yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
ciara moloney
@ciaramoloney.bsky.social
film and TV critic, at current affairs and other places. eclectic academic. phd on martin mcdonagh + diaspora. intermittent podcaster. into sitcoms, slasher movies, and martin and lewis. ciaramoloney.net | thesundae.net
“There are only two things I love in this world: everybody and television.”
Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social · 3d ago
That the so-called eclipse was able to sweep across the sky without any pushback is another wake-up call about Ireland’s military vulnerability | the Irish Times view on the reports that the Waterford shark is headlining the Electric Picnic mindfulness program
a lot of cowardly choices in the quotes so here's me
andy [known agitator]@meltedmasks.me · 4d ago"i hate a popular thing" is mostly boring sooooo instead tell me the piece of media you love despite everyone else hating it me? i have many, but the two that spring to mind are Milla Jovovich film Ultraviolet which i own twice accidentally, PS3 game NeverDead, and Super Mario Bros. (film, 1993)
Why are there action scenes in movies? They don't move the movie along at all it just makes people uncomfortable. We could just skip to the after and show who's dead and stuff if we have to - get back to plot because exposition is the only thing that matters. Plot is king. Plot is god. Plot is all.
an awful lot of people here in the Information Age convinced that it is absurd to imagine ancient peoples describing their eras in terms of their defining technologies
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
I lose it a bit when I try figure out what the Gardaí are telling us with their Bank Holiday operation stats. Yes, we know people are driving recklessly, instead of patting yourselves on the back for a few days enforcement, you've just broadcast how little is being done the rest of the time
Mike McKillen@mikemckillen.bsky.social · 2w agoDoes this level of law breaking by drivers not suggest that we need Garda operations such as this one on a 24/7 basis & not just at bank holidays? "Between the period of Thursday 30 July – Tuesday 4 August 2026, a total of 169 people were arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant,
it is genuinely embarrassing that everyone even in the running is white englishmen except jacob elordi, who is much too famous and has yet to turn 30
The Independent@the-independent.com · 2w agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
“The meetings in ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ have a kind of attentive, even transcendent eye for mundanity that you get in some Italian neorealist cinema, or the religious dramas of Robert Bresson,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/an-ode-the-b...
An Ode the Boring Meetings of Gone in 60 Seconds — Crooked Marquee
Before it turns into an epic car chase, HB Halicki's 1974 action extravaganza captures ordinary working life in painstaking detail.
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love this by @ciaramoloney.bsky.social, even high speed car heists don't get done without a few pointless meetings crookedmarquee.com/an-ode-the-b...
An Ode the Boring Meetings of Gone in 60 Seconds — Crooked Marquee
Before it turns into an epic car chase, HB Halicki's 1974 action extravaganza captures ordinary working life in painstaking detail.
crookedmarquee.com
sorry to be boring but rubber soul revolver sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 2w agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
thanks to the good folks at crooked marquee for their enablement
Crooked Marquee@crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 2w ago“The meetings in ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ have a kind of attentive, even transcendent eye for mundanity that you get in some Italian neorealist cinema, or the religious dramas of Robert Bresson,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes.
When Akira Kurosawa made “Dersu Uzala” (released in Japan on this day in 1975), his career (and life) was at a low point— and yet he came up with one of his most unusual and affecting pictures. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
Classic Corner: Dersu Uzala — Crooked Marquee
When Akira Kurosawa made this Russian co-production 50 years ago, his career (and life) was at a low point— and yet he came up with one of his most unusual and affecting pictures.
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Is this a psyop to get people to talk about how great the Irish Passport service is? Cos Irish people love talking about how great it is.
Dr Neutopia@oceanclub.bsky.social · 2w agoSinead O'Sullivan has written an article on how the only way to get a passport quickly in Ireland is to contact your TD. This sounds like the kind of thing you'd write if your most recent experience of getting a passport in the late 1970s.
Ronald McDonald is a clown but he doesn’t really do clown shit he’s more a guy who likes that look
thought it was a kinda funny appeasement-slash-troll move for aamir khan to open Sitaare Zameen Par with a modi quote but it turns out the censorship board insisted on it wtf, leave aamir alone!!
my main thought feading emily watson's article is that the Overtly Christian Themes in christopher nolan's the odyssey are apparently not obvious to everyone
I know I say this a lot, but only because it stays true: the right-wingers who position themselves as the defenders of this country and its culture and heritage could not give less of a shit about those things. how could an Irish nationalist not weep to see Slievenamon in flames?
the UK press have never seen a reactionary medical hoax they didn't like
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 3w agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
very stupid. "art" is the result of creative expression. you can quibble about whether a given work is good or not but if "cannot have been created for tawdry or commercial reasons" is part of the definition then you are going to necessarily exclude some of history's great masterpieces
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 3w agoCinema can be art, but not all cinema is art. Some movies are entertainment, not that hard to understand.
Christopher Walken between takes on the set of The Deer Hunter (1978)
Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney
