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.

A new Bond actor to be announced by Christmas, reportedly, and even with a concentrated giddy-up you'd have to think a finished 007 film is at least another three years away; almost a full decade on from Craig's last outing. I haven't missed Bond. Has anyone?

The bell tower of the Cheesemarket in Alkmaar, adjacent to our hotel, which chimed the quarter hour and rang on the hour all throughout the night, should you want cheese at four in the morning.

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Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

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Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

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Struggling to comprehend the mentality of a grown man who would walk against pedestrian lights into traffic at a busy junction, knock a kid - my kid - off their bike, and jog off leaving them injured and bleeding in the road. Cowardice is too small a word.

Watching an upcoming show set in LA in 1981 and in the opening scene our unreliable narrator goes to see "The Shining in glorious 70mm". There is no Shining in 70. That's pretty unreliable.