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Helen O'Hara

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2 years

An older man in a fancy blazer, sat next to me on the train, just leaned over and said, apropos of nothing, "Excuse me, is Oslo an interesting city to visit?" He's a spy and was attempting to identify his contact, right?

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6 years

I’m staying at a fancy hotel. This is the carpet in the corridor. How worried should I be?

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6 years

Surprise plot twist for #AvengersEndgame : looks like Hela recovers from her slight case of death, defeats Thanos and turns the Infinity Stones into a dress.

Variety

@Variety

6 years

Holy Cate Blanchett. All the red carpet looks from the #BAFTA Awards

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3 years

All these people saying that Noel Clarke is innocent until proven guilty are, of course, right on the law. But we as a public do not have to act like lawyers. We can wonder, hey, why would 20 people, with nothing to gain and quite a lot to lose, lie?

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2 years

Anyway if you're a spy disguised as someone scruffy and on the 14:22 from Charing Cross, your contact is looking for you. And the code word is NOT, "I'm afraid I've never been so I can't say".

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1 year

If I were Apple and owned Killers Of The Flower Moon, I would be looking at Oppenheimer's box office and making a big bet on wide advertising and screening of the new Martin Scorsese film.

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8 years

Incredible clarification on this health poster.

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8 years

ASTONISHING quote on Trump from a Republican strategist.

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

Fair play, that's genius.

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3 years

This is some horrifying War of the Worlds shit right here. We have got to start electing governments that actually fight climate change, above all, and start demanding more of ourselves and of companies that can change things.

Dino Sofos

@dinosofos

3 years

Absolutely terrifying footage from a ferry carrying passengers escaping the shores of Lake Evia in #Greece .

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1 year

@metpoliceuk Completely disproportionate and utterly shameful.

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@HelenLOHara

4 years

Thrilled to report that the fancy bathroom shop where I once saw the world's worst toilet has restocked them!

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4 years

Lovely to see the entire world united to slag off Boris Johnson and the only disagreement is whether he's a fucking idiot, a haunted haystack, an incompetent bastard, or all three.

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5 years

Tonight's #Godzilla screening had rows reserved for, I assume, celebs and influencers, and the number of phones on there *throughout* the movie was shocking. Whether you like the film or not (I was more up on it than some) there's such a thing as basic etiquette.

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2 years

@fechtbuch I could have a Walther PPK strapped to my thigh right now!

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Helen O'Hara

@HelenLOHara

4 years

I'm launching a new "Fuck off with this shit" campaign.

The Guardian

@guardian

4 years

Government launches new 'Get Ready for Brexit' campaign

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12 years

British news is covering the NRA response to Newtown and has had to clarify twice that what they're showing is not a spoof.

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7 years

I love how Frances McDormand can play any role except Woman Who Is Pleased To Be At Your Awards Show. #BAFTAs

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8 years

"Men of quality do not fear equality" - excellent sign at #WomensMarch #LondonWomensMarch

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5 years

Had a terrible accident earlier today where I tripped and fell into a cinema showing Avengers: Endgame and accidentally saw it again.

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3 years

Look, I'm not going to retweet the stupid Prince William/sexy/bald men survey but I'd like to introduce the voters to Stanley Tucci, Mike Coulter, the entire cast of Fast & Furious, Patrick Stewart and Mark freakin' Strong. No weak chinned royal is cracking the top 100.

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7 years

I reckon I'm pretty good at budgeting. I take public transport almost always, shop around for insurance etc and make food as much as possible. But you will pry my takeaway coffee from my cold, dead hands.

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Helen O'Hara

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4 years

Just to say, Boris Johnson absolutely does not deserve to be played by Kenneth Branagh. If they want to make a serious film about his government and its many failings, that role belongs to Mr Blobby.

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7 years

I feel like Timothée Chalamet's gallantry in helping James Ivory onscreen has added another million to his fanbase. #BAFTAs

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@HelenLOHara

6 years

Fuck Brexit. Fuck the Tories. Fuck the sinkhole of British politics and Labour being so shit they’re *still* behind in most polls. And fuck the tabloid lies that fuelled so much of this.

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5 years

Christ no. I know I keep saying this, but let the dead rest, let aging stars age and let's actually nurture new talent. You don't get to complain about millennials saying they lack opportunity and then cast the dead in films instead of young people.

Adam Piron

@adam_piron

5 years

wow. good morning to the most cursed thing you’ll read this week.

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5 years

I am excited for Parasite and hope it wins the big categories. I hope Gerwig gets the Screenplay prize. I hope every single copy of Joker is accidentally sent to a landfill. Even the digital ones somehow. #oscars2020

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

RIP. Let's all try to sing along with one of his power ballads (and likely fail) today.

NPR

@NPR

3 years

Meat Loaf, the American singer and actor, has died at the age of 74. He also appeared in over 65 movies, with iconic roles in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Fight Club," among others.

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5 years

Important journalism.

✨Maria✨

@quackzonqueen

5 years

taika waititi as a quokka: a thread

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6 years

Ok, this is ridiculous. Went to go to the gym this morning and there are two identically dressed little girls. Seriously, is this a Shining remake?

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Helen O'Hara

@HelenLOHara

3 years

And for those who claim that, gee, showbiz seems to be full of terrible people, please remember that showbiz gets reported on. Bob in the office does not. Paul at the local council does not. It doesn't remotely mean that it only happens in film.

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@HelenLOHara

4 years

OK, so I am superstitious enough that I was not going to announce this until I had also finished writing it, but I guess I got scooped on that.

Film Stories: magazines, podcast, live shows, web

@filmstories

4 years

Here's some good news. The terrific Helen O'Hara, of Empire magazine, is penning a new book entitled Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall And Rise Of Women In Film - more details on it here.

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4 years

Ladies and gentlemen, the cover of #WomenVsHollywood ! Clearly @LittleBrownUK has played a belter and I will have to ensure the insides live up to it. But I have been interviewing extraordinary women to give myself the best chance of doing so.

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Helen O'Hara

@HelenLOHara

7 years

Let's do international treasure Angela Lansbury the very great favour of ignoring her on this one.

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

@FoxKerfuffle1 I feel terribly foolish. I could be dangling off a balcony somewhere in Rio by now.

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??!?!!

British Podcast Awards

@britpodawards

2 years

The winners of Best Live Podcast are: Gold: The Empire Film Podcast - @empiremagazine Silver: @nobodypanicpod Bronze: @guiltfempod #britpodawards

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Helen O'Hara

@HelenLOHara

7 years

Do these groupings have significance or are they as random as they seem? I MUST KNOW.

VANITY FAIR

@VanityFair

7 years

After a decade of unprecedented success, @MarvelStudios is at a pivotal moment: the looming farewell to some of its founding superheroes, and the rise of a new generation.

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1 year

They say the UK needs the royals for tourism but, like, if you get rid of them that actually opens up *more* palaces for visitors. Versailles still does pretty well! You don't need kings for tourism, just all their stuff.

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@HelenLOHara

1 year

@vinn_ayy Also very few people seem to be staring?

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

MY DEAR BOY WHY DON'T YOU JUST TRY ACTING?

Variety

@Variety

2 years

“I got scared for Jared,” #Morbius director Daniel Espinosa says of Leto. “He really commits. You have to watch out for it.” In a scene involving Morbius shattering glass, “I could sense the crew backed off,” Espinosa recalls. “It was a bit spooky.”

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5 years

Fuck white supremacists, the pathetic braindead loser shithead lunatic wanker babies who choose to believe the evil lies of madmen and build their lives on deliberate misreadings of history and reality. Fuck 'em all.

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

BLOOD SNOW. If you know, you know. #WheelOfTime

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

Just went on a date so bad it was kind of fun. He almost instantly revealed that he was a Brexiteer who believes in global warming but is fine with us going extinct because what else can we do? I started walking to a coffee shop; ended up leading us in a circle back to the tube.

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

Boom! Law, bitches!

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@HelenLOHara

6 years

So I wrote this book and it’s out now. My author copy hasn’t arrived yet but hopefully it doesn’t suck too hard. Available here:

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

Sometimes you really want to talk about a film but also can't be bothered with the absolute shitheads who'll bitch at you if you do.

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@HelenLOHara

4 years

Tom Cruise is older now than Maggie Smith was when she played Granny Wendy in Hook.

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@HelenLOHara

4 years

OK, I am hesitant to tell anyone this but I really must: I wrote a comic. A short 7-page story in this rather exciting collection, in fact. It's about a character called Thunderbolt the Avenger (no, not those ones). It is MAD to me that I was asked but also thrilling.

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Helen O'Hara

@HelenLOHara

6 years

In extremely on-brand news, I reviewed #CaptainMarvel and liked it a lot. It takes a while to get started but it really works.

Empire Magazine

@empiremagazine

6 years

#CaptainMarvel has arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she’s not here to play. Read the Empire review:

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4 years

I have just finished proofing my book! My mum read it and thinks it's brilliant in her unbiased opinion, so really if you don't buy it you're calling my mum a liar, which is a bit rude and uncalled for. Geez. I think very highly of *your* mum.

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

@Tekkaman_Blade @bridgmandrew I think the point stands. It is the wrong character to be licensed that way.

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

Panic when men comprise only 43% of a group; shrug it off as normal when men are the majority. Sheesh.

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

This Batgirl news is appalling for all the cast and crew who worked hard on the film, and I hope for a swift U-turn by the studio. This ain't the way.

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

@DFLovett Now that you mention it yes, and a red carnation tucked into it.

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

War & Peace has too much farming. Shakespeare is, if anything, underrated and anyone who questions his authorship is a snob at heart. Stephen King is a genius. Terry Pratchett is at least as good as Dickens. Women write better sci-fi on average. More ppl should read Dan Simmons.

cope

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5 years

What’s your hottest literature take?

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2 years

There should be a tradition where, at some point in the life of the chronically single, all the friends who got wedding and baby presents from them contribute to a really nice tomb fund or something.

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6 years

Hardly a day goes by that I don’t feel furious about Brexit. Today is no exception. A bunch of cynical politicians trying to cover their own arses while pursuing a policy they KNOW will be ruinous. Fuck em all.

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5 years

Fuck Brexit. Fuck the Tories. Fuck their attempts to fuck the constitution.

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

CHRIST people still talking about Marvel and Marty, please, I am begging you, just stop. Please. No more. I'll tell you whatever you want. The password is Blackbriar. The attack comes at dawn. The butler did it. I did it. I don't care.

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3 years

Here's a minor film trope that needs to die: people around the world watch A Thing on TV. In India, it's a rickety set outdoors as barefoot kids run around. In China, it's a tiny shared TV in a cafe. Everywhere but the US, vast crowds surround one shitty set.

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@HelenLOHara

6 years

A case for the semi-colon.

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6 years

Fun fact: AJ from the @backstreetboys ‘s Mom is one of the greatest gothic filmmakers of our time.

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6 years

My favourite celebrity feud.

Hugh Jackman

@RealHughJackman

6 years

HIGH ROAD. @VancityReynolds

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4 years

It is FOUR WEEKS TODAY until my book, #WomenVsHollywood , hits shelves, and here is a *very* sexy video to show how close we are. You can pre-order here!

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3 years

It is not unreasonable for us to choose to take these allegations seriously, and come to our own conclusions, and that is not "cancel culture" or "trial by media". It's being a grown up in an imperfect world.

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5 years

Love that every woman in the audience laughed at Hugh Grant's Bridget Jones joke and every other man seemed a bit baffled. #BAFTAs

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

I am delighted Parasite won, because it is right and historic and the best nominee and also for this photo.

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2 years

This nugget, from a Rings Of Power piece, may well be true for US viewers. Still, I feel like this summary of Sir Lenny Henry's career is cause for war.

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@HelenLOHara

6 years

The man-babies seem upset at #CaptainMarvel 's failure to crash and burn this weekend. Anyway, in case any of you are out of loo roll here's the article that so upset this numpty.

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Helen O'Hara

@HelenLOHara

4 years

Absolutely devastating news this morning. What a loss.

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7 years

And I know every single financial advice column starts with "But that's £600 a year!" or whatever. GOOD. It is WORTH IT. I have coffee at home for very early mornings and back-up.

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

@scottindeed Dammit, I could be hanging out with Steve Rogers, Stanley Tucci and Tommy Lee Jones right now!

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

Why would all these people create a wild conspiracy going back through years of corroborating evidence and testimony? What is in it for them, unless they were sincere? Why would so many people attack Clarke's career, especially if he is as good a guy as we all thought?

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

I've said it before and I'll say it again: fuck Brexit. Fuck this horrendous Tory shitshow.

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

@rob_hawkins Yes, I didn't get any creepy vibe at all so that's OK. It was just so odd. If he was trying to start a conversation there was zero follow-up when I said I'd never been.

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3 years

Gosh, the tension before the season finale of The Book Of Boba Fett is intense. Can't wait to find out if he's in the episode!

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@HelenLOHara

2 years

In this society, we love and respect Keanu Reeves. That's a fundamental rule. #thatVarietystory

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

Well she IS the best agent so that tracks.

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

5 years

Hayley Atwell joins Tom Cruise in next 'Mission: Impossible' movie

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4 years

This has been obvious for ever, of course, but here it's simply laid out for the people at the back.

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4 years

This is the most chilling explanation of what Brexit will do to the UK economy after December. By @AdamPosen , President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor

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1 year

There's a #BansheesOfInisherin 8-bit game now, so go nuts.

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@HelenLOHara

5 years

Fuck sake. #directing Fuck the fuck off with these Joker noms.

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

Going on holiday with my pod-buddies. Have forgotten how to travel so just hoping we can navigate airports and ground transport and such.

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@HelenLOHara

7 months

Cultural vandalism. Wildly disrespectful to creators and very bad for the business model long term.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

7 months

‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever. Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer. (Source: )

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Muting that thread now because ye gods. Genuinely quite depressing to see how angry people get at the suggestion that we take women seriously, and how many are quick to call women liars.

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We, as individuals, don't have to withhold judgment forever. We can support victims even if our system will not. We can withhold our support from accused abusers even if the system allows them to continue.

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4 years

@Eric_Williams_1 @slimyhipster *furiously scribbles notes*

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@HelenLOHara

4 years

*hyperventilates* YOU GUYS LOOK THERE IS GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE

Disney

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4 years

Surprise! The original Broadway production of Hamilton, filmed LIVE onstage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, is now coming exclusively to @DisneyPlus this July 3rd. Shout it to the rooftops! #Hamilfilm

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3 years

Actual Spike Lee just cycled past! Not creepy enough to grab a pic but please enjoy this nearby beach. (Oh, I'm in Cannes, hello).

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4 years

All day every day but particularly right now, fuck the Tories. (But never fuck a Tory). They think the rules don't apply to them.

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@HelenLOHara

4 years

LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE POST! #WomenVsHollywood is out in three weeks today. Woo hoo!

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@HelenLOHara

3 years

No one is celebrating this. No one wanted this. But if the allegations, from 20 different women and over a long period, are as well founded as they appear, then we as humans do not have to wait for a court case that may never come to say we're appalled.

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5 years

This is offensively stupid. He's dressed as a Stormtrooper ffs, so unless you are both outing yourselves as Sith, there are no Force users here.

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The Force is strong in my family. ⭐️

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3 years

They released the Zemo cut!

Marvel Entertainment

@Marvel

3 years

🕺🕺🕺

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3 years

In some *extremely* flattering and thrilling personal news, #WomenVsHollywood has been named one of the Times' books of the year (TV and film category).

8 best film and theatre books 2021

From Brian Cox to Michaela Coel, Sarah Crompton’s picks provide behind-the-scenes access to the world of showbiz.

www.thetimes.com

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Terrifyingly, today is the 20th anniversary of my first official day @empiremagazine . As luck would have it, I actually wasn't in the office that day: I did a briefing session with @AmieBolissian the Friday before to learn about one of the most boring parts of the job...

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I found #AdAstra a damn near religious experience. I am willing to extend James Gray, and him only, a pass from my regular complaints about father complex stories. Phenomenal performance from Pitt and visually flawless.

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Am I excited? That's my secret, Cap. I'm always excited.

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6 years

I am* in the same** room as @cher and @tomhanks and Meryl Streep. AT THE SAME TIME. I may swoon. *up in the rafters **very, very large

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4 years

Those Uruk-hai at Amon Hen were like a day old; a week at most. They don't know any better. Everyone is cheering Aragorn for killing kids, just cause he looks more awesome than any human has ever looked. In this essay I will

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4 years

I *could* do this all day. Marathon no.33, hurrah!

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4 years

Thank god someone has explained it in a way I understand.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

4 years

‘Parks and Recreation’ star Joe Biden has been cast as President of the United States. He will replace ‘Home Alone 2: Lost In New York’ star Donald Trump. (Source: @cnnbrk )

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