Marie Phillips
@mariephillips.bsky.social
Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
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Yesterday, three years and one day after our first date, I officially became Mrs @andrewmale.bsky.social in a day overflowing with love and joy. We could not be happier.
Tonight’s film was an absolute cracker of a noir: Pickup on South Street. Available on YouTube (watch the Flickerbook print) boxd.it/bRhYRX
A ★★★★★ review of Pickup on South Street (1953)
One thing I love about being relatively new to classic movies is that one morning I can never have heard of a film and by that night I’m convinced it’s one of the best films ever made. This tight as h...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Tonight’s film was an absolute cracker of a noir: Pickup on South Street. Available on YouTube (watch the Flickerbook print) boxd.it/bRhYRX
Representation of purest joy
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Representation of purest joy
I like this idea. But the idea it has sparked in me that I love is: Jonathan Banks King Lear
Found myself thinking back on the incredible performance of @michaelmckeanj.bsky.social on Better Call Saul, which never asked for sympathy and was doubly heartbreaking as a result. More dramas should be in his future. What a wildcard King Lear he would make!
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I like this idea. But the idea it has sparked in me that I love is: Jonathan Banks King Lear
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Cat fountain and cat: a diptych
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Cat fountain and cat: a diptych
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An old pack of Orange Fruitellas in the pocket of a school blazer left behind in the school physics lab.
What our dog smells of today: A gumboot full of autumn leaves and toffees.
What our dog smells of today: Hazelnut praline paste.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
An old pack of Orange Fruitellas in the pocket of a school blazer left behind in the school physics lab.
This is the profile photo James Callis has on his IMDB page. Magnificent work, no notes.
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is the profile photo James Callis has on his IMDB page. Magnificent work, no notes.
Bridget Jones films ranked: 1 > 4 > 3 >>>>>>>>> 2
Here’s my review of number 3: Bridget Jones’s Baby boxd.it/bQMYyJ
Here’s my review of number 3: Bridget Jones’s Baby boxd.it/bQMYyJ
A ★★★½ review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Like the woman herself, you have to love the Bridget Jones films exactly as they are: funny and clumsy, charming and flawed. While this film is neither as fresh as the original nor as heartfelt as the...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Bridget Jones films ranked: 1 > 4 > 3 >>>>>>>>> 2
Here’s my review of number 3: Bridget Jones’s Baby boxd.it/bQMYyJ
Here’s my review of number 3: Bridget Jones’s Baby boxd.it/bQMYyJ
Spotted on Ke Huy Quan in a recent Zootopia 2 photocall: a Blue Peter Badge!! He was interviewed on the show in 1984 about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This is adorable.
www.gofugyourself.com/zootopia-2-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h702...
www.gofugyourself.com/zootopia-2-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h702...
Zootopia 2 Arrives in London - Go Fug Yourself
Where I guess it's called "Zootropolis 2."
www.gofugyourself.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Spotted on Ke Huy Quan in a recent Zootopia 2 photocall: a Blue Peter Badge!! He was interviewed on the show in 1984 about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This is adorable.
www.gofugyourself.com/zootopia-2-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h702...
www.gofugyourself.com/zootopia-2-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h702...
If you are having a bad day, consider our delivery driver whose van is faulty and won’t open and is currently outside in the freezing cold getting instructions on a mobile phone, trying to fix it with an allen key he borrowed from us, all his subsequent deliveries running late.
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you are having a bad day, consider our delivery driver whose van is faulty and won’t open and is currently outside in the freezing cold getting instructions on a mobile phone, trying to fix it with an allen key he borrowed from us, all his subsequent deliveries running late.
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In case you missed this thread because you’re secretly European
“Oh hi did you know our dad was gone last week & that means it’s time for rain or shine Seattle walkies?!” 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In case you missed this thread because you’re secretly European
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Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
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Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
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It’s Boris’s birthday tomorrow.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It’s Boris’s birthday tomorrow.
Buy an entire building which I will divide up as follows: ground floor bookshop /café, first floor performance / workshop space for writing and storytelling classes and shows, second floor flat for visiting writers, top floor apartment for me, @andrewmale.bsky.social and pets. Budget unclear.
What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Buy an entire building which I will divide up as follows: ground floor bookshop /café, first floor performance / workshop space for writing and storytelling classes and shows, second floor flat for visiting writers, top floor apartment for me, @andrewmale.bsky.social and pets. Budget unclear.
Finally watched a decent movie after a long run of disappointing choices: Toy Story 4 boxd.it/bNKkgT
A ★★★★½ review of Toy Story 4 (2019)
It’s extraordinary for a franchise on its fourth iteration to still be delivering at this level of quality. It’s funny, it’s exciting, it’s genuinely scary and at times even horrifying, and the lesson...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Finally watched a decent movie after a long run of disappointing choices: Toy Story 4 boxd.it/bNKkgT
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This year I have seen MI: The Final Reckoning, Superman, and Wicked for Good at the cinema. It is just the worst cinema year in my adult life for American films.
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This year I have seen MI: The Final Reckoning, Superman, and Wicked for Good at the cinema. It is just the worst cinema year in my adult life for American films.
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Went to the knobology course and everyone there knew you
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Went to the knobology course and everyone there knew you
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I promise this is not a trap
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I promise this is not a trap
Found this sentence, from a BBC News article about Poundland stores, viscerally uncomfortable to read. Please do not alternate things you put in your mouth with things you absolutely should not put in your mouth.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Found this sentence, from a BBC News article about Poundland stores, viscerally uncomfortable to read. Please do not alternate things you put in your mouth with things you absolutely should not put in your mouth.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched I really need to watch some good movies soon. I only actually finished one of these! (The Devil And Miss Jones.)
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched I really need to watch some good movies soon. I only actually finished one of these! (The Devil And Miss Jones.)
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I have always imagined this #1920s Callot Soeurs gown as some beautiful ornament or a piece of stained glass, the jewelled colours framed in gold feel like a precious stone rather than a woven garment @drexeluniversity.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I have always imagined this #1920s Callot Soeurs gown as some beautiful ornament or a piece of stained glass, the jewelled colours framed in gold feel like a precious stone rather than a woven garment @drexeluniversity.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡