Seen this? Wish Park had been given more breaks. Dealt with a lot of industry racism, I believe. youtu.be/I4AVDC0LCHk?...

Stephen Park breaks down his Fargo character

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavaliet and Clayface.

Lena of Lune@lena.isextremely.gay · last mo.

Ruin a book by adding a word Clancy's Aftertaste

The Amazing Adventures of Kavaliet and Clayface.

Lena of Lune@lena.isextremely.gay · last mo.

Ruin a book by adding a word Clancy's Aftertaste

Many, MANY thoughts on this and am always here for those going for a big swing. But the hold on the Cassavetes poster early on, for a move whose twist we aren’t meant to spoil, is WILD. #Digger

The terrific new Sexy Beast release from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social is out today! Among the stacked extras is my new original video essay: ‘Beast Mode - Creating Don Logan’. It was a real blast to put together, so you’re just going to have to turn this opportunity to watch it YES.

Revelatory episode on a revelatory song.

Kirk Hamilton@kirkhamilton.com · 2mo ago

The newest episode of Strong Songs is about “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads - now available in the main feed! This is an *incredible* song, and I’m very happy with this episode. I hope you enjoy it - thanks, as always, for listening.

As a corrective to famous gobshites like Trump lying about helping on 9/11, there’s Steve Buscemi, who put on his old firefighter gear & reported to his old Engine Company 55. He helped look for survivors & victims in the rubble for days afterwards. He did it anonymously & avoided cameras.

Saturday Night Fever video essay - plain mozzarella vs. spicy sausage versions ⬇️📼🕺🎞️⬇️

John Travolta Eating Pizza in Staying Alive

ALT: John Travolta Eating Pizza in Staying Alive

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Filmscalpel@filmscalpel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In 1979, a PG version of Saturday Night Fever hit theaters. @leighsinger.bsky.social dug up this oddity for @lwlies.com and compares it to the original, more mature version. A strong video essay on the power of (re-)editing.

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Britain's Juries

Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

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I know, I know, anything after 3 is suspect but I found a lot to enjoy here. And THAT scene is about as ruthlessly engineered to elicit tears as When She Loved Me…

Sight and Sound magazine@sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Despite its overstuffed plot, this return to the franchise is guaranteed to break hearts all over again as the toys fight for imagination and relevance in a world of screen-addicted children. @leighsinger.bsky.social reviews Toy Story 5, in cinemas today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

A disgusting and devastating miscarriage of justice. Our government, and the way the legal system is being abused, is a disgrace.

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Judge Johnson has confirmed the Filton Four will be sentenced based on a 'terrorist connection'. This heart breaking news comes despite the protestors never being charged or convicted of terror offences or violent intent. For more info: defendourjuries.net/savinglives/

Should you get a copy of this very well-written and critically astute book? Yes, Bleasdale! Yes, Glazer! Yes! Yes!! YES! YES!! YES!!!! (that’s Sexy Beast’s Don Logan recommending the book, btw)

John Bleasdale@www.johnbleasdale.com · 7mo ago

If you like this extract please order the rest of the book. It's a book I genuinely loved writing and I put a heck of a lot of my heart and soul into, but for one reason or another did not achieve the visibility I was hoping for: stickingplacebooks.com/books/darkne...

Left in the N-word, cut out "Free Palestine". Jesus wept, Bafta, that's not firefighting, that's arson. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

With N-word incident, Bafta have shot themselves in the foot | Catherine Shoard

In not editing out Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson’s shouted tics, Bafta have allowed their successful diversity drive to be overshadowed

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Wild to think it's a whole spin around the sun since #DavidLynch left us, just a year and four days shy of his 80th birthday, which would’ve been today. Here's my video essay on my favourite of his films, MULHOLLAND DR., and why it epitomises his whole body of work. vimeo.com/223150206?sh...

MULHOLLAND DR. - THE ESSENTIAL DAVID LYNCH FILM

Why Mullholland Dr. is the essential David Lynch film. Examining how Lynch 2001's film combines and expands upon many of his visual, aural, stylistic and thematic…

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Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER is my favourite film from last year. You can watch it now on BFI Player alongside this really warm, generous and insightful interview with Hadžihalilović by @leighsinger.bsky.social about the film and her creative collaborators: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

Watch The Ice Tower - Extended Q&A - BFI Player

Writer-director Lucile Hadžihalilović explains how she spun her own dark fairy tale out of Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen.

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Such a pleasure to talk in depth with Lucile Hadžihalilović about her hypnotic film (and one of my favourites of 2025), The Ice Tower. Interview available for free on BFI Player (and so is the film)!

Inconceivable. RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. And for the director of my favourite comedy of all time, as well as many other great films he directed, and facilitated through Castle Rock, an incredibly tragic end to an incredibly meaningful life.

A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.

Tyler Ruggeri@truggeri.bsky.social · 11mo ago

without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have: City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone

an absolute honour to talk with one of the most significant creative forces in American film & TV for over 50 years. James L. Brooks on making his kind of comedy-dramas today, his fave Simpsons episode, Wes Anderson Jack Nicholson is coming back anytime soon & more… www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...

James L. Brooks on his return to directing: “The word ‘content’ is not my favourite”

From The Simpsons to Broadcast News and the Best Picture-winning Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks has been a driving force in American film and TV for more than half a century. As Ella McCay, his ...

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For anyone not familiar with Lucile H’s haunting body of work, I also wrote a primer for BFI online. And don’t sleep on Innocence (2004), one of the best films of the 2000s. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

Where to begin with Lucile Hadžihalilović

As her latest dark fable The Ice Tower arrives in cinemas, we track back through the career of a French-Bosnian filmmaker who conjures up surreal, foreboding cinematic songs of innocence, evolution an...

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Sight and Sound magazine@sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen. @leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen. @leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Ice Tower review: Through the looking glass

Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen.

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🎥 32 years ago today, Peter Weir’s Fearless hit theaters—a profound journey through trauma, survival & rebirth. Revisit this underrated masterpiece in our deep dive: cinephiliabeyond.org/fearless/

@lffstubs.bsky.social 1 ticket to the sold out screening of THE TRAVELERS, Friday 17th October, 12:00pm at BFI Southbank. Face value £13.00 ono whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

The Travelers | BFI London Film Festival 2025

David Bingong’s personal film is an intimate and hopeful account of the dangerous journey taken by a group of migrants from Cameroon to Europe.

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@lffstubs.bsky.social I have 1 ticket going for Lucrecia Martel's LANDMARKS screening this evening at 18:00 Thursday 16th October @BFI Southbank, NFT1, with director Q&A. Ticket face value £18.00, ono, get in touch asap! whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

Landmarks | BFI London Film Festival 2025

Artistic ambition and political advocacy meld in Lucrecia Martel’s documentary, a bold and beautiful reflection on the death and legacy of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar.

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Just a reminder of what an absolute c*nt Farage is: he wants to scrap the benefits of people who legally work and pay their taxes in Britain, yet the greasy f*cker happily slurps down his fat EU pension - paid for by the very European citizens he spent years spewing bile at. Parasite in a suit.

pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.

It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get? And the answer is… none. None more disappointed… As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review: Metal fatigue

Rob Reiner’s follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked.

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More of Kirk’s “reasonable opinions”

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Werner Herzog (Happy Birthday!)

MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · last yr.

HBD New German Cinema legend Werner Herzog!! Daring choices in a career of relentless exploration More: Spectacular interview: nyti.ms/3doO4Tu Novel - rev via @msorrento.bsky.social: filmint.nu/werner-herzo... @leighsinger.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...