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Chief Culture Reporter @Independent | @LostBoysPod presenter |

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Jacob Stolworthy
2 years
@GretaThunberg And there was me thinking 2022 had peaked
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Colin Farrell's such a boss. When I interviewed him early in my journo days, the PR outside listed all the things I wasn't allowed to bring up which made me verrrry nervous. I walked into the room and Colin instantly goes, 'ignore all of that - ask me anything you fecking want!'
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This speech. Colin Farrell telling Brendan Gleeson he loves him. The emotion. The charisma… Toxic masculinity found dead in a ditch!!!! #GoldenGlobes
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to anyone who hasn't seen LOST and thinks they won't bother because they've heard the ending is bad, this is not true and the show will change your life
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Netflix
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Every episode of Lost is now on Netflix in the US!
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when everyone re-watches LOST and realises the finale is actually perfect and deserves 'best ever' status, I'm gonna be insufferably smug
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Netflix
3 months
We have to go back. Every episode of Lost is coming to Netflix in the US on JULY 1.
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@baileymeyers also why the hell isn't 'segue' spelt 'segway'
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@JacobStolworthy
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2 years
not Elizabeth Olsen shouting 'hello!' to the very persistent postman who would NOT stop knocking on my door throughout our zoom chat
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2 years
@baileymeyers awry - I'd get strange looks for saying aw-ree
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And it seems to me you lived your life like a... #Glastonbury23
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@PopCrave @netflix Things I will not do in 2023: get attached to any netflix show
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2 years
One for the Lady Gaga and West Side Story fans #BAFTAs
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2 months
if they announce The OA season 3, minds will melt
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
2 months
Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij have teamed up with independent production company Sister for a creative partnership in which they will develop and produce TV shows and films. Sister is headed by Cindy Holland, Netflix’s former VP of original content who previously worked with
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happy October 14th to all my Leftovers pals out there
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2 years
BROKER is really great - a tender road movie about abandonment and the family you make along the way in places you least expect. familiar Kore-eda territory, then, but just as good as anything he's done #Cannes
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Baby Reindeer: the 'random series of numbers like spam' used in the stalker's email address are, in fact, the cursed numbers from LOST
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8 years
Just read an article that referred to Sounds of Silence as "the song from those Sad Affleck memes." Shock and awe with a touch of despair.
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2 years
Sad to say I called this rubbish news about 1899. Predictable old Netflix strikes again
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@1899Netflix
1899 🜃
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I honestly don’t know what to say…1899 got cancelled 💔
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Everyone in the UK's about to realise they were wrong about the finale being bad
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Netflix UK & Ireland
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Oceanic Flight 815. LOST comes to Netflix 8/15. Don’t mistake coincidence for fate.
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to mark the #InsideNo9 finale, called 'Plodding On', I read back an old interview I did with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in 2020 - and look how it ended...
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2 years
And now one for the Lady Gaga and Joanna Scanlan fans
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Sounds of Arctic Monkeys ringing out across Glastonbury this morning
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4 years
For years, I've been prepping an oral history of the LOST finale and, on its 10th anniversary, here it is – with words from the people behind it, including Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and a handful of cast members
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2 years
I couldn't resist: this year's Best Picture nominees - but as LOST 1. All Quiet on the Western Front
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Interviewed Cillian Murphy for #Oppenheimer and asked him if he'd be up for starring in the mooted 28 Days Later sequel 28 Years Later Cillian Murphy: 'I would be there in a flash' Me: '...In a heartbeat?' Cillian Murphy:
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people not understanding the perfectly understandable ending of LOST will forever be one of life's most baffling mysteries
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Fesshole
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I was one of the crew members on the Lost series. Don't worry, you're not alone, nobody on the crew understood the ending either.
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in words I never thought I'd utter again after 2010: I cannot wait for Doctor Who
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2 years
question: who has the greatest ever film entrance? answer:
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3 years
someone needs to tell Pam & Tommy that no one's been allowed to use Mama Cass, Make Your Own Kind of Music in any form of media since 21st September 2005
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2 years
splashed some aftershave for the Kore-eda screening. he deserves no less #Cannes2022
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my very own WandaVision sitcom moment
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I don't want to needlessly cause alarm among #TheOA fandom but this appeared in my notifications and then suddenly disappeared 👀
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if they announce The OA season 3, minds will melt
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Impressed by Sebastian Stan's commitment to picking non-MCU roles that, in real life, make you wanna avoid him like the plague. #Sharper is fun!
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Jacob Stolworthy
2 years
my new favourite thing is Vin Diesel excitedly making Justin Lin hype up Fast & Furious 10, blissfully unaware he was about to quit as director
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Matt V
2 years
This was 4 days ago 💀
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2 years
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
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The way the men laugh at the end as Ed Balls repeatedly combats Zarah Sultana over her completely correct answer to the question she's been asked is disgusting. This country's entrenched islamophobia - and dismissal of it - makes me so ashamed
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Saul Staniforth
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. @zarahsultana rightly says politicians should call whats happening as racist and Islamophobic. Ed Balls forgets he's meant to be the interviewer and gets annoyed because politicians and the media are being held accountable for where we are now #GMB
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@NSFWorld_ no they're not
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Bruce Springsteen's delivering perhaps the greatest set of all time at Wembley Stadium right now. He keeps bellowing 'IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT". The boss is throwing a fucking party
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Happy October 14th to all my Leftovers friends out there
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3 years
The Tourist (thumbs up) is an effective reminder that Danielle Macdonald needs more lead roles
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5 years
EL CAMINO is the Jesse Pinkman epilogue I didn't need but always wanted and can't believe we got
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as someone who loves bad films, let me tell you: Megalopolis is a brilliant terrible film. It's unbelievably bad. I can't recommend it enough #cannes2024
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I started a press internship at BFI 10 years ago this week - first thing I assisted on was Sight & Sound's greatest films of all time list. I made getting asked to contribute in 2022 one of my first aims - and I've been asked! full circle moment
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4 years
I've now had zoom chats with both Rose and Bernard from LOST and, quite simply, I'm ecstatic
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2 years
The Last of Us deserves all the praise for* being a supremely impressive video game adaptation *using 'Tomorrow' by Avril Lavigne five minutes in
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I'm not sure if @NetflixUK adding Lost on 8/15 was intentional but I'm bowing down in admiration regardless
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Netflix UK & Ireland
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We have to go back. LOST S1-6, 15 August.
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3 years
my answer will forever be: The OA
@AnothermillennR
Anothermillennialreviewer
3 years
What was the most unjustifed Netflix series cancellation to you?
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Jacob Stolworthy
4 years
me outside HBO's offices when they were considering cancelling The Leftovers
@anenews
alyssa estrada
4 years
Women just arrived at the Clark County election department. They tell me they’re praying justice will be done and that righteousness prevails.
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trapped on a balcony by Priyanka Chopra's huge dress, I'm told to move out the way. "I don't want to step on your dress," I tell her and she responds: "just jump, it's cool." With a two step run-up, I leap over it saying "good job I hurdled for greenwich" why am I like this .
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what's the cosiest Studio Ghibli film? not the best - the *cosiest*
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2 years
every single Bond film – including No Time to Die - has just been added to Prime
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he's only one of the most underrated actors of the last 20 years (being serious)
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as ever, happy October 14th to all my Leftovers friends out there
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a bit late but just wanted to acknowledge the anniversary of LOST ending, a finale that a lot of people still hate but one they would find mesmerising and wonderful if watched with fresh eyes and minus expectation
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4 years
for the sake of taking the wins where we can: PARASITE is on Amazon Prime
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3 years
this is how we do second lockdown birthdays
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...and if you do plan on watching or re-watching LOST - now or ever - follow along with @LostBoysPod
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RIP Mira Furlan, one of #LOST 's original recurring guest stars. I always loved seeing her name pop up at the beginning of an episode
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2 years
this is a photo of Stephen Graham ordering you to go and watch Boiling Point which has just been added to Netflix
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one for the LOST fans: Carlton Cuse introducing Michael Giacchino's finest hour at the royal albert hall
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I think he'd prefer it if a cop hadn't killed him, you fucking idiot
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2. Avatar: The Way of Water
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5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
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It's me, the Bafta loner
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'The boy who cried clickbait' is my favourite future Taylor Swift song
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Damon Albarn
3 years
@taylorswift13 I totally agree with you. i had a conversation about songwriting and sadly it was reduced to clickbait. I apologise unreservedly and unconditionally. The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you understand. - Damon
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8. Top Gun: Maverick
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I have good news: TENET works as a complex head-spinner *and* an out-and-out action thriller - everybody wins!
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still as sublime an album as it was 15 years ago – my love letter to Arctic Monkeys' debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
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I regularly pay £15 to eat this in ten mins
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new season of american horror story sounds wild
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@JacobStolworthy
Jacob Stolworthy
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started a podcast
@LostBoysPod
The LOST Boys
7 years
Jack has officially watched the very first episode of LOST! Join him and Jacob as they begin their journey watching/rewatching LOST together, starting at the very beginning: ‘Pilot — Part 1’. Available on iTunes & Soundcloud: &
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3 years
hello, Monos is on Netflix for just six more days and it's one of the best recent films on there
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1 year
Posting spoilers less than 24 hours after a TV episode has aired is very embarrassing behaviour
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1 year
Saw Beau is Afraid immediately followed by Ari Aster and actual Martin Scorsese nerding out over, among other things, Johnny Guitar A terrific final evening in NY
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if you stare at the top of this photo for long enough, Phoebe Waller-Bridge turns into a duck
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6. The Fabelmans
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@piersmorgan @jk_rowling Piers, pal, seriously, give it a rest, it was boring hours ago
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counterpoint: every single LOST episode is absolutely essential and I ranked them all here
@vulture
Vulture
2 months
The ‘Lost’ episodes you can safely ignore during your Netflix rewatch, as they lack character growth, mythology, plot development, or supernatural activity.
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This is so lovely to see! Flashing back to 9 years ago when a clueless, fresh-fraced me asked @KermodeMovie for advice on how to become a journalist. His answer? "You'll be fine; you've got good hair"
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I've taken my mum to see Arcade Fire
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10. Women Talking
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Forget Bake Off - the only BBC competition I'll ever care about is back. Meet this year's @bbcapprentice candidates
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Brett Goldstein during my interview with the Ted Lasso cast: 'We all got nervous when we heard you were a guy from The Independent'
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I spoke to @MatthewModine who is not only one of the acting greats but one of life's good guys
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4 years
so my new cat wandered who knows where all night long for the first time – I was beside myself, couldn't sleep a wink and now know what my mum felt whenever I rolled in at 6am without texting and wanting breakfast anyway, meet Abe
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4. Elvis
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7. Tár
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perfect time of year for some leftovers
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the last time I watched a film starring Song Kang-ho on my penultimate day at Cannes, it was PARASITE
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hey all you fellow Babyteeth lovers, let's have a well-earned drink tonight
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3 years
I would say The OA
@BriannaWu
Brianna Wu
3 years
If you could get an extra season of any show they canceled prematurely, what would it be?
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felt it was important to find out Ryan Gosling's verdict on The Fall Guy font
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Went to a showing of Babylon that was empty save for me and an elderly couple. After the Cocaine Bear trailer, the woman shouted "whatever next!" and when the Super Mario Bros trailer finished, the man went "too violent for me"
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@DiscussingFilm Never mind if they're good hey
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3 years
I'm *quite* obsessed with dinner table scenes so wrote and narrated a short film on them for BBC Inside Cinema! Feast your eyes on this, tuck into it here, etc, etc
@bbcarts
BBC Arts
3 years
Bon Appétit! 🍽️ @Jacob_Stol explores how the dinner table serves up delicious movie moments on the latest episode of #InsideCinema , ranging from the cringeworthy comedy of Meet the Parents through to the explosive drama found in violent crime thrillers like Goodfellas
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there's a trailer for a new Mike Myers series so here's an underrated Austin Powers moment
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Jacob Stolworthy
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so, it's 4 years since @JackJShepherd and I started our LOST podcast. more than half a year on from our last episode, we started the final season in celebration (the end is in sight!) and some of the responses we've had have made me smile so so so much I love all our listeners
@tobias_orion
Anthony Charlier
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@LostBoysPod I literally cheered seeing this is my download queue ❤️ worth the wait!
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