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The Guardian

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A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice. From TMDB

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  • piraterum.bsky.social @piraterum.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    Sample quote from an early review of MELANIA, courtesy of The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...

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  • Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    🧵🧵🧵 "Melania" reviews 🧵🧵🧵 The Guardian: “It’s dispiriting, it’s deadly and it’s spectacularly unrevealing. … Two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.”

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  • Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    “Why is Elon Musk boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right?” My latest for the Guardian on how the richest man in the world is in love with ‘Citizen Vigilante,’ which promotes the murder not just of migrant criminals but their families too.

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  • Ed Zitron @edzitron.comBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    Also: I’ll take Robert Pattinson or Paul Mescal as The Guardian has suggested to play me in the movie

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  • Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2024

    Good morning. I wrote an essay for The Guardian about the perilous state of film and media preservation in 2024—the wiping of archives, the deletion of completed movies, etc. I argue that the corporate disregard for cultural history is a growing emergency: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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  • Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2025

    The Guardian is covering this ICE horror (how many more are there?). Other major media should, too. ‘Like a horror movie’: Ice detaining German tourist in California indefinitely www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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  • Bellingcat @bellingcat.comBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    A former Syrian regime official suspected of leading the notorious Tadamon massacre was arrested Friday. The massacre was first revealed by the Guardian in 2022. “Killing Anna”, a film on the subject – made with Keo Films and Bellingcat Productions – premiered in Copenhagen earlier this year.

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  • Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    The Guardian will stream NAZA on its website for free >>> www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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  • Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    Good morning. I wrote an essay for The Guardian about Netflix's cancellation of a 9-hour Prince documentary and the depressing state of the celeb documentary complex. I argue that sanitized celebrity docs are now indistinguishable from high-end brand management: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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  • ABOLISH ICE 🇲🇽 @absurdreality.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Also the film will be free to watch on The Guardian late November so everyone should be aware of that www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    Ridley Scott was asked about ‘Gladiator 3’ and another ‘Alien’ film “Gladiator is in process right now. Another Alien prequel – yeah, if I get an idea, for sure” (via The Guardian)

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  • Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    The Guardian asked me to choose a comfort watch for bleak days. Not a difficult decision. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

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  • Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2026

    ‘AVENGERS: THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT’ was my least favorite Marvel movie.

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  • Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    Which brands have quit X/Twitter? 3M Balenciaga Berlin Film Festival Best Buy Devon County Council Eli Lilly European Federation of Journalists The Guardian Magers & Quinn Booksellers North Wales Police NPR Playbill Royal National 🧵

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  • SCP @10-5.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2026

    Hello! NHS England did a study that found the exact opposite, which they published a few months before this film was released. Funny that neither the Guardian nor their “not especially radical” Dr (who happens to write for the Daily Mail) acknowledge this! In conclusion: Fuck you.

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  • Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.netBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    A sample of who has stopped posting on X: 3M Balenciaga Berlin Film Festival Best Buy Devon County Council Eli Lilly The Guardian Magers & Quinn Booksellers North Wales Police NPR Playbill Royal National orthopaedic hospital UnitedHealth Group Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing

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  • Praṇay Manocha @pranman.comBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    The Guardian has added this erratum to its review of Melania

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  • calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    > The unprecedented success of Backrooms and Obsession is not unprecedented in any way, every decade has examples of this. Was the author of this piece ever been to a movie before this year? Are they aware of this thing called "research"? Does The Guardian have editors? What is going on?

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  • Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2025

    On this day in 2002, 23 years ago, Pokémon Heroes, known in Japan as "The Guardian Gods of the Water Capital Latias and Latios" was first released This movie features Ash helping a Latias protect the Soul Dew in Altomare from two notorious thieves serebii.net/movies/latia...

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  • Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    The Guardian review of Genocidal Organ is great. 'Why do they speak Japanese,' asks a white person about a Japanese film.

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  • Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

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  • Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2026

    On this day in 2002, 24 years ago, Pokémon Heroes, known in Japan as "The Guardian Gods of the Water Capital Latias and Latios" was first released This movie features Ash helping a Latias protect the Soul Dew in Altomare from two notorious thieves serebii.net/movies/latia...

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  • Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    One Nation’s anti-abortion politics are a horror movie and I have goddamn said so in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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  • Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.comBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    The Guardian updates its review of Melania The Movie.

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  • Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2025

    I wrote for the Guardian about loving John Ford, and the singular beauty of Wagon Master www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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  • Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Gonna pitch a review of Wake Up Dead Man to the Guardian that is 800 words comparing it to Harriet the Spy and Gone Girl and being mad that Benoit Blanc solves the case at the end of the movie instead of saying "Hm, I wonder who killed him" and walking off into the sunset.

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  • Pierre Novellie @pierrenovellie.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2025

    Am smug to have an article in the Guardian before a review - it’s all about autistic-coding in media! They cut out some of the beefier stuff but that’s life! Bazinga! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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  • Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.orgBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    “Due to the interest and public importance, I and Rachel decided together with The Guardian that the film NAZA would be accessible online for free, without any time limit, so that every person can watch it.” —Yuval Abraham #NAZA #Filmsky 📽️

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  • Jordan D 64 @jordan-d-64.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    Saying worse than AI is actually incredibly offensive to all the animators and writers on the movie because Illumination for all their faults is staunchly anti AI. Fuck whoever wrote that The Guardian review lol.

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  • Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    Pathological narcissists shouldn’t be allowed to make rockets or submarines. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju... ‘Absolutely shocking’: Netflix documentary examines how the Titan sub disaster happened | Documentary films | The Guardian

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  • Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    Love the Guardian, but this is hilarious The only one not on here is “Why that canonical movie studied for decades in film schools is actually shite, by person who recently turned 21”

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  • Guardian NUJ @gonuj.orgBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    Good morning! Thanks so much for your messages of support. David Morrissey, actor and film-maker, said: “I have long considered The Observer to be The Guardian On Sunday. To separate the papers is bonkers and very worrying. Please support these journalists and this campaign.” #savetheobserver 🙏🏻

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  • Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    "Melania film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest" -The Guardian Rotten Tomatoes: Melania 7% Zone Of Intetest 93%

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  • Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyzBluesky · Feb 7, 2024

    There goes the Guardian, trotting out the old trope that this movie was too offensively funny to be made today, when the truth is that it couldn't be made today because it's a satire of a format that ceased to exist because Blazing Saddles killed it.

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  • Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2024

    For the Guardian, on the lost Clara Bow film THE PILL POUNDER, which was found in a stock auction, and re-premiered in San Francisco this week. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/ap...

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  • Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.comBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    The Guardian wins libel case against film producer Noel Clarke Judge finds Clarke "was not a credible or reliable witness." The Guardian was correct to suggest strong grounds he was "a serial abuser of women". www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

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  • Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.comBluesky · Apr 30, 2025

    I don't know if there's a gif of it and I feel like he was only in the movie for two seconds but Peter Serafinowicz's mildly appalled, mildly amused delivery of "What a bunch of a-holes" from the GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY movie made itself part of my DNA immediately

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  • harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    It was a total honour to write the cover feature for The Guardian Film and Music on the mighty Iron Maiden, out today.

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2024

    For The Guardian, I wrote about THE CONVERSATION, my favorite Francis Ford Coppola film, on its 50th birthday. We're all Gene Hackman with his saxophone now: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/ap...

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  • Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    In a one-star review, The Guardian critic Xan Brooks slammed “Melania” as a film that “doesn’t have a single redeeming quality,” comparing it to a “medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.” 🤣

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  • Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2024

    I really profiled the Indigo Girls for the Guardian, on the occasion of their fantastic new documentary, It's Only Life After All. I found the film moving, empowering and uplifting - and talking to Emily and Amy was a thrill! www.theguardian.com/music/articl...

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2025

    I was asked to write about my favorite "feel good" movie for The Guardian and I chose Jonathan Demme's MARRIED TO THE MOB, which delights me from the first frame to the last. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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  • Darren Parkinson @greendarrenshipley.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    Oh, and if you haven't already, you can watch the short film that the Guardian made about my life living with #LongCovid here ⬇️ youtu.be/3mzG8j16FlQ?...

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  • Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2026

    Life in the UK would be better for many people if the Guardian and the Telegraph swapped chief film critics

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  • Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    I see The Guardian has had a film opinion, again.

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  • András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    I don't want to dwell on this too much because it's pretty pointless, however if you are going to post a wall of text in my replies, at least share the link where people can watch my latest feature film, The Whip, which received three stars from The Guardian youtu.be/vboUAIibXPo?...

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  • filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    Recovering Missing Episodes Yesterday, Film is Fabulous! were featured in The Guardian, as part of an article on the search for Britain’s missing TV, and why it’s running out of time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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  • Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2025

    John Williams says he has “never liked film music very much.” “Film music, however good it can be – and it usually isn't… I just think the music isn't there. That, what we think of as this precious great film music is… we're remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way…” (Source: The Guardian)

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  • Dia Lacina @dialacina.comBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    You know The Guardian journalist who gets popped because he refuses to listen to Professional Assassin Jason Bourne in the 2nd movie would have just gone on to write wildly transphobic hallucinations for them in a few years anyway.

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  • András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2024

    A quick reminder that the metropolitan liberal elitist rootless cosmopolitan The Guardian gave THREE STARS to my movie and if I can have one little gripe is that the piece doesn't mention my name, which is very unfair.

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  • Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2026

    The Guardian is covering this film more than Brexit jfc

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  • Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    For the Guardian, I wrote about the lovely new Selena documentary, which is worth your time. ♥️ www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

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  • Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    The Guardian is stingy with its stars. Here's five of them for "You Can See Everything" You Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

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  • Guardian US @us.theguardian.comBluesky · Sep 29, 2026 · official account, not scored

    The film, which was produced by the Guardian, will open in New York this week and soon expand to theaters worldwide. It will also stream, for free, on the Guardian website in November.

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  • András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    I regret to report that according to the perfectly scientific and accurate measurement of The Guardian film review section, my movie 'The Whip' is better than Superman www.theguardian.com/film/article...

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  • András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2024

    www.theguardian.com/film/article... I have a new movie out if you didn't hear, and The Guardian didn't hate it I see this as an absolute win. Tickets: linktr.ee/thewhipfilm

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  • Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    Oh my, burn baby burn. 🔥🔥🔥 (Exert from Review of Melania ’film’ by Xan Brooks in The Guardian)

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  • James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2025

    I remember seeing the Guardian Angels for the first time, I was like damn living here really is like being in a movie

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  • Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zoneBluesky · Nov 2, 2024

    The Guardian reporter at the beginning of this movie is a fucking doofus— who discusses military secrets over a cell phone in a crowded area????

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  • Spookleton Peck 👻🎃🧛‍♂️⛓️🪓⚰️🪦 @templetonpeck.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    And not "pretty" Hollywood actors. Like, a bunch of the dudes I worked with were some goofy looking motherfuckers. That's one of the things that pissed me off about The Guardian. Rescue swimmers didn't start looking like until after the movie came out.

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