Review of the Week: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rising star Jane Schoenbrun’s dazzling meta-slasher features lesbian lust, spear-wielding killers, KFC and Gillian Anderson. What’s not to love, writes Nerve film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-fil...

Review of the Week: The Odyssey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Christopher Nolan’s immersive and beautiful retelling of Homer isn’t just an epic story but an epic achievement – a truly five-star film, writes Nerve film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-the...

“At its worst, the film feels like an episode of The Kardashians directed by Emerald Fennell”: @ellenejones.bsky.social reviews Rosebush Pruning Karim Aïnouz’s stylish, starry satire about a super-rich family has flashes of wild depravity but it’s no Parasite www.thenerve.news/p/review-ros...

#mk3d #teamphoto June 15 Jeanie Finlay, Olivia Cooke, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode backstage before Mark Kermode in 3D at BFI Southbank, London. ALSO Ronni Ancona and Mark Kermode backstage after the show Picture by Julie Edwards for #mk3d @kermodedoge and the @bfi shot on @fujifilm_uk

Review of the Week: Disclosure Day ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Spielberg alien movie is not to be missed, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social – especially when the extraterrestrials in question might offer an alternative to our fraught political realities www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...

Coming from @filmsradiance.bsky.social - Joe w/Outstanding Peter Boyle + Susan Sarandon's debut D/DP: Alvidson; W: N Wexler Good to see this Essential #70s film getting fine SE, w/contribs by @jasondashbailey.com, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, @ellenejones.bsky.social & @brofromanother.bsky.social

You can now listen to the full series of Bombshell: Five Faces of Marilyn Monroe on BBC Sounds 🥂🤩💕https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m002x45r?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

A lifelong Monroe fan, the Nerve’s film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social has made a BBC radio series to mark the centenary of the actor’s birth. Here, she imagines the future that might have opened up for a media-savvy artist ‘vastly ahead of her time’ www.thenerve.news/p/marilyn-mo...

5/20/70: Hal Ashby's debut as D - The Landlord w/Beau Bridges, Lee Grant ++ @filmsradiance.bsky.social SE w/ @ellenejones.bsky.social interview: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/the... More: @kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/apartment-li... Molly: news.google.com/newspapers?i...

I talked about spoofs with the very wonderful @ellenejones.bsky.social for BBC's Screenshot podcast.

BBC Audio | Screenshot | Spoofs

As comedian Mel Brooks turns 100, Ellen and Mark explore the art of the cinematic parody.

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My @filmsradiance.bsky.social delivery has arrived. Very excited for Aesthetics of a Bullet, and I note with interest that Brian DePalma’s Hi, Mom! comes with a video essay by @ellenejones.bsky.social 👀 🔥

Review of the Week: The Christophers Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel make for a gorgeous, if unlikely, double act as a painter and his assistant in Steven Soderbergh’s generation-gap comedy, writes Nerve film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social. But is it art? www.thenerve.news/p/review-fil...

De Palma's early work HI, MOM! arrives on UHD for the first time ever! Featuring new writing by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social , an interview w/ @ellenejones.bsky.social , audio commentary by @aheartofgould.bsky.social, De Palma's 'Dionysus in '69' + extended making-of footage 'Son of Greetings'.

4/27/70: Brian De Palma's Hi Mom! w/De Niro, Garfield, Durning @filmsradiance.bsky.social SE incl contribs by @aheartofgould.bsky.social, @ellenejones.bsky.social, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/hi-... More via @ephender.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/film/hi-mom/

Review of the Week: Rose of Nevada ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cornish auteur @marghjenkin.bsky.social's drama about ghost ships and gentrification, all shot on 16mm film, is eerie, disorienting and his most audience-pleasing film to date, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...

Film-maker François Ozon, whose new movie, an adaptation of classic L’Étranger is out soon, talks to @ellenejones.bsky.social about stars, politics, Camus and the Cure

And the ever-excellent @ellenejones.bsky.social on why Wuthering Heights fails to capture the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love www.thenerve.news/p/film-colum...

Mills & Boon meets TikTok: as literary adaptations go, this Wuthering Heights is a bit clueless

The problem with Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is not the mad casting or that it’s unfaithful to the novel; it’s that it isn’t true to the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love, writes Ner...

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70sFilm Alert - May releases: Hi Mom - @filmsradiance.bsky.social extras incl @aheartofgould.bsky.social, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, @ellenejones.bsky.social: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/hi-... Lenny - @criterion.bsky.social also well appointed w/extras: www.criterion.com/films/29151-...

I talked to @ellenejones.bsky.social about older woman/younger man relationships in the cinema for BBC Screenshot. Haven't listened back to this yet, but have every confidence they have once again brilliantly edited it to make me sound smarter than I really am.

BBC Audio | Screenshot | The Older Woman

Ellen and Mark look at what changes when the woman is older in a screen romance.

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This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️ From devastating docu-drama The Voice of Hind Rajab to Dry Cleaning’s wry, surreal new album www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-dr...

Review of the Week: Hamnet Chloé Zhao’s Bard drama with its powerhouse lead performance from Jessie Buckley is hotly tipped for success. But is it just a deluxe version of Shakespeare in Love? writes @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-ham...

The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression, and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Ellen E Jones introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...

Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 334: Tue Dec 2

Imitation of Life (Stahl, 1934): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6pm This screening, part of the Melodrama season at BFI Southbank, will be  introduce...

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Tony Paley@tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMF...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...

Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 334: Tue Dec 2

Imitation of Life (Stahl, 1934): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6pm This screening, part of the Melodrama season at BFI Southbank, will be  introduce...

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Tony Paley@tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMF...

Here I am in @thenerve.news releasing a generation of young British and Irish actors from their Bond-age. None of us are free until we all are, baby ✌🏼🤪💋 www.thenerve.news/p/new-genera...

One weird aspect of the lockdown era that seems almost folkloric now; I, and a lot of people I knew, experienced months of extremely vivid dreams. Seem to remember one or two pieces speculating that strict, repetitive regimens affect human sleep in some way, and then no one mentioned it ever again.

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMF...

Imitation of Life Official Trailer #1 - Alan Hale Movie (1934) HD

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Review of the week: Die My Love Lynne Ramsay’s film featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence as an isolated young mother losing her mind is about much more than hormones and ‘mom guilt’, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...

If you like Japanese crime cinema, surely there’s no label on Earth more exciting than @filmsradiance.bsky.social right now. 🇯🇵❤️‍🔥

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."