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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1h

I usually seemed to end up at the nearest Wimpy.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 2h

The Queensway always felt very upmarket.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 2h

In fact, I saw my very first Bond film there - Live and Let Die in 1973, the last film I saw with my Dad before he died the following year.

DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 2h

This was my local cinema growing up - it was just down the road from me. I first saw Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, The Omen, Death Wish, Death Race 2000, The Hills Have Eyes, the early Cronenbergs, numerous Bond films and many others there. I was there every week in my teens.

John @postcards2025.bsky.social · 3h

Art Deco Cinema, Sutton Coldfield
#Photography #Photo #Picture #Photographer
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#Pictureoftheday
#Potd
#bnw #blackandwhite #monochrome
#classicmono #blackandwhitephotography

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 2h

I also have happy memories of some of the long gone city centre cinemas I frequented - ABCs New Street and Bristol Road, the Futurist, Odeon Queensway, the two Cinecentas, the Gaumont with its curved screen (I saw Star Wars and Close Encounters there).

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 2h

I loved that cinema, although it was sad seeing it go downhill over the years (as most high street cinemas did). I think lockdown performed the coup de grace in the end.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 2h

It was a local cinema for local people.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 2h

This was my local cinema growing up - it was just down the road from me. I first saw Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, The Omen, Death Wish, Death Race 2000, The Hills Have Eyes, the early Cronenbergs, numerous Bond films and many others there. I was there every week in my teens.

John @postcards2025.bsky.social · 3h

Art Deco Cinema, Sutton Coldfield
#Photography #Photo #Picture #Photographer
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#Pictureoftheday
#Potd
#bnw #blackandwhite #monochrome
#classicmono #blackandwhitephotography

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 3h

Talking Pictures really do throw some curveballs amidst the quota quickies and classic Brit comedies sometimes - they're showing I Eat Your Skin on Saturday. Surely I Drink Your Blood can't be far behind.

Film poster for double-bill of I Drink Your Blood & I Eat Your Skin.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 8h

Off to see HAUSU tonight.
youtu.be/7-u8s49Lv28?...

HOUSE [Hausu] (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer

YouTube video by Eurekaentertainment

youtu.be

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 3h

Ahead of the Del Toro Frankenstein, which I'm seeing with @chicalolita.bsky.social on Friday, my favourite Frankenstein movies.
The Bride of Frankenstein
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
The Curse of Frankenstein
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Lady Frankenstein.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

I’m glad Bray is getting support of colleagues and I don’t begrudge anyone leaving, I’d do all I can to keep my family safe.

I do want to emphasize tho that doxing & death threats have become normal for minoritized activists who get little support from colleagues as they stay & continue to fight.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 7h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social · 5h

Been doing this for years and not a single headline

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Roger Moore’s birthday! This piece I wrote on his book about the making of LIVE AND LET DIE went wildly viral, sent the price of used copies of the book into the thousands for a spell, and very probably was a factor in the book being reprinted. web.archive.org/web/20170424...

Roger Moore�s 1973 Book About The Making Of LIVE AND LET DIE Is Straight-Up Bonkers

This vintage movie tie-in has EVERYTHING: cheap producers, hairdresser woes, race relations, a JFK conspiracy...

web.archive.org

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 4h

This film really did feel like it was made just for me - Diabolik/fumetti neri, Segretissimo paperbacks, Morricone, Cipriani, Orlandi (and Celentano!) on the soundtrack, Fabio Testi still looking good.

Reflet dans un diamant mort (Reflection in a dead diamond) @diamantmort.bsky.social · Mar 13

REFLET DANS UN DIAMANT MORT (Reflection in a dead diamond) : LE TRAILER!! 🇧🇪Au Cinéma en BELGIQUE le 30 AVRIL🇧🇪
Available on youtube : youtu.be/k-kN2Y7aVJw
#cattetforzani #refletdansundiamantmort #reflectioninadeaddiamond #trailer

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ChicaLolita @chicalolita.bsky.social · 5h

I had the absolute pleasure of meeting @sparksofficial.bsky.social guitarist and overall Nice Boy Eli Pearl in LA, but hate seeing myself in photographs. So I asked my adored friend @leirinart.bsky.social to do an artists' interpretation. Now I can look at it with nothing but joy. #TeamWombat

Cartoon of a fantastically Manga-looking Eli Pearl with Chica, holding up a T-Shirt with a Gil Elvgren girl on the front. Art by @leirinart.bsky.social

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 5h

And this is why you are made to sit down at Sparks gigs these days ...

Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 5h

A favourite clip, this one. youtu.be/tsHelW7tSXU?...

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 5h

Ron is essentially the dog in the burning house "This is fine" meme.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 5h

"No problem here! We're okay!" He doesn't sound very sure ...

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 5h

A favourite clip, this one. youtu.be/tsHelW7tSXU?...

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 5h

The Fairfield Halls version of Looks, Looks, Looks seems to have encountered even less restraint in the hall than Amateur Hour.

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 8h

Off to see HAUSU tonight.
youtu.be/7-u8s49Lv28?...

HOUSE [Hausu] (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer

YouTube video by Eurekaentertainment

youtu.be

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not too late for this, am I?

Invitation card - "Baron Frankenstein invites you to meet the Creature at the Warner Theatre Leicester Square, w.c.2 on Thursday May 2nd 1957 at 8.30 for 9.0 p.m. Dress: Funeral".

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DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't opened this yet but my guess is that it's either a 4K UHD set or a human brain.

Cardboard delivery box with 'The Curse of Frankenstein' on the side in green lettering

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 1d

One of Peter Cushing's best performances - a terrific crime movie spin on A Christmas Carol.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 1d

Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 classic matinee today stars #PeterCushing #AndreMorell in the #HammerFilms thriller

💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles

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