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Steven Sheil
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Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil
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Yes.. I have an early trauma story of being taken in to “On Her majesty’s Secret Service” 15 minutes before the end. Despite protestation my Grandma insisted and I then I had to sit through the film knowing what the ending was going to be and what would happen to Diana Rigg.
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A woman in her seventies has just sat down in the cafe bar and pulled out from her small handbag a hardback copy of Wilbur Smith's 1986 novel Power Of The Sword, which is an absolute brick of a book (close to 900 pages) and which she is now happily absorbed by. Aspirational public reading style.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Interesting piece on my film 'Mum & Dad', where the writer doesn't actually like the film, but posits that its effectiveness & appeal - as opposed to AI-generated/bigger budget stuff - lies in the virtue of it being low-budget, with all the restrictions that entails.

horrorpress.com/reviews/1206...
‘Mum & Dad’ Review: The Joy of Simplistic Brutality
One of the things that irks me most about ‘filmmakers’ using AI is one of the two typical answers they give: “it was low-budget,” or “it was to save time.” Look at the endless number of films made pre...
horrorpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Middle aisle at Lidl yesterday; was fairly tempted. Resisted.
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Interesting piece on my film 'Mum & Dad', where the writer doesn't actually like the film, but posits that its effectiveness & appeal - as opposed to AI-generated/bigger budget stuff - lies in the virtue of it being low-budget, with all the restrictions that entails.

horrorpress.com/reviews/1206...
‘Mum & Dad’ Review: The Joy of Simplistic Brutality
One of the things that irks me most about ‘filmmakers’ using AI is one of the two typical answers they give: “it was low-budget,” or “it was to save time.” Look at the endless number of films made pre...
horrorpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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This account is a gold mine. 🤌🏻
#16: Umbrella
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Tonight’s viewing:
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A peculiar adaptation of Elizabeth Taylor's great novel, where you can kind of see the intention behind it but it doesn't really work. Sticks with the main beats of the plot before veering off at the end, but plays generally like the kind of heightened melodrama that Angel herself might have written
Tonight's viewing:
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tonight's viewing:
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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There's nothing like it on the big screen, but even on a decent television set, the current Criterion print is amazing to see. These stills are incredible enough - it's an astonishing-looking movie - but seeing it motion is just an irreplaceable experience.
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Everyone - EVERYONE - should see this movie. Even if you don't like noir, even if you don't like classic movies, even if you don't want to see something made 75 years ago, GUN CRAZY is a wild, impossible masterpiece of the crime genre. It's suspenseful, thrilling, sad, dramatic, and hot as fuck.
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Today on IMMORTAL SCIENCE, we've got a hot one for Noirvember: GUN CRAZY, one of my top ten noirs of all time and a stone cold classic. It's got two of the most compelling leads in cinema history, it features some insanely good filming, and frankly, it's one of the sexiest movies in the canon.
Noirvember: On the Level - IMMORTAL SCIENCE
““You’ll never make big money. You’re a two-bit guy. No guts, nothing! I want action!”” One of the reasons I’ve tried to stay away from well-known films during this month’s...
immortalscience.pika.page
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Here's where GAME will be showing across the UK in the next few weeks. #gamefilm2025
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles).

This one is called 'Clutter'.

bsky.app/profile/adri...
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Cool jazz singer June Christy was born Shirley Luster in Springfield, Illinois, 100 years ago today! Listen to "Something Cool" from her classic 1954 10" LP of the same name.]

archive.org/details/JV-3...
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#35: Clutter
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today’s best second-hand buy:
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
People out here constructing their own live-action political cartoons
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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My new short story is now up at Guilty, Crime Story Magazine. It's called 'Empathy'.

www.guiltycrimemag.com/flash/empath...
Empathy by Steven Sheil
“What happens now?” said the girl. “We wait,” Mickey told her.  Francine had gone off to make the call to the mother, leaving Mickey alone with the girl for the first time since the...
www.guiltycrimemag.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Labour's strategy makes total sense if you imagine that their biggest regret is losing Lee Anderson as a councillor and everything they're doing now is a (futile) attempt to win him back to the fold.
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.

The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Heads up to anyone planning to watch the very fun Bone Lake (out next week on digital) that the opening paragraph here spoils a great moment in the opening of the film, one which bought a round of applause when we showed it at @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Bone Lake review – holiday rental house of horror is fun for everyone
You don’t need to be a fright flick aficionado to enjoy this smart and witty tale of a romantic weekend break going gruesomely wrong
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
My new short story is now up at Guilty, Crime Story Magazine. It's called 'Empathy'.

www.guiltycrimemag.com/flash/empath...
Empathy by Steven Sheil
“What happens now?” said the girl. “We wait,” Mickey told her.  Francine had gone off to make the call to the mother, leaving Mickey alone with the girl for the first time since the...
www.guiltycrimemag.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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So pleased have curated a film tribute to the late Peter Watkins with ICA London. First up, 22 Nov, his film Privilege, a swinging 60s artefact which hobbles the swinging. At its centre, a rock-star-as-empty-messiah, played by Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones. More soon!

www.ica.art/films/peter-...
ICA | Peter Watkins: Privilege + introduction
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...
www.ica.art
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Today’s re-read:
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Really noticeable how much of today's technology is geared towards creating human-like puppets - AI avatars, chatbots, humanoid robots - that don't have any actual agency and are solely there to fulfil a supposed need in the customer. "What if you could own a person who could never say no to you?"
New insult to life itself just dropped
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM