Rob Hinchcliffe

Full marks to the Noble Rot writer who came up with this headline for their Jarvis Cocker interview 🍷

What is it about the political class that they somehow they weed anyone out who has a genuine, natural sense of humour and charm; so when we find one (ONE!) with those qualities it's like glimpsing a unicorn?

The Steal 012 Violent Saturday (1955)

“Stick these in your kisser and go suck on ‘em.”

In the latest issue of our heist movie newsletter, The Steal, @sizemore.bsky.social takes on Richard Fleischer’s Violent Saturday, from 1955.

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As someone in the background of a newsroom said on Industry the other week: "Stop calling it clickbait, call it curiosity gathering."

Looks like there's a special guest at the Prince Charles cinema this weekend.

Erik Satie sounds like a bit of a dude.

The Steal 011 Robbery (1967)

Issue 11 of mine and @sizemore.bsky.social's heist film newsletter features Muppets, cheese butties, nudists, and a one-legged miner…. And one of the most influential British heist films of the 60s.

Fasten your seatbelts, we’re about to run over a lollypop man

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"The source added: 'There’s no strategy for the website. The clicks on the website are entirely random, driven by Google News and Google Discover.' They said traffic is largely dependent on sport news about Arsenal and Chelsea."

Independent set to take over running Standard website Editorial and commercial staff on the Standard website have been told they could be transferred to the owner of The Independent.

I'm ghoulishly fascianted by the slow inevitable demise of The Evening Standard. But I'm not gleeful about it, just angry and a bit sad that a paper can be destroyed like this. pressgazette.co.uk/news/indepen...

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

THE STEAL 008 BLIND RAGE (1978)

Issue 8 is out! @hinchcliffe.bsky.social jumps in to the joyously absurd BLIND RAGE ("Let’s begin by synchronising your Braille watches!") and @sizemore.bsky.social puts the soundtrack to the Italian Job over the Bourne Identity, to make a point about... cinema?

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6) Art is, in the end, a way of taking a feeling out of my head and trying to jam it into yours from across space and time. There may be some tasty junk food made by AI eventually, but without intention, our appetites to make will be unmet, and we will eventually move on. 6/6

Periodically I’m like, “we should all restart nice simple blogs and RSS feeds and start again and do it better this time”.

I joined my local library (all part of my ongoing mission to extricate myself from Amazon) but they didn't have any adult library cards left 😂

“I wouldn’t provoke him, Paul. He doesn’t get a chance to shoot a Cabinet Minister every day!”

They don't make them like this anymore...

St John’s founders are stepping back. What comes next for the trailblazing nose-to-tail restaurant? [FREE TO READ] Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver are retiring from day-to-day operations after 31 years

Huge news in the world of London restaurants, niche i admit. But perhaps the most influential restaurateurs of their generation are done and they talk to Tim Hayward about their decision on.ft.com/48b0GLb

"I am not an animal! I am a human being."

The Steal | Substack An exploration of the perfect score, one heist movie at a time. Click to read The Steal, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

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This is such a mess of a film, but also weirdly enjoyable and fascinating...

South London squirrels after different kind of stash If they are not launching themselves at you in drug-fuelled desperation, their bloodshot eyes are searching for their next fix, pink paws scrabbling in the ground.

Remember when they used to do this with crack, and then all the squirrels got addicted to crack? www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/...

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Larkin obviously into his vodka martinis.

The Steal 004 Money Movers (1978)

We're taking it in turns to write about our faves. It's my turn this week, so I've written about a violent, 1978 Aussie classic starring Jason Donovan's dad. thesteal.substack.com/p/the-steal-...

The Steal is mine and @sizemore.bsky.social's newsletter about the beauty and brilliance of heist films, a genre we're a little too obsessed by...

Penge representing... ✊

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

A separate music streaming service that only has AI-generated stuff on it?

And we can call it Sloppify...

No? Okay, fine.

The new issue of mine and @sizemore.bsky.social's heist film newsletter is out. This time it's Mike on 1968's THE SPLIT .

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New Jersey Theme Park Puts Animatronic Dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace as It Shuts Down

Does anyone want to join me in a whip round for an animatronic dinosaur? gizmodo.com/new-jersey-t...

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