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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Scottish, part-time film critic • Editor-in-Chief @TAKEONECinema.net • ✍️ Vague Visages, Film Inquiry, Cultured Vultures, Little White Lies & ++ •🎙️📻 Co-producer Cinetopia on EH-FM •
I made up some bullshit about caterpillar/continuous treads, which I don’t think was what they were looking for. Whole thing was a bit weird. A job offer did not follow, needless to say.
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I got warned about this when I ‘missed’ a screening and I kicked off because it was the result of nobody being there scan my ticket, I *was* actually there.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Yeah, that piece I wrote at the time essentially says that. There’s huge overlap with a bunch of other stuff, and it’s far from perfect, but it also reflects the anxieties of the time and place in which the book was written and film was made - not unlike *most pop culture*.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
He’s not entirely wide of the mark, but he’s still talking largely out his arse - I’m fairly certain this was noted a lot about both books and films. I wrote this in 2012 and stand by it…
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s kind of hilarious. There’s the first level of terrible of not having a full picture of the car, the entirely new second level of using generative fill rather than using the marketing budget for someone with a camera, and the third and final of signing off a generative fill usage *this bad*.
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ok, I have one other point, just to make clear I don’t endorse pirating th vast majority of books, and that is the idea of pirating any other type of book seems mental. What is the motivation?! Libraries (for now…) exist! It’s one of the few media forms where you can just borrow stuff for free.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Also, why is nobody ragging on “our original crypto food delivery idea”? U wot mate?
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Plaid —> Flannel —> Wool —> Warmth —> Pyjamas?
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If the concept of Odeon Limitless (now, or Cineworld Unlimited until 2020) didn’t exist I couldn’t afford to go as often as I do at home. The cost is enough to really make you think twice.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Keep seeing McTominay linked with moves back to the Premier League, and feel like he would have to be mad to take one of them up.
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Yeah, and I know not everyone intends the phrase in an exclusionary way, but it very rarely *needs* to be said anyway. I can’t really think of a film that would *suffer* from being seen theatrically^, so it’s bit redundant anyway.
(^audience behaviour & projection quality notwithstanding)
Aye, you could live next door to a cinema and still might not be able to go for whatever myriad reasons. Prioritising and valuing a particular experience is not the same as basically implying someone isn’t doing it properly.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Aye, you could live next door to a cinema and still might not be able to go for whatever myriad reasons. Prioritising and valuing a particular experience is not the same as basically implying someone isn’t doing it properly.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM