AJ
Football, politics, history, music, movies, books amongst other things.
Order varies frequently.
Grumpy old man but sometimes I can be even grumpier
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- Reposted by AJThe cuckoo Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to look for in Spring, 1961)
- Reposted by AJMy dad's inadvertent tribute to Saul Bass, when he taped over a crack in the stairs to our garage:
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Zulu [2013] Dir: Jérôme Salle Screenplay: Jérôme Salle, Julian Rappeneau Cast: Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker
- Reposted by AJ#filmnoir #timeforadrink #filmsky #cocktailnoir #Hitchcock #CaryGrant #NorthByNorthwest #filmnoirclub TIME FOR A DRINK🍸
- Reposted by AJMovie Poster by Saul Bass! #movieposters #filmsky
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Anatomy of a Murder [1959] Dir: Otto Preminger Screenplay: Wendell Mayes Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden and George C. Scott
- Reposted by AJ"We've collected together all the times books by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature have been recommended on Five Books. These books were chosen in interviews on an array of topics." fivebooks.com/category/fic...
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- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Payroll [1961] Dir: Sidney Hayers Writer: George Baxt Cast: Michael Craig, Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw, Françoise Prévost, Kenneth Griffith, William Lucas
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies 52 Pick Up [1986] Dir: John Frankenheimer Writer: John Steppling [Elmore leonard novel] Cast: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, John Glover, Clarence Wiliiams III, Robert Trebor, Vanity.. Fleeting appearance by Kelly Preston and a cameo from Doug McClure
- If you wouldn't vote for Trump, why would you vote for Farage? They are cut from the same cloth. Don't feed Reform the hate they need to survive. #localelections
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- Reposted by AJEve Arden. April 30, 1908.
- Reposted by AJCloris Leachman. April 30, 1926.
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Reservoir Dogs [1992] Dir: Tarantino Written by Tarantino & Roger Avary Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Busemi, Chris Penn, Tarantino, Eddie Bunker, Lawrence Tierney
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- #filmsky #moviesky #movies The Outfit [1973] Written & Directed: John Flynn Stars: Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, Karen Black, Robert Ryan Supporting cast included Timothy Carey and cameos from [the always good to see] Sheree North and Richard Jaeckel
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies W.U.S.A [1970] Dir: Stuart Rosenborg Writer: Robert Stone Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn with Laurence Harvey & Pat Hingle
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Night Moves [1975] Dir: Arthur Penn Writer: Alan Sharp Stars: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns. A first credited role for Melanie Griffiths, an early role for James Woods & minor roles for Harris Yulin and Kenneth Mars
- An inspiration! To destroy the economy, privatise health, disappear people, betray allies? Which is Farage most inspired by?
- U.S chaos now and post Trump - who knows? So why gamble with America?
- #moviesky #filmsky #movies Harper [1966] Dir: Jack Smight Writer: William Goldman Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Pamela Tiffin as well as supporting names Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters and Roberts - Wagner and Webber
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Get Shorty [1995] Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld Writer: Scott Frank based on a Elmore Leonard book Stars: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, Dennis Farina
- You wouldn't buy a used car from this charlatan Don't buy anything he's selling. He's a snake oil salesman - everything must go - as long as it works for him
- Reposted by AJWe had a fascinating and very busy event at Orkney Library & Archive on Saturday when Carolyn Sutton, creator of the 'Witches in Word, Not Deed' exhibition unveiled a dress dedicated to Orkney woman Marabel Couper who was condemned for witchcraft in 1624.
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies New York Confidential [1955] Dir: Russell Rouse Writers: Clarence Greene & Russell Rouse Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Maxwell as well as perennial bad guy, Mike Mazurki
- Farage is now the fisherman's friend? How many EU Fisheries committee meetings did he show for? One! One out of forty two. When he might have done something, had some debate they weren't worth his time.
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies A Kiss Before Dying [1956] Dir: Gerd Oswald Writer: Lawrence Roman Stars: Robert Wagner, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, Jeffrey Hunter
- Reposted by AJNigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says
- Reposted by AJYesterday, we advanced to Pickering Castle 🏰 Built by William the Conqueror in 1070, a handful of years after Halley’s Comet caused the Battle of Hastings and was knitted into a tapestry 😐 In keeping with unprecedented celestial phenomena, this was the first sighting by family of Pickering sans rain
- #musicsky cracking read about Sabbath origin
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Thunder Road [1958] Dir: Arthur Ripley Writers: James Atlee Phillips & Walter Wise [story Robert Mitchum] Stars: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon The cast included Mitchum's eldest son James in his first credited role, [playing Mitchum's young brother].
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Vice Squad [1953] Dir: Arnold Laven Writer: Lawrence Roman Stars: Edwarrd G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens, Porter Hall
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 30/30 Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
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- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 29/30 Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
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- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 28/30 Assault on Precinct 13 - John Carpenter
- Reposted by AJNEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 27/30 Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet
- Reposted by AJDeath by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay
- Reposted by AJThe French Connection (1971) Directed by William Friedkin
- Reposted by AJA few hours ago Durand Jones & The Indications released the video for their new 70s channelling 45 Flower Moon. Its yet another winner from one of the best soul bands to emerge in the last 20yrs. Is there a prize for guessing what Mr J is hiding in his jacket? #musicsky youtu.be/EiAjOPM1IpA?...
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 26/30 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? - Robert Aldrich
- Reposted by AJMisty In Roots: Sodom and Gomorrah (1979) youtu.be/OT2Bjwm8LUA?... @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @stevomusicman.bsky.social @muzicgeezer.bsky.social
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- Reposted by AJLiz Truss: *kills queen* JD Vance: Hold my communion wine
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 25/30 Gloria - John Cassavetes
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- Reposted by AJA big Happy Birthday to Iggy Pop, Godfather of Punk and one of the true survivors, born #OnThisDay in 1947. 📷 Esther Friedman, Berlin, 1977. #Iggy #IggyPop #Berlin #Simca #Simca1000 #punk
- Reposted by AJRiso amaro (Giuseppe de Santis, 1949) DoP: Otello Martelli
- Reposted by AJGoodfellas (1990)
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- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Vertigo [1958] Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Rear Window [1954] Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Writer: J.M. Hayes Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 24/30 Wild at Heart - David Lynch
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies The Big Heat [1953] Dir: Fritz Lang Writer: Sydney Boehm Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 23/30 Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder
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- #filmsky #moviesky #movies #filmchallenge Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 22/30 Crossfire - Edward Dmytryk
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- #filmsky #moviesky #movies The Satan Bug [1965] Dir: John Sturges Writers: James Clavell, Edward Anhalt Stars: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis
- Reposted by AJWatched this one again and really loving this gritty B-noir with a terrific plot. High Tide (1947) #filmnoir directed by John Reinhardt and features Lee Tracy, Don Castle and Julie Bishop.
- #filmsky #moviesky #movies Piccadilly [1929] Dir: E.A. Dupont Writer: Arnold Bennett Stars: Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas and a glimpse of Charles Laughton in one of his earliest roles
