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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 13h

TWO PROSECUTORS is a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy and menace. Reminded me of working at the Treasury. Tales afterwards about the Director's working methods very funny. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 17h

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB leaves you upset , then angry. It should be seen by everyone. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 1d

Is there absolutely nothing these useless pricks can get right?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes

Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job

www.theguardian.com

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but much more of a thriller in format. Bad men with guns.

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 3d

THE SECRET AGENT is a masterpiece of complex storytelling. Set in Brazil in 1977 in a time of corruption and death squads, it's full of humour and dread. Not so much shaggy dog, but it does involve a rampant severed leg and three eyed cat. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 3d

ROSE OF NEVADA is an extremely Mark Jenkin film. Many timbers are shivered. #LFF2025.

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 4d

Even by her own standards, Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND is a slight and muted affair. A film in various shades of brown that leaves you cold as autumn. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 4d

FRANKENSTEIN is gorgeous to look at, very sympathetic to its monster, and goes on way too long. Ups the gore and the bore. ##LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 5d

Greatly enjoyed THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE. Baneen Ahmad Nayyef outstanding as little girl Lamia and a rooster performance for the ages. The second of the Festival so far. ##LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 5d

SIRAT at the BFI imax is mind blowing. Also several of the most Holy Fuck! moments I've seen in a cinema. Outstanding. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of BIG ACTING from Jessie Buckley in HAMNET. Not subtle, but a powerful performance. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 7d

Very much enjoyed THE LOVE THAT REMAINS even if I didn't understand all of its Icelandic surrealism. A great dog performance and a terrifying rooster. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 7d

BUGONIA is gratuitous and unpleasant. I'm not really a fan of women being brutalised for laughs. #LFF2025

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 18d

He's saying this so that he can excuse himself when he enacts racist policies of his own to court the Reform vote.

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 18d

It's not real. It's a 'concept ' version stitched together with AI.

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 19d

Call of the Wyld: 2025: July to September

Youtube and longer Spotify mix

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Call of the Wyld 2025: July to September - YouTube

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · 20d

Holy Shit this Geese album is good!

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Sep 10

Am due to see this at the London Film Festival. Should be a hoot.

Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · Sep 7

ICYMI, Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) on HAMNET from Telluride. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

Telluride '25: Hamnet - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

ZERO STARS/****starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwynscreenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, based on O’Farrell’s noveldirected by Chloé Zhao by Walter Chaw There is so m...

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Aug 17

Season 7 of Homicide: Life on the Street.

a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Aug 8

I thought the same. I asked the nurse if I could go through again. She pretended she hadn't heard me. 😃

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Jul 24

And of course, we did Cabaret Voltaire.

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Jul 23

Football!

The only ground with a crematorium.

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Jul 23

Truly

Madli

Deeply

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Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Jul 23

Zurich. A place of weird statues and nice toilets.

Alec Tasker @alectasker.bsky.social · Jul 20

Basel is full of skeletons, skulls and sinister signs. I'm currently sat in the hotel bar and instead of football, they're showing a documentary about a graveyard. Still, the restaurant next door seems OK...

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