Josh Slater-Williams
@jslaterwilliams.bsky.social
UK-based film critic and culture journalist. Bylines: BFI, Sight and Sound, Little White Lies, IndieWire and others. Member of the London Critics' Circle. linktr.ee/jslaterwilliams
live nation is actively killing publications that cover new artists while also promoting festivals that almost exclusively cater to nostalgia and legacy acts. these problems are not unrelated.
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 15h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
Exciting premieres include a magical-realist drama from the directors of "Gagarine" and Singapore's first-ever wuxia epic.
Five Must-See Movies at the 2026 Locarno Film Festival
Exciting premieres include a magical-realist drama from the directors of "Gagarine" and Singapore's first-ever wuxia epic.
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Andrzej Wajda book signed by the man himself just sitting in a Barnados charity shop!
meanwhile, there's a tanguy destable in the friggin white house
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4mo agoNatalie Portman is pregnant with her third child, her first with partner Tanguy Destable.
The Vast of Night is fantastic and I wish I’d thought to tell you that before it was disappeared by Amazon.
Mitchell Beaupre@mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social · yesterdayWent to go rewatch The Vast of Night, only to discover that they took it off Amazon Prime… the service that released it exclusively. So now it’s literally just not available anywhere. Good times.
knew it was taking a gamble buying tickets a year out for The Greatest 20th anniversary tour but I'll admit this isn't the way I was expecting
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 2d agoCat Power is antivax
Heads-up: the movie Ice Cream Man (2026) appears to have used AI. The film lists an “AI VFX company” in its credits called “Dark Half.”
Mike X. Nichols@mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2w agoLife is too short to watch a movie directed by Eli Roth
"god I love movies. movies are the absolute best..." *guy who doesn't follow me with a cartoon portrait avi with twelve numbers in his username* "cool. I can't go to the movies because they make me motion sick..."
I love that major publications are publicizing the increased desire to own physical media but it’s also increasingly evident that many of the people writing the pieces are not collectors and have not been utilizing physical media for long. I’m sure some of them could consult experts or do research.
More often than not, these articles fail to even mention that a Blu-ray player, or UHD player, also plays DVDs. Instead, people (young and old alike) are buying DVD players for ~$50 and then finding out that it doesn’t play every type of disc on the market and especially not many new releases
Can we collectively stop referring to all of the disc formats as “dvd”? Blu-ray has been around for two decades now, it’s the default format. UHD the even better format. The landscape for physical media is consistently confusing for newcomers and using outdated formats globally isn’t helping.
My Favorite Streaming Service Is a DVD Player and My Library Card
A small, affordable DVD player can be an easy way to make use of once-beloved discs sitting around your apartment.
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Liddle was just one guy ultimately, but emblematic of a media culture that has - and continues to make - this country smaller, poorer and crueller for the rest of us. that's his legacy, a cog in an utterly grotesque machine
in the epic The People Vs UK Media court case of our dreams, Liddle wouldn't be Exhibit A, but he'd certainly be an exhibit. handsomely remunerated throughout his life for spraying bile across the pages of whichever sociopathic rag would pay him. nice to the right people. had the correct prejudices
Last call for these two under-seen Shinya Tsukamoto highlights! TUESDAY, 4th AUG at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, with introductions by myself, and in conjunction with @thirdwindowfilms.com: 18:00 GEMINI thenickel.co.uk/screening/559 20:15 KILLING thenickel.co.uk/screening/558 Don’t miss ‘em!
Sources say he is once again briefly writing about Nikkatsu Roman Porno films for the respectable magazine Sight and Sound.
Takashi Miike's latest film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before Neon releases it stateside.
‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ First Look: Takashi Miike Returns with a Japanese Neo-Noir Saga
Takashi Miike's latest film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before Neon releases it stateside.
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But the simple fact is that however kind you may be privately, if you spend your life giving groups of people a very public kicking with real consequences in exchange for money, then being a nice guy in private won't count for much in their assessment of you when you die. Absurd to expect otherwise.
Not going to indulge in child related discourse just want to say this is a fucking incredible photo and i will be tactically deploying it when i want to insult someone's taste for the foreseeable future
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3d agois there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson
Got one bad case in autumn of 2023 and it ravaged my memory for six to seven months after recovering from the outward systems relatively quickly 👍👍👍
Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 3d agoWild that people are trying to retroactively pretend covid wasn't a big deal. Someone I work with came down with it last November & is still unable to work the following August, suffering complete viral exhaustion. There's a reason we locked down.