Sarah Manvel
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If any publications are looking for new book or film critics, I have never used AI in my work and never will
sarahsnewideas.com
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Sarah's New Ideas
By Sarah Manvel: movies, books, art, fiction and other delights
https://sarahsnewideas.com
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Small Harbor Publishing
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW! The Maureen Seaton Book Prize for LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writers is open from 6/10/26 through 7/10/26, with final judge Denise Duhamel. Named for the beloved poet Maureen Seaton (1947–2024), this prize honors queer voices in the early stages of their literary lives.
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Strike Media
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Winner of Best Director, Best Debut Film and Best Actress at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, and named “a stunning, sensory-forward portrait of a woman with dementia" by Little White Lies, FAMILIAR TOUCH is coming to UK & Irish cinemas from 19 June
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fB...
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Familiar Touch - Trailer | In Select Cinemas 19 June
YouTube video by Bulldog Film Distribution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fBHlGDonk
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Brendan Harkin
about 8 hours ago
There will be an army of vloggers catching trains and planes to get to Belfast to try and help stir shit up, reminder that if a man with a GoPro starts filming you, you can always ask "aren't you that paedo guy?" to ensure the clip doesn't end up online.
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Alan
about 8 hours ago
I just realised something huge. The holding a tiny microphone instead of attaching it to your clothes trend is because nobody smokes anymore but they still need something to do with their hands. These videos are all something somebody would tell you in the smoking area
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Dr Abeba Birhane
about 10 hours ago
this is what consequential journalism looks like
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Tom Phillips
about 18 hours ago
Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.
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John Leavitt
about 10 hours ago
also listen to Second Homes, you're probably a 38 year old and you'll want more of this in your life
secondhomes.bandcamp.com/album/find-a...
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Find a Way to Hate It, by Second Homes
9 track album
https://secondhomes.bandcamp.com/album/find-a-way-to-hate-it
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If you haven't seen ROVING WOMAN 📽️ you should fix that
www.criticsnotebook.com/roving-woman...
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Critic's Notebook
https://www.criticsnotebook.com/roving-woman-movie-review-michal-chmielewski-tribeca-festival-2022/
about 20 hours ago
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Kashana
about 21 hours ago
What if we just got rid of the tech industry and started over? What if there’s no point to an industry that mostly invents new chocolate and cheese flavors of the panopticon?
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Andrea Mann
about 21 hours ago
Ceci n'est pas une équipe.
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Very, very sorry I had to exit the bus and could not continue to listen to the voicemail the young man across from me was leaving which began "I am devastated by my choice, which do not align with my values. I just hope you can see the humanity in me"
about 21 hours ago
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Rebecca Bodenheimer
about 22 hours ago
"32% of 12th graders now score below NAEP Basic in reading...And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a 4-yr college. That last sentence is the whole problem in one line: We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level & are pretending otherwise." 💯 💯 💯
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"Why do all these ads have only five-star reviews on them? We need a four-star review on there!"
about 22 hours ago
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Well. Born with Teeth is a banger, Ncuti Gatwa a big star and Edward Bluemel quite the discovery I was less impressed with the audience tittering every time they kissed though
10 months ago
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I saw Hot Poirot in Born with Teeth and he was quite hot in that so this is exciting news
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When did all the concrete barriers get installed around Trafalgar Square?
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David Noll
1 day ago
Very important public service announcement
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Amanda Katz
1 day ago
Sending people without papers to slave camps should really not be the US in 2026
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Marie Phillips
1 day ago
Excited to announce that I will be performing Il Faut Danser (You Must Dance), a one-woman show about my mother and grandmother's lives in Algeria in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, on Thursday 2nd July, 7pm at Stanley Arts, part of the Croydonites festival
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Croydonites Fringe: Il Faut Danser (You Must Dance) - Stanley Arts London
A heartbreaking story of a trapped woman determined to find her liberty – no matter the cost.
https://stanleyarts.org/event/croydonites-fringe-il-faut-danser-you-must-dance/
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Todd Vaziri
2 days ago
hot take: every single movie plays better in a good movie theater with a crowd of people who want to be there (vs any other context)
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David Whitley
1 day ago
Treating any communication platform that algorithmically selects which content to put in front of a user as a publisher, and legally responsible for that content, is the screamingly obvious solution that will deeply upset maybe seven companies and make life considerably better.
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Good afternoon to the young woman whose t-shirt said MY BOYFRIEND IS OUT OF TOWN, and good afternoon to the young woman whose t-shirt said MY BOYFRIEND IS OUT OF TOWN only 😉
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Dennis B. Hooper
1 day ago
Theatrical distribution is good, and for people who really don’t see the difference between it and your tv, I have good news! It is coming your living room in a couple of months anyway. But if theaters go away, the movies WILL get worse, and I would really love it if people thought that part through
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Index on Censorship
1 day ago
#UK
: Keir Starmer appears poised to fast-track a social media ban for under-16s. The evidence from Australia is unconvincing, but the free speech risks are clear. Revisit our piece on why banning social media for under-16s threatens free expression ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/bann...
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Banning social media is a kneejerk reaction that should be resisted - Index on Censorship
While Spain is yet another country considering social media bans, we should remember the dissidents who rely on platforms to organise or let others know what’s happening on the ground
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/banning-social-media-is-a-kneejerk-reaction-that-should-be-resisted/
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People who expect a movie audience to sit in reverent silence have got to get over themselves. The selfishness since the pandemic is expressed like this because there are so few genuine public spaces for but one purpose anymore and we're caught between people who don't care they're in public
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Re the theatrical experience: when I have paid for a cinema ticket I do not care if/when people are eating, snogging, texting, scrolling, making tiktoks of the big action sequences, changing a baby's diaper, whatever. Being in a crowd enjoying the experience is the whole entire point!
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Dennis B. Hooper
1 day ago
1) Filmmakers like theatrical distribution for the same reason musicians like playing live shows, because a good movie or show with a good crowd is electric. Sure, a bad crowd can spoil a good thing, but this mostly doesn’t happen and I’ve never understood people who complain about it all the time
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Seeing some discourse about movies people will never watch again and once QUEEN AT SEA is released there will be only one contender (extremely complimentary, except for the nightmares I'm still having)
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2 months ago
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Hipster Viking Amy
2 days ago
You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?
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"I have a young son who needs me, Che Guevara!" OUTSTANDING
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Jason Mittell
2 days ago
The classic Hollywood tale you didn't know you wanted to read:
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Old Hollywood icon Mamie Van Doren recalls 'wonderfully heart-stopping' sex with Che Guevara
Old Hollywood icon Mamie Van Doren is lifting the lid on a 'delirious' sensual encounter she had with Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara while filming on location in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961.
https://ew.com/mamie-van-doren-recalls-wonderfully-heart-stopping-sex-with-che-guevara-11992603
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I was also at the talk in London which was chosen as the centerpiece of GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT 📽️ which is not a flawless documentary but a pretty good primer on why her work is important
intheirownleague.com/2023/02/02/g...
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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project – Sundance 2023 Film Review
Year: 2023 Runtime: 102 minutes Directors: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson By Sarah Manvel Three times in my life now I have seen an event at which I was present for a second time, in a documen…
https://intheirownleague.com/2023/02/02/going-to-mars-the-nikki-giovanni-project-sundance-2023-film-review/
over 1 year ago
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rich traditions
2 days ago
BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources
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I have a dumb problem with which I would like some help: a cinema app on my phone needs to know a location in order to show me the nearby movies, but there seems to be no damn way for me to tell the app any location. I can't do it manually, somehow it won't sync with my phone, what have I missed
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James Ball
2 days ago
All this uWu smol bean crap irritates me greatly: you're selling food for the public to eat, someone should be checking that it's safe and sanitary.
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The A.V. Club
3 days ago
Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer reflected on the highs (and mild disappointments) of their 10-year-old cult comedy.
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Read This: The Lonely Island did a 10th anniversary oral history of Popstar
Read This: The Lonely Island did a 10th anniversary oral history of Popstar
https://www.avclub.com/lonely-island-popstar-oral-history-10th-anniversary
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Vermiglio on BBC Four now and therefore iPlayer for a while is very much worth your time
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Dennis B. Hooper
3 days ago
“What if a Silicon Valley-backed music streamer started giving huge paydays to musicians but banned them from performing live” is such a preposterous hypothetical that you don’t even get mad when you read it but that’s exactly what Netflix is doing to film
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It's alive!!! I think this review of FRANKENSTEIN 📽️
#Venezia82
is the strongest rave I have ever written
movieswetextedabout.com/frankenstein...
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'Frankenstein' Movie Review: An Instant Classic, A Wonderful Horrible Joy (Venice)
Frankenstein, the film from Guillermo del Toro and with Oscar Isaac, is a masterpiece and instant classic. It is a wonderful, horrible joy.
https://movieswetextedabout.com/frankenstein-movie-review-an-instant-classic-a-wonderful-horrible-joy-venice/
9 months ago
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Trailers before Tuner: The Last Viking Jackass Best and Last Boogie Nights One Night Only The Invite These are all too long
3 days ago
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hammancheez
4 days ago
“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (6), food prices in the U.S. have increased 33.3% since the beginning of 2020, while housing costs are up 32.5% (7). Energy prices, meanwhile, have surged 48% (8) over that period.” Fuck the economy gaslighters claiming we just dont understand gdp
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Carsten Timmermann
3 days ago
This is what we need Language-based Area Studies for. People who know language, culture and history. You know, the kind of departments they are currently closing down everywhere.
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Carsten Timmermann
3 days ago
Ok .... this is where the increasing lack of language skills is taking us. If you don't know Korean, maybe leave the study of Korean history to those who do.
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Frances Evangelista
3 days ago
My annual “My Dog Ate My Library Book” proposal is up on
@donorschoose.bsky.social
If you are inclined to save a child from their overdue library books, your support would be greatly appreciated!
www.donorschoose.org/project/my-d...
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My Dog Ate My Library Book!, a project from Ms. Evangelista
Help me give my students a second chance on lost and overdue books. My baby brother put my library book in the bath! I left it on the metro! My teacher took my library book and won't give it ba...
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/my-dog-ate-my-library-book/10325538/
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Georgette Heyer's Royal Escape: This is a lot of fun. The personalities come through loud and clear and the tension combined with action works well.
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CINEMATIC F-BOMBS
5 days ago
Film: Persepolis (2007) [PG-13] Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Character: Marjane Actor: Chiara Mastroianni Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi Screenwriters: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud Timestamp: 0:57:45
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Today I learned there are three topics which will make me lose my temper in a movie review 1) violent misogyny 2) bigotry of any kind in a kids' movie 3) use of genAI of any kind at any point in the filmmaking process I knew about two of these but now I have a third enemy on my list
3 days ago
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Tate Collection
3 days ago
John Plumb, Untitled August 1969, 1969
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124114
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András Forgács W
6 days ago
A reminder that The Guardian has a strategic partnership with OpenAI ergo can't be trusted
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juan barquin
6 days ago
i look forward to seeing how many cis people (especially cis men) get opportunities to write about teenage sex and death at camp miasma for every single publication while trans writers and queer women just sit there like "okay neat"
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