BREAKING: George Holmes, longtime vice chancellor of the University of Greater Manchester, has been sacked. A spokesperson for the university confirmed the news in a statement to The Mill, saying that Holmes’ contract was terminated “earlier this week”. manchestermill.co.uk/breaking-geo...

BREAKING: George Holmes has been sacked

The UK’s longest serving vice chancellor is ‘no longer an employee of the University’

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Blimey I haven't thought about Stormy Monday in years. Half decent British gangster thriller with Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Bean, Melanie Griffith and a miscast Sting. Great soundtrack, mostly performed by director Mike Figgis, with a couple of great numbers from maestro B.B. King. youtu.be/2aUdtjEryJE

B.B King - Stormy Monday - B.O.F "Stormy Monday" (1988)

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I’ve seen this referred to as “minor” Godard. Well, I fell in love with it at first sight, so I was happy to pitch an article about it and even happier when my editor accepted it.

Crooked Marquee@crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 2h ago

Jean-Luc Godard followed the splashy ‘Contempt’ with ‘Bande à Part,’ a scaled-down heist film about two would-be criminals and the woman who comes between them. It was released in France on this day in 1964: crookedmarquee.com/outsiders-lo...

Looking forward to this; fabulous cast, Charleson was a fine actor taken much too soon. #FilmSky

FRANK'S FILM REVIEW@franksfilmreview.bsky.social · 2h ago

Elsinore: A New AIDS Drama Coming This Fall Elsinore follows the final months of Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who captured audiences worldwide as Olympic runner Eric Liddell in the Best Picture winner Chariots of Fire... Full article: franksfilmreview.com/2026/08/05/e...

Elsinore: A New AIDS Drama Coming This Fall Elsinore follows the final months of Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who captured audiences worldwide as Olympic runner Eric Liddell in the Best Picture winner Chariots of Fire... Full article: franksfilmreview.com/2026/08/05/e...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Afternoon listening; this really interesting drama from a story by Robert Graves @bbcsounds.bsky.social

The Shout by Robert Graves - BBC Sounds

Charles Crossley believes he has the power to 'shout' people to death....

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A reminder of the story behind the woeful Americanisation and decimation of an iconic British Brand, Cadbury, that was so much more than just a brand of chocolate, but also a proud British project for social improvement. apple.news/AROmsXsYiR2m...

The American woman who ripped the heart out of Cadbury — The i Paper

Kate Lister: Irene Rosenfeld oversaw Kraft's hostile takeover of Cadbury – and ordinary Brits have been suffering since

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Not been going to the cinema due to health stuff, so am on a time delay with new films but I really liked Marty Supreme. boxd.it/fEVcsP

THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM is shipping from now our site and available at UK retailers: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/the...

The Hourglass Sanatorium (UHD+BD LE)

Józef (Jan Nowicki) visits his dying father in a sanatorium that is not quite what it seems in this experimental drama from visionary director Wojciech Has (The Saragossa Manuscript).

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"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social from her zero star review of ONE NIGHT ONLY:

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

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the review: bsky.app/profile/oldf...

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 3h ago

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

I saw this in my 20s and wasn't a fan. Now I'm in my 50s, it knocked my horseshoes off.

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tonight's film

The first of his many misfits that he so enjoyed...

John Hodson@mgcroadster.bsky.social · 4h ago

"...Quite simply, it is a scintillating, head spinning, exhilarating directorial debut by screenwriter #BOTD John Huston, a maverick talent who is perhaps somewhat undervalued today..." - My ★★★★★ review of The Maltese Falcon on Letterboxd boxd.it/9H0VaB #FilmSky

Discs are better than streaming. Best 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Players according to Kob Monney, @trustedreviews.com: www.trustedreviews.com/best/best-4k...

Best 4K Blu-ray Player: Discs are better than streaming

Level up your home cinema game with definitive picks of the best 4K Blu-ray player from budget models to full-featured premium efforts

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"...Quite simply, it is a scintillating, head spinning, exhilarating directorial debut by screenwriter #BOTD John Huston, a maverick talent who is perhaps somewhat undervalued today..." - My ★★★★★ review of The Maltese Falcon on Letterboxd boxd.it/9H0VaB #FilmSky

A ★★★★★ review of The Maltese Falcon (1941)

"When a man’s partner is killed, he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it. And i...

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Julie Walters, Bill Waddington, Nat Jackley and Victoria Wood in Screenplay - Talent by Victoria Wood (5th August 1979)

Bits #4K Review – @timsalmons.bsky.social revisits the Michael Kurtiz-directed musical drama KING CREOLE starring Elvis Presley on 2-Disc #4K #UltraHD #Bluray from @kinolorber.com. @billhuntbits.bsky.social @thedigitalbits.bsky.social thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item...

Uh oh, I know how this goes...

Space: 1999 Sci-Fi TV Series Intro

Alt: Space: 1999 Sci-Fi TV Series Intro

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Matthew Sparkes@sparkes.bsky.social · 8h ago

Accidentally crashing a 4000kg lump of metal into the moon at 8700km/h is part of the new commercial space race. Experts say we shouldn't make a habit out of it, and are working to ban it in future, but that some interesting science can be had as a side effect. www.newscientist.com/article/2583...

@stephencollins.bsky.social did this great cartoon of her

whole Dimbleby interview great youtu.be/BRj9FuCfrR0?...

1979: PETER COOK: comedy idol of a generation? | Person to Person | Classic Interview | BBC Archive

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I've fallen down a Peter Cook love tunnel again. Fascinating to watch this again. Jonathan Miller is very funny and wise in the studio interview "It was hardly a satirical response to excretion"

Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social · 8h ago

went looking for him with his perm and got hooked on the newsnight obituary with Miller and Bird. youtu.be/ZJBSBsImvqg?...

“This is unquestionably one of the most intelligent films to appear for many years. No one who is really interested in the cinema can afford to miss it.” Citizen Kane, reviewed by ‘E.H.L.’ in Monthly Film Bulletin, December 1941 Read in full: letterboxd.com/sightsoundma...

"...This is the blind spot. Even if those flamin' officers haven't seen it, I'll bet the Zulus have. Out you get, Hooky, you done your bit!"

No time to write anything, so please enjoy this tale of an artist who died 24 years ago today and was obsessed with death to the extent of doing hundreds of works on the subject, faking his own, and embalming a homeless man he’d befriended, who didn’t want “the authorities” to have his body

Robert Lenkiewicz: Larger than life and death

He had thousands of lovers, faked his own demise, and kept an embalmed corpse in his home. Yes, Robert Lenkiewicz was one of the great eccentrics – and now, prices for his paintings are soaring

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#bestfilminlondontoday Aug 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. 'fascinating, gut-wrenching and thought-provoking filmmaking' The viscerally intense PUNISHMENT PARK (1971) in Peter Watkins season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/07/capi...

Capital Celluloid

Tony Paley's daily guide to the best film screening in London today. Follow me on X at @tpaleyfilm and on Bluesky at @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social

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Tony Paley@tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 4w ago

#bestfilminlondontoday Aug 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. 'fascinating, gut-wrenching and thought-provoking filmmaking' The viscerally intense PUNISHMENT PARK (1971) in Peter Watkins season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/07/capi...

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

"On an island built on coal and with oil beneath the sea, We struggle to get by and we’ve joined the EEC." I wrote a bit about Alan Price, together with an introductory playlist. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/08/05/h...

Have you heard… Alan Price

ALWYN TURNER celebrates the mid-1970s solo work of ex-Animal Alan Price.

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@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...

With the house sale cracking on, we've just ordered a skip. And into it will go the archive of the business that we ran for 30 years until the pandemic, leaving barely a trace that it ever existed. And so it goes...

Liberal England: Finlay J. Macdonald visits the Flannan Isles and their lighthouse I once had bed and breakfast at Breasclete on the west coast of Lewis, and the owner was the grandson of one of the men aboard the Hesperus when it went out to the isles in 1900 to see what was amiss with the light.

Finlay J. Macdonald visits the Flannan Isles and their lighthouse

This television film about the Flannan Isles , their lighthouse and the mysterious disappearance of its three keepers in 1900 was made by Fi...

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