I'm really looking forward to watching #CaptainBlood (1935) with @curiodik1dik2.bsky.social for #WFWWW tonight. #FilmSky

Amazing night at the beautiful #Sheffield City Hall seeing the phenomenally-talented #BowieExperience. Tunes (obvs.), musicianship, stagecraft, atmosphere - all incredible. It was so SO good and the audience went wild. If you get chance to see it on tour, seize it. #DavidBowie #MusicSky

"We will ask mercy from the Great Heart..." Its technical prowess and historical significance don't come within a billion miles of negating its vile, racist, bigoted, pernicious and cruel content. As groundbreaking as it is sickening, it's the most abhorrent movie I'll ever see. #WFWWW #FilmSky

"Come to a masked ball I'm giving on the Zeppelin..." Betrayed wife, disguised as a devil woman, seduces her cheating husband during a kinky, costume-themed airship orgy. Then disaster strikes and it's every parachutist for themselves... Pre-Code insanity. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0021...

Except that's Scott Fitzgerald. #BookSky

I've wanted a slightly oversized trenchcoat for ages, this £40 one in a #Leeds vintage store fits me perfectly round the shoulders and because there's a slight stain on the sleeve that a dry cleaner can get out, they sold it to me for £15. #Bargain #CoatSky #Bogart #Casablanca #TheBigSleep #FilmSky

"Dead men can't rightly defend themselves..." Spencer Tracy wants to write about the life of a recently-deceased national treasure - but some things don't add up... Brilliant, with a genuinely spine-chilling final twist that I wasn't expecting at all. www.imdb.com/title/tt0034...

"You're a wonderful man and it strikes me you can be mighty useful walkin' around for a while..." Robert Riskin was a hell of a writer, evidenced perfectly by the powerful near-monologues delivered by Regis Toomey and James Gleason in this wonderful film. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0033...

Michael Curtiz on the set of #CaptainBlood (1935). #FilmSky

"Land's no good when there's always lead flyin' over it..." William Wyler, Gregg Toland and Gary Cooper - what more can you ask? Flawlessly-directed, beautifully-shot and brilliantly-acted, it may well be the definitive Cooper role, if such a thing exists. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0033...

"Our army is drowning in its own blood..." The single most extraordinary TV series I have ever seen. Its footage, narration and, most staggering of all, recollections of the veterans, conspire to produce true and astonishing documentary greatness. Wow. #TVSky #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0057...

"I will drive your chariot!" After two chaotic years' shooting in Italy, production began over in America and a silent masterpiece was born. I was lucky enough to see it with live musical accompaniment in a 1920s cinema a decade ago and that was incredible. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0016...

"It's a bad town to bring an appetite to, soldier..." I first saw it in a Year 10 history lesson, read the novel around that time and have returned to it several times over the years. It really is astonishingly good, not least in its battle scenes. Timeless. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0020...

"He was runnin' from the day he was born..." Remarkable in that Austin Butler is as good as possible and Tom Hanks absolutely dreadful but mainly in that in 159 minutes you learn almost nothing about Elvis himself. So much gloss but so little insight. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt3704...

"You look better than Veronica Lake..." The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...

"We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess..." Glorious on the big screen, this beautiful Christmas tale of resilience, plastic explosives, detonators, family, machine guns, bureaucracy, incompetence and the media is one of the greatest movies ever made. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0095...

Read about this at the weekend in the Karloff book you passed on to me and really fancy watching it again now!

"The murderer of ten thousand men returns to the place of his crime..." Necrophiliac Satanist builds creepy house on site of the dynamite-laden fort he betrayed to the Russians in World War One - and its vengeful commander aims to skin him alive... Superb. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0024...

"Pretty boy, you please me very much..." A very strange film for many reasons - the cuts from silent to re-shot sound footage, the dubbing, tinting, Technicolor and often stilted dialogue. But I really enjoyed it and found some parts absolutely brilliant. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0020...

It's #GatSaturday - me, @donny222.bsky.social and @curiodik1dik2.bsky.social working through #LittleCaesar (1931), #ThePublicEnemy (1931) and #Scarface (1932). Tommy Guns, pineapples, speakeasies, incest, murder and booze all in their pre-Code glory. Follow me for mini 'reviews' later, #FilmSky.

"Hell won't be worse than this..." British destroyer sinks a U-Boat, leaving it on the seabed 60 metres down. Ten of its crew survive but there are only eight diving rescuers available... The #DasBoot of its day is thrilling, claustrophobic and brilliant. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0024...

An interesting if disturbing read, which if true probably means we're fucked, pardon my French resistance. On the hand it might be all right as it's just part of the usual historical cycle. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...

"D'you know what you can do when you see a shooting star?" Easily one of the greatest movies ever made with my eternal respect going to the camera crew and incredible aerial stunt team. It deserved its Oscar triumph and is still fresh at 98 years old. #WFWWW #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0018...

"There is no such woman..." Ella Raines, Robert Siodmak and Elwood Bredell, working from a brilliant Cornell Woolrich novel, create one of the greatest and most atmospheric film noirs. Shame the book's twist ending is given away early - but still superb. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0036...

Millions are being left without an NHS dentist as ‘dental deserts’ spread across the country with rural and deprived communities being hit hardest.

"I supplied every army but the Salvation Army..." Straight into my best films of the 21st-century list with its blackly-comic screenplay and fantastic, self-hating, performance from Nic Cage. Intelligent, witty and world-weary, it's a modern classic. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0399...

Park are ten listed buildings including catacombs, an Anglican Chapel, with the Gatehouse, Nonconformist Chapel and the Egyptian Gateway below. There is the largest single grave plot in the country – a common grave in which 85 bodies were interred. Image Gregory Deryckère

Whilst we are talking heritage. Opened in 1836 'at some distance in the countryside' Sheffield General Cemetery became the place to be buried in Victorian Sheffield. It contains the graves of some 87,000 people. The cemetery is a haven for wildlife and also for heritage. Within the Grade II* listed

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The darkly funny part about the new Texas gerrymander is that it’s based in large part on the Latino support Trump no longer has badfaithtimes.com/the-dummyman...

Sheffield City Council is asking for nominations for local people or organisations to be awarded a plaque outside the Town Hall. I've put forward character actor Skelton Knaggs and if you'd like to do the same, reply and I'll send you the email address. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/name/nm04604...

I think grandpa would be thrilled to know that the power of this classic film and all of the hard work the stunt crew put in has thrown us together randomly twice in this big crazy world. I will definitely share your article and already sent it off to everyone in the family! 🥰

My grandfather, Chad, the stuntman. At the peak of his career working for Warner Bros back in the 1930s, he was part of the stunt juggernaut of its day, The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. At the 0:45 second mark of this YouTube video you can clearly see him take an arrow to the chest.

The opening shot of #TheFrontPage (1931) really is something else - and there are several others in the movie that almost match it. #FilmSky

"The kid didn't give up, did he?" Avoidable/unfortunate MacGuffin aside, this is a superb and thrilling tale of an affable naval officer learning the harsh lessons of leadership in unbearable conditions. Everyone I know who hates it hasn't actually seen it. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0141...

#Batman and his positive view on humanity makes for a nice, brief watch.

New revelations that spyware made by a U.S-backed Israeli company was used against at least three European journalists have raised concerns about abuse of commercial spyware even in democratic countries.

If you inherited a cinema, what would be your first double-bill? 📽🍿 #FilmSky

Buster Keaton and his crew playing baseball on the set of #TheGeneral (1926). (Poor quality as it's a pic of my TV.) #FilmSky

I can’t believe this isn’t a spoof article. It seems to be supporting a very questionable approach to human remains. @babao2025meeting.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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well today i learnt there is a black musical adaptation of "Oedipus at Colonus" in which the Blind Boys of Alabama collectively play Oedipus

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Wednesday War Stories ~ Battle of Abensberg April 20, 1809 Quote Napoleon’s attack at Abensberg had Marshal Lannes commanding a provisional corps in the center, Davout’s III Corps on the French left flank and Lefebvre’s VII Corps on the French right flank. wp.me/pae4WL-byj

With the newest expansion to Commands Colors Medieval - Crusades - we are getting a bunch of new units and mechanics which make for a great experience. Let us present them! Link: theboardgameschronicle.com/2025/04/23/n... @gmtgames.bsky.social

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Today is Quintidi the 5th of Floréal in the year 233. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate nightengales.#JacobinDay More information on nightengales

Loving the promo for #MissionImpossible #TheFinalReckoning at Showroom Cinema, #Sheffield. #FilmSky