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🎬 Not sure if this one has been hiding or if it just arrived on Netflix. But - added to queue and on the cards for tonight.

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No plans to go - zero interest and the other two choices are ‘Project Hail Mary’ and ‘Devil 2’.

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BUT - I was taken by the Silky Otter’s plot summary.

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That’s got to be AI - No❓

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The other summaries do seem more considered, so perhaps the summary writer is as inspired by ‘Michael’ as I am.

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Inspired by @derekpeden I recently started to rate movies, shows and books on a consistent scale - with real rules and bit by bit visiting the archives and updating accordingly.\nPosted my 🎬🖇️ Peaky Blinders review this morning and even I was shocked how low it came out - in the old days it would have hit 3 1/2 for sure.

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Not yet finished the series - which is telling even of itself - but my review is likely going to lean towards 🎬🔗 Andrei’s

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At first blush, the German heist strikes me as less Oceans 11 and more Sexy Beast.

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Rewatched 🎬🔗 The Thursday Murder Club last night. Turns out the first time I watched it I didn’t log it.

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🔗 Fixed

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At the time I remember I gave it 3 stars - because being a big fan of the books - expectations high.

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Now I give it 4 - Because I wasn’t expecting much.

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I guess the truth sits at around 3 1/2.

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TIL that Glen Close has been nominated for an Oscar eight times. 🎬🤯

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I know how he feels. 🖇️🎬 My Review 😂

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I did watch 🎬 One Battle After Another - and it was absolutely marvelous. I do my reviews on Lettrboxd which get pulled to my blog - not sure yet how top connect all that with all this new stuff on micro.blog to create a seamless experience - so until then .. you can get to the review here.

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One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½: john.philpin.com

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Just rewatched: Red Notice 🎬

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🖇️ ‘Full’ Review

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🎬 Watched: Black Bag and it was so good.

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Addendum 25-10-10

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This post was also a test of new @manton functionality on micro.blog. Usual review here .. next job is how to efficiently merge these two worlds

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🎬 Wait … Foundation 3 is on the way? Haven’t even started Foundation 2

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🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.

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Popped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!

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So Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable ❓

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😂😂😂

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🎬 Seriously? The Accountant 2?

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Updated my 🔗🎬 Mythic Quest review to include the 4th series .. watched the final episode last night.

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\"The

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Should it be 5 stars?

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Probably because it is quite simply an absolute spectacular gem.

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🖇️ After one episode I wrote:

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🎬 Cordelia Cupp is my new hero. Absolutely F A N T A S T I C stuff.\nThe writer Paul William Davies is masterfully channeling David Hare’s ‘rapid exchange’ in the dialogue and Uzo Aduba is brilliant in the role.

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It’s a Shonda Rhymes production - and additional cast hat tips to ‘Giancarlo’ for playing the dead guy, Al Franken playing himself a Senator and Jane Curtin who knew all along? But really a wonderful cast, story, set up.

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Yes it’s a ‘whodunnit’ - but that isn’t the point.

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The Residence on 🔗 Reelgood

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‘All’ My TV Show Reviews

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🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025

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Peter O’Toole starred in 🔗🎬The Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The 🎵📼 last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.

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💬 Dave Winer

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I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)

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Four years earlier was 🔗🎬 If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.

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🎬 Cordelia Cupp is my new hero. Absolutely F A N T A S T I C stuff.

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The writer Paul William Davies is masterfully channeling David Hare’s ‘rapid exchange’ in the dialogue and Uzo Aduba is brilliant in the role.

\n

I have only watched episode 1 - but I am IN!

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🎬 I thought that was a typo for a minute there .. but no … #OnTheList

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🔗 📼 A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer

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No plans to see it - but was reminded that around 15 months ago we were looking for a place to live in Auckland and everywhere we tried was gone before we got there - apparently three movies were in town filming (end of 2023) - but the biggest ‘secret’ was a ‘Moma film about a video game’. And here we are 18 months later …

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🖇️ Re this - fixed. It seems that I am definitely am all over the place on movie watching.

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Been a while since I posted any film reviews.

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Now, at the age of 94, Clint’s career is finally winding down towards its end …

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A random quote I just stumbled across … replace 94 with 84 - and the quote would still have been valid ten years ago

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Since then he’s directed 8 films including Jersey Boys, American Sniper and Sully …

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Maybe he’ll see 104?

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I’ll come back to this later. Lefsetz has already connected some dots .. but he didn’t go on and introduce the lurking ‘hobby’ that ‘solves this’ and is a clear and present danger to the entertainment industry if they continue to focus on BAU.

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The last paragraph.

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🎈147/366 I’m enjoying it but I’m feeling that the pitch was Sliding Doors meets Doctor Who.

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I watched a lovely little movie last night - fresh out on Netflix with Bill Nighy in the lead role.

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On Netflix

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Great movie? Not at all. Just one of those lovely little movies that I happen to enjoy - and seemingly that Bill happens to enjoy making.

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Anyway - it got me to wondering. Is there really a soccer World Cup for homeless people? Turns out yes - yes there is …

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The Real Story Behind The Beautiful Game

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Member Countries — Homeless World Cup

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I am part of a burgeoning collective that is out there and can be found - but we aren’t yet promoting. Homelessness is one of the threads running through the collective. I haven’t heard talk of this particular event - BUT - I am going to post this post into the timeless space and see what I can find.

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Want to know more about that collective and what we are doing - Let Me Know

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\"straight

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BTW - It probably isn’t a coincidence that it was released just as the 2024 competition is happening.

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Started watching a new series on Netflix. First episode definitely has me hooked ,,, though it seemed that I knew the plot. So, looked it up. Of course I knew the plot. It was a movie from a 5(?) years ago. A very good movie actually. But different as it was, the connections were tight - even down to the directorial style. It was if the TV dude was emulating the Film dude … 🤦‍♂️ similar! Identical. It was the same director - Guy Ritchie - I do love me some ‘Guy’.

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Turns out that he made the movie and then turned around and said - right them let’s do a TV show. It’s going to be good.

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🖇️ 📽️ The Gentlemen

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🎵 🎬 Listening to Steve Howe in interview and my mind keeps hearing Billy Mac (Bill Nighy) being interviewed in Love Actually.

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🎬 🔗 Netflix Has The Best Assassin Movie of 2024 — Why Is It Being Buried? (Apple News)

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Never heard of it. But then it isn’t coming out until June. Added to my list for sure. But why is it being ‘buried’? Well first we have to ask is it being buried? I am not sure it is?

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🔗 LIfe Imitating Art? … that is if 🎬 Love Actually counts as ‘art’?

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Friend 1: Do not watch ‘🔗 🎬 Leave The World Behind’.

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Friend 2 : I’ll watch it - I like to make my own mind up, not just listen to what others think.

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Me : Cool - have you seen Barbie?

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Friend 2 : Oh no. I don’t like the messaging behind that one.

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Me : Messaging? What about making ….. oh never mind.

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🔗 🎬 Decisions Decisions

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Rent 3.99\nBuy 14.99

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Will I watch it 4 times?

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🎬 Spinal Tap 2 … 👎 or 👍 ❓

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🎬 Evgeny Afineevsky is director of ‘Freedom On Fire’ .. it’s about to start … private showing at the conference .. he will be talking afterwards.

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📎 The rock’s the star: meditative film about a Cornish stone goes global

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Added this 🎬 to my ‘find and watch’ list.

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… and 🔗 this one … though totally different.

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🎬 When I read sometime next week about how Barbie is ‘out performing’ Oppenheimer at the box office, I will point people to this image. I admit it is but one theatre in the nation - but I bet the proportions of screens are about right.

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🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.

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Over three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …

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Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.

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🎬 I think I’m going to go watch Barbie 10 times.

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🎬 It would be around 1,315 days - cant be more exact, because I am not sure of the first date, since I last went to a Theater to watch a movie.

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The movie back in late 2019 was Knives Out, yesterday’s was Asteroid City. (I only reviewed 🖇️ Knives Out 2) - 3 stars and flagged as better than 1 if that gives you a clue.

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Both coincidentally featured an ‘ensemble cast’. (I don’t make a habit of those kinds of movies.)

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But the funny thing is that we saw last night’s movie with the same couple that we saw Knives Out. That is the only time we have been to the movies with those friends and the only time we have been to that particular Theater.

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Like pandemic bookends.

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🎬 There’s a movie out there just released called the 🔗 Sound of Freedom

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Good reviews on IMDB … serious subject … but it seems to this observer that it is being artificially promoted. I’ve also had some back chatter that all is not what it seems.

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Any thoughts from those that read this post?

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🖇️ See Extraction 2!

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🎵 This Is Not America was always a 🎵musical favorite in my world - as indeed was The Falcon and The Snowman, which featured the song … and then the movie came to mind this morning as I was catching up on my ‘piece of glass’.

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To some, the meaning of the lyrics …

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A little piece of you,
\nthe little piece in me,
\nwill die
\n(this is not a miracle)
\nFor this is not America

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… seem to be shrouded in mystery - but to me - not really. At the simplest level they seem to reference that the geography that the two characters found themselves in was definitely not America. Happy Days … you could leave wherever you are - come home to America - and all would be ‘well’ again.

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Fast forward 35 years.

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The lyrics remain relevant - except now you don’t need to leave America. And because of that, there is no longer that safe haven that our two ‘heroes’ wanted to return to.

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(Yes - I am having a day - and it’s not even 11am)

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Later - in the title, I really wanted to use the Americn Flag EMOJI - but for some reason, it wasn’t rendering correctly on the web site ….

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So I changed it.

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-27T05:52:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/this-is-not.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Film Refs","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/24/about-nicholas-cage.html", "title": "🎬 About Nicholas Cage", "content_html": "

Cage on 60 Minutes

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As @drewcastillo and I recently riffed - he really is very good. Sure he’s got some duds - don’t we all? Off the top of my head - some of my favorites (alphabetical - to avoid ‘ranking’) …

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… and a few more that I have forgotten.

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(and no - Unbearable Weight is not forgotten - just haven’t seen it yet.)

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-25T13:22:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/24/about-nicholas-cage.html", "tags": ["? Videos","? Film Refs","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/07/ummm-everything-everywhere.html", "content_html": "

Ummm ….

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🎬 Everything Everywhere: What Does the Everything Bagel Mean?

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-08T11:44:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/07/ummm-everything-everywhere.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/06/oh-yes.html", "content_html": "

🎬 Oh Yes.

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-07T08:10:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/06/oh-yes.html", "tags": ["? Videos","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/27/biggest-rig-ive.html", "content_html": "

BIGGEST RIG I’VE EVER SEEN : Diaries of Note

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Is this possibly a back story to 🎬 The Banger Sisters?

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-28T05:00:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/27/biggest-rig-ive.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/22/myfilms-and-myfilmreferences.html", "content_html": "

‘🎥 MyFilmReviews’ and ‘🎬 MyFilmReferences’ are now clearly delineated and once the MicroBlog category filter catches up and gets back into synch it will be a lot easier to find relevant posts.

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PS - I am fully aware that only I care about (or even use) the categories.

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-23T11:19:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/22/myfilms-and-myfilmreferences.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/19/this-is-the.html", "title": "🎵 This Is The End", "content_html": "

I wrote an email this morning, responding to something that had been sent to me, announcing - and I paraphrase - that despite the longevity of the work that he had been personally driving for decades, he has decided that this was indeed - ‘the end’.

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I guess it is one of those days, where every where you look, every page you turn emotion takes over and (at least for me), music takes hold.

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Because I - and indeed he - are ‘of a certain age’, ‘The End’ came to mind. (If you aren’t of a certain age - I commend you to watch just one (if not all three) of the YouTubes below.) If you are of a certain age - you don’t need me to tell you.

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This is the end
\nBeautiful friend
\nThis is the end
\nMy only friend, the end

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Of our elaborate plans, the end
\nOf everything that stands, the end
\nNo safety or surprise, the end
\nI’ll never look into your eyes again

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The Full Lyrics

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“Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood."

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💬 Jim Morrison

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If you want a really good cry, the images most certainly do nothing to distract from the pain of the song …

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🎥 Apocalypse Now

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If you want to listen to the original recording of nearly 11 minutes that took just 30 minutes of studio time (think about that) …

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🎵 The original recording

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If you are of the live music persuasion… in the US you had Woodstock. In the UK we had The Isle of Wight …

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🔗 Live at The Isle of Wight in 1970

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-20T12:32:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/19/this-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Films","? WWW","? Quotes","? Videos","? Film Refs","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/11/logging-for-triage.html", "title": "🎬 Logging For Triage", "content_html": "

Seen them all and bit by bit will review and rate properly.

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-10T23:14:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/11/logging-for-triage.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/10/great-liitle-movies.html", "title": "🎬 Great ‘Little’ Movies ‘From’ The ‘British Isles’", "content_html": "

You know what I’m talking about.

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-10T20:42:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/10/great-liitle-movies.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/09/it-seems-that.html", "content_html": "

🎬 It seems that if I adjust a Letterboxd post … it pushes it into the feed again … sorry about that.

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-09T18:20:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/09/it-seems-that.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/09/im-going-to.html", "content_html": "

🎬 I’m Going To Need Some Convincing Before I Watch These

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Movies that seem to be popular … but something doesn’t sit right … for me at least.

\n\n", "date_published": "2023-01-09T17:26:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/09/im-going-to.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/09/apologies-for-the.html", "content_html": "

Apologies for the mini timeline flooding with movies. Sorting out and categorizing - if I am not done - I am nearly done.

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[My Film Category](https://john.philpin.com/categories/films/) now has two different emojis in the title

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🎬 is just a comment on ...

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🎥 is a movie ‘review’ that ties back to Lettrboxd - where I followed a few MicroBloggers just last night. 

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Probably not all of you - but if you are here and want a follow - reply to this thread.

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-09T11:36:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/09/apologies-for-the.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/12/moonage-daydream-apple.html", "content_html": "

🎵 🎬 Moonage Daydream (Apple Link) just added to my ‘watch later’ movie queue.

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-12T09:05:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/12/moonage-daydream-apple.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/26/blind-ambition-just.html", "content_html": "

Just added 🎥 Blind Ambition to my watch list.

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I recently watched 🎥 Uncorked .. which has nothing to do with Blind Ambition - but have you noticed how studios often release related / competitive movies at the same time?

\n", "date_published": "2022-10-26T11:44:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/26/blind-ambition-just.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/15/interesting-how-amsterdam.html", "content_html": "

Interesting how 🎬 Amsterdam and 🎙️ Ultra seem to be connected by the same true story.

\n", "date_published": "2022-10-15T08:50:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/15/interesting-how-amsterdam.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/01/my-lettrboxd-import.html", "content_html": "

My Lettrboxd import worked, so cleaning up ‘film’ category and adding a collection of ‘🎥’.

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That said … Category Film is not QUITE the same if you ‘find’ 🎥

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Distinction?

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Not quite there on the articulation - much less on the consistency of application!

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\n", "date_published": "2022-10-01T11:30:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/01/my-lettrboxd-import.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/30/just-too-good.html", "title": "🎬 Just Too GOOD - but you might have missed.", "content_html": "

This is not a list designed to be ALL great movies - just those great movies that you might have missed as you journey through life.

\n\n", "date_published": "2022-10-01T00:38:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/30/just-too-good.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/24/amazon-is-fixing.html", "content_html": "

Amazon is fixing the AC at a warehouse where a worker died on Prime Day.

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The horse may have bolted - but there are plenty more horses in the warehouses … so something needed to be done.

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🎬 Talking of Horses

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-24T09:10:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/24/amazon-is-fixing.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/15/has-anybody-seen.html", "content_html": "

🎬 Has anybody seen the film ‘Luce’.

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Good? Bad?

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-15T16:28:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/15/has-anybody-seen.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/06/26/there-is-a.html", "content_html": "

🎬 🎵 There is a new movie from New Zealand coming out … the entire dialogue is gibberish

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My mind went back to 1969 when Eric Sykes launched Rhubarb on to the world.

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Nothing you create is ultimately your own, yet all of it is you. Your imagination, it seems to me, is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence, and is not intrinsic to you, rather it is a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.

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💬 Nick Cave

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-26T09:22:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/06/26/there-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/21/gary-sinise-leonardo.html", "content_html": "

🎬 Gary Sinise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe and Gene Hackman … it’s got to be a good one .. no?

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-21T17:50:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/21/gary-sinise-leonardo.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/10/the-power-of.html", "content_html": "

🎬 The Power Of The Dog: Meaning

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… yeah - thought so. I am no bible scholar, but after watching it, I had concluded some version of that.

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I looked it up because I felt that after all the hoohah - I must have been missing something.

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I wasn’t.

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Sorry - 6/10.

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-10T14:11:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/10/the-power-of.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/27/rent-for-or.html", "content_html": "

🎬 Rent for $5.99 or Buy for $9.99 … I didn’t expect to see that kind of offer on a movie as well reviewed as Dune!

\n", "date_published": "2022-02-27T17:59:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/27/rent-for-or.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/28/knives-out-is.html", "content_html": "

🎬 Knives Out 2 is Expected to Release in Late 2022

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This is a perfect example of why I know that I am an edge case.

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I don’t even get why they bothered making ‘Knives Out’ to begin with.

\n", "date_published": "2022-01-28T12:25:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/28/knives-out-is.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/09/21/every-time-i.html", "content_html": "

Every time I walk by this ‘fence’ on the daily constitutional I am reminded of the toll gate booth scene in 🎬 Blazing Saddles.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2021-09-21T17:19:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/21/every-time-i.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/01/shouldnt-be-recognized.html", "content_html": "

Shouldn’t 🎬 be recognized as a film 🎥 emoji on micro blog?

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// @manton @Vincent @burk

\n", "date_published": "2021-08-01T10:51:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/01/shouldnt-be-recognized.html", "tags": ["? Films","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/30/scarlett-johansson-sues.html", "content_html": "

🎬 🎵 Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release

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Finally the film world begins to wrap its head around the issues that have plagued musicians since the MP3.

\n", "date_published": "2021-07-30T10:05:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/30/scarlett-johansson-sues.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/11/if-you-have.html", "content_html": "

If you have seen 📺 ‘Ted Lasso’ and liked (who didn’t?) … you might Enjoy 🎬 ’The Merger’ … it’s on Netflix.

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Oz rules football rather than ‘just football’ … but the underlying sentiments are equally powerful.

\n", "date_published": "2021-07-11T14:37:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/11/if-you-have.html", "tags": ["? Shows","? Film Refs","? Show Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/16/it-is-clear.html", "content_html": "

🎬 It is clear that Netanyahu just watched ‘Wag The Dog’

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-16T10:59:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/16/it-is-clear.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/13/the-cast-for.html", "content_html": "

🎬 The cast for the first Knives Out sequel is shaping up to be pretty awesome.

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The ‘first’ sequel? A sequel is worrying enough - that there are more in the hopper is deeply concerning.

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Such a crap movie … I guess they are doubling down.

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-13T11:20:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/13/the-cast-for.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/11/23/is-there-any.html", "content_html": "

🎬 🎵 Is there any movie that features Miami that doesn’t open with a camera out at sea - rushing toward the shore line across the water at speed?

\n", "date_published": "2020-11-23T21:24:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/11/23/is-there-any.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/05/watching-the-cash.html", "content_html": "

🎶 🎬 Watching the Cash / Nixon documentary … not the movie … the documentary.

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Watch it.

\n", "date_published": "2020-06-05T21:50:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/05/watching-the-cash.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/07/clive-davis-the.html", "content_html": "

🎵🎬 Clive Davis

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The Soundtrack Of Our Lives

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WOW

\n", "date_published": "2020-03-07T21:41:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/07/clive-davis-the.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/10/17/brit-film-ten.html", "content_html": "

🎬 Brit Film: Ten British Gangster Films to Watch – Which is Your Favo(u)rite?

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I have to say that for the ones I have seen they should definitely be on the list - which makes me think I should go find the ones I haven’t.

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Any missing in your opinion?

\n", "date_published": "2019-10-18T04:06:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/10/17/brit-film-ten.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/01/the-value-of.html", "title": "The Value​ Of People", "content_html": "\n

There's some fucking guy, scientist or something. Real sick bastard. Says he measured out the remains, the cremated remains of a dead man. Measured out the, uh, minerals left behind, you know? The iron phosphates, the ... whatever it is we're made up of. Says he added it all up to the cost of $4.40.

$4.40. Burnt down man's worth less than a fucking Big Mac.

Michael Grey played by Liam Cunningham in The Numbers Station
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I caught The Numbers Station over the weekend, and that is the opening dialogue. It resonated. I know nought of the truth - but it does seem about right.

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After last week's newsletter, and the responses, I have thought about it more and more. How we as a society spend so much ... too much ... time reducing anything ... everything ... to a value based on the component parts.

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We know that the click bait mongers of the internet write stuff like this - to save you the click through it’s all about adding together the cost of the sum of the parts of an iPhone - and thus by extrapolation conclude that Apple is - as we might say in England ... 'Aving A Larf'. Total BS and nonsense but there are still people who argue that SApple are riping us off.

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No - this is not a defence of Apple - but to ask a question.

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Isn't this exactly what businesses do every day week, month and year to people. You earn a salary or wage based on what they consider is your worth to them while they rent you for the 40, 50, 60 hours each week that you are in their service?

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But it's worse. The value is not just for the sum of your component parts, but actually for the sum of your component parts that they think they need, and everything else is ignored. Your component parts are what they have defined are needed to do the job that they have defined needs to be done. Everything else is of zero value.

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Thinking Allowed

\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\n\n", "date_published": "2019-07-02T05:38:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/01/the-value-of.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Quotes","? Film Refs","? LongForm","People First"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/16/its-trainspotting-does.html", "content_html": "

🎵🎬 “It’s ‘Trainspotting’ does Creation” – Alan McGee tells us about his new biopic, made by Irvine Welsh and Danny Boyle

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“It’s got me and my dad walking into the sunset, but I haven’t fucking spoken to my dad for 30 years so it ain’t gonna be that realistic.”

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How sad.

\n", "date_published": "2019-04-17T02:35:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/16/its-trainspotting-does.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/11/22/004218.html", "content_html": "

🎬 The Magus

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”If I had to live my life again, I’d do everything the same, except that I wouldn’t see The Magus."

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Woody Allen

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Definitely with him. One of the best books ever - coupled with one of the worst films - BUT - in the right hands … a remake would be awesome.

\n", "date_published": "2018-11-22T12:42:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/11/21/004218.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/10/19/a-star-is.html", "content_html": "

🎬 🎵 1954 - A Star is Born

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Never saw it - but I think this was the story’s second celluloid outing … I hated the third - so had no plans for the fourth … but the reviews are too good.

\n", "date_published": "2018-10-20T08:00:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/10/19/a-star-is.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/23/phantom-thread-nominated.html", "title": "🎬 Phantom Thread Nominated For Six Oscars", "content_html": "
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They’re all sewing away …. and I see Somner run through the scene and say, “Alright, you gotta get this dress ready! Here we go! Everybody ready and ACTION!”

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And they all kept sewing at exactly the same pace they had been sewing and I couldn’t stop laughing.

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Paul Thomas Anderson

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Full Article

\n", "date_published": "2018-02-24T04:25:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/23/phantom-thread-nominated.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs","? LongForm"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/09/the-hundred-foot.html", "content_html": "

🎬 The Hundred Foot Journey

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I saw something this morning float by in the stream claiming that France has the ‘best restaurant in the world’. Quite apart from a personal objection to applying words like ‘best’ to something that is a qualitative opinion … I was reminded of this exchange from the movie.

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Madame Mallory

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”What is this flavor that is fighting against the chicken ?”

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Hassan

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”I added some spices for flavor to the sauce, and coriander for garnish and freshness.”

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Madame Mallory

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”But why change a recipe that is 200 years old ?”

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Hassan

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”Because, madam, maybe 200 years is long enough.\"

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\n", "date_published": "2018-02-10T07:01:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/09/the-hundred-foot.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/06/to-yuma-on.html", "content_html": "

🎬 3:10 To Yuma … on my list
3:17 To Paris … not on my list

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Yes … I know it’s “15:17 To Paris” … but that spoiled the flow.

\n", "date_published": "2018-02-06T16:00:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/05/to-yuma-on.html", "tags": ["? Film Refs"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/04/the-shape-of.html", "content_html": "

🎬 AT IMDB : The Shape of Water

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RATING : 🌟🌟

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COMMENTS : Didn’t want to see it based on the ads … and then it won all of those nominations. Still wish I hadn’t bothered.

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I had an idea to add 🎬 to the discover thread maybe also 👩🏽 to help us find more diverse people to follow?

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An Idea Re 🎬

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Are we adding 🎬 to the 📚 and 🎵 search capability any time soon?

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🎬 🎵 Doctor Strange and Pink Floyd Read All About It
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