John Maguire

John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

Chewy forename and surname

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

leading one to naturally conclude the author's name is Taffy Brodesserakner

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 09:50 UTC

Misquoted on the second one; he meant "lunchtime"

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 11:14 UTC

The raging tears of the fanboys are worth the endlessly average Star Wars shows

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 12:56 UTC

You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Pyongyang?

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Despite actually making a film here (2020s Gretel & Hansel), Osgood Perkin's Longlegs is the first of his films to get an Irish cinema release, on July 12th. (Scary, loud) trailer below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG7w...

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

I'm only here for the public likes. Validation!

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:08 UTC

Donald Trump is the first president in US history to be convicted of a felony.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

Whatever else comes out of the Children's Hospital farrago, BAM Ireland should never again be awarded a tender to build so much as a park bench.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] May 19, 2024 at 13:12 UTC

I had a most enjoyable chat with the brilliant Fiona Shaw for today's Business Post www.businesspost.ie/article/for-...

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 10:18 UTC

Congratulations to all involved in That They May Face The Rising Sun in passing the significant milestone of €500K at the box office after three weeks on release. Still playing everywhere.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 12:05 UTC

Martin Scorsese discusses working with the late Roger Corman on Boxcar Bertha www.youtube.com/watch?v=147i...

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 14:15 UTC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wciz...
Christy Moore's 1984 song about the Stardust Disaster, effectively banned for decades after its lyrics were ruled in contempt of court by the High Court

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

Remar pulled the trigger all right, but nobody ever discovered where the live cartridge came from. What the cops did discover was the stash of heroin in Remar's London flat, which is mostly why he was sacked and replaced.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 08:52 UTC

Loved John Crowley's novels Engine Summer and Little Big but had forgotten all about him until I picked up Flint and Mirror, about 100 pages ago. An actual masterpiece.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

So we're just going to sit and watch Israel kill every last Palestinian? Is that our plan? Because it's abundantly clear that it's Israel's plan.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 25, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

The other day I saw mention of a 1980s American cult film that I had never seen but can I recall the title now, or who made it, or where I saw the reference? Course not.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 22, 2024 at 10:49 UTC

We used Silvermints.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 21, 2024 at 10:14 UTC

The sitting coalition government was formed as a result of an election called because FG feared losing a vote of no confidence in Harris as Min of Health. We are governed by zombies.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 21, 2024 at 09:56 UTC

It's a measure of the collective amnesia on which Irish politics relies that FGs heir apparent is someone whose 4 year tenure as Minister for Health turned an inherited crisis into an unqualified catastrophe.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 12:17 UTC

Sexy Beast

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 10:30 UTC

it's a perfectly cromulent phrase

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 12, 2024 at 14:02 UTC

RIP Charlie Bird, whose most important and inspiring story in the end was his own.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

Al Pacino fucked it up but Oppenheimer wins Best Picture

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

Emma Stone wins Best Actress. What a night for Poor Things and Element Pictures.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

Huge cheers for Cillian Murphy in the auditorium. "I'm a very proud Irish man standing here tonight." Dedicates his award to "peacemakers everywhere"

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 00:39 UTC

Jonathan Glazer accepting his Oscar for Best International Film: "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people."

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 10, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

Cord Jefferson hitting the nail on the head "Instead of making one $200m movie, try making twenty $10m movies"

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

When in Paris you know, At the Musee d'Hugo That's Le Marais

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

Projections was excellent - have the entire collection here. Wish they still published it.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 10:33 UTC

I have Charlie, it's a super book. What I would like to read, having just discovered their existence, are the two novels Pressburger wrote after their partnership dissolved.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 10:13 UTC

David Hinton's Made In England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, narrated with infectious affection by Martin Scorsese, is an absolute treat - see it at the Dublin Film Festival today at 1.30, in the Light House.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 10, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

back to bed in that case Max

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 22, 2023 at 23:03 UTC

I recently learned that in Norway, when someone asks "how's it going", the standard answer is "up and not crying" and we should adopt this asap

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 02, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Cinema will save your life but its the same life that it has ruined.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 02, 2024 at 12:35 UTC

Philip Seymour Hoffman ten years dead and still much missed

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 30, 2024 at 21:53 UTC

Arriving unbidden from some deep recess, a memory of a childhood belief that toffee was made by mixing tea and coffee

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 23, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

22 of them were me

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 23, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 23, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

Not a bad shout John. At least he mixes it up a bit, even if the results are so far a bit uneven

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 23, 2024 at 08:27 UTC

The late great Norman Jewison made one of every kind of film. Who does that anymore?

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 21, 2024 at 11:40 UTC

does a dream, when spoken aloud, remain a dream?

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 14, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

Post a banger that isn't in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqOM...

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 09, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

still up on the paper that broke the story, the BP: www.businesspost.ie/news/fund-sn...

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 08, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

I have no fear of death having watched Jo Koy's opening monologue at the Golden Globes. More like Joke? Oy!

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 31, 2023 at 12:05 UTC

Tough as boots Karyn. The increased moaning and whinging will be scarcely noticable.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 31, 2023 at 11:44 UTC

o you absolute bastard

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 25, 2023 at 10:19 UTC

calculating turkey cooking times like

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 24, 2023 at 12:07 UTC

the backlash has already started: apparently its a comedy for people who are only pretending to laugh

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