Some day I will come to accept that I cannot take a picture of the Moon
John Maguire
@johnmaguire.bsky.social
Writer about cinema in newspapers / Talker about cinema on radios / Board of Access Cinema / Film On Paper / Business Post / RTE/ Opinions mine, help yourself.
Pyjama manufacturers who okay designs without pockets are the real evil in this world
Almost 65,000 children in Gaza have been killed or injured by Israel since October 2023. Children also face forced famine, displacement, and denial of humanitarian aid. You don't get to annihilate a generation and then play a game of football, as if it never happened, as if it isn't still happening.
How dare you accuse us of war crimes! Hey, remember when we did that war crime?
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d agoBibi Netanyahu at the UNGA, in front of a half-empty chamber: "Do you remember the beepers? Remember? Remember them?!" [pulls out a beeper from his pocket] "Well, I can tell you this. Hezbollah certainly remembers them!"
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: 3 half-day seminars on the irrefutable authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, including swivel-eyed sidebars on Roman crucifixion practices, wounds made by scourging, and species of thorny plants available in Judea in the C1st. Man, they loved that shroud
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 6d agoBizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”
They'll be studying the Ed Sheeran debacle in Crisis Management courses until the heat death of the universe
Every night is culture night in this house but its not every night you get to drag your kids around Dail Eireann and the Freemason's Lodge dropping half-remembered factoids immediately contradicted by their googling
Netflix about to increase Irish subscription to €19 a month (or €230 a year) but you still scroll and scroll for something decent to watch...
Feels like it’s been ages since I had something come out, more in the pipeline, but first up- first look at new Cunk! variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
Philomena Cunk to Quiz Michael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Cunk on Cinema’ as Latest Outing for Diane Morgan’s Character Gets First Look
The first look from Cunk of Cinema, the latest outing from Diane Morgan's beloved TV idiot, has been revealed
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First clean in maybe 70 years for the original 1950s grey bow tie/ gold floral leaf linoleum in the spare room, soon to be reluctantly replaced by something softer and more beige.
As you read through Robin's authoritative list of films about film, remember Brownlow & Gill's extraordinary 13-part Hollywood is available to watch on the internet archive: archive.org/details/vol....
Hollywood
Hollywood (also known as Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film) is a multi-BAFTA award winning 1980 documentary series produced by Thames Television which explored the establishment and...
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Robin Baker@robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 3w agoI was asked this week what my favourite film about film was. I was surprised by the speed of my reply: Kevin Brownlow and David Gill’s documentary series HOLLYWOOD (1980). Got me thinking about other films about the worlds of film that I love. Here are 100 of them: letterboxd.com/robinalex/li...
Michael O'Leary has always shown himself to be exactly and precisely who he is, for worse or for worse. The doses dose.
The minister for transport used to be the minister for housing so you know everything is going to be fine
On the same day media regulator Coimisiún na Meán opens an investigation into X, Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk premieres at Venice which, among other revelations, warns of the danger Musk's concentrated, unprecedented power poses to democracy. The Irish government must end it's association with X.
Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.
Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.
"Up early every morning" rears it's stupid head again but are they supporting people who can't afford curtains or those checking the Nikkei opening prices?
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 3w agoTánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said this year's Budget will support people "who get up early every morning and go to work".
Cheering for Schrader's remarkable late-career run comes to a end. No AI cinema, ever. www.avclub.com/paul-schrade...
Paul Schrader says he's ready to make an all-AI-"actor" movie
Paul Schrader says he's ready to make an all-AI-"actor" movie
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On September 5th 1926, 48 people died when a fallen candle ignited a reel of nitrate film stock in a cinema in the town of Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick, an event that became known as "The Burning". Next Saturday An Taoiseach will lay a wreath in their memories.
The British news media stepping aside to let the fascists in the door
The minister for transport used to be the minister for housing so you know everything is going to be fine
On September 5th 1926, 48 people died when a fallen candle ignited a reel of nitrate film stock in a cinema in the town of Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick, an event that became known as "The Burning". Next Saturday An Taoiseach will lay a wreath in their memories.
An executive order, Trump's favoured dummy spit, applies only to the executive branch of the American federal government, such as cabinet departments, and not to cartographers, geographers, Canadians, the sane.
