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Writing & Teaching - Scripts, Long & Short Fiction, Film T.V Studies, Talks, Film Intros, Q&A Chair, Folk Horror https://sjt.uk.com/news/moviedrome-july-dec
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Online Short #Film Studies Courses for Jan -March 2026:
5 Gems of the #KitchenSink era
5 Wonders of 70s #NewHollywood
5 #BBC #PlaysforToday Revisited
5 #FilmNoir Classic US & Beyond
5 Gems of #FrenchCinema
[email protected] for more info.
Great turnout for Rashomon (1950) @thesjt.bsky.social #scarborough this evening - roll on next month's Moviedrome - Edward Scissorhands...
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Tonight @thesjt.bsky.social, a Japanese movie in the 'Rashomon-like' vernacular when multiple tales are conflicting, subjective & contradictory versions by different people (disambiguation). Hosted @madbasil.bsky.social, Kurosawa's 1950 film excels in telling a good yarn or two (or three or four).
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Online Short Film Studies Courses for Jan -March 2026:
5 Gems of the Kitchen Sink era
5 Wonders of 70s New Hollywood
5 BBC Plays for Today Revisites
5 Film Noir Classic US & Beyond
5 Gems of French Cinema
[email protected] for more info.
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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10 Films We Need to Talk About - my #scarborough based #film studies course starting in #january #2026 - [email protected] for more info/list or to join!
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Online Short #Film Studies Courses for Jan -March 2026:
5 Gems of the #KitchenSink era
5 Wonders of 70s #NewHollywood
5 #BBC #PlaysforToday Revisited
5 #FilmNoir Classic US & Beyond
5 Gems of #FrenchCinema
[email protected] for more info.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Online Short #Film Studies Courses for Jan -March 2026:
5 Gems of the #KitchenSink era
5 Wonders of 70s #NewHollywood
5 #BBC #PlaysforToday Revisited
5 #FilmNoir Classic US & Beyond
5 Gems of #FrenchCinema
[email protected] for more info.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
10 Films We Need to Talk About - my #scarborough based #film studies course starting in #january #2026 - [email protected] for more info/list or to join!
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Online Short Film Studies Courses for Jan -March 2026:
5 Gems of the Kitchen Sink era
5 Wonders of 70s New Hollywood
5 BBC Plays for Today Revisites
5 Film Noir Classic US & Beyond
5 Gems of French Cinema
[email protected] for more info.
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Halloween treat with something terrible @thesjt.bsky.social with @madbasil.bsky.social hosting a rare screening of Stephen King’s 1979 Salem’s Lot, starring David Soul (Starsky & Hutch 1975 -79). With a vampire, creepy atmospheres, timeless horror... & a gripping climax, it was a must tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Salem's Lot screening later - but what's the connection between that and early 70s exploration horror Mark of the Devil? Happy Halloween 🎃 sjt.uk.com/events/moviedr…
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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A proper Halloween treat from Moviedrome this month - a rare screening of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chain Saw Massacre fame 👇

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October 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Will be running a Best of BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas #Film Studies Course #online from Weds 5pm 7-9pm- email: [email protected] for more info.
October 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Counting down - 🎃 Next Friday @thesjt.bsky.social Special Halloween showing with intro of the European Cinematic Edit of Stephen King's - Salem's Lot (1979) - dir Tobe Hooper sjt.uk.com/events/movie...
Stephen Joseph Theatre | Moviedrome: Salem's Lot: The Movie (1979, 18)
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Will be running a Best of BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas #Film Studies Course #online from Weds 5pm 7-9pm- email: [email protected] for more info.
October 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Say no more...
September 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Roll Halloween night 🧛‍♀️ 🎃 🦇 and the Salem's Lot [Movie version] (1979) screening... sjt.uk.com/events/movie...
Stephen Joseph Theatre | Moviedrome: Salem's Lot: The Movie (1979, 18)
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
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September 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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The Cohen Brothers debut feature Blood Simple (1984) is next week's Moviedrome screening @thesjt.bsky.social Scarborough 19th Sept sjt.uk.com/events/movie...
September 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Robert Redford dies: tributes paid to giant of American cinema – latest updates
Robert Redford dies: tributes paid to giant of American cinema – latest updates
Star of Hollywood classics including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, dies aged 89 * ‘The star who changed Hollywood’: Peter Bradshaw on Robert Redford * Robert Redford – a life in pictures Back in 2019, Ryan Gilbey set about ranking Redford’s top ten performances. As always with Ranked, positioning and omissions are supposed to spark debate (or ignite endless arguing. Should Indecent Proposal have been excluded from the top ten? Was All the President’s Men only worthy of fourth place? The debate continues. Here’s Ryan’s number one entry, the aforementioned Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Redford’s sole Oscar nomination for acting was, rather shockingly, for The Sting, a complacent 1973 con-man comedy. But it was his first pairing with Sting co-star Paul Newman that distils the performer’s essence. Although the movie is unable to fess up to its bromantic longings – did any woman in a buddy movie ever look more like a gooseberry than poor Katharine Ross? – it’s still worth seeing for Redford’s sunny charm. Even then, it seemed to trouble him faintly, as though he was worried we might take him for a himbo. The studio did. “He’s just another California blond,” said one executive. “Throw a stick out of a window in Malibu, you’ll hit six like him.” But Newman helped win him the part. Redford got a shock when he saw the first cut. “I said: ‘What the hell is that song doing in there? Raindrops? It’s not even raining. On a bicycle?’” Continue reading...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Cohen Brothers debut feature Blood Simple (1984) is next week's Moviedrome screening @thesjt.bsky.social Scarborough 19th Sept sjt.uk.com/events/movie...
September 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Counting down - 29.08.25 - Jane Campion's The Piano (1993) is the next Moviedrome screening @thesjt.bsky.social Scarborough sjt.uk.com/events/movie...
Stephen Joseph Theatre | Moviedrome: The Piano (1993, 15)
A young mute woman travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a settler.
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August 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Screened this weekend in Charles Laughton's home town, Scarborough @thesjt.bsky.social @madbasil.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Terrific celebratory Moviedrome tonight, The Night of the Hunter (1955), the only film directed by Scarborian Charles Laughton. Rated =25th best film of all time by Sight & Sound, it's nice to have had it shown @thesjt.bsky.social, hosted @madbasil.bsky.social - in its own 70th anniversary year too.
July 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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July's special 70th Anniversary Moviedrome screening of Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter (1955) edges ever closer (25.07.25) sjt.uk.com/events/movie...)
Stephen Joseph Theatre | Moviedrome: The Night of the Hunter (1955, 12A) (70th anniversary)
The evil Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) marries a widow (Shelley Winters) in order to locate her late husband's stolen money.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
July's special 70th Anniversary Moviedrome screening of Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter (1955) edges ever closer (25.07.25) sjt.uk.com/events/movie...)
Stephen Joseph Theatre | Moviedrome: The Night of the Hunter (1955, 12A) (70th anniversary)
The evil Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) marries a widow (Shelley Winters) in order to locate her late husband's stolen money.
sjt.uk.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM