31 December 2018

Escape at Dannemora

#EscapeAtDannemora


Fantastic! Key leading indicator of the promised blurring between film/TV. Kudos to all: Stiller, Arquette, Dano, Del Toro, Morse, HOF-worthy PD(!πŸ‘) & DP (Ep5 opening & closing shots!😲) & *esp* Lange. He breaks your heart, hopefully #Emmys won't break his!πŸ™Œ




30 December 2018

Steelers Come Up Agonisingly Short in Playoff Push Thanks to More Boneheaded Browns' Decisions

Dear #GreggWilliams, TBH would like a word with you & #BakerMayfield...run the bl**dy ball! 


Gawd, those insufferable #Ravens🀯


With *all* the boldfaced talent the #Steelers had, is this the biggest underachievement in 30 years? #Tomlin & coaches need to be held accountable...



Steelers’ Playoff Hopes Rest on the Browns!!!

I can't believe I'm gonna say this: 


#HereWeGo...#BakerMayfield!!!!


😱😨😰😳🀭



Federer Begins the 2019 Tennis Season on a Winning Note

Have you heard the news today, oh boy... the #GOAT's back! And he looks better than ever at the #HopmanCup!


Wait, it's not even 2019 yet, how did the #tennis season start already?!


Is this possibly the GOAT's Last Stand?! Please say it ain't so #Federer, say it ain't so!!😰😨



India Wins Third Test Over Australia!!!!🚨 πŸš¨πŸš¨πŸš¨πŸš¨πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ€™πŸ’ͺ🧚‍♀️πŸ˜„πŸ˜

Un-bl**dy-believable! To win a Test...Series...Away...thanks to *pace* bowling...in #AUS...this will go down in #IND's cricket history!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ 


Thx to #Pujara, #Jasprit...& #Virat's captaincy πŸ˜‡


PS. With the racist commentary & fan chants...Aussies never learn, huh?πŸ™„


#AUSvIND






29 December 2018

Liverpool Hammers Arsenal 5-1!!!

Stop me if you've heard this before: #Salah (so selfessπŸ€™), #Mane...& #Firmino (hattrick!)... & ya, know, *all* the rest... but before you get too excited half the #EPL season's left, & there's a big #ManCity match coming up...


But 5-1 vs #Arsenal... ha!πŸ‘


#LIVARS


#LFC #YNWA



28 December 2018

India-Australia Test Hangs in Balance / Trent Boult Amazing Performance

Oh man, I was about to write an ode to the great #Cheteshwar #Pujara... but then 54/5 happened! Yikes! Looks like #BoxingDay Test will go down to the wire...😰

PS. #Bumrah... 6-33?!πŸ’ͺπŸ‘

#AUSvIND


PPS. #TrentBoult: 6W...for 4R... in 15 balls?!😲

#NZvSL





Green Book

#GreenBook


Lovely feel-good make-believe print-the-legend movie. Professionally crafted crowd-pleasing mid-budget mainstream studio adult fare…remember those? Viggo & Ali are sensational, as is the work done by Bowers!πŸŽΉπŸŽΌπŸ‘πŸ™ŒPS. Don't tug on the based-on-a-true-story thread😲



27 December 2018

RIP Sister Wendy Beckett

RIP #SisterWendyBeckett


Such a warm, avuncular presence, helped make art accessible to the rest of us philistines. I might still be way behind when it comes to art appreciation, but it was always so much fun to watch her on TV.



Tully (2002)

#Tully (2002)


An absolute gem! This *truly* independent slice of Americana was one of the best films I saw that year/decade/since. Beautiful, melancholic, meditative with a quietly devastating ending. Thx for introducing me to the great #JulianneNicholson & @ansonmount (h/t TBH)



26 December 2018

Vice

#ViceMovie


McKay takes Michael Moore & adds a soupΓ§on of Oliver Stone to make a hilarious/informative (heart[s]πŸ˜‡ of)dark(ness) comedy. #Oscars all around for Adams, the editor, & esp Bale! Dude, they should just retire a wing in the #Oscar HOF for him. In-bl**dy-credible!πŸ˜²πŸ‘πŸ‘



25 December 2018

Lakers Beat Warriors... By 26 pts... On the Road... Without LeBron! 😱

What a win for #LeBron (er, I mean #Lakers)... actually, no this one time it was the other guys, kids really, who *hammered* #Warriors... on the road?!


PS. Still not a Lakers fan... but this kid #Zubac joined #KingJames in my fan-for-life club! πŸ˜‚πŸ€πŸ’ͺ



Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays 2018


#MerryChristmas World, er, I mean #HappyHolidays! Hope Santa was good to you this year! 🌲☃️πŸŽ…


24 December 2018

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

#SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse


OMBG! The Best Superhero/Comic Book/Animated/Mainstream/Coming-of-Age/Origin-Story Movie, heck just *movie* you'll see in a long time! Find the biggest 3-D screen possible & have your eyes (& hearts) blown! This one's gonna join the pantheon! πŸ•·πŸ•ΈπŸ·



23 December 2018

Steelers Lose in Devastating Fashion to Saints Due to Horrible Ref Calls

Noooooooo!!!


Rubbish flags on those 4th down plays destroyed #Steelers season. 


Chin up #JuJu!


PS Not dignifying that #Saints troller with a response


PPS Love #NickFoles but he handed #Patriots a path to #SuperBowl


PPPS #Chargers gonna Charge, but why vs #RavensπŸ™„


#PITvsNO


22 December 2018

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Awesome!!!!!!!!!

If I had any guts at all I'd say that my favourite movie of the year is...


#SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse!!!!


πŸ˜±πŸ‘πŸ€²πŸ‘πŸ€˜πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘πŸ™ŒπŸ•·πŸ·


Hopefully, other, more courageous, people are shouting from the rooftops that this is ...


The Best Movie, Ever!!!



21 December 2018

Dodgers Trade Wood, Kemp... & Puig!!! Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Those howls you hear are TBH's cries of agony! Say it ain't so #Dodgers, say it ain't so!


A sad day, indeed. Goodbye #Yasiel #Puig (The #WildHorse!🐎⚾️πŸ’ͺ), #MattKemp, #AlexWood...gone but not forgotten!


πŸ˜³πŸ˜±πŸ˜¨πŸ€­πŸ˜©πŸ˜«πŸ˜£πŸ˜”πŸ™





Cold War (Zimna wojna)

#ColdWar


*Stunningly* photographed (DP Zal deserves an #Oscar for that Rock Around the Clock Sequence alone!😲), idiosyncratic romantic weepie that maybe leaves a little too much to the imagination? Speaking of #Oscars - Kulig's charismatic, burn-up-the-screen, starmaking perf!



20 December 2018

Marwencol (2010)

#Marwencol (2010)


Wonderful documentary that still retains its impact. Kudos to director Malmberg for not being exploitative and instead letting Hogancamp tell his own story. Those miniature dioramas are extraordinary. A lovely paean to the healing power of art & local community





19 December 2018

India Lose 2018 Aus v India Test 2

PS. Bad luck for #IND but looks like #TimPaine's antics woke #AUS's fast bowlers up... from 5-98 to 140 all out! Yikes! 😳#Virat may want to calm things down a bit...😬


PPS. #NathanLyon, unlikeliest, most underappreciated, Aussie #GOAT of his generation?! πŸ˜‚πŸ€£ πŸ‘πŸ


#AUSvIND



The Favourite Retweet

@the_favourite

Replying to @foxsearchlight and @SearchlightUK

We see what you did there. How very clever.






The Favourite

#TheFavourite


Dare I say, tailormade to be an Oscar, um, favourite?πŸ€ͺTremendous #AllAboutEve-Meets-#MarieAntoinette-By-Way-Of-#BarryLyndon #Kubrick homage. Give Colman Best (Supporting?🀷‍♀️) Actress Oscar *now*, but spare one for Weisz...& DP, costume/prod designer, screenplay!



18 December 2018

RIP Penny Marshall

RIP #PennyMarshall


So sad, one of my all-time favourite directors back from #JumpinJackFlash. Very few filmmakers had that kind of 1-2-3 punch with #Big, #Awakenings & #ALeagueOfTheirOwn. My goodness! PS. Wait, #LaverneAndShirley, she was a famous actress, too?! What a life!



16 December 2018

The Steelers Beat the Patriots!!!!!! 🚨🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨

Thank G*d for the #Steelers the Defence played their heart out... & #Patriots didn't (sooo many penalties... for once, eh #Belicheat?πŸ˜‡)!


#JaylenSamuels🏈πŸ’ͺπŸ‘


PS. With the #Browns (& G*d help us #BakerMayfield😱) deciding to join us the #AFCNorth is nuts!


#NEvsPIT #HereWeGo 



Liverpool Get Cracking Win Over Manchester United...Finally!

What was that about #Shaqiri being #Klopp's talisman? 😁 What a win for #Liverpool! The #EPL dream stays alive!


PS. #Alisson from hero to goat...& back!😬


PPS. Speaking of #GOAT's wonder if @rogerfederer was watching his countryman work his magic?⚽️πŸ’ͺ🀘


#LFC #LIVMUN #YNWA



14 December 2018

ROMA (2/2)

#ROMA (2/2)


I keed because I *love* Cuaron! Technically *stunning* bigscreen filmmaking with a magnificent #Oscars-level perf by Aparicio. She haunts you from those framed-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life series of painstaking singletake tableaux & stays with you long after it ends



ROMA (1/2)

#ROMA (1/2)


There is a splendid 2.5hr period foreign B&W film about the travails of a young woman making her way in a third-world cosmopolitan city directed by a critically-beloved #Oscar-winning international auteur. The name of that movie is…#Mahanagar!

(h/t great @aoscott🀣)



13 December 2018

The Cure Get into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame ... Finally!

This made TBH's day: @thecure (finally) get into @rockhall! Let in #TheSmiths, #LLCoolJ & #PatBenatar & she'll be all set! 


PS. Kudos to #RoxyMusic, #Radiohead, #DefLeppard, #JanetJackson, #StevieNicks#TheZombies, that's a h*lluva class!! πŸŽ΅πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ€˜


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSaNXpD49Qw


LeBron & D-Wade... for the Last Time!😩

#TBT


That time when...


TBH surprised me with the final game between my two mostest favourite #NBA players, ever! (...in the post-#Shaq era): #LeBron & #DWade...


... who apparently decided to show up for the #Kuzma show! Dude! I'm now a fan for life (of him, not the #LakersπŸ˜‡)




12 December 2018

Gautam Gambhir Retires

You Know You're Too Old When: #GautamGambhir Retires. Superb, relentless, courageous cricketer unafraid to speak his mind. Will go down in #cricket history for propelling #IND to that famous #CWC win... and of course #KKR to their #IPL titles. Bengal will always be grateful! πŸπŸ‘




The Front Runner

#TheFrontRunner


Hugely entertaining/slightly depressing. With #Tully, this is a nice little 2018 two-fer from Reitman. Fantastic ensemble highlighted by Farmiga & a superb Jackman. PS. That insane Altman-esque single-take opening sequence...all that overlapping dialogue! 🎀πŸ’ͺ



10 December 2018

India Completes Historic Test Win in Australia 2018 AUS v IND Test 1

Un-bl**dy-believable!


This win will go down as one of #IND's greatest wins!


Great team victory, esp for the bowlers(?!😱): #Shami, #RAshwin, #Bumrah, #Ishant & keeper #RishabhPant.


But, yeah, it's #Cheteshwar #Pujara's world, we just live in it!


#CheteshWall! 🏏πŸ’ͺπŸ‘


#AUSvIND



Free Solo

#FreeSolo


Terrifying/breathtaking/nerve-racking cinematic experience! What sticks, however, is the human story. Honnold's endlessly fascinating but the cost to his loved ones...πŸ€” #Oscars to the DP & esp his camera operators! 1 of 2018's best!


PS Those ghastly end-credits?!😑🀷‍♀️



09 December 2018

Another Steelers Loss to Add to the Distressingly Long List of Bone-Headed Losses

Wut?! Wuuuuuuuuuuuut?!?!! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!?!


#Boswell, love ya man, but that was...


#Steelers #HereWeGo (to where exactly?!)


PS. Thank G*d for #JuJu, right?


#PITvsOAK

... and the Ravens Lose! Win-Win All Around!

PPS. Thank G*d for #Mahomes (er, I mean #KCπŸ˜‡), the insufferable #Ravens lose & #Belicheat delayed #1 seed & inevitable march to the #SuperBowl😬


PPPS. G*d help me, I'm sorta beginning to like that #LamarJackson kid!😱



Dolphins Beat the Patriots in *Miraculous* Fashion

Haha, America's Team... #Dolphins!! 


Any loss for those *awful* #Patriots is a win for all that is good in this world!!! #FinsUp 🐬🏈πŸ’ͺπŸ‘πŸ™ŒπŸ‘πŸ€™πŸ˜„πŸ€£


PS. Anyone check on #PapiLeBatard?!


#NEvsMIA



08 December 2018

Liverpool Vaults to the Top Thanks to Mo Salah (Again?πŸ˜‡)

I have no idea who/what #Bournemouth is but I'm glad they let #MoSalah get a hat trick. 


I don't want to jinx it but #Liverpool could be... oh no, wait, they *are* on top of the #EPL! Oh no, I've jinxed them! 😱


#LFC #BOULIV


07 December 2018

Of Fathers and Sons (Kinder des Kalifats)

#OfFathersAndSons


One of the most troubl-ing/some films you'll *ever* see. I missed my documentary ethics class so I'll leave all of that alone. Kudos to director & esp DP for putting their lives in danger to get the story behind the headlines. War is absolute hell on the young!





06 December 2018

(Once Again) Pujara Plays a Gritty (Test) Knock 2018 Aus v Ind Test 1

I've said it once, I've said it a million times, #IND's (Test) #cricket would be nothing without the singular #Cheteshwar #Pujara! πŸπŸ’ͺπŸ™Œ


With #Shami still hanging around, #AUS isn't cantering to a win just yet...


#AUSvIND


RIP Philip Bosco

RIP #PhilipBosco


One of those classic I-love-that-guy character actors I "discovered" first on #LawAndOrder. Fantastic in so many roles, perhaps none more so than his late-career valediction in #TheSavages. Watch him break your heart for yourself tomorrow at @SidGrauman. Sigh…



04 December 2018

Tully (2018)

#Tully


(Second-πŸ˜‡) Greatest Tully Movie, Ever! Sweet/unnerving/thought-provoking thx to Reitman's sleight-of-hand/apparently-placable directing & Cody's sharp-tongued screenplay. Livingston, Davis & *esp* Theron (hello #Oscars): πŸ‘ PS. Editor deserves massive πŸ‘ - that montage!



03 December 2018

Liverpool Pulls Off Miracle Over Everton

PS. That was a h*lluva #Liverpool win, no? Thank the #Klopp for that insane/miraculous #Origi header, otherwise a goalless-draw against... wait #Everton is in 6th? Okay, no shame in that then :-)


#LFC #MerseysideDerby #YNWA

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

#CanYouEverForgiveMe?


One of the best, most criminally-under-seen, films of #Oscar season! Expertly crafted by kid Heller, superbly acted by Wells, the scene-stealing-machine REG (adding nuance and heartbreak), & esp McCarthy, who deserves *all* the awards she's going to get!



02 December 2018

One of the Worst Steelers’ Losses of All Time!

Yeesh, one of the greatest #Steelers losses ever: up by 16 pts at home?!😱, #Switzer & #Conner hurt😰, #PhilipRivers becomes even more insufferable, #Chargers fans bandwagoning... 

& the *awful* #Ravens are within striking distance 🀬


PS. Where did this kid #LJFort come from?!πŸ‘