David📎
@thestrovinator.bsky.social
Married to Christine [lucky me]. I am The REAL Film Cricket, I write and paint, if you are interested I post things on here, I have links to sites. Most of you won't be but I welcome the tiny minority that might be.
Well here's some self-promotion, well I mean if I am waiting for others promotion it'll be a long time. I actually sold two items off this online shop today. I nearly fainted...[all designed by me NO AI SLOP] #design #onlineshop #tee-shirts #logos #NoAISlop no-theme.myspreadshop.co.uk/collections
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An online shop of designs graphics paintings and other ideas I have had over the years - theres no theme unless you count what just comes out of my head!
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1/2 I know I moan about the lack of interest in my art some of which I actually think is okay but later on I will post my 'cat' painting. It is crap. I am seriously thinking of throwing it way. I'm pressing it flat at the moment so can't post it. This one you can actually take the piss out of me!
🎥The Hidden (1987) not bad, not good, watchable. Too much shooting, screaming, and loud music but the story is interesting - not as original as some think and Kyle McLaghlan is always worth a watch. #TheHidden #FilmSky #FilmOpinion #TheRealFilmCricket therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/t...
The Hidden (1987) to be fair the hiding ‘they’ did was not very good.
A standard normal citizen with no criminal past suddenly goes on a robbing, murderous spree for seemingly no reason. The police, find him, pursue him and after many deaths and violent confrontation…
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More framing done - yes sometimes my paintings get framed and hung on a wall - isn't that right @marshajdavid.bsky.social 😂 #art #painting #painter #portraits #grandneices #TheGirls #FramedArt #StrovStuff
I thought I'd own up about my art - it's not been me, I've stolen off this fella. He says he's famous but I've not idea who he is..... #art #stolenart #painter
🎥LX 2048 [2020] - it's set in a dystopian future, we have climate problems, AI etc. has taken over...hold on no one is shouting, screaming and killing people from beginning to end....good #LX2048 #TheRealFilmCricket #film #movies #FilmSky #filmopinion therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/l...
LX 2048 [2020], it could be worse, the title might have been LX 2027, but then it would not be a film just a documentary….
LX 2048 – It is the future, the sun has become so powerful, so dangerous to humans, that people cannot do anything outside during the day without serious protection. Therefore, people mainly …
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Muffin - the donkey my long time friend and former work colleague Bexy, helps look after with her job #art #painting #portrait #paint #artist #animalportraits #gouache #StrovArt #TheSlumpEnded #PleaseIgnore #Boring #NotInterested #DoIExist
Some exciting news my 1000s of fans will be ecstatic over! I painted something today and finished it! After almost a month of slump and being unable to do anything...this feels like a miraculous blessing.... #art #painting #StrovArt #animalportrait #portraits #artist #gouache
I'm having a painting slump at the moment, loads of thing causing it - so I will post some old paintings just to show off and say 'LOOK AT ME' I've probably posted them before but just ignore them like last time 🤣 🎥Oliver Reed in The Curse of the Werewolf #film #art #portrait #showingoff #ignoredo
🎥Even though I say so myself - some of my film opinion piece 'graphics/designs' were quite funny back in the day! Yup that's me praising myself... #AntmanAndTheWasp #PaulRudd #Film #FilmSky #FilmOpinion #VeryPopularFilmWriter #TheRealFilmCricket #Who? therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2019/01/19/a...
Ant-Man and the Wasp is not a ruddy good film but it is a Ruddy good film…
Scott Lang, the new Ant Man, is under strict house arrest after his part in the super-hero civil war. Due to this he has to find ways of keeping himself amused and his daughter when she comes over …
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Well Trump, his demented supporters/US folk you can destroy your freedom and country and unfortunately us along with you but you can never take this away I love the film Glory - I watched it 3 or 4 times a year - my wife and I went to Boston 26 years ago and we went to the Common, it was worth it.
🎥 Looking through my old ice hockey graphic design work - I did a lot of mixed hockey with film's promos. This one was really popular with a lot of fans and with the player too - a very good Canadian import Carlo Finucci.. #icehockey #designwork #SkyFilm #ignorethis #CarloFinucci
Here's Hugo framed - off to his former owner now, which means me packing it and so forth......oh dear. #painting #art #animalportrait #dogs #StrovArt #IgnoreThisStuff
The Thicket [2025] another poor film - thank goodness for Peter Dinkladge. Goodness me what has happened to making films?.... #TheThicket #FilmSky #MovieOpinion #TheRealFilmCricket #FilmOpinion #Film #Movie therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/t...
The Thicket [2025] it has Peter Dinklage so is worth watching but that is it – I thought the title meant a place in ‘the West’ but it might mean the intellegence of everyone involved in the story!
Reginald Jones, a successful bounty hunter, goes off to try and stop the nasty, ugly, weird voiced, obvious crimal Cutthroat Bill who is a lady – she has kidnapped a sister of one of his comp…
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@jameschristopher.bsky.social remember this? Just looking through my art folders - the old days when Twitter wasn't Twatter and wasn't too bad to be on...sometimes it was even fun! Aaaaah - the good old days...
Four Weeks - by David Strover - a portrait of fear, camaraderie, and bravery in a world where every dawn could be the last. I bought a copy to check the print - told @jameschristopher.bsky.social [personal conversation] that even though I wrote it - it is a f-king good story, and well written.
Squeak - gone before I painted him. I never met him or knew him but his owners now have this. #painting #art #artist #paint #gouache #petportrait #StrovArt #ignoreforfun #threelikeisBlueSkyrecord
🎥House of Frankenstein [1944] Universal horror films were my first step into monsters as a very young lad - watching them on BBC2 late on Saturday night. It was fun...I'm 63 now 😂 #HouseofFrankenstein #Film #TheREALFilmCricket #filmopinion #FilmSky therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/h...
House of Frankenstein [1944] – Karloff is great, not monstrously great but great, if you get mixed up with this lot things are not going to end well for you – and fairly quickly too. Best go to Spain ...
1944 – a horror tale involving Dracula, Frankenstein, a werewolf and a pyschopathic professor. If only they’d have signed up for the armed services the war would have finised a week lat…
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Famous people need not worry about their images making me money - I have never even given a copy of this book away, let alone managed to sell one! 😂 #art #egomaniac #billionaireinthemaking #suedbythefamous #painting #artbook #wasteoftime
🎥Just finished watching The Railway Children on BBC2; fking fantastic. Don't care what anyone thinks, I have it on BluRay; I still watch it when it comes on TV. Reminds me of a absolutely hypnotised 9 year old with parents in the Gaumont. Loved it then, love it now. Mr Cribbins is fantastic #FilmSky
🎥Blade Runner was released June 25 in 1982. I saw it in the cinema as soon as it came to Southampton in the UK. I LOVED it, I bought every version, I watched/read everything about it including the story...I painted these - I HAD TO! #FilmSky #BladeRunner #RoyBatty #Rachel #Art #Portraits #Painting
1/2 This man was my father, he joined the Royal Navy at 16 [was angry when he found out he could join at 15] to fight the Germany Axis who were hoping to REFORM the world and RESTORE their Empire - luckily there is nothing like that around anymore.....oh....good job he died at 94 I guess.
Southampton Gatehouse - Broadlands Estate, Hampshire UK, my wife always comments on it when we drive by, so I said I paint it for her. I tried anyway. To be honest my mental health with 'caring' is poor at the moment; my happiness and confidence very low #art #landscape #painting #StrovArt #artist
🎥 Red Dog [2011] what I thought - is that an echo I can hear? #RedDog #SkyFilm #BlueFilm #FilmOpinion #PleaseIgnoreThis #Movies #REALFilmCricket #Films therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/r...
Red Dog [2011] certainly is brighter, cleverer, and more on the ball than any men who worked on iron excavation sites…obviously. Better at fighting too….
Red Dog Director: Kriv Stenders Writers: Daniel Taplitz, Louis de Bernières Featuring: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rohan Nicol, Luke Ford, Arthur Angel, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Loene Carm…
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🎥Let Sleeping Corpses Lie [Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue] - Not good, even for the time it was made. If you love this you'll hate me; to be fair the characters behave like a lot of people in the UK nowadays... #filmsky #film #theREALfilmcricket therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/l...
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie – I would imagine this is what the corpses said when the watched this…8 out of 10, surely they thought the top mark was 1000?
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie [Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue] Director: Jorge Grau Writers: Sandro Continenza, Marcello Coscia, Juan Cobos, Miguel Rubio Featuring: Ray Lovelock, Crist…
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🎥Well this is some sad news - always like his acting and found him funny on screen and when he was being himself on TV - the record he leaves behind is impressive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.
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🎥The Choral [2025] - Ralph Fiennes in an Alan Bennett written film that feels like it should have been a longer TV show. Not a favourite of mine but that's what happens when you will watch nearly any film once... #film #movies #TheChoral #filmopinion therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/t...
The Choral – you might like choral music, but surely you don’t like war…and those strange errrr….chaps?
The Choral Director: Nicholas Hytner Writers: Alan Bennett, Stephen Beresford Featuring: Ralph Fiennes, Alun Armstrong, Mark Addy, Roger Allum, Ron Cook, Oliver Briscombe, Taylor Uttley…
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1/2 Here he is - can't explain why but I had to paint this it was stuck in my mind - one of my most memorable and favourite films Mr Bernard Cribbins in The Railway Children 🎥 #BernardCribbins #TheRailwayChildren #portrait #painting #art #artist #portraitpainting #StrovArt #gouache #art #filmart
