Dan Stephens
@thedanstephens.bsky.social
I tell stories for a living. Some of them are true.
Founder and editor of top10films.co.uk | @top10films.bsky.social
❤ Dad to 2 Daughters | ⚽ #MUFC Fan | 📷 Photo Taker | 🎬 Cinephile
Founder and editor of top10films.co.uk | @top10films.bsky.social
❤ Dad to 2 Daughters | ⚽ #MUFC Fan | 📷 Photo Taker | 🎬 Cinephile
I had the pleasure of joining What Sleeps Beneath to write about how Christmas movies have explored paganism.
Paganism and Santa Claus: How Films Have Explored an Alternative Christmas
Explore how films delve into paganism and Santa Claus to reveal the mystical roots of Christmas. From The Wicker Man to Krampus , discover dark holiday traditions and folklore reimagined on screen....
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January 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I had the pleasure of joining What Sleeps Beneath to write about how Christmas movies have explored paganism.
Bill Murray has played some of Hollywood's greatest comic characters since he rose to fame on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. A sarcastic wit has helped define them. Here's ten of his best lines.
"Cockroach Up On 12": Bill Murray’s 10 Funniest Lines
Bill Murray has played some of Hollywood's greatest comic characters since he rose to fame in the 1970s. A sarcastic wit has helped define them. Here's ten of his best lines.
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November 30, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Bill Murray has played some of Hollywood's greatest comic characters since he rose to fame on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. A sarcastic wit has helped define them. Here's ten of his best lines.
Anthony Hopkins has given us some fine performances during a career spanning six decades but few, if any, sear so deeply.
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Review: Anthony Hopkins Delivers The Finest Performance Of His Career In "The Father"
Anthony Hopkins delivers the finest performance of his career in writer-director Florian Zeller's hearkbreaking drama The Father.
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November 29, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Anthony Hopkins has given us some fine performances during a career spanning six decades but few, if any, sear so deeply.
www.top10films.co.uk/80857-review...
www.top10films.co.uk/80857-review...
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“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
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Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
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November 29, 2024 at 8:57 AM
“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
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How Elon Musk turned X into a pro-Trump echo chamber. So thankful we now have @bsky.app
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How Elon Musk turned X into a pro-Trump echo chamber
As Musk has quickly become one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, he has transformed X into a MAGA mouthpiece.
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November 29, 2024 at 11:39 AM
How Elon Musk turned X into a pro-Trump echo chamber. So thankful we now have @bsky.app
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Scream almost didn’t survive its first week of filming, but Wes Craven’s vision and Drew Barrymore’s powerful performance turned it into a horror classic.
How A Rough Cut Of The Opening Sequence Saved Wes Craven And "Scream"
Scream almost didn’t survive its first week of filming, but Wes Craven’s vision and Drew Barrymore’s powerful performance turned it into a horror classic.
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November 25, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Scream almost didn’t survive its first week of filming, but Wes Craven’s vision and Drew Barrymore’s powerful performance turned it into a horror classic.
If you know of budding writers aged 9-14, the National Literacy Trust and Wicked Active Learning are looking for talented young people for the Wicked Writers: Be the Change competition. #writing #competition
www.literacytrust.org.uk/programmes/young-writers/wicked-writers-be-the-change/
www.literacytrust.org.uk/programmes/young-writers/wicked-writers-be-the-change/
Wicked Writers: Be the Change | National Literacy Trust
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November 25, 2024 at 10:08 AM
If you know of budding writers aged 9-14, the National Literacy Trust and Wicked Active Learning are looking for talented young people for the Wicked Writers: Be the Change competition. #writing #competition
www.literacytrust.org.uk/programmes/young-writers/wicked-writers-be-the-change/
www.literacytrust.org.uk/programmes/young-writers/wicked-writers-be-the-change/
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Street art perfection!
November 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Street art perfection!
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Never lose heart or give up doing what you love. This is the first review I ever got for The Office. t.co/pA85m6dHl7
http://rickygervais.tumblr.com/post/4007840028/the-office-review-by-victor-lewis-smith
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November 23, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Never lose heart or give up doing what you love. This is the first review I ever got for The Office. t.co/pA85m6dHl7
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The "joys" of a McDonald's birthday party!
November 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM
The "joys" of a McDonald's birthday party!
It can be confusing - almost impossible - to decipher between AI-generated and non AI-generated images. In this picture someone has handily identified, in red circles, a few clues that suggest this image may be AI generated. However, it's still not absolutely clear.
November 22, 2024 at 8:51 AM
It can be confusing - almost impossible - to decipher between AI-generated and non AI-generated images. In this picture someone has handily identified, in red circles, a few clues that suggest this image may be AI generated. However, it's still not absolutely clear.
Just booked tickets for Wicked... then realised it was 2hrs 40mins long!! My daughters, 6 and 8, are going to love it but inevitably they'll get restless around the 80min mark. I know from experience.
Is it too long for a family movie? Split it into 3 shorter parts perhaps?
Is it too long for a family movie? Split it into 3 shorter parts perhaps?
November 21, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Just booked tickets for Wicked... then realised it was 2hrs 40mins long!! My daughters, 6 and 8, are going to love it but inevitably they'll get restless around the 80min mark. I know from experience.
Is it too long for a family movie? Split it into 3 shorter parts perhaps?
Is it too long for a family movie? Split it into 3 shorter parts perhaps?
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The U.S. President hasn’t always upheld the moral and ethical values his voters might expect of him (in film). Here are some of the worst movie presidents to be given the silver screen’s limelight.
Incompetent White House: 10 Useless U.S. Movie Presidents
Exploring cinema's most useless fictional presidents, from bumbling incompetents to corrupt tyrants who bungle their way through crises.
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November 20, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The U.S. President hasn’t always upheld the moral and ethical values his voters might expect of him (in film). Here are some of the worst movie presidents to be given the silver screen’s limelight.
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Steven Spielberg likens Duel's strengths to those of early silent movies.
November 21, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Steven Spielberg likens Duel's strengths to those of early silent movies.
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“David [Lynch] was like a Boy Scout,” says Dennis Hopper. “He’d give direction like, ‘Dennis, if you say that, when you say that word…’, And I’d say, ‘David, that word is f*ck’.
“You’d do this very, very dark scene, and he’d be like, ‘Howdy-doody! Solid gold! Let’s do one more!’"
“You’d do this very, very dark scene, and he’d be like, ‘Howdy-doody! Solid gold! Let’s do one more!’"
November 21, 2024 at 9:06 AM
“David [Lynch] was like a Boy Scout,” says Dennis Hopper. “He’d give direction like, ‘Dennis, if you say that, when you say that word…’, And I’d say, ‘David, that word is f*ck’.
“You’d do this very, very dark scene, and he’d be like, ‘Howdy-doody! Solid gold! Let’s do one more!’"
“You’d do this very, very dark scene, and he’d be like, ‘Howdy-doody! Solid gold! Let’s do one more!’"
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Not all directors entirely rely on original scores for their soundtracks. Some, instead, turn to the classics to help beef things up a bit.
10 Films That Champion Classical Music But Aren’t About Composers
Not all directors entirely rely on original scores for their soundtracks. Some, instead, turn to the classics to help beef things up a bit.
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November 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Not all directors entirely rely on original scores for their soundtracks. Some, instead, turn to the classics to help beef things up a bit.
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From thrilling survival tales to heartwarming stories of friendship, these fishing films reveal the depths of human resilience, rivalry, and connection.
10 Films About Fishing That Anyone Can Enjoy
From thrilling survival tales to heartwarming stories of friendship, these films about fishing reveal the depths of human resilience, rivalry, and connection.
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November 21, 2024 at 9:09 AM
From thrilling survival tales to heartwarming stories of friendship, these fishing films reveal the depths of human resilience, rivalry, and connection.