@orharveyworking
Writer? Contributing Editor for Film Stories Magazine. Words in/on The Guardian, Total Film, BBC5Live, Great Big Story, WhyNow, GameRant. NCTJ Gold Standard. Scripts in a drawer. He/him. https://linktr.ee/orharveyworking
It’s Friday! This week on Film Stories FM, @orharveyworking.bsky.social and myself chat beavers, video games and capitalism.
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Paddington stands on the BAFTA red carpet as a load of people ignore him.
This was their chance to get a pic of Paddington with Paul Thomas Anderson and they fucked it. Look at him. He's so lonely.
The brilliant @orharveyworking.bsky.social and myself are chatting about movies once a week (well, more than that but we only record it once…) over on YouTube.
You should watch and subscribe to our channel while you’re there!
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The Merchant character from hit video game, Resident Evil 4. A little guy with a big backpack and a torn cloak which he’s opening like a DVD peddler in a seedy pub.
Emerald Fennell really missed a trick not casting this guy as Joseph.
The Oscars should give F1 Best Picture for a laugh.
The Apartment, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Holdovers, When Harry Met Sally, Phantom Thread. It ain’t rocket science, Hollywood, give the people what they want!
Making a good film is easy, just have the cast join in and/or slow dance to auld lang syne and I WILL cry, thank you.
Rob Reiner’s gone, and it feels more important than usual in these situations to remember the good things: here’s my look at A Few Good Men, to start.
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28 Years Later: The Squeakquel is the MOST NAKED blockbuster you’ll see ALL YEAR. Big, bold, and NUDE from start to finish, Nia DaCosta has made another ASTONISHINGLY UNCLOTHED entry to the ZCU. Stay to the end to WATCH THE CREDITS.
#TheBoneTemple
Hey AJ! I’m British, and can speak and edit things!
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📚 Local news, books, and all sorts of misfit bits (ft. some spooky medieval buildings popping up on Dartmoor…
🎩 The stars of Desperate Journey on their new cabaret thriller.
🪽 David Freyne on Eternity: “A Matter of Life and Death meets The Apartment” (preview of this coming in the film stories newsletter tomorrow, if ya wanna sign up).
🔪 Spoke to Chris Smith about Severance (and how his new film is taking inspiration from Weapons)
Cover of film stories issue 58
New @filmstories.bsky.social magazine is out now! Here’s all the cool stuff I scribbled in it:
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
Achievements of April’s Supreme Court ruling so far:
- Trans people de-facto banned from majority of public toilets/changing rooms.
- Trans kids *AGED 4-7* can no longer join Rainbows because of sexual harassment concerns.
What the fuck are we doing here?
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Good to see Netflix shoving The Holdovers down my throat any chance it gets. This is the only media I will consume between now and Christmas, how could you tell?
It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
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Great and surprisingly un-depressing stuff here on why the internet’s gone tits-up, and how we can undo it.
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Wicked For Good is a faithful adaptation of act 2 of Wicked (derogatory).
Boo, I say, BOO!!!
Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance
For The Guardian (!) I wrote about Brief Encounter ahead of its 80th anniversary. I am chuffed. This has chuffed me.
Huge thanks to Catherine Shoard for the commission!
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Happy Halloween! Film Quiz Friday has risen from the grave for a one-off helping of spooky horror-themed questions. Who will survive? What will be left of them? Not questions you'll get here, but send us your scores out of 31 when you're done! (laughs in Vincent Price...)
I suspect this is the first podcast on In Which We Serve to bring up Russell Crowe, Master and Commander and The Wager, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. I’m nothing if not predictable (available wherever you get your podcasts!)
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Derek Cianfrance's Roofman is the family Christmas hit you didn't know October needed. Review for Film Stories:
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A bit by me on AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood: we can still fight back against this creepy nonsense.
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