RIP Fred "Curly" Neal

‪RIP #CurlyNeal‬

‪Brought joy to thousands of kids the world over. Seeing the #HarlemGlobetrotters was pure happiness. Honestly, I'm not sure if he was still with them, but with all those years of highlights (& cartoons) that followed, I'll just believe he was 😌‬

‪#Curly #FredNeal‬

Bacurau

‪#Bacurau‬

‪I was expecting a good-natured, village-folks-banding-together-to-beat-the-city-slicker-big-bad, feel-good, alls-well-that-ends-well movie, but I wasn't expecting…well, you'll kinda have to see it for yourselves😲! PS. #SoniaBraga V #UdoKier👏👍👊‬

‪#VirtualCinema(🙏)‬

Corpus Christi (Boze Cialo)

‪#CorpusChristi (#BozeCialo) ‬

‪Awesome pro🤷‍♀️?/anti🤷‍♀️? religious story that rattles around in your head for hours afterwards. Deliberately directed, beautifully DP-ed, tremendously acted...*esp* powderkeg lead perf by charismatic #BartoszBielenia(👏).‬

‪#VirtualCinema(🙏)‬

Support Your Local Indie Cinema!

‪Support your local indie cinema with gift cards/virtual cinema📽🙏‬

‪#Laemmle @laemmle‬

‪#ArtTheatreLB @ArtTheatre‬

‪#LidoTheatre @RegencyMovies‬

‪#CinemaArtsTheatre(Fairfax)‬

‪#RitzFive/#RitzEast @RitzTheatres‬

‪#LittleTheatre @TheLittleRoch (#ROC!)‬

‪#TheCinemaTheater @CinemaRochester‬

Djokovic Closest Thing to MJ Currently

‪Sorry @stephenasmith & @maxkellerman, but the closest thing we have (currently) in sports to #MJ('s no-quarter-given-you-have-to-kill-me-to-beat-me-bazooka-to-a-knife-fight winning mentality) is: #Djokovic 😬‬

‪As for MJ's one-continuous-endless-highlight-reel style..not quite😇‬

RIP Manu Dibango

RIP #ManuDibango

Really enjoyed his music and when I met TBH it was one of the things we had in common. Poor chap had to fight for recognition after they sampled him for one of the 80s biggest hits. Leaves behind so much amazing music, perfect time to listen to it now, no?

Panique (1946)

‪#Panique (1946)‬

‪Incredible, pitch-black(heart-of-man) noir-as-social-parable(? allegory? metaphor?🤷‍♀️)! Romance, intrigue, murder, vivid characters, brilliant sets, kinetic B&W cinematography, direction by Duvivier, &, to top it all off, possibly the most French ending, ever!‬

RIP Floyd Cardoz

RIP #FloydCardoz

Massively influential chef who couldn't have been kinder to a philistine like me. The food he made was delicious and, boy, what a proud moment it was when he won #TopChefMasters. Not only "elevated" Indian food, but fought to keep from being pigeonholed.

RIP Albert Uderzo

‪RIP #AlbertUderzo‬

‪Man, those words #Goscinny & #Uderzo were an indelible part of our childhood, no? Between #Asterix & #Tintin & #AmarChitraKatha & (*very* out-of-sequence) #DC & #Marvel, I was lucky enough to be transported to fantabulous worlds growing up.‬

RIP Kenny Rogers

‪RIP #KennyRogers‬

‪Way back before we even knew he was country & western icon, we loved the few songs we got to hear (#IslandsInTheStream!), and his chicken restaurant (or did I just dream that?!). Of course, later on I realised just how massive he was. Sooooo many great songs...‬

Ramon Foster Retires

‪You Know You're Too Old When: #RamonFoster Retires‬

‪Longtime #Steelers stalwart who flew under the radar but did *vital* yeoman work for the O-Line. In the blink of an eye that #Steeler era is coming to an end, no😬?‬

‪#HereWeGo‬

Massive NFL Offseason Moves!

‪Apparently time & #NFL wait for no coronavirus😲!‬

‪#Steelers will miss #JavonHargrave😕 ‬

‪#Mariota, Teddy, Diggs, DeAndre(BoB🙄), Witten, Hooper, Rivers($25M😬?!) & ...‬

‪#TomBrady😱 ‬

‪I'm gonna love the #Brady v #Belichick organisations-win-championships #Patriots deathknell😁‬

The Good Liar

#TheGoodLiar

Good, clean veddy entertaining veddy British conman who's-conning-who(m🤷‍♀️?) timepass thriller fun. Awesome to see #Mirren & #McKellen go (wo)mano-e-mano, and the reveal actually has some gravitas (for once). Plus, Burwell's delicious score👍.

Frozen 2

‪#Frozen2‬

‪Better* than #Frozen😁 Kudos to bits of tongue-in-cheek fun (singing reindeers🤣!). All in all, good, clean family fun for all. PS. ERW with the pipes, maybe we can get a Broadway World in #Westworld!‬

‪* Apart from music, nothing as earworm-y as inescapable #LetItGo!‬

Liverpool Sadly Lose Lead Against Atl Madrid to Crash Out 2020 Champions League

‪What in G*d's name is a #Llorente😱?!‬

‪Don't blame that kid #Adrian, #LFC bottled a bunch of pointblank chances😣‬

‪Great stuff from #OxladeChamberlain (MVP!), #Wijnaldum, #Firmino (finally, a home goal!)✌️‬

‪Oh, well, back to winn...nah, I jinxed 'em before😬‬

‪#LIVATL #UCL #YNWA‬

Happy Holi 2020

‪Happy #Holi everyone! Please colour responsibly... and this year, that's no joke😬‬

‪For your enjoyment a D. Dun sun...rise😎‬

‪#HappyHoli‬

RIP Max von Sydow

‪RIP #MaxVonSydow‬

‪Among my *all*-time faves. His career-length, director-breadth, astonishing genre-range...there'll never be another. I loved his Hollywood typcast: crusty-warm mentor, cool Euro-heavy. But ongoing discovery of his Bergman (& other) films has been mindblowing.‬

India Loses Finals to Australia 2020 T20 Women's World Cup

‪Sigh, bad luck for #IND, but looks like #AUS were in it to win it😬‬

‪Great knock from #AlyssaHealy, looks like #Starc has a lot to live up to!‬

‪Nice bat-ball effort by #DeeptiSharma, & #Harmanpreet's tournament leadership for #TeamIndia👍‬

‪PS. #KatyPerry👏‬

‪#T20WorldCup #INDvAUS‬

LeBron, er I Mean Lakers Beat Giannis, er I Mean Bucks

‪Yo #Giannis, if you come at the #KingJames, you'd best not miss!!‬

‪Great win for Top-3 😇 #LeBron, er, I mean #Lakers. That's some #MVP stuff right there🤩‬

‪Meanwhile, #Kawhi lurks in the background, patiently waiting to unleash his Omar-esque h*ll on 'em all😬!‬

‪#MILvLAL‬

India Reaches Finals T20 Women's World Cup

‪Yo! We're set up for a(nother) #IND v #AUS blockbuster!‬

‪I mean, not the ideal way to reach the finals, but I'm not complaining😇‬

‪But, man, how much heartbreak can #SouthAfrica cricket take? Chin up #RSA👍‬

‪#T20WorldCup | #FILLTHEMCG‬

Barbara (2012)

‪#Barbara (2012)‬

‪Oh, Petzold+Hoss, apparently you've been doing it all along! Absolutely stunning, slow-burning, precisely-directed look at watchers and the watched, the lost souls, and the call to action that makes us choose between, well, us and perhaps those that need it more.‬

RIP James Lipton

‪RIP #JamesLipton‬

‪Loved #InsideTheActorsStudio, back in those halcyon pre-YT days. All with a wink+smile, but the thesaurus-rich questions did lead to many revelatory moments. My pal BatManuel told me that he was married to our prof, the legendary #NinaFoch, boy, what a couple!‬

India Lose Second Test & Series 2020 New Zealand v India

‪No shame in losing to #NZL in NZ but a *2*-test series?!🙄‬

‪At least #Pujara scored some runs for #IND🤗‬

‪The fast-bowling firm of #Boult & #Southee was in full force, but who/what is a #KyleJamieson? Do they have pace bowlers growing willy-nilly in the Kiwi shires?!‬

‪#NZvIND‬

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)

‪#PortraitOfALadyOnFire ‬

‪A tour-de-force by Sciamma, working at the peak of her powers to bring us an intimate bigscreen epic. *Great* work by DP, edit, sound & cast: Golino, Haenel, Merlant & Bajrami who quietly steals the show. One of the all-time great triple-endings in film!‬