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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · Jul 15

I am here to discuss music, literature, and condemn the appalling genocide in #Gaza. I have no interest in publicly engaging with people I cut off contact with years ago. In the words of Brian May: "In the quiet of the night
Let our candle always burn
Let us never lose
The lessons we have learned."

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 5h

It is a great publication!

Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social · 9h

We have openings for folks to review music, film and/or books. Send us a DM for more info.

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 6h

#Beatlepeople: does anyone have the latest copy of #Beatlefan magazine?

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 18h

And ponder did I much.

DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 1d

As the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces its competitive selection of international documentaries, writer Eoghan Lyng ponders a wide variety of film perspectives

dmovies.org/2025/10/14/d...

Tallinn reveals 12-strong Doc@PÖFF film selection - DMovies

As the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces its competitive selection of international documentaries, writer Eoghan Lyng ponders a wide variety of film perspectives

dmovies.org

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 18h

I didn't know there was such an illness as Gulf War...

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Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social · 1d

Revisit Possession, the nightmarish Polish film in which divorce breeds squishy monsters.
spectrumculture.com/2025/10/13/r...

Rediscover: Possession - Spectrum Culture

What begins as desperate, frenzied and often violent domestic conflict within a marriage in its last throes then unfurls into an intensely uncanny depiction of the psychological dissolution wrought by...

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 19h

In Beatle terms, it has to be Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five. A staggering achievement in sonics.

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

What a voice!

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

"It looks like death!"

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

It is an impressive feature.

Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social · 2d

WE RECOMMEND: Urchin

"Urchin is an intelligent, complicated and admirably unfiltered debut borne of Dickinson’s own honest observations and experiences doing social work for unhoused individuals."

Urchin - Spectrum Culture

Urchin is an intelligent, complicated and admirably unfiltered debut borne of Dickinson’s own honest observations and experiences doing social work for unhoused individuals.

spectrumculture.com

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

dmovies.org/2025/10/14/d...

A cinephile is never truly a cinephile until he has ventured a film festival.

#Filmjournalism @dmovies.bsky.social

Tallinn reveals 12-strong Doc@PÖFF film selection - DMovies

As the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces its competitive selection of international documentaries, writer Eoghan Lyng ponders a wide variety of film perspectives

dmovies.org

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

Another stellar interview from Scott & Cam!

SpyHards Podcast @spyhards.bsky.social · 1d

This week we welcome actor and comedian Omid Djalili to the show to discuss his work on 1999s #JamesBond film THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH and 2001’s fan favourite SPY GAME!

Listen: pod.fo/e/33cb52
Watch: youtu.be/0WcHfDvDzCM

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

@dieterchmelar.bsky.social, the piece I told you about.

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

You're very kind!

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

My thoughts on #John&Yoko for @spectrumculture.bsky.social :

spectrumculture.com/2025/10/13/j...

John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Power to the People (The Ultimate Collection) - Spectrum Culture

Admittedly imperfect and missing a vital track, this monster box set is nevertheless an important document of a fractured time in recent memory and historiography.

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 1d

I just read a condescending article that said "Here are seven books Boomers have read, and millenials will struggle with.."

I had read all seven before I was 30!!!!

Melville, Joyce, Proust, Wallace..the lot!

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 2d

In Beatle terms, Harrison's astonishing makeover of Baltimore Oriole.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 2d

Hey now, Ralph Fiennes is a beautiful specimen*!

*When he's not in prosthetics!

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 2d

spectrumculture.com/2025/10/12/b... @spectrumculture.bsky.social

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Liminal - Spectrum Culture

Although it could be bolder, Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe have delivered a textured, colorful installation brimming with ideas and the potential for growth.

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 2d

A student of mine looked puzzled when I said I disliked Harry Potter. "Then why do you look like Hagrid?" was the reply.

😆😂😅😆

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 2d

I bumped into a flock of seagulls earlier.

Well, I just ran, I ran so far away...

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/qecDSV3Ie8s?...

Roger Taylor: I write the songs about cars.

Brian May: Get the guitar!!!

Driven By You

YouTube video by Brian May - Topic

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 3d

My Own Private Idaho.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d

Without saying The Matrix, Fav Keanu Reeves Film?

Keanu Reeves in a black suit and grey scarf short messy black hair trimmed grey beard smiling in front of a pink background. hot.

"When the people you love are gone, you're alone."

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Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 3d

Roger Taylor based The Invisible Man off a book he read.

Something tells me it wasn't Ralph Ellison...

Eoghan Lyng @mightylyng.bsky.social · 3d

A whimper of a curtain call: spectrumculture.com/2025/09/14/s...

Saint Etienne: International - Spectrum Culture

Though hardly a crippling disappointment, Saint Etienne’s reported final album is a far-cry from their superior earlier work.

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Philip Bagnall @cynicalfilm.bsky.social · 3d

It's SENTIMENTAL VALUE day at #LFF2025! The best film of the year deserves all the praise, and as wide an audience as possible.

My review for @loudandclearrvs.bsky.social: loudandclearreviews.com/sentimental-...

Sentimental Value Review: Dad’s Girls on Film

Joachim Trier delivers another portrait of modern familial angst with honesty and self-awareness in Cannes highlight Sentimental Value.

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