Sarah Manvel
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Sarah Manvel
@cairdiul.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Sarah's New Ideas
By Sarah Manvel: movies, books, art, fiction and other delights
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The absolutely delightful and dialogue free Shaun the Sheep Movie is on, which paints a pretty accurate portrait of a modern British city, very diverse without making a big deal of it. There's a funny gag where the sheep dress up as people with the littlest lamb a Shaun the Sheep backpack
August 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The absolutely delightful and dialogue free Shaun the Sheep Movie is on, which paints a pretty accurate portrait of a modern British city, very diverse without making a big deal of it. There's a funny gag where the sheep dress up as people with the littlest lamb a Shaun the Sheep backpack
Also Shaun the Sheep is so cute and so much fun you should absolutely borrow some children to go see it in the cinema. It's a total joy
As a film critic with an intuitive understanding of movies about sheep, I am DELIGHTED to report SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM 🎥 is a completely adorable treat for the whole family. Here comes the hotstepper! movieswetextedabout.com/shaun-the-sh...
'Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom' is a Sweet Treat (Film Review)
Who knew 2026 would involve so many family movies about flocks of British sheep solving crimes? If this is a trend I hope it lasts forever because The Sheep Detectives was adorable and Shaun the Sheep...
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September 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Also Shaun the Sheep is so cute and so much fun you should absolutely borrow some children to go see it in the cinema. It's a total joy
Looks like THE MUSICAL 🎥 is out today and I'm afraid I found its tribute to 70s conspiracy thrillers done in the worst possible taste very, very funny
THE MUSICAL 📽️ is about the power of spite and the bad-taste but never cruel lessons it teaches its kids had me laughing till I couldn't breathe. Will Brill is a genius movieswetextedabout.com/the-musical-...
'The Musical' Really Sings (Sundance 2026 Film Review)
The end credits of The Musical contain this dedication: “To all our theater teachers, who taught us the power of spite.” If you just didn’t let out a bark of laughter or maybe twist your mouth in a wr...
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September 18, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Looks like THE MUSICAL 🎥 is out today and I'm afraid I found its tribute to 70s conspiracy thrillers done in the worst possible taste very, very funny
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The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
On Saturday 26 September the Institut Français in London is doing a special double-bill screening of Résistance and Liberté with a Q&A with the director and four of the cast and I am GUTTED I cannot attend! But you should www.institut-francais.org.uk/whats-on/?ty...
What's On - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni
Films, talks, debates, concerts, festivals, and kids' activities at the French Institute in London and at Ciné Lumière
www.institut-francais.org.uk
September 18, 2026 at 10:21 AM
On Saturday 26 September the Institut Français in London is doing a special double-bill screening of Résistance and Liberté with a Q&A with the director and four of the cast and I am GUTTED I cannot attend! But you should www.institut-francais.org.uk/whats-on/?ty...
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More Britons are failing to comply what used to be seen as civic obligations. Disparate, sometimes important and sometimes trivial, overlay them and it seems like something has slipped in the relationship with the state
September 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
More Britons are failing to comply what used to be seen as civic obligations. Disparate, sometimes important and sometimes trivial, overlay them and it seems like something has slipped in the relationship with the state
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You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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September 17, 2026 at 10:03 PM
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
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In a perfect world, this all ends with Microsoft bankrupt. Along with every other company that perpetrated this wholesale cultural theft. Trashbags, all the way down.
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
www.orlandosentinel.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
In a perfect world, this all ends with Microsoft bankrupt. Along with every other company that perpetrated this wholesale cultural theft. Trashbags, all the way down.
Out in the USA now! Go have a great time at THE WEIGHT
We used to get movies like THE WEIGHT 📽️ every week! This kind of competent, action-heavy filmmaking where every character is a distinct person should be delighting us so much more often. Also, in an apocalypse I'm going to Ethan Hawke's house movieswetextedabout.com/the-weight-r...
'The Weight' Review - Film is Rock Solid (Berlinale 2026)
American movies like The Weight used to be a dime a dozen, which is meant as a compliment. It used to be that Hollywood loved to take an action-heavy script, people it with a fun combination of big st...
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September 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Out in the USA now! Go have a great time at THE WEIGHT
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Happy Birthday, Anne Bancroft. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) is a real charmer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nN...
84 Charing Cross Road
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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September 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Happy Birthday, Anne Bancroft. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) is a real charmer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nN...
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Will have to check out. But with Simon Russell Beale as Churchill - hope I'll manage to unsee him as Beria!
DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ 🎥🇫🇷 aka the most important movie of the year is out in the UK tomorrow and in the US soon. There's a new world order expressed in this film which especially as an American is shocking to see movieswetextedabout.com/the-enemy-is...
The Enemy Is Us In 'De Gaulle: Liberté / La Bataille de Gaulle: J'écris ton nom' (Film Review)
I had to go to France just to see De Gaulle: Liberté, and the movie is so good I just might do it again. Along with its first half, De Gaulle: Résistance, this is an extremely important movie for two ...
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September 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Will have to check out. But with Simon Russell Beale as Churchill - hope I'll manage to unsee him as Beria!
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Yes
DE GAULLE: RÉSISTANCE aka TILTING IRON 🎥 and its sequel are the most important movies of the year. This one shows how, in a multicultural France, every single person is crucial to the fight against fascism. It's out in the UK in a few weeks movieswetextedabout.com/days-of-glor...
Days of Glory in 'De Gaulle: Résistance / La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer (Cannes 2026 Film Review)
The best film of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival premiered out of competition. La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer, which has the English title De Gaulle: Résistance, is an absolute triumph of cinema. I...
movieswetextedabout.com
September 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Yes
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France has nominated this for the Oscar and they'll be released in November in the USA and they are the movies of the year
DE GAULLE: RÉSISTANCE aka TILTING IRON 🎥 and its sequel are the most important movies of the year. This one shows how, in a multicultural France, every single person is crucial to the fight against fascism. It's out in the UK in a few weeks movieswetextedabout.com/days-of-glor...
Days of Glory in 'De Gaulle: Résistance / La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer (Cannes 2026 Film Review)
The best film of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival premiered out of competition. La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer, which has the English title De Gaulle: Résistance, is an absolute triumph of cinema. I...
movieswetextedabout.com
September 11, 2026 at 2:55 PM
France has nominated this for the Oscar and they'll be released in November in the USA and they are the movies of the year
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"Not all of us, of course: there are plenty of Americans currently fighting fascists with as much venom as the Maquis ever did. But we are no longer automatically the good guys, and De Gaulle: Liberté is the important first step in reflecting what that world looks like onscreen. "
DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ 🎥🇫🇷 aka the most important movie of the year is out in the UK tomorrow and in the US soon. There's a new world order expressed in this film which especially as an American is shocking to see movieswetextedabout.com/the-enemy-is...
The Enemy Is Us In 'De Gaulle: Liberté / La Bataille de Gaulle: J'écris ton nom' (Film Review)
I had to go to France just to see De Gaulle: Liberté, and the movie is so good I just might do it again. Along with its first half, De Gaulle: Résistance, this is an extremely important movie for two ...
movieswetextedabout.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:47 PM
"Not all of us, of course: there are plenty of Americans currently fighting fascists with as much venom as the Maquis ever did. But we are no longer automatically the good guys, and De Gaulle: Liberté is the important first step in reflecting what that world looks like onscreen. "
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Great review of a great film and just makes me think even more we need the same team to come together for the post-wat period and dramatise the beginnings of (what became) the European Union.
DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ 🎥🇫🇷 aka the most important movie of the year is out in the UK tomorrow and in the US soon. There's a new world order expressed in this film which especially as an American is shocking to see movieswetextedabout.com/the-enemy-is...
The Enemy Is Us In 'De Gaulle: Liberté / La Bataille de Gaulle: J'écris ton nom' (Film Review)
I had to go to France just to see De Gaulle: Liberté, and the movie is so good I just might do it again. Along with its first half, De Gaulle: Résistance, this is an extremely important movie for two ...
movieswetextedabout.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Great review of a great film and just makes me think even more we need the same team to come together for the post-wat period and dramatise the beginnings of (what became) the European Union.
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DE GAULLE RÉSISTANCE is out in the UK tomorrow and it (with the sequel) is the most important film of the year
DE GAULLE: RÉSISTANCE aka TILTING IRON 🎥 and its sequel are the most important movies of the year. This one shows how, in a multicultural France, every single person is crucial to the fight against fascism. It's out in the UK in a few weeks movieswetextedabout.com/days-of-glor...
Days of Glory in 'De Gaulle: Résistance / La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer (Cannes 2026 Film Review)
The best film of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival premiered out of competition. La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer, which has the English title De Gaulle: Résistance, is an absolute triumph of cinema. I...
movieswetextedabout.com
August 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
DE GAULLE RÉSISTANCE is out in the UK tomorrow and it (with the sequel) is the most important film of the year
DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ 🎥🇫🇷 aka the most important movie of the year is out in the UK tomorrow and in the US soon. There's a new world order expressed in this film which especially as an American is shocking to see movieswetextedabout.com/the-enemy-is...
The Enemy Is Us In 'De Gaulle: Liberté / La Bataille de Gaulle: J'écris ton nom' (Film Review)
I had to go to France just to see De Gaulle: Liberté, and the movie is so good I just might do it again. Along with its first half, De Gaulle: Résistance, this is an extremely important movie for two ...
movieswetextedabout.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ 🎥🇫🇷 aka the most important movie of the year is out in the UK tomorrow and in the US soon. There's a new world order expressed in this film which especially as an American is shocking to see movieswetextedabout.com/the-enemy-is...
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people think it's SO easy to be a film critic but so few seem to know that it's an extremely complicated process that often involves watching at least one movie
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
September 17, 2026 at 2:26 AM
people think it's SO easy to be a film critic but so few seem to know that it's an extremely complicated process that often involves watching at least one movie
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QUEEN AT SEA has announced a trailer as well, which presumably says: Are you enjoying your life? Would you like that to stop?
QUEEN AT SEA 📽️ is a screaming nightmare of a film, genuinely one of the most disturbing and obscene things I've ever seen. What Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall do here is so brave as to be almost beyond words movieswetextedabout.com/queen-at-sea...
‘Queen at Sea’ Film Review - Not for Sissies (Berlinale 2026)
There are some movies, including Queen at Sea, which are so disturbing they can only be watched once. Fortunately Queen at Sea is so well made that its care and consideration makes its brutally tough ...
movieswetextedabout.com
August 27, 2026 at 5:14 PM
QUEEN AT SEA has announced a trailer as well, which presumably says: Are you enjoying your life? Would you like that to stop?
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I reviewed Aea Varfis-Van Warmelo's excellent debut novel ATTENTION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR in the new edition of @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
Only align
The gulf between word and deed in the digital age
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September 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I reviewed Aea Varfis-Van Warmelo's excellent debut novel ATTENTION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR in the new edition of @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
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It's kind of shocking how many contests nowadays require you to grant rights to various personal identifiers and data points about yourself "worldwide, in perpetuity, without compensation" for something like two cinema tickets
Yes I do always read the T&Cs and am super fun at parties
Yes I do always read the T&Cs and am super fun at parties
January 26, 2026 at 6:25 PM
It's kind of shocking how many contests nowadays require you to grant rights to various personal identifiers and data points about yourself "worldwide, in perpetuity, without compensation" for something like two cinema tickets
Yes I do always read the T&Cs and am super fun at parties
Yes I do always read the T&Cs and am super fun at parties
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