and white. The cat is sticking out its tongue. The cat has an orange heart visible on its chest and it's wearing a white ruff with orange spots.
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#Graffiti #Manchester
A small brown dog with large eyes and big pointy ears is painted on a wall, on top of ripped posters and other old graffiti. I think the dog is signed Dmstrr.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Look @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social at this photo @foxlanebooks.bsky.social has posted. See anything you recognise?
A grey, very furry cat lies on his side on a cardboard box. The box is on a rug and there are shelves around the rug. On one shelf is a selection of Tom Cox books, including 21st Century Yokel, Ring The Hill and Notebook.
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Notes From A Big Country by Bill Bryson (1998). Collection of columns first seen in the Daily Hell. Luckily there's only one sentence in the whole book where he aligns himself with that despicable rag. Gets better towards the end. Penultimate column had me crying with laughter #BookSky 📚
Copy of Notes From A Big Country by Bill Bryson lying on a white duvet on a bed. The cover is a collage of a man in a suit with his hand in his pocket, which is in black and white. There's a massive straw boater, also in black and white, which covers the whole of the suited man's head. The background for the entire cover is a painted stars and stripes in washed out colours, so the red is more orange than red.
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The Giver (2014). A bit like the premise of A Brave New World, in that everyone thinks everything is great until they don't. Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep. Good use of black and white, washed out colour and full colour. Plus a surprise appearance by Taylor Swift #FilmSky
Screenshot from the film of a black and white futuristic cityscape.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Look what I found yesterday, in deepest Londres! I adore this big fingers up to Farage, Johnson, and all the other morons on the Leave campaign and the twats who voted for it
A picture of a pub called The European. The pub sign is the EU flag. It's night and the front of the old building looks very pretty all illuminated. There's a cosy, warm, inviting light in the windows
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Love I found these in this order. In tarot they're Three of Swords and King of Cups. The Three is a tumult of emotion, maybe hurt from others, but a reminder not to be overwhelmed by or get stuck in it. The King indicates the skills to maintain boundaries, stay true to yourself as others test you
A 3 of Spades, which is tarot is the Three of Swords. The playing card is on a red bricked footpath with moss between the bricks. A brown autumn leaf has blown onto the card. The King of Hearts, which is the King of Cups in tarot. It's also lying on the red brick foothpath. I walked past both of these, which is quite a nice reading to get from the world.
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Crazy Heart (2009). The cinematography and original score in this are outstanding (worth seeing just for those), outshining a middling story. Performances from Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal are top notch as always. There's even the surprise appearance of Colin Farrell with a pony tail #FilmSky
Screenshot from the film. Two men lean against the side of a rust-coloured mini-van. On the left is Colin Farrell playing Tommy Sweet, with pony tail, and on the right is Jeff Bridges playing Bad Blake with a beard and hair that just brushes his shoulders. He's wearing a cowboy hat. The sky is blue and there are a few small white clouds dotted about.
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Memento (2000). A very blue and beige film with an anything but beige storyline. Unsettling and gripping. Like Leonard you never really know the entire story #FilmSky
Tattoos on Leonard's arm saying, "Fact 3. First name John or James". Picture of Guy Pearce with bleach blond hair in his role as Leonard taken against a blue wall. It's a head and shoulders shot. He's wearing a blue shirt, almost the same colour as the wall, and a beige suit jacket. He looks exhausted, but he's smiling.
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The Usual Suspects (1995). Knew I liked this movie, but couldn't remember exactly what happened, so rewatched. I still enjoyed it despite the controversy surrounding some of the people involved in its making. Who is Keyser Söze? #FilmSky
Screenshot from the film of 3 and half men in a police identification line up. The half a person is Stephen Baldwin, standing on the left of the picture, playing McManus in the film and the picture cuts him right down the middle, so only his left-hand side is visible. Next to him is Benicio Del Toro in character as Fenster, wearing a black suit and red shirt. Then it's Gabriel Byrne as Keaton in a beige suit, light blue shirt and grey tie, and, finally, Kevin Spacey as Verbal, who is wearing dark slacks, a navy woollen sleeveless cardigan and peach shirt. This is a screenshot of the city of New York. It's mid-1990s New York, so these days it's a little cleaner and less gritty, mores the pity. It's a shot of the Flatiron building and the roads either side of it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I see you're a person of high integrity from this post right at the top of your feed
Reply from Ant to someone else on Bluesky. Ant says: Is that it? You utter fuckwit. Go suck your mum, sonny." A reply that showers him in glory
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Spacewoman (2025). Really surprised this story hasn't been told in detail before. Eileen Collins was the first female pilot and commander at NASA. I was engrossed in this documentary from the off. The shuttle launches and space shots made it really worth seeing in the cinema #FilmSky #DocuSky
Promotional poster for the film. It's a picture of Eileen Collins in her orange NASA launch suit, holding her space helmet, with a very blue sky in the background and a tiny bit of a corner of a pitch-roofed building visible in the right-bottom corner in silhouette. Along the bottom in white capital letters is "Spacewoman". Underneath and left aligned in smaller font, but same white capitals, is written "A Haviland Digital production in association with Tigerlily Productions" and right aligned on the same line it says "Directed by Hannah Berryman".
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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#Graffiti #London #StreetArt
A graffiti cat painted on a grey door. The cat is white with a blue outline and is all curled up in a ball with its eyes closed.
November 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The Night Of (2016). Turturro at his eccentric best. Classic courtroom drama, but the quality elevates this far above that. James Gandolfini was supposed to play Turturro's role and produce, but passed away before he could. Can't imagine him playing the part at all #TVSky
Screenshot from the mini-series. John Tuturro as John Stone. He's in the street on the phone, leaning against a brick wall that's been painted dark red. There's a man in a white vest and jeans, who looks like he's in his 30s, standing behind Turturro. It's hard to see exactly what, but he appears to be contemplating either a pay phone or ATM or some other machine you'd get in a public place.
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025). A few scenes have one person speaking and another person heavily present on camera, pulling listening faces, but they don't ever reply to the first person. Felt peculiar. It left me feeling like it was confused about what it wanted to focus on #FilmSky
Screenshot from Deliver Me From Nowhere. It's a shot in the mixing booth in a recording studio. Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen front and centre, leaning on the mixing desk. Then Marc Maron is back left as Chuck Plotkin, then actors playing various members of the E Street Band are scattered about, and Jon Landau played by Jeremy Strong is middle at the back sort of behind The Boss. There are reels from reel-to-reels on the back wall, along with microphone cables etc.
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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True Haunting (2025). This is a fantastic series for the run up to Halloween. Real ghost stories! It's a documentary and dramatisation hybrid, which makes it everything you could ever want - all the detail, but with the bits that make you jump. Second story was the most interesting #DocuSky #Netflix
Chris from one of the stories in True Haunting trying to confront the ghost that's been bothering him. He's viewed from the waist up and wearing a navy T-shirt and holding his arms out, palms facing upwards.
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Not sure if a hand-painted tile counts as #Graffiti #London or #StreetArt or Advertising
A fluorescent orange tile, which probably about 3 inches by 3 inches. It's pinned or stuck to a large concrete bollard. On it is painted a pentagram in white. The pentagram has small double lines at the points, some are sitting flat on the points and some are dangling just before the points, off the arm of the star. There is something painted in white in the centre of the star which is possibly a number 2 and a letter R. This makes me wonder if the whole tile is advertising for a band or something else I haven't heard of.
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025). I watched this despite the reviews because Guy Pearce is in it, so I thought surely it couldn't be so bad. How wrong I was #FilmSky #Netflix
Guy Pearce as Richard Bullmer in The Woman in Cabin 10. He's on a superyacht and is wearing a brown suede jacket. He's looking smug and holding a champagne flute aloft.
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Encounters (2023). Four part documentary series that tells the UFO sightings story in four very different ways. There were only two people out of the four episodes who I had down as purely being interested in the attention it gave them, which made them very unbelievable #Netflix #DocuSky
A promotional picture from Netflix. It's a man standing on a beach staring at the sea. It's sort of twilight or American night and there are white orbs in the sky above the sea. At about horizon level there is the title, Encounters, superimposed on the picture. At the bottom it says "Only on Netflix September 27".
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The Thin Red Line (1998). Look at this for a cast! Sean Penn, John Travolta, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, Nick Nolte, John C Reilly, Jim Caviezel and Elias Koteas. I always think if Robert De Niro and Al Pacino had a child together Koteas would be it #FilmSky
Sean Penn as 1st Sgt Welsh in The Thin Blue Line. He's in army fatigues with a rifle, looking upwards from underneath his helmet. He's surrounded by thick and tall green grass
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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#Graffiti #London
A circular spray painted white disc outlined in green, blue and black. On the disc is sprayed a child's face, a boy I think, in black outline. He looks like he's either pursing his lips or about to start to smile. It's hard to tell which. His hair is short and wavy, and green and blue in colour. The disc is painted on a block of concrete that has had graffiti on it before, but which has mainly faded or been worn off by rain or, perhaps, deliberate cleaning
October 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025). More than a disaster doc, especially E3, which details gentrification (rich mainly white arseholes) using Katrina to its advantage, displacing entire communities and stealing their life chances. Spike Lee has outdone himself #DocuSky #Netflix
Promotional picture for the documentary series. A man stands elbow deep in dirty-looking water. At the bottom is the name of the series: Katrina: come hell and high water.
October 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008). Layer upon layer of all the things people do all the time, all the mistakes they make, all the lies they tell themselves and others about their relationships, and all the fun had along the way. Supporting role for Patricia Clarkson, always a fab surprise #FilmSky
Scarlett Johansson as Christina on the left. She is playing with Javier Bardem's sunglasses that are hooked on his T-shirt. Bardem is in character as Juan Antonio. Juan Antonio has a great wardrobe
October 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM