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Dan M

@firstdan.bsky.social

South London, jazz, Spain, films, New York.

created September 18, 2023

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It’s not just English speakers who are at it, though:

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25/8/2025, 9:00:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All that. And Tony Scott’s Unstoppable a decent companion to it.

23/8/2025, 6:16:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glad to know you’re in the best place in London.

21/8/2025, 9:32:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wonderful! A Rosenberg arrangement?

9/8/2025, 6:06:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was a very good Bunker about this just the other day.

3/8/2025, 8:43:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bad but good ones: Waterworld, Showgirls, Batman Forever, Braveheart, Species, Jade...err...ok, maybe not quite a top 10.

28/7/2025, 1:58:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's enough for a top 20 here - and even a top 10 'bad but good ones'. Here's my second top 10: 12 Monkeys, Hackers, GoldenEye, Babe, La Haine, Leaving Las Vegas, Safe, To Die For, Welcome to the Dollhouse

28/7/2025, 1:54:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Community Fibre all the way (if it's available).

21/7/2025, 3:50:37 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Including ‘eurosceptic’, as well.

14/7/2025, 7:16:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seems odd for that one to be an 18 cert, but maybe I don't remember it well enough.

13/7/2025, 9:58:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will do. And also about the other Moviedromes I’ve kept for all this time.

7/7/2025, 2:27:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have it on VHS.

6/7/2025, 9:57:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agreed. Case in point - an entertaining thread that’s been going for 15 years where ppl theorise and comment on the film Memento. There are new posts every so often and they’re mostly reasonable and informed. And the civility of it all feels like it’s from another era.

23/6/2025, 9:13:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some great, if brief, appearances as a youngster in Alien 3 and Law & Order.

20/6/2025, 3:57:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These two weeks?

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19/6/2025, 6:35:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And another zombie movie with '28' in the title.

19/6/2025, 4:09:42 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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.edosipe elbayojne yllaer A

17/6/2025, 2:20:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like it

11/6/2025, 4:23:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very good episode, of course.

9/6/2025, 4:06:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounded like something was missing in the edit. At the beginning, JS talked about Trump’s hair and then we missed the punchline.

9/6/2025, 4:03:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Karma for 2016.

2/6/2025, 3:20:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His brand’s kitchen surface disinfectant isn’t great either. Loosens dirt slower than many others we’ve tried.

23/5/2025, 8:40:32 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Zimmer score and the Scott quip in the opening scene (re Cruise’s constant grinning) help a little to cover the preening and silliness. But surely just the fact that Woo could do what he did in such a big franchise was impressive. Never bothered with Paycheck.

18/5/2025, 5:40:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I agree on M:I-2’s script, but what about the shooting style? The balletic ‘raid on Biocyte’ scene and the clever motorbike chase at the end are ones to savour, in my view. And just the way Woo fetishises Cruise’s features…

18/5/2025, 4:52:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some genuine jaw-dropping moments in this: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

20/4/2025, 6:00:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Visually, that reminds me of Trump’s scrawl.

16/3/2025, 2:29:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Needless to say, I’m looking forward to it.

14/3/2025, 1:48:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s an entirely new feed, isn’t it? So subscribers to the original will need to search for the new one, by the look of it.

14/3/2025, 1:48:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Classic bully. He only picks on who he thinks are 'little' people. Never anyone equal or more powerful.

6/3/2025, 5:19:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trussonomics

4/3/2025, 4:13:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I remember Attila from Hungary was pretty good as well.

26/2/2025, 10:10:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Simon Brew recommended it just today: bsky.app/profile/simo...

25/2/2025, 10:39:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really good, isn’t it. Also available here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

18/2/2025, 10:23:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very timely. And very prescient.

14/2/2025, 4:12:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Separated at birth?

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30/1/2025, 11:29:11 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In Spanish, the stress is where you see the accent: Pérez

17/1/2025, 11:34:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Henry Hill?

13/1/2025, 10:50:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can never get out of my head the fact that Bannon produced the film Titus. And we know how that one ends…

12/1/2025, 11:21:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Here’s a link to the prog on demand: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

5/1/2025, 9:09:03 AM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn’t it before Alperton on the Piccadilly Line?

2/1/2025, 10:35:14 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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St George’s Hall, Liverpool, no?

27/12/2024, 3:59:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I loved Panic Room on the first watch, but then on further viewings I realised just how shallow it was. The film equivalent of Reeves/Mortimer’s Dizzy.

10/12/2024, 11:28:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Topsy Turvy all the way.

1/12/2024, 4:11:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I reckon he wants to ‘buy’ Britain…

29/11/2024, 9:36:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe jumping the gap in the horseshoe and heading over to Galloway’s party?

28/11/2024, 2:38:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Act 3 was pure Yuzna-meets-De Palma. Unexpected but great to see

24/11/2024, 7:45:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This one led me to discover that Alan Smithee has a really long filmography. And IMDB says he’s even got some upcoming projects.

19/11/2024, 11:25:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow - I didn’t realise he’d released so many albums.

18/11/2024, 8:18:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Done that already and look where it got us.

18/11/2024, 10:58:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@catworkers.bsky.social

17/11/2024, 12:36:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Michael Hunsaker for me.

13/11/2024, 11:03:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You see that a lot in the US (unsurprisingly).

12/11/2024, 3:52:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.ellensstardustdiner.com

7/11/2024, 7:27:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And how does inheriting money automatically give someone the motivation to create new businesses?

4/11/2024, 10:45:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agreed, but I did still like it

27/10/2024, 9:41:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I forgot!

27/10/2024, 9:40:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And The Sixth Sense copied it, making megabucks.

26/10/2024, 8:27:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re not the only one: www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

21/10/2024, 4:30:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe he could even give the names of those highly successful English managers he’s thinking of…

17/10/2024, 12:51:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looking forward to seeing it! My person favourite is A Private Function.

27/9/2024, 2:08:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hopefully it won’t be broken as long as this one was:

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21/8/2024, 9:29:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He sounded like my grandfather did when he spoke without having put his dentures in.

13/8/2024, 11:42:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely awful TV and I had to switch off after 20 mins. Bit concerned that the £2000 figure may become 2024’s equivalent of ‘£350M a week’.

5/6/2024, 7:50:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Synthemesc and drencrum

27/5/2024, 7:20:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s always sunny in Bluesky.

23/11/2023, 8:41:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view