John Hodson
@mgcroadster.bsky.social
Journalist since '73, now retired, film geek for longer. Rejoiner, lefty, love films of all eras. Recovering Man Utd. fan of six decades. Uses admiration of John Ford as a Rorschach test. No followers without a profile - sorry!
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John Hodson
@mgcroadster.bsky.social
· May 1
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New 4K Blu-Ray release by BFI of Horace Ove's 1975 PRESSURE. The first full-length Black British film #filmsky #moviesky #cinema
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Pressure (1975) – A significant title in the history of British cinema (Review)
Blu-ray release from BFI for the first Black British full-length feature film titled Pressure (1976).
chatterboxfilm.com
September 16, 2026 at 11:11 AM
New 4K Blu-Ray release by BFI of Horace Ove's 1975 PRESSURE. The first full-length Black British film #filmsky #moviesky #cinema
chatterboxfilm.com/2026/09/16/p...
chatterboxfilm.com/2026/09/16/p...
The Death of Journalism; an ongoing series...
Reach is planning to cut about 220 editorial jobs and create 60 new roles as it shifts focus away from page views
This will result in a net loss of around 160 jobs
The changes also include the closure of three websites: Kent Live, Aberdeen Live and Galway Beo pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-t...
This will result in a net loss of around 160 jobs
The changes also include the closure of three websites: Kent Live, Aberdeen Live and Galway Beo pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-t...
Reach to cut editorial team by further 160 jobs as key metric becomes 'active engaged time'
Proposal also includes closure of Kent Live, Aberdeen Live and Galway Beo websites.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 9:54 AM
The Death of Journalism; an ongoing series...
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Someone should write something about the cult of Forton Services. It's gaining the status of a national monument, treated like a stone circle or decontextualised sculptural Spomenik.
September 16, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Someone should write something about the cult of Forton Services. It's gaining the status of a national monument, treated like a stone circle or decontextualised sculptural Spomenik.
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First watch: Evil Does Not Exist (2023). Not sure why I sat on this for so long because I've enjoyed all the Ryusuke Hamaguchi films I have seen, and this was no exception. I watched it on Mubi, but I believe it is also on iPlayer
September 16, 2026 at 9:26 AM
First watch: Evil Does Not Exist (2023). Not sure why I sat on this for so long because I've enjoyed all the Ryusuke Hamaguchi films I have seen, and this was no exception. I watched it on Mubi, but I believe it is also on iPlayer
'Morning...
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Overture (From "Lawrence of Arabia")
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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September 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM
'Morning...
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music.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZE...
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My zine NOIR CRAZY newest issue 004—The Postwar Nightmare is now open to preorders!
www.jauntworks.com/noircrazyzin...
Watch the trailer: youtu.be/ilDx9Dx4gcA
#FilmNoir #NoirCrazy #Noirvember
www.jauntworks.com/noircrazyzin...
Watch the trailer: youtu.be/ilDx9Dx4gcA
#FilmNoir #NoirCrazy #Noirvember
September 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM
My zine NOIR CRAZY newest issue 004—The Postwar Nightmare is now open to preorders!
www.jauntworks.com/noircrazyzin...
Watch the trailer: youtu.be/ilDx9Dx4gcA
#FilmNoir #NoirCrazy #Noirvember
www.jauntworks.com/noircrazyzin...
Watch the trailer: youtu.be/ilDx9Dx4gcA
#FilmNoir #NoirCrazy #Noirvember
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Reupping this one because I've going to write nearly 3,000 words for free I should at least try and get people to read them.
Never one to shy away for the complex moral questions, I have gone and watched all of this summers blockbusters and decided to address the big one:
When is it okay to kill people?
chrisfarnell.com/when-is-it-o...
When is it okay to kill people?
chrisfarnell.com/when-is-it-o...
September 16, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Reupping this one because I've going to write nearly 3,000 words for free I should at least try and get people to read them.
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Heard it was Jean Renoir's birthday today, to celebrate watch his absolute masterpiece La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game). Grab a copy with my cover art from the BFI: shop.bfi.org.uk/la-regle-du-...
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September 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Heard it was Jean Renoir's birthday today, to celebrate watch his absolute masterpiece La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game). Grab a copy with my cover art from the BFI: shop.bfi.org.uk/la-regle-du-...
🎬
🎬
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‘Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be ‘apolitical’ is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.’
- Rebecca Solnit
- Rebecca Solnit
September 16, 2026 at 7:49 AM
‘Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be ‘apolitical’ is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.’
- Rebecca Solnit
- Rebecca Solnit
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Happy 80th Birthday to Tommy Lee Jones
September 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Happy 80th Birthday to Tommy Lee Jones
Have a bit of (amongst many others) Matthew Rhys... Under Milk Wood: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01x5k4n
Under Milk Wood
A unique production of Dylan Thomas's famous 'play for voices' enacted by a community of Welsh performers in New York, Los Angeles, London, Cardiff and Laugharne.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Have a bit of (amongst many others) Matthew Rhys... Under Milk Wood: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01x5k4n
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ICYMI...
ICHH www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 👇
ICHH www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 👇
September 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
ICYMI...
ICHH www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 👇
ICHH www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 👇
This is the end of a journey that finds the driver not behind the wheel; Michael Apted's achievement remains utterly monumental. This is a valedictory celebration of him as much as any of the participants. #70UP
September 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
This is the end of a journey that finds the driver not behind the wheel; Michael Apted's achievement remains utterly monumental. This is a valedictory celebration of him as much as any of the participants. #70UP
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Hammer's great lost gangster slash martial arts crossover Shatter - think somewhere between Get Carter and Enter The Dragon, only adrift in the mid-Pacific - is out on Bluray now, and I'm thrilled to say I've had a hand in it...
timworthington.org/2025/03/28/s...
timworthington.org/2025/03/28/s...
Shatter
Hammer’s great lost anti-hero is back in a brand new box set…
timworthington.org
September 15, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Hammer's great lost gangster slash martial arts crossover Shatter - think somewhere between Get Carter and Enter The Dragon, only adrift in the mid-Pacific - is out on Bluray now, and I'm thrilled to say I've had a hand in it...
timworthington.org/2025/03/28/s...
timworthington.org/2025/03/28/s...
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Pleased to see Channel 5's Play for Today reboot back for a new series next Friday. I wasn't aware it was due so soon.
September 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Pleased to see Channel 5's Play for Today reboot back for a new series next Friday. I wasn't aware it was due so soon.
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My latest column for @classicmoviehub.bsky.social - ANGEL FACE (1953) stars Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in a twisted tale of romance and murder. #filmsky
Silver Screen Standards: Angel Face (1953)
Angel Face (1953) Classic film has no shortage of mean girls, but Angel Face (1953) offers a particularly dangerous teenage femme fatale in its title character, played with unhinged intensity by En…
www.classicmoviehub.com
September 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
My latest column for @classicmoviehub.bsky.social - ANGEL FACE (1953) stars Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in a twisted tale of romance and murder. #filmsky
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Film-wise: at 9pm, The Greatest Hits on Film4 or Shaun Of The Dead on Comedy Central. At 10.40, Sicario on BBC1. At 11.10, She Said on Film4. At 11.25, The Quick & The Dead on Legend. At 11.35, The Proposition on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. At 12.40am, You Were Never Really Here on Film4 #telly
September 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Film-wise: at 9pm, The Greatest Hits on Film4 or Shaun Of The Dead on Comedy Central. At 10.40, Sicario on BBC1. At 11.10, She Said on Film4. At 11.25, The Quick & The Dead on Legend. At 11.35, The Proposition on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. At 12.40am, You Were Never Really Here on Film4 #telly
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THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET (Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos, 1965).
The first 20 minutes could have been cut, but from thereon in, this is an excellent drama about an Aryan controller appointed to take over a haberdashery shop in the Slovak Republic as part of the Aryanization program during WW2. #FilmSky
The first 20 minutes could have been cut, but from thereon in, this is an excellent drama about an Aryan controller appointed to take over a haberdashery shop in the Slovak Republic as part of the Aryanization program during WW2. #FilmSky
September 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET (Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos, 1965).
The first 20 minutes could have been cut, but from thereon in, this is an excellent drama about an Aryan controller appointed to take over a haberdashery shop in the Slovak Republic as part of the Aryanization program during WW2. #FilmSky
The first 20 minutes could have been cut, but from thereon in, this is an excellent drama about an Aryan controller appointed to take over a haberdashery shop in the Slovak Republic as part of the Aryanization program during WW2. #FilmSky
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This book is so fucking good, you guys
And if you want an ACTUAL holiday gift that will ACTUALLY get there THIS YEAR and has something of a holiday THEME, well, I have one of those books too!
Preorder Every Time a Bell Rings by Lauren Theisen and me TODAY.
www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
Preorder Every Time a Bell Rings by Lauren Theisen and me TODAY.
www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
September 15, 2026 at 6:21 PM
This book is so fucking good, you guys
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The Journey North from The Woman in Black. Unpublished original handmade artwork.
£200 (ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4
Email me at: [email protected]
£200 (ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4
Email me at: [email protected]
September 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The Journey North from The Woman in Black. Unpublished original handmade artwork.
£200 (ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4
Email me at: [email protected]
£200 (ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4
Email me at: [email protected]
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🎃 Across the Causeway. An unpublished illustration I made for The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.
£200 (another ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4 Email me
Email me at: [email protected] 🎃
£200 (another ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4 Email me
Email me at: [email protected] 🎃
September 15, 2026 at 2:19 PM
🎃 Across the Causeway. An unpublished illustration I made for The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.
£200 (another ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4 Email me
Email me at: [email protected] 🎃
£200 (another ruddy bargain)
Image size: A4 Email me
Email me at: [email protected] 🎃
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9/15/64: Lumet's Fail Safe
w/Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau ++
Fascinating twin-bill w/Strangelove
More:
@positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/blu-ray-...
@jasonchristian.bsky.social / @tonyjballas.bsky.social / @ptklein.com via @coldwarcinema.com: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
w/Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau ++
Fascinating twin-bill w/Strangelove
More:
@positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/blu-ray-...
@jasonchristian.bsky.social / @tonyjballas.bsky.social / @ptklein.com via @coldwarcinema.com: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
September 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
9/15/64: Lumet's Fail Safe
w/Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau ++
Fascinating twin-bill w/Strangelove
More:
@positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/blu-ray-...
@jasonchristian.bsky.social / @tonyjballas.bsky.social / @ptklein.com via @coldwarcinema.com: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
w/Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau ++
Fascinating twin-bill w/Strangelove
More:
@positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/blu-ray-...
@jasonchristian.bsky.social / @tonyjballas.bsky.social / @ptklein.com via @coldwarcinema.com: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...