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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 6h

For when you want a review of a strimmer but instead get a reminder of mortality:

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 6h

JW: Mark of the Vampire (1935). Tod Browning’s horror thriller - or is it? Browning was a notorious sleight of hand vaudevillean and much of his film work traded on sideshows, illusion and deception. This is no exception given in a story where vampires are picking off the Borotyn family. #Filmsky 🧵

Poster for Mark of the Vampire (1935). Lugosi is depicted on the left side in famous Dracula pose facing Elizabeth Allan and Henry Wadsworth. The title of the film is in bright red, cast names in yellow. Carroll Borland’s face looms between the other figures.

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a shame the full concert isn’t available commercially or online any more. Perhaps it’s a rights issue.

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 10h

From the reactions of the band, I’d guess they were well practiced at working in these conditions. Amazing stuff.

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 10h

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

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

Record this and save it for Christmas! One of my favourite discoveries of the past few years.

Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 1d

Directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing and André Morell, it’s Hammer Studios’ #FilmNoir Cash on Demand (1961), 3:40PM on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social!

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2d

screenshot 3 is incredible

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 2d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so hopeless with music that I couldn’t tell they were the same piece!

Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 2d

And, on the other channel, The Sweeney.

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve got a pull-up one. It’s hopeless.

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a very flat projector screen.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 3d

Raoul Walsh's 1930 western THE BIG TRAIL (available to stream on C5 for the next month) is notable for two reasons. Firstly, it was shot in a then brand new Widescreen format, 70mm Grandeur, and Walsh makes incredible use of every inch of the frame. There's so much going on, with no... /1

Still from THE BIG TRAIL showing how director Raoul Walsh made effective use of his 70mm Grandeur frame.

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Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social · 3d

Unexpected rabbit hole today is discovering that "Phwoar!" was first recorded by the dictionary in 1976, and 1972's Carry On Matron may be its first film appearance.

I thought I'd found an earlier 60s TV use, but it seems "Phwoar!" is firmly a 70s phenomenon.

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 3d

It’s decent. The first 15 minutes or so are hit and miss and a bit irritating but that’s really just compressed background for the rest of the story.

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Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social · 5d

The first console to appear in Italian cinema was (probably) the Seleco-Zanussi Gun-o-tronic, showing up in 1976 Il Signor Robinson (Mr. Robinson).
The Gun-o-tronic was the official gun accessory for the Ping-o-tronic, an early Italian Odyssey clone released around early 1975.

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Grace Jarvis @gracejarvisohno.bsky.social · 5d

“but doctor, I am the reviewer who called Pagliacci ‘derivative and juvenile’”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 8d

Famously a one-tsar film.

Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 8d

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA (1971)

Franklin J. Schaffner's follow-up to PATTON

3 hour Tsar epic

Doesn't burrow into the imagination like DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Schaffner more of a literalist

Oscar-winning design and costume

Pretty on the outside. Moments of power and banal bloat on the inside

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 8d

Britain was hugely influential in the creation of the new wave of science fiction. But unlike America, virtually none of these texts made it to the screen. THE FINAL PROGRAMME is one of the very few exceptions.

Art & Hue @artandhue.bsky.social · 8d

The sci-fi film "The Final Programme" opened on this day in 1973 at the ABC 2 Edgware cinema in London. artandhue.com/scifi

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 9d

Surprised to find recently that this film’s reputation seems to have slipped in recent years. Not seen it for a while but it still looked like one of the great films the last time I did.

James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 9d

First watch: despite being a huge fan of It's a Wonderful Life, I haven't seen enough Frank Capra. Mr Smith Goes to Washington has a pre-war James Stewart perfectly cast as the titular Smith, a callow beanpole of a boy scout leader, handpicked by corrupt politicians to be a senatorial Yes Man. 1/3

Poster for Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

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Dean - Not a Bear. @dean1973.bsky.social · 10d

It’s always been a 15 it is quite sweary in parts, probably more than a 12 would allow.

With you on Rocky Horror though. Goldeneye had to be trimmed on original release to get a 12. Maybe the version on re-issue has extra head-butts?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · Jul 23

As a Bluesky user in good standing obviously I love TheModernHouse.com. The best bit is working out where the TV normally sits, which they've removed for the pictures. Bonus points here for proving it with an accidental glimpse in the fourth pic

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Spence @spencethebence.bsky.social · 11d

Helped my brother buy a new car today and this was the only decoration the salesman had on the desk.

Can of Limited Edition Star Wars Episode 1 Pepsi with Anakin on the can. It is inside a protective glass case.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 12d

It's terrifying someone can go this far down the rabbit hole, but if your own daughter has died of a treatable cancer because you convinced her to have coffee enemas instead of chemo, I guess staying in the rabbit hole is the only alternative to facing the awful truth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mum's anti-chemotherapy views influenced Paloma Shemirani's death

Paloma Shemirani died after refusing chemotherapy despite a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

www.bbc.co.uk

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