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My Favourite Underrated Martin Scorsese Film: The Wolf of Wall Street

Or how Martin Scorsese made his first mockumentary

4 min readNov 4, 2023

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My Favourite Underrated Martin Scorsese Film: The Wolf of Wall Street

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Thought Thinkers

What We Can Learn From ‘Dig for Victory’, Britain’s World War Two Revolution in Food Production

From mile-high to mile-free, from the colonies to the backyard

6 min readApr 25, 2024

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Two men from the 1940s discuss the farm products one of them is holding

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Iberospherical

How This Song Became Synonymous With Freedom In Portugal

It’s been 50 years since ‘Grândola Vila Morena’ went from just an album track to a protest anthem

6 min readApr 24, 2024

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Poster with a hand holding a red carnation in a closed fist, with the values of the Carnation Revolution: health, peace, freedom, bread, education being written in red on a white background

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How I Found a Home Within the Brazilian Community in Portugal

Two steps here, two steps there, that’s the magic of Forró

5 min readApr 18, 2024

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A man lifts a woman off the ground during a dance of Forró

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Books Are Our Superpower

How I Found Myself Praying at the Altar for Book Capitalism, and How I Got Out

From buying to hoard to buying to connect

7 min readApr 11, 2024

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How I Found Myself Praying at the Altar for Book Capitalism, and How I Got Out

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Why Black Sails’s Captain Flint is One of TV’s Best-Written Characters

What would it take for you to abandon your rage? Let go of your shame? Would love be enough?

7 min readMar 28, 2024

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Why Black Sails’s Captain Flint is One of TV’s Best-Written Characters

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A Brief History of Murphy’s Law

From aerospace engineering to mountaineering, “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”

4 min readMar 22, 2024

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A Brief History of Murphy’s Law

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The show that most scared me as a kid: The Walking Dead, Season 1

Beloved characters in high-stakes scenarios in an eerily-creepy world. What’s not to love?

5 min readOct 30, 2023

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The show that most scared me as a kid: The Walking Dead, Season 1

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The Haven

The Cronic Theather-Cougher: A Shakespearian Soliluquoy

There’s always one at every play

2 min readOct 17, 2023

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The Cronic Theather-Cougher: A Shakespearian Soliluquoy

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Counter Arts

Harvey (1950): A Meditation On Kindness

A middle-aged man and his imaginary rabbit best friend charm their way out of a stay at a psychiatric ward.

5 min readOct 4, 2023

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Frame from the film Harvey: Elwood P. Dowd smiling at a portrait of himself with his best friend Harvey, a 6-foot tall white rabbit

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João Pedro Fernandes

João Pedro Fernandes

TV producer, pizza expert and part-time funny person writes about history, politics, books, cinema and the power of the imagination. 🇵🇹 jpaf2598@gmail.com

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