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@julie_bush The joke was doubly on the director since that apartment was a rental provided by the Producers of White Lotus.

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@eva_kirby21 The acting’s the least of it. She’s actively PRODUCING absolutely terrible movies over at Netflix towers.

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@FromTheDepths88 EVERGREEN TWEET

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“And under ze helmet is big boring face.”

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@faceyouhate It's not like Lucas is cash rich. He just has a shit tonne of Disney stock.

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@capybaroness 'Oh, you're expecting a baby any day now are you? I bet that'll cause a bit of a ruckus. Better camp out by the noisy waterfall for the time being then, eh?'... A franchise never overburdened by logic.

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@metaplexmovies This suggests that all a director does is come up with zany shots. They’re also the guardian of tone and say what you like about Barbie it undeniably treads a high wire act pretty impeccably in that regard.

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@DrewMcWeeny The only time I ever saw that film was on its theatrical release. You mean to tell me that ever since that joke’s been… not a joke?

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@davidehrlich It’s kinda nutty but you try mounting a camera and lens inside a motorcycle helmet visor then driving down a street lamp lit street and not getting a mess of camera shadow all over the actor’s face. Fincher wanted a shot that despite looking photorealistic couldn’t be filmed.

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@BrndnStrssng The score that seems ambivalent to the shape of the action doesn’t help at all. Clearly this is meant to represent some sort of triumphant character moment in the film but out of context it sounds like temp’.

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@drivelcast @vizcomic 'Always buy onions... they're cheaper than apples'. 35 years that's been lodged in my head.

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@joshcharles_21 I'm sorry to inform you that the Pulitzer committee has rejected your article because you failed to utilise the headline, 'CLUELESS ACTRESS EATS POISON BERRY'.

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@fiendformojitos WTF!?!?!?

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@DrewMcWeeny Oppenheimer making $1b. DUNE($) 1&2 looking set to make serious coin… …it’s almost as though when these polished, regal looking movies come along audiences perk up at the scent of leather, 20yr single malt and Cuban cigars that seem to come off them.

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@strangeharbors The Creator may have been a complete bust but it did have the success of costing 1/3rd of a Marvels whilst looking twice the price. The main difference being that Marvel would’ve spent the additional $170m to insert a ‘functional’ story, after the fact.

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@fakehistoryhunt It was just odd, wasn’t it? And easy to fix digitally. It’s not like Tom Hardy can really fly a Spitfire so it’s not like the film wasn’t prepared to throw VFX around when it wanted to.

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7 months

@a_toots This man is everyone.

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@julie_bush Gage gets the last laugh - he was in How To Blow Up A Pipeline - a QUALITY film.

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@JimJarmuschHair All so desperate to get out of a gulag like mining colony but looking freshly showered and as downtrodden as someone who's never lifted anything heavier than a Matcha Latte.

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@jbromovies Ghostbusters 2. Weaver & Murray are both back but have split up, off-screen. Such a tedious trope - the film makers not knowing how to cope without replicating the meet-cute/flirtation of the first film just because it was a popular element.

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Ok, can we stop calling things 'underrated' just because they came along before you were born. Dead Calm was a hugely popular film when it was released and continued to be a top rental through the 1990s.

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Time to post an underrated Nicole Kidman film! Dead Calm (1989) is AWESOME! Kidman Is amazing in this alongside Sam Neill and an unhinged Billy Zane, directed by Phillip Noyce, produced by George Miller, this is a top tier slasher/thriller that is very much worth your time!!

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@aherman2006 Totally. She throws everything at the wall, rather than deliberately serving a chosen theme. The plot tries to hit every beat of The Talented Mr Ripley but her continual inversions totally garble the clear politics and psychologies of that story.

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@naanking @julie_bush I’ve been a pop culture nerd my whole life but when Iron-Man came out in 2008 I knew fuck all about that character. The film was entertainingly mounted, I enjoyed it and it was a huge success. Can these ‘execs’ not remember how relatively obscure that IP was prior to that film?

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@titusjoelbanks Mmm… the Academy loves nothing more than when an actress ‘de-glams’ for a roll. The frumpy hair and the padded gut - ‘SO BRAVE!’ The bigger awards season circuit story for that film was easily Ke Huy Quan’s ‘actor who came in from the cold’ narrative.

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@basementwife02 He's very deliberately mimicking this body position.

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@JayBauman1 Admit it Jay, the original artwork for both these films was pretty forgettable 🤣

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@bdgrabinski Matt Berry's entire raison d'être, there.

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@Ceilidhann I dunno man, by the strained rictus grin on her face I'd say she absolutely does know what it means 😖

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@JoshRaby The class ‘message’ Fennell delivers is not consciously thought-through. It’s awful but merely a byproduct of her attempt to find flipped-on-their-head analogues for beats in The Talented Mr Ripley & Kind Hearts & Coronets. Ineptitude rather than intent.

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@AGallagherAlly @Christi60094964 Point to the 'genitals' in either of those photographs. Go on. Try.

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@Andr6wMale Savoury food. Staying in. Going to bed and getting up early. Sobriety. Washing. Loneliness.

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@BrndnStrssng I've said it before but I 100% believe Zack Snyder casts purely off head shots. Possibly head shots and torso shots. Given free rein (as it seems he was here) he populates the screen with strips of knotty wood instead of actual actors.

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@theneonrequiem It's giving, 'stepped out of the hairdressers to have a ciggie'.

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@AlsikkanTV "I'm just gonna make fun of Phil" - I shall forever more make this my excuse every time I leave a room to do a bump of coke.

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@hannah_mclaugh It doesn’t work. They THINK they’ve subverted the trope but they haven’t. It’s a chronic misfire of a campaign.

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@dieworkwear Agree that the little right suits Craig was stuffed into as Bond were all awful but it should be noted that, that walk on a rooftop digitally removed a safety harness that poked out a hole on his back - which can’t have helped how the fabric moved.

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@strathiefilm This perfect tweet sums that up entirely.

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@davidehrlich That old man they pulled off the street to announce Best Picture didn’t do any worse!

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@RogueNASA best attempt at a *smile* I can elicit from the 10 year old these days. He loves his cap though - the wee shite.

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@BilgeEbiri That box simply isn't big enough to fit Gwyneth Palthrow's head into.

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@JimJarmuschHair One 'leading man' as a bait & switch, a former child actor who does great meltdown, three incredible weather-beaten faces, a prickly British 'thespian' and one lanky unknown lady. An embarrassment of riches.

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@nodrectionhome The mad thing about the people the film was based on is that they were all mad Trump fanatics - something the film never once touched on. Could've been an interesting counterpoint if it'd dared to be even mildly political instead of faux-Malick magic hour shots and wan sentiments

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@LevParikian My father - once a surgeon - would howl every time he heard anyone pronounce dissection with 'dye/die' instead of rhyming the 'diss' with 'hiss' - and would spout on about Greek & Latin derivations as my ears closed over.

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@dieworkwear @bonnieringtail (currently our of stock but they do come back into production once/twice a year). Expensive but will outlast the user by about 100 years!

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@markcousinsfilm 2nd rule - don’t write about how you thought it should be instead.

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@PetreRaleigh So much of the difference can be summed up with, 'directing'. Robert Bresson & Pier Paulo Pasolini got remarkable performances out of 'non actors' but every inch of their script & framing & coverage & editing & storytelling precepts in general was designed around protecting this.

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@BradfemlyWalsh Looks like actual fun - as opposed to literally every other thing in a gym which is duller than death itself.

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@mccrabb_will It's the contra-zoom more than the frame rate that makes that shot effective.

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@zachsilberberg It's... it's almost as if an intermittent power failure and the loss of steering could be relat.... No. No that would just be silly of me for thinking that.

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In the wake of ‘fan’ disgruntlement over The Last Jedi I took a deep dive onto the dominant fan theories on YouTube (Snoke’s origin, Rey’s parentage, etc) & all I can say is, no wonder you got it all wrong. You’re all bloody idiots. They’re all shit theories FFS. Moronic.

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@BilgeEbiri 'If you’re that bothered by people using their phones in public, don’t go to the theater' - I wonder how this bozo would react if I decided I wanted to pop round his house whenever I fancied eating some popcorn.

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@TheFamousArtBR It's telling that there's been no campaign from any quarter messaging exactly that - that men of any stripe should be made welcome, and free from intimidation, in all men's facilities.

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@fakehistoryhunt How did we ever manage to have babies BEFORE marriage became a thing? It makes no sense. We should’ve died out 100,00 years ago!?

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@intothecrevasse Hathaway never threw off the vibes of someone desperate to be anointed with the mantle of greatness like Cooper does, though. Wannabe Warren Beatty.

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@BrianDuffield The results are impressive but this does feel like trying to extract the sunlight back out of a cucumber. Like… why? Why do it this way?

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@rdg_music I’d argue it wasn’t either - it was GenX replicating their Boomer parents listening tastes - a nostalgia for the late 60s/early 70s rock/pop that had bathed their early childhoods and that their own parents had seemingly forgotten the value of in favour of shit like Meatloaf.

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@NoContextBrits There used to be a plumbing supply shop in Midhurst in West Sussex called 'Napoleons Boiler Parts'.

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@ScottWamplerRIP Hang on!... I think Leo's just had an idea!!!!

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@tvaziri The SMPTE recommended luminance level for a fully blacked out theatre is 16 Foot-Lamberts. That's the basic rule-of-thumb.

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@jon_melville @NickdeSemlyen 14 Urlwin Street. Would set you back over £1.5m these days.

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@BrianDuffield @firstshowing In fairness to Roizman the difficulty with that shot was that the iconic beam of light emanated from a fake room that was tiny and didn't initially allow the lamp in question to be backed off far enough to give a controlled narrow column of light.

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@Otto_English What people never seem to realise is that the de-graining, de-noising, upscaling, interpolation, colourising and sharpening applied to this sort of footage eliminates any sense of the grime, smuts, blemishes and decay of the era. Hence the Disneyland smoothness and cleanliness.

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@brofromanother @filipefurtado Schrader’s take is persuasive;

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@GuyLodge If history has proved anything it's that if you give an audience precisely what the majority are asking for you fail miserably. A film DRIPPING with horn will come from left field and make a mint and all the analysts will have shitted the bed again.

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@blablafishcakes Otherwise know as 'Cutting off your dick to spite your own crotch'.

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@RasberryRazz If either of them was stoned it was more likely to have been Bob.

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@hoxtonwanka @robpalkwriter Or heard of Country & Western music. Or… The Blues - the foundational bedrock of all contemporary lyric based English language rock & pop music.

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@baddestmamajama There's a specific modification that applies to biopics, where people introduce themselves with their full name. Since last summer I've called that the 'Niels Bohr'.

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@ManMadeMoon Halcyon days!

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@BilgeEbiri What’s insane is that the ‘all digital’ camera to screen pipeline means that outside of 70mm or IMAX physical prints of very little are struck these days. Fairly soon a contemporary ‘classic’ is going to disappear off the server in some sort of mishap and that’ll be that. Cooked.

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@cheaptrickrules The apotheosis of this was a South Bank Show entirely devoted to The Kaiser Chiefs. A baffling aggrandisement of a fleetingly popular mid-stream band.

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@Bjorksbxtch It's not lit like a film from the era it's depicting. There's an approach to the lighting that's more contemporary and I'd imagine there was an advantage to using a digital sensor's greater sensitivity, compared to a 500 asa film stock. Cheaper/faster to light that way too.

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@Femi_Sorry 'he arrives here on a small boat' - have you actually read any of the New Testament Femi? My man can WALK ON WATER. He'll stroll across the English Channel. Might even turn it all into wine, while he's at it. ENGLISH WINE though - not that overpriced French stuff.

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Am genuinely hoping #LockwoodAndCo gets the word #catafalque into greater usage.

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Joe Cornish's TV thriller #LockwoodAndCo takes ghost-hunting to the next level. The director and his team tell us how they built a spooky show drenched in detail:

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@BittrScrptReadr I know the last episode was an historic 'botch job' but that brutal ending goes down as one of the all time great endings of a TV show in my book. Utterly bleak. Perfection. A real punch in the guts.

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@metaplexmovies The original Roadhouse managed to get a 35mm camera onto the underside of a Monster Truck - a commensurately more impressive feat.

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Compared to the YouTube compression of the official studio account version of this trailer the difference is night & day. Really goes to show how VFX work get unfairly critiqued online when what's at fault is the viewing medium.

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Took forever to upload and process but here’s the high quality 4K version of the new Shazam trailer:

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@qstweets97 All this proves is that there are other high earning pieces of franchised IP other than Marvel.

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@intothecrevasse They don't commit the CARNAL SIN of biopics though, where they also show you a photograph of the real person - INSTANTLY neutering the illusion they've been spinning for the previous 2 hours!

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@BettsCaro @jk_rowling The woman’s a professional writer. Hard to imagine that whether it took her ‘all night’ or 5 minutes she didn’t thoroughly enjoy the process either way. Thinking coherently is clearly an onerous task for Willoughby. I guess they imagine it must be the same for everyone.

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@hamishsteele Until 1986 nobody talked or thought about her character as a badass though. That was only after a haircut and Cameron giving her a kid to save and putting a giant machine-gun with built in grenade launcher and flamethrower on her and showing off her robotic powerlifter skills.

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'Cinema quality'... All the AI bros seem to share a basic misunderstanding of what makes a film, a film. Glossy shots are two a penny. You can't build a film from exotic locations or slick futuristic design. It takes IDEAS and skilled storytelling and these AI tools offer NONE.

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AI will disrupt Hollywood (Part 26)📽️ Sora isn't available yet, but Creators have been generating cinema quality short films, trailers, and teasers with AI in just a few hours🤯 10 wild examples:

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@intothecrevasse She’s fantastic. Absolutely lacking in pretension. Though it’s impossible to parse whether she’s displaying active contempt for the idiotic red carpet questions or she simply is unequipped to process such inanity.

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@FictionComplete @vel_electric @NetflixUK This photo records the actual birthday of the first ever Ghost Lamp!

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@mattcohen2 @JordanPeele @MADmagazine It’s almost as though those were films budgeted at $70m & $90m…

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@blablafishcakes ‘Pips Bunce’ - even the names they give themselves are an affront.

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@PoorOldRoloTony Root Vs Goodman. If I'd had any idea I might've bothered watching.

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@JimJarmuschHair MI:3 is hella 2006. 'Ghost Protocol' is where the series finally twigged that 'timelessness' was a key to it feeling really classy and enduring. Also helped a lot that it was the first post-iPhone MI film in the franchise.

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I’d completely forgotten that Margaret Qualley was in this film.

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Legend has the most insane production design of all time!!! Probably the most beautiful film I've ever seen!!

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@PoorOldRoloTony There's plot holes and there are PLOT HOLES. The question is whether a story is emotionally consistent. Plot holes aggravate when they exist for the convenience of plotting/the avoidance of a harder task of working them through.

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@BrndnStrssng From when they began to now they’ve presumably had to knock heads together over a couple of Marvel films flatlining, their TV getting wound back, the failure of Indiana Jones 5, etc… Chasing ever moving goalposts. Hilarious.

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@EmmaTolkin Agree with all of your picks. Would add Amanda Plummer, Margaret Qualley, Rosie Perez & Ellen Barkin.

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@bdgrabinski @catrathustra I love it! Cat Rat Hustra is a true student of the advertising client camera movement primer.

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@filmcrithulk 1st Album - 10yrs writing in bedrooms. 2nd Album - 6 months in expensive studios. Then dropped by label. #ShitIndustry

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@thefempire50 @JKRowling The relatively recent adoption of addressing her as ‘Joanne’ is the development that sets me off. The patronising tone it engenders. The faux chumminess. Screams, ‘man pats woman on head to belittle her’, behaviour.

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@julie_bush The TV that started the 'TV is the new cinema' chatter 20 years ago was contemporary set mid-budget stuff. Yet all streamer led TV has doubled down on the ultra-pricey GoT style fantasy/sci-fi/superhero/ genres. Makes one wonder whether IP/$$$ is a substitute for GREAT WRITING!?

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@DrewMcWeeny *glances at the MCU* erm, you might want to check out how knock-off cheap $200m movies are looking these days, too.

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@woodstockSSB So you can't go and find them on the sex offenders register.

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@dieworkwear It frankly bothers me that the Duke of Windsor is still oft cited as some paragon of 20th century men’s style when he was also a feckless Nazi sympathiser. Well cut suits don’t make up for even a fraction of his shortcomings.

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@patrickbromley So... 'PART TWO' wasn't a sequel???

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@girlziplocked Buying their first home.

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