MJS

Views my own depending what they are.

[MJS @mjspeight]

The England cricket team.

[Liam Holman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Liam_Holman99]

When you learn that Starmer led the prosecution against phone hacking, you realise why you are being told to despise him.

[MJS @mjspeight]

@90sfootball @EmilioSansolini Brehme left back

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@PaulEmbery Pretty sure Bradford Grammar is a private school.

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@WarwickshireCCC That's Jordan Thompson

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

What it’s like to wrap on one of the greatest Hollywood blockbusters of all time

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

All the President’s Men turns 50 today.

This famous “six‑minute shot” is a masterclass in phone acting and pure technical nerve.

Director Alan J. Pakula and cinematographer Gordon Willis pull off a single, unbroken slow zoom: from a wide, humming newsroom to a tight close-up on Redford. No cuts. No safety net. Tension builds in real time.

Redford carries it with typical quiet confidence. Six minutes of note-taking and talking into a phone, no flashy “Oscar clip.” He even flubs a name (“McGregor” for “Dahlberg”), corrects himself naturally, and Pakula keeps it because it feels authentic.

The background is part of the story. As Woodward hones in on his phone call, everyone behind him huddles around a TV watching Senator Tom Eagleton resign. The contrast is deliberate: they chase the “obvious” headline, while the camera drifts past them to Woodward, and the real story.

To hold Redford and the busy background in focus early on, they used a split‑diopter lens, then had to ease it out as the camera moves in. A technical tightrope. The timing of both actor and cinematographer is spot on.

As Woodward closes in on the truth, the world literally falls away: the newsroom blurs, the noise fades, and we lock into his obsession. It’s one of cinema’s great moments: Redford doing almost nothing—and somehow everything at the same time.

What makes this shot brilliant is the contrast it carves between Redford and the newsroom around him. The visual language does the talking: he’s locked in, disciplined, driven, all focus and fire. He stands apart because the work matters more than anything else.

[Aidan Regan @Aidan_Regan]

The death of investigative journalism is a core part of the democratic malaise. Imagine how much better our democracies would be if journalists spent their days on corporate corruption and money in politics - instead of poll numbers and political soap operas.

[MJS @mjspeight]

Rob Key is that guy at work who sounds quite impressive but when you strip away the facade is just talking bollocks.

[MJS @mjspeight]

@90sfootball Andy Brehme

[Dave Tickner @tickerscricket]

Your only three professional hundreds being one in each international format, and against South Africa, Australia and India, is a simply sensational bit.

[MJS @mjspeight]

@KeithWildman Cleckheaton?

[Dan Jackson @northumbriana]

Your soul needs Northumberland, not Dubai

[MJS @mjspeight]

@empiremagazine @AmazonUK Saving Private Ryan, opening scene.

[Empire @empiremagazine]

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[Alison Mitchell @AlisonMitchell]

Fans can get so engaged with 4 or 5 Tests in a series. Characters reveal themselves over time, familiarity with touring players develop, and a soap opera unfolds in a way that just isn’t possible over the many 2 Test series that so many countries play due to finances. #EngvInd

[George Dobell @GeorgeDobell1]

Remember, next week, every run matters....

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

Wrote about how Leeds is an unwilling lab rat for a particular strand of Treasury thought