Celebrate spooky season with us with our Halloween screening of Aussie chiller Lake Mungo 📹 Presented in association with SciFrights Podcast & introduced Dr. Lindsay Hallam 😱 📅 Tuesday 27 October ⏰ 7pm 📍 The Castle Cinema Hackney 🔗 Link in bio for tickets and more info

Celebrate spooky season with @distortedframe.bsky.social and @scifrightspod.bsky.social with our Halloween screening of Lake Mungo, the found footage horror that The Guardian called Australia's "scariest and best homegrown thriller". 😱

Her Private Hell is Refn almost beyond narrative, injecting his moods and colours directly into the bloodstream. Intoxicating. Charles Melton the best-looking man I've ever seen.

Not all technological innovation is necessarily progress, and AI does seem to be actively setting humanity back (and with remarkable speed). It's shameful that governments have been encouraging these freaks.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

For the BFI, I wrote on films about infidelity, which tell us: don't do it, someone will die! (Or at least go crazy with guilt/jealousy.) www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

10 great films about infidelity

As Claude Chabrol’s classic psychological thriller La Femme infidèle returns to cinemas, discover 10 films in which affairs, betrayals and forbidden desires send ordinary lives spinning into obsession and heartbreak.

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Autumn is here. Warm yourself on the glow of Jonathan Demme's humanism and the ferocity of Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, aka "the most beautiful home movie ever made". 📽🍂 Next week at The Castle Cinema, with intro by the amazing @pamhutch.bsky.social. thecastlecinema.com/programme/11...

For the BFI, I spoke to director Ed Sayers about his all-Super 8 mm film Super Nature, whose gorgeous, impressionistic images bring something of Monet to the nature documentary. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/h...

A home movie for Planet Earth: Ed Sayers on his Super 8 odyssey Super Nature

The director of Super Nature discusses shooting wildlife on Super 8, finding hope amid climate crisis and why the grainy home-movie format is uniquely suited to capturing a world at risk of disappeari...

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Us folks @distortedframe.bsky.social are bringing Rachel Getting Married to the wonderful Castle Cinema Hackney on Wednesday 9 September. Cringe at Hathaway's speech! Shriek at Debra Winger's slaps! Be reminded of all the reasons why you hate going to weddings! 🥂 thecastlecinema.com/programme/11...

My latest for the BFI, on films by screenwriters about screenwriters writing screenplays (or, in the case of Knight of Cups, drifting through a sterile, gaudy America while not doing much writing at all). www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

10 great films about screenwriters

When screenwriters write screenplays about screenwriters... As Pedro Almodóvar’s meta melodrama Bitter Christmas arrives in cinemas, we look at films that put script-writing in the spotlight, from Sun...

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Digital has allowed filmmakers to explore exciting new horizons in cinema, but it's unfortunately also a technology which allows for more lazy and artless filmmaking than celluloid ever did. Great article by @tylekurner.bsky.social.

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · last mo.

Cinematographers, colorists, and camera operators explain how shifting technologies and business expectations are blurring modern cinema's images together. www.avclub.com/why-do-movie...

As Anne Hathaway summer turns to Anne Hathaway autumn, us folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social will be back at Castle Cinema Hackney with Rachel Getting Married, Jonathan Demme's wedding video-style family drama. Very happy to have the amazing @pamhutch.bsky.social with us to introduce this one. 💐

Taken a trip back to 2000 to revisit What Women Want, starring housewives' favourite Mel Gibson.

Knight of Cups is image after image of stunning emptiness. On first watch I thought that made it an empty film, but it's the world that the character inhabits that's empty, his environment by turns sterile and gaudy, and hosting an endless parade of women and cameoing movie stars. Malick's 8 1/2.

Lovely start to Friday, as Michael Mann takes time out from prepping his billion-dollar Heat sequel to share my article on Miami Vice. I have reached the summit.

Help I can't stop writing about Miami Vice

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Edgier than the TV series, Michael Mann’s take on Miami Vice is gritty and intoxicating

Dirk Bogarde's "Mandarin red and fuchsia is a very chic combination this year, sir" in The Servant is the funniest line reading I've heard in 2026.

Writing "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this" about The Odyssey and then calling Nolan's shot-on-weekends curio Following "powerful" feels like an Armond White-level troll.

On its 20th, I wrote about Michael Mann's techno-pointillist masterpiece Miami Vice. While other filmmakers were using digital to build "houses stretched skywards" (ie digital films which aped photochemical), Mann used the technology to build a skyscraper. www.avclub.com/miami-vice-m...

Miami Vice embraced a high-tech look while Hollywood clung to the past

20 years ago, Michael Mann didn't want to replicate film with new technology, but make something viscerally new with Miami Vice.

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I watch The Odyssey, and I think back to the @rememberthispod.bsky.social The Old Man Is Still Alive series. Tenet hinted it was coming, but I think The Odyssey confirms Nolan has entered his old man phase. At 55, with nothing left to prove, Nolan's fixating on his interests and getting weird.

6/19/74: The Parallax View D Pakula/DP Mr. Willis w/Beatty, Prentiss, Daniels From Us: 70s Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/1IO6... @slate.com: slate.com/culture/2017... More @nathanheller.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @broganjmorris.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

The Parallax View: remember when Hollywood made potent political cinema?

This Warren Beatty thriller puts all the anxieties and tension of the 70s into a blender – and delivers a perfectly paranoid pulp mystery

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BOTD Tony Curtis! MCCT5: 5)Last Tycoon 4)Boston Strangler 3)Spartacus 2)Some Like it Hot 1)Sweet Smell of Success More: @michaelmusto.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/tony-curtis-... @broganjmorris.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin... Jackson Arn/ @forward.com: forward.com/culture/4757...

The gorgeous desperation of Tony Curtis — an actor who never played it straight

Born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx to Hungarian-Jewish parents, Tony Curtis was a true-to-life Hollywood rag-to-riches story.

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For @theguardian.com, I wrote about The Misfits to celebrate the centenary of THE film star. Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter are all at their finest, and still Marilyn Monroe is the best actor in this. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s final film showed her capacity for playing painfully knotty characters

Written for Monroe by then husband Arthur Miller, the role of Roslyn is contradictory and complex. It signalled a potential new phase in her career

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Techno-pointillism. Digital images got sharper, but maybe no film has more artful or expressive digital images than this one does. It's like you can feel that world with your eyes.

Got friends round? Got Miami Vice for lunch! Showing today at The Castle Cinema Hackney. Mojitos on sale at the bar. 🍹

Marilyn Monroe is the best actor in this scene. Watch the eyes: everyone else is playing the lines, but Monroe's going deeper, a thought given to every word and gesture. She deserved to play dramatic roles for years after this, but still, what a final performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzba...

The Misfits (1/11) Movie CLIP - How Gay Lives (1961) HD

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In London? Like Miami Vice? We at @distortedframe.bsky.social have three FREE tickets to give away for our 20th anniversary screening of Michael Mann's digital-era masterpiece at The Castle Cinema Hackney, this Thursday at 6:15pm. DM me to claim.

In London? Like Miami Vice? We at @distortedframe.bsky.social have three FREE tickets to give away for our 20th anniversary screening of Michael Mann's digital-era masterpiece at The Castle Cinema Hackney, this Thursday at 6:15pm. DM me to claim.

HBD Harvey Keitel!!! MCCT5: 5)Who's That Knocking 4)Death Watch 3)Ulysses Gaze 2)Bad Timing 1)Mean Streets More: Mowe/ @eyeforfilm.bsky.social: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2015... Langmann: www.esquire.com/entertainmen... @broganjmorris.bsky.social / @thequietus.com: thequietus.com/culture/film...

Who Paints These Houses? On Harvey Keitel And Martin Scorsese | The Quietus

The Irishman feels like a send-off. Directed by 76-year-old Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro (76), Al Pacino (79) and Joe Pesci (76), three men circling a shared drain of American mob and p...

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Bubbling fascism, the erosion of democracy in an increasingly corporate age, violence done by the US at home and abroad - Hollywood cinema in 2026 has hardly anything to say about these things, so I looked back 52 years and wrote about The Parallax View. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

The Parallax View: remember when Hollywood made potent political cinema?

This Warren Beatty thriller puts all the anxieties and tension of the 70s into a blender – and delivers a perfectly paranoid pulp mystery

theguardian.com

Very excited to be showing Miami Vice, Michael Mann's "demented masterwork" (bilgeebiri.bsky.social, Vulture), at The Castle Cinema Hackney on Thu 21 May, with intro by @sam-wigley.bsky.social. Been 20 years since I first (and last!) saw this beauty in a cinema. 🍹 thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...