Moongolfer
@moongolfer.com
Digital writer & creative producer. 0.5 of the Curiously Specific Book Club podcast. Here for Old Books, Old Films, New Digital Content (immersive, interactive etc) and Football #ncfc.
I would have absolutely loved this film if Day Lewis’s character hadn’t been quite so insufferable. #amwatching #film boxd.it/c0idPN
A ★★★★½ review of The Age of Innocence (1993)
Watching this in 4k UHD is a treat. It looks and sounds spectacular. In particular the endless bouquets and flower arrangements that colour every other scene really zing. So too the many many courses ...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I would have absolutely loved this film if Day Lewis’s character hadn’t been quite so insufferable. #amwatching #film boxd.it/c0idPN
We got a point! Five points from safety. Not many examples of teams being five points adrift in Dec and surviving in May. But there are some! #ncfc
December 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We got a point! Five points from safety. Not many examples of teams being five points adrift in Dec and surviving in May. But there are some! #ncfc
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I hope he’s listened to our podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I hope he’s listened to our podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Three men of a certain age having just seen Primal Scream. I feel we’re channeling shit 90s vibes.
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Three men of a certain age having just seen Primal Scream. I feel we’re channeling shit 90s vibes.
This is a film I always wanted to see in a cinema. Sorry to miss this screening tonight. Primal Scream at the Roundhouse calls instead. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Figures in a Landscape | Barbican
Malcolm McDowell and Robert Shaw star as two escaped convicts fleeing across a desolate, unnamed landscape, relentlessly hunted by a helicopter in Joseph Losey’s haunting and enigmatic thriller.
www.barbican.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is a film I always wanted to see in a cinema. Sorry to miss this screening tonight. Primal Scream at the Roundhouse calls instead. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A fun little screwball comedy. A lot of excellent pratfalls, but too much histrionic shouting from Edward Arnold. #amwatching #film boxd.it/bWBoOj
A ★★★½ review of Easy Living (1937)
Not one of Preston Sturges’s best I’d say. It’s a screwball comedy with a LOT of pratfalls. The falling over might be the best thing about the movie - apart, of course, from the luminescent Jean Arthu...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A fun little screwball comedy. A lot of excellent pratfalls, but too much histrionic shouting from Edward Arnold. #amwatching #film boxd.it/bWBoOj
The BBC is probably a bit busy forming a committee for drafting its apology for the Black and White Minstrel Show.
It’s not going away in The Guardian or on here but you try finding the story on the BBC site (it’s there but it’s not immediately obvious)
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The BBC is probably a bit busy forming a committee for drafting its apology for the Black and White Minstrel Show.
Camp much?
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Camp much?
In other news, I have a listening age of 21, I like Freak Folk and my favourite artist is Handel. #Spotify #Unwrapped is so dumb.
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In other news, I have a listening age of 21, I like Freak Folk and my favourite artist is Handel. #Spotify #Unwrapped is so dumb.
So full of Italian style it almost hurts. Ahead of its time and stunning in the way it’s filmed. Recommended. #amwatching #film boxd.it/bV8pWV
A ★★★★½ review of Obsession (1943)
What a film to make in the middle of a world war and under the gaze of a fascist regime. Visconti feels so ahead of his time. There is so much to like about Ossessione. Mainly it’s the way the story o...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So full of Italian style it almost hurts. Ahead of its time and stunning in the way it’s filmed. Recommended. #amwatching #film boxd.it/bV8pWV
Cameron Winter at the Roundhouse tonight. V good.
I’ve only been to two gigs before where the artist gets away with spending the whole night with his back to the audience: John Lyndon in his bolshy PiL days and Mark E Smith whenever he bloody well felt like it. Fine company.
I’ve only been to two gigs before where the artist gets away with spending the whole night with his back to the audience: John Lyndon in his bolshy PiL days and Mark E Smith whenever he bloody well felt like it. Fine company.
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Cameron Winter at the Roundhouse tonight. V good.
I’ve only been to two gigs before where the artist gets away with spending the whole night with his back to the audience: John Lyndon in his bolshy PiL days and Mark E Smith whenever he bloody well felt like it. Fine company.
I’ve only been to two gigs before where the artist gets away with spending the whole night with his back to the audience: John Lyndon in his bolshy PiL days and Mark E Smith whenever he bloody well felt like it. Fine company.
Robert Jenrick needs to be held responsible for targeting individual judges and lying about the details of particular cases. It’s a lowdown sh*tty thing to do. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Immigration judges targeted by far right after Tory MP’s campaign | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Robert Jenrick needs to be held responsible for targeting individual judges and lying about the details of particular cases. It’s a lowdown sh*tty thing to do. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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“--it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back...”
--Tom Stoppard
--Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“--it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back...”
--Tom Stoppard
--Tom Stoppard
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November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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This is an unspooling thread of total joy. A slug of forgotten comedy history.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is an unspooling thread of total joy. A slug of forgotten comedy history.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
A stylish Caine movie I wasn’t aware of. boxd.it/bQt3kH (Props to @pulpcurry.bsky.social for alerting me to it) #amwatching #film
A ★★★½ review of Play Dirty (1969)
Michael Caine looks great in a designer Italian army uniform in this thoroughly British homage to ‘The Dirty Dozen’ (plotwise). From the off, you’ll be struck by the fabulous cinematography. A wartime...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A stylish Caine movie I wasn’t aware of. boxd.it/bQt3kH (Props to @pulpcurry.bsky.social for alerting me to it) #amwatching #film