Steven Sheil

Steven Sheil

@scsheil.bsky.social

Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil Creator of @adrianchills.bsky.social

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Tom
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Mourinho was once asked to come up with the saddest five-a-side team ever. This is what he wrote: Forssell, Bebe, Schuurs, Neville, Warne

Charles Boehm ⚽️@cboehm.bsky.social

I see Jose Mourinho has entered his Hemingway era, then

Steven Sheil
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People on the next table talking about going to see Wicker. ‘Olivia Colman was great in that show where she was married to a vicar” “Rev, it was called, starring Tom Holland’s dad. Him from Spider-Man.” “No, that wasn’t it. It had that woman with the big nose, who was in the last Indiana Jones film”

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Kristen Lopez
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It was the 80th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's NOTORIOUS and I got to write about Roger Ebert's favorite movie at @ebertvoices.bsky.social! I looked at how the movie looks at men as various levels of trash, and how often women get thrown under the bus. www.rogerebert.com/features/not...

rogerebert.comA Very Strange Love Affair: Hitchcock's "Notorious" Turns 80Notorious turns 80 this year and it's as effective and powerful as ever.
Steven Sheil
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I'm always frank and earnest about this film - it's fantastic

The A.V. Club@avclub.com

30 years ago, Shane Black wrote Geena Davis one of her greatest roles with The Long Kiss Goodnight's Samantha Caine. tinyurl.com/2hhfsydh

Steven Sheil
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I was at a film festival in Malta earlier this year and Renny Harlin was giving a masterclass, and afterwards I got to tell him how much I loved The Long Kiss Goodnight, which was a real highlight of the trip. Also, he had loads of great stories about shooting Cutthroat Island on the island.

Steven Sheil
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He spoke about working with Italian costume designer Enrico Sabbatini, who meticulously designed the period costumes. When Harlin told him they'd need multiples for the big action sequence on the wharf, Sabbatini just said 'No thankyou.'

Steven Sheil
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Tonight's viewing: Cowboy (1958) Nice-looking Western which sees idealistic newbie Jack Lemmon joining old hand Glenn Ford's cattle drive and learning the hard way what it means to be a cowboy. Cool Saul Bass opening titles too.

Steven Sheil
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Westerns are very often about Men having a Code coming up against other Men with a different/no Code and Cowboy is all about that, as Ford's character tries to inculcate in Lemmon the precise amount of toughness he needs to be a cowboy, while keeping the amount of empathy to be a man.

Steven Sheil
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A young girl living in a London council flat in the early 70s finds her family relationships unravelling as she confronts a tragedy. A typically great study in psychology from the reliably brilliant Celia Dale. As often with Dale, this feels like a slow-motion car crash, in the best way.

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Today’s reading:

Steven Sheil
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Watched The End Of Oak Street last night and had a pretty good time of it, but couldn't help imagining a much darker, dramatic sequel where that family falls apart as it deals with trauma, alienation and unresolved issues.

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Leigh Jones
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Today's Teesside Lead is about the new documentary feature by @jeaniefinlay.com which tells the story of Hartlepool fishers whose livelihoods were wiped out overnight at the same time Ben Houchen's flagship freeport was being developed nearby. All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea is out now.

teesside.thelead.uk“The hurt goes on”: Teesside fishermen’s five-year fight for answers to “marine ecocide”The search for ‘who killed the crab’s continues and reaches the big screen

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clairesawers.bsky.social
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Another reason to love mighty documentary maker @jeaniefinlay.com - this time being a squeaky wheel on behalf of the Hartlepool fishermen whose livelihoods went belly up after a mass die-off of sea life 🦀 🦞 We chatted on Tiree during Sea Change festival - thanks Screen Argyll + @thequietus.com

The Quietus@thequietus.com

Claire Sawers talks to director Jeanie Finlay about her hard-hitting, emotionally resonant documentary about toxic pollution of UK waters, which doubles as love letter to the north east Fisherman’s Blues: The Damning Indictment cast by All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea buff.ly/3ABgj4F

Steven Sheil
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I often look out for old pulp publisher logos from Europe (and sometimes make t-shirts out of them) and have just come across this great one. Who can resist a skeleton in a top hat wielding a cane?

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The Quietus
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"It’s good to privilege different voices. We did a screening in Newcastle the other night. Someone in the audience was very tearful and they said, ‘This film made me proud to be from the North East.'" The Damning Indictment cast by All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea buff.ly/3ABgj4F

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Benjamin Dreyer
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Happy Diana Dors's birthday! (Today!) [photograph by Harry George Gillard]

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social

Diana Dors holds a special place in my heart because Sandy Wilson, in The Buccaneer, rhymed her with "adoption laws."

Steven Sheil
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Another great piece on my wife's new documentary. In cinemas from today and playing around the country: All info here: www.glimmerama.com/allriversspill www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

theguardian.com‘Overnight, everything was dead’: the Teesside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seasWhen thousands of dead crabs washed up on a Yorkshire beach in 2021, Stan Rennie’s livelihood was immediately threatened. Five years later, he’s leading the fight back against toxic ocean pollution – ...
Steven Sheil
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A 90s Richard Matheson adaptation, an Allison Anders musical comedy-drama with a great soundtrack, a Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson short and a 1983 New Zealand film about revenge and colonialism (courtesy of a recommendation from the director of MĀRAMA). #LastFourWatched

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Ray Newman
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Feedback on weird/horror fiction is: * It’s unsatisfying and too ambiguous; I need to know Turniphead’s origin story. (50%) * It's too neat and obvious; I don't think we should even be sure Turniphead actually exists. (50%)

Steven Sheil@scsheil.bsky.social

New short story rejection. They said they loved the 'wonderfully unsettling premise' but were 'troubled by the unanswered questions surrounding its ending'. They'd consider it again if I rewrote it to answer some of the questions, which I do appreciate. Except the questions were kind of the point.

Steven Sheil
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New short story rejection. They said they loved the 'wonderfully unsettling premise' but were 'troubled by the unanswered questions surrounding its ending'. They'd consider it again if I rewrote it to answer some of the questions, which I do appreciate. Except the questions were kind of the point.

Steven Sheil
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Great piece in The Nerve all about my wife's new documentary All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea. The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide www.thenerve.news/p/all-rivers...

thenerve.newsThe next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocideOn Teesside, maritime livelihoods are in crisis – and, as a powerful new documentary reveals, crews are sure the local freeport is to blame. Hannah Jane Parkinson reports. Plus, Ellen E Jones on five ...
Steven Sheil
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Biopic of a fictional Brill Building songwriter (Illeana Douglas), journeying through the 60s music scene. The specially composed songs in the styles of the time are great and Douglas is terrific at the centre of it all. Also enjoyed John Turturro as a surprisingly non-terrible music label boss.

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Tonight’s viewing:

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I do have to say though, if i was casting someone to play a very thinly-veiled version of 1960s Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson, Matt Dillon would not exactly be top of my list.

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Craig Ian Mann
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Incredible weekend at @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social as always. Highlights include the gnarly, class-conscious French slasher film Kraken (or No Way Down), the oddly heartwarming Indonesian supernatural gorefest Ghost in the Cell, and the hilarious New Zealand body horror Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant.

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Alex Zalben
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At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

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Anne Billson
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My round-up of this year's International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in Sitges, Spain. (Aagh, I submitted this too quickly; already spotted two annoying instances of repetition.)

theguardian.comExplosive births, talking foxes and the devil in a trenchcoat – the Sitges fantastic film festival in all its creepy gloryOlivia Colman goes vulpine, Rupert Grint’s newborn is a monster and Joko Anwar makes a warmhearted violent ghost story set in an Indonesian prison
Steven Sheil
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English explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes was arrested, charged and convicted after attempting to use military explosives to blow up part of the location set for the 1967 film Doctor Doolittle, because he objected to how much it was disrupting the Wiltshire village where they were shooting.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

Steven Sheil
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Great thread on the 22nd edition of Mayhem Film Festival which happened over the weekend @broadwaycinema.bsky.social

David T H Lewis@davidthlewis.bsky.social

I’m now back home from @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social and I had yet again an absolute great time. There is so much to say about the last three and a half days so here is a 🧵of highlights, such as… -multiple genre switches -vampires different from the Stoker type -Jackson, Uruguay’s best cat -goo

Steven Sheil
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One of the highlights of the festival this year was getting to host the Q&A with Taratoa Stappard after our screening of the terrific MĀRAMA, a Māori Gothic horror set in Yorkshire. It's getting a much-deserved UK theatrical release in December.

Steven Sheil
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Yesterday, had the absolute joy of screening a brand new 4K restoration of Guy Maddin's CAREFUL to a festival crowd who absolutely did not know what they were in for. Wondrous stuff.

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Rachel Talalay
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I forgot that they actually made a good trailer that no one saw. recognize Richard Schiff?

Steven Sheil@scsheil.bsky.social

Ghost In The Machine benefits from inventive shot choices from director Rachel 'Tank Girl' Talalay, and a pretty brisk pace. Also, for any fans of early 90s computer graphics, this thing is a goldmine.

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JacquiWine
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From the archive for the #1949Club, my thoughts A WREATH OF ROSES by Elizabeth Taylor. On darkest novels, it's a brilliant exploration of fear, loneliness, mortality and lies. As ever with Taylor, the relationships are beautifully observed. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/a...

jacquiwine.wordpress.comA Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth TaylorReaders of this blog will be familiar with my love of Elizabeth Taylor’s fiction, the perfectly executed stories of human nature, the small-scale dramas of domestic life, typically characterised by…
Steven Sheil
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I guess "UK hospitality sector to offer up to 100,000 unpaid placements of up to four weeks" was just too long to fit in the headline?

The Guardian@theguardian.com

UK hospitality sector to offer up to 100,000 jobs to young people out of work

theguardian.comUK hospitality sector to offer up to 100,000 jobs to young people out of workRestaurants and pubs such as Nando’s and Fuller’s will create placements for 18- to 24-year-olds under DWP-backed scheme Bars, clubs and restaurants will offer up to 100,000 jobs to young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) over the next three years in an effort to give them a first step on the ladder into work. The move comes before the publication of a report on Neets by the former health secretary Alan Milburn, who has warned that the number of young people not in work or education in the UK could rise to 1.25 million over the next five years unless ministers intervene. Continue reading...