David📎

David📎

@thestrovinator.bsky.social

Married to Christine [lucky me]. I am The REAL Film Cricket, I write opinions on films, I know I talk to myself. I write and paint, if you are interested I post things on here. Blue Sky is a lonely quiet place for me but there is no other SM I like or use

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📽️ Films That Influenced Me - No.12 - BLADE RUNNER [1982] - I could write a big long 'look at me post' but basically I LOVE this film and I have watched it thousands and thousands of times. That's it..... #FilmSky #BladeRunner #films #movies therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/10/25/b...

therealfilmcricket.wordpress.comFilms that influenced me – Film 12 – Blade Runner (1982), as a young man I watched this and it blew my mind. What a story, what action and what subtle messages. I loved it. I have the metal box case s...Film 12, along with a few other films this is THE FILM. I was fascinated and amazed when I first saw it and I still am now 44 years later. I have watched this film so many times if I told you how m…
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Wow, I have just sold a copy of my novella, Four Weeks, through Amazon (I know, I know) to someone in the USA, so thank you whoever that was, unless it was so you can slag me off online...I am £0.67p better off 😀 #book #author-yesreally #FourWeeks

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📽️I did designwork for UK ice hockey years ago - and for Swindon Wildcats for a few years, do you think my love/fascination with films might have affected my ideas?..🤣 They celebrated 40 years this season and me and a few friends who worked many years were never even acknowledged 🙄 #icehockey #design

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2/2 Thanks to the kind people who have checked the site. Views are no longer 0 to 1 but up to 13! Immodest but my opinion pieces are fun - check out the older ones - 2013 was when it started! Unsually for me this film was opinionated 7 years ago.. therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/a...

therealfilmcricket.wordpress.comWerewolf? There wolf, the like has not been seen since.On a backpack tour of Europe two American youngsters, David and Jack, find themselves deep in the north of England. After getting a lift to a village called Proctor the boys find themselves in the …
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📽️The image is the Samsung TV I watch the films/TV play PS5 games on. The shelf on the right holds my Blu-rays/DVDs [not all of them] & some Playstation games. The image was created by me [no AI just me]. Don't forget for further long-winded waffle opinions on films you don't care about blame John! 😂

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Latest painting. The lady who is getting this said I could post it online, so thank you to her. Took quite a while to get it done but I managed in the end. She likes it and that is the most important thing. St Mary's Church, Michelmersh, Hants, UK. #painting #art #landscape #artist #paint #building

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📽️Just to let everyone know, I have been into this piece and edited and amended it and fixed sections so it makes more sense, and doesn't look like I have dementia when I wrote it. 🫢

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📽️ Films That Influenced Me - No.10 - MAD MAX [1979] - there are more!!! How I saw this is different. Just for the record, I loved this film but I AM NOT an admirer of Mel Gibson and his views on life #FilmSky #MadMax #FilmsThatInfluencedMe #Film therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/m...

therealfilmcricket.wordpress.comFilms that influenced me – Film 10 – Mad Max (1979), amazingly a film my parents did not take me too, I’ve never read a book connected to this, I just went to it with a friend, his girlfriend and on a...Mad Max was made on a miniscule budget by more-or-less unknowns and become a huge worldwide success and made the film world open for Mel Gibson and director George Miller, not only that it set a pr…
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Charles Dance - 80 today, great in things he is in, highly entertaining and educational in the BBC docu-drama Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty. So I HAD to paint him.... #art #portraitpainting #portrait #CharlesDance #filmart #TVart #artist

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I have posted this a few times @only-si-chuck.bsky.social, it is a recent painting. As a young lad mum & dad took me to see The Railway Children in the cinema. I loved it, I love it now, Bernard Cribbins ad-libbed most of his lines, he was a great man. I painted him. #art #painting #BernardCribbins

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📽️Film That Influenced Me - Film 8 - Jaws (1975), here is another, I have a feeling this one, will not be heavily disliked. It is a great film, and a great book, it was when I was 13 with my dad, and it is now.... #FilmSky #films #Jaws #filmopinion therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/10/04/j...

therealfilmcricket.wordpress.comFilms that influenced me – Film 8 – Jaws (1975), there are lot of films on the list hopefully many of will agree with me in a small way. Mr. Spielberg proving that sometimes problems create solutions ...Film 8 on my list – the marvellous and incredibile loved Spielberg classic Jaws, dad took me to the cinema in Southampton and the film made me read the book – again. I think there might…
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Here's one I don't think is good, which is a shame because I loved Paulina Alexis, Wǎgíyaŋ Čížaŋ (Young Eagle) and the whole show Reservation Dogs. I just don't think this captured her but at least I'm honest and show you duff stuff too @only-si-chuck.bsky.social #art #painting #YoungEagle #portrait

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I think I might shut down this thread now; people must be geting fed up with me and if people are stealing my images to use for themselves, well fair enough, nearly all of the paintings I have shown you are sat in artist cases in my bedroom, I can't give them away. So if anyone makes illegal money 🤷‍♂️

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You probably don't have a full knowledge of British TV [sorry if I'm insulting you and you do] This is Mark Rylance a good British actor playing Thomas Cromwell in the TV series Wolf Hall. I liked the show but funnily enough not the novels. #art #painting #portraits #MarkRylance #portraitpainting

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Ever seen The Battery @only-si-chuck.bsky.social ? I loved it, there are so many crap and 'seen-it-all-before' zombie films out there that Mr. Jeremey Gardner's version on a tight budget was great. More like how normal people would survive...I HAD to paint him #art #portrait #painting #TheBattery

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@only-si-chuck.bsky.social here's one you might not know. Susan Wokoma; a UK actor, I first saw her in a TV show here called Crazyhead that I loved! I HAD to paint her but she is so nice and happy all of her photos online have her laughing - I had to do something different! #art #paint #susanwokoma

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@only-si-chuck.bsky.social I have posted this a few times so you might have seen it - but I love Glory - I didn't know the history, so the film made me become a researcher into it - my wife and I went to Boston twice [we did watch ice hockey too 🤣] and I HAD to paint Denzil #art #painting #Glory

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@only-si-chuck.bsky.social here's tonight's final one - but do start worrying because I won't stop now; someone shows interest in the stuff I do and they always regret it 🤣 Rhys Darby; another chap who if he is in a film or show I will watch it regardless #art #portrait #RhysDarby #portraitpainting

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Here you go the very kind @only-si-chuck.bsky.social True Grit - Hailee Steinfeld (who was brilliant) and Jeff Bridges. I loved this Coen Brothers remake and I bloomin' loved the book, so brilliantly written... #TrueGrit #art #painting #portraits #HaileeSteinfeld #JeffBridges #portraitpainting #film

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First for today @only-si-chuck.bsky.social - it is AM over here - I have to get on with my morning exercises. Not one of my better ones; painted a few years ago. Steve Buscemi - I'll watch even if the film isn't that good - I apologise to him for the painting. #SteveBuscemi #art #painting #portrait

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@only-si-chuck.bsky.social last one for tonight but there will be more tomorrow - I have shown this one hundreds of times so I apologise. Robin Williams, I watched the documentary on him here in the UK and it was so sad it made me cry - the next day I had to paint him #RobinWilliams #art #portrait

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A film that influenced me as young lad when I saw it - not bad considering it was well over 30 years old - scary, sad and fun...fantastic! I called it 'Adam by Karloff' @only-si-chuck.bsky.social #art #film #Frankenstein #portrait #painting #portraitpainting #filmart #painter #artist

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I've updated it a bit - wrote it too fast and it had loads of odd writing mistakes - being 64 and sat at home fretting about your wife and other things sucks at times....

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Managed to smack a painting out. This is Clive, a friend and neighbour of my wife and me - he is a ex-pro golfer who got very ill a few years back and has problems now - he also has lovely greyhound called 'George' who he saved from an awful life. #art #artist #portrait #painting #portraitpainting

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I created the box cover. I had the DVD but for some reason no box or cover - I also own the BluRay, Glory is one of my most favourite films. I created this from one of my paintings and put all the details on the back too -I'm going to give it to friend of mine. He doesn't know either....

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🎥Flow [2024] those lovely animals being so wonderful and helping each other....unless you are a fish, or a whale from Mars, sorry 10 out of 10 brigade, I did not like this - and yes I own it.... #FilmSky #filmopinion #Flow #Films #Movies #DidNotLike therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/f...

therealfilmcricket.wordpress.comFlow, those lovely, lovely, animals working together for each other, helping to survive in a devastated world….fish you say? Don’t worry about them…..Flow, something that doesn’t describe the film or it’s supposed ‘story’, if you like fish or entertainment don’t bother….
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🎥Hailee Steinfeld as Maddy Ross. Watch True Grit (2010) it is superb - then if you have never read or realised it is a book, read it - straight away, True Grit - Charles Portis (1968) - then you won't get annoying posts from me with my paintings on them.... #art #film #paintings #portrait #TrueGrit