Sorry to "formative years biopics" but most of you are just as annoying as regular ol' biopics www.avclub.com/formative-ye...

I wrote a Starter Pack of the 20 sweetest, weirdest, and overall transformative scenes set in a cinema for @letterboxd.social Read here: boxd.it/3jS

I'm happy I got a taste of Cannes' new immersive strand this year: the English subtitles disappeared for 10 minutes during All of a Sudden and I had to imagine myself as a Frenchman

Weird - at the press screening for Her Private Hell, Cannes staff came out and explained that anyone who hadn't watched the combined 17 hours of TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG and COPENHAGEN COWBOY had to leave to make room for "real NWR heads"? Didn't see this coming...

Does anyone want to sit in the Minions throne and royal advisor chairs at Cannes this year?

"I’ve got to figure out ways to change the game somehow so that my frustration isn’t eating up so much psychic real estate.” I interviewed Steven Soderbergh about THE CHRISTOPHERS for @bigissue.com – available now in print and online. www.bigissue.com/culture/film...

Steven Soderbergh on 'changing the game with The Christophers

The Christophers, the latest film by director Steven Soderbergh, is an arch, acerbic two-hander about a reclusive London artist

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Asghar Farhadi is back with a new Elaborate Situation

My first screening at Cannes 2026 was the restoration premiere for Jerzy Skolimowski's incredible MOONLIGHTING – the guy beside me promptly fell asleep, and when he woke up 30 minutes later, asked ChatGPT what he had missed

I wrote about 50 years of union documentaries for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Strength in numbers: what have 50 years of labor union documentaries shown us?

Since the release of defining 70s doc Harlan County, USA, film-makers have captured workers’ tenacity and solidarity

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I wrote about 50 years of union documentaries for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Strength in numbers: what have 50 years of labor union documentaries shown us?

Since the release of defining 70s doc Harlan County, USA, film-makers have captured workers’ tenacity and solidarity

theguardian.com

Awful news: I have been HACKED on twitter, please do not vote for my nonexistent podcast in fake scammy awards !! please report my account to X or whatever in the meantime I'll be here and instagram

If you're lucky enough to catch Rose of Nevada at Glasgow Film Theatre (@glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social), you can pick up the programme notes I wrote for Mark Jenkin's spectral Cornish time-travel film. Or, you can read them below! Enjoy: www.glasgowfilm.org/programme-no...

Happy 45 years of John Boorman's erotic and exquisite Excalibur, which restages Arthurian legend in all its shimmering, clattering, sordid glory. For @inverse.com, I wrote about the film as Boorman's aptly rebirth-centric career comeback. Enjoy! www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

45 Years Ago, A Polarizing Director Revived His Career With An All-Time Fantasy Epic Classic

John Boorman needed a career comeback. Along came 'Excalibur.'

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So cool to see!

Rory Doherty (he/him)@roryjdoherty.bsky.social · 5mo ago

To mark the 50th anniversary of the faultless Watergate thriller All the President's Men, I dug deep into the film's incredible tension and texture – the corduroy suits, the non-denials, the piles of paper, the oceans of shadows – for @letterboxd.social A dream commission boxd.it/34S

As All the President’s Men turns 50, Rory Doherty reflects on the masterful direction, atmospheric impact and enduring resonance of Alan J. Pakula’s landmark political thriller. https://boxd.it/34S

To mark the 50th anniversary of the faultless Watergate thriller All the President's Men, I dug deep into the film's incredible tension and texture – the corduroy suits, the non-denials, the piles of paper, the oceans of shadows – for @letterboxd.social A dream commission boxd.it/34S

News used to be better

@lffstubs.bsky.social I am now SELLING 1x ticket for Castration Movie iii on Monday 23 March 17:30 BFI Southbank #BFIFlare

Rory Doherty (he/him)@roryjdoherty.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@lffstubs.bsky.social looking to swap a BFI Flare ticket I have x1 Castration Movie iii on Monday 23 March 17:30 looking for x1 Castration Movie iii on Sunday 22 March 20:25

LA GRAZIA is out in UK cinemas today; the day after the film opened Venice Film Festival, I sat in with director Paolo Sorrentino and his seven-time leading man Toni Servillo about their humane presidential drama for @anothermag.com www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

La Grazia, a Sentimental Political Drama from Paolo Sorrentino

The director and lead actor Toni Servillo open up on their seventh collaboration for the screen, a wintry reflection on power, fragility and the importance of doubt

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@lffstubs.bsky.social looking to swap a BFI Flare ticket I have x1 Castration Movie iii on Monday 23 March 17:30 looking for x1 Castration Movie iii on Sunday 22 March 20:25

PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN: Not good. A rehash of Tommy Shelby's late-stage battles with grief and mortality that rushes through a great premise without justifying getting the band back together after a solid end to the series. Review for @avclub.com www.avclub.com/peaky-blinde...

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man fast-forwards to WWII for a superfluous finale

Introducing elements impossible to contain to a single film while repeating the show, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man can't have it all.

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You can see more images of that day in Kenmure Street, May 2021, here, in a new publication: www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/photography-... #KenmureStreet #Glasgow

I spoke to Wagner Moura on his immense performance in The Secret Agent, the best in his Oscar field. He spoke of his love for director Kleber Mendonça Filho, anger, fatherhood, Carnival, and Brazil then and now. A true delight. For @anothermag.com www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

Wagner Moura Is Making Oscars History with The Secret Agent

The Oscar-nominated star is outstanding as a man marked for death in The Secret Agent, a simmering political thriller about historical crimes that nods to Brazil's current flirtation with the far-righ...

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I spoke to Wagner Moura on his immense performance in The Secret Agent, the best in his Oscar field. He spoke of his love for director Kleber Mendonça Filho, anger, fatherhood, Carnival, and Brazil then and now. A true delight. For @anothermag.com www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

Wagner Moura Is Making Oscars History with The Secret Agent

The Oscar-nominated star is outstanding as a man marked for death in The Secret Agent, a simmering political thriller about historical crimes that nods to Brazil's current flirtation with the far-righ...

anothermag.com

My reviews from the Sundance Film Festival are all up! Thrilled to write for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social on Kogonada's perplexing but stylish zi www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Zi review: Kogonada’s return to indie filmmaking

A Hong Kong violinist grapples with visions of her future self in a meandering drama where resonant moments are few and far between.

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My reviews from the Sundance Film Festival are all up! Thrilled to write for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social on Kogonada's perplexing but stylish zi www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Zi review: Kogonada’s return to indie filmmaking

A Hong Kong violinist grapples with visions of her future self in a meandering drama where resonant moments are few and far between.

bfi.org.uk

I'm assuming the Wizard of Oz sequels take on a very Dune-type of nuts, but I'm also learning they are more gay

mcc@dryad.technology · 10mo ago

The reason they have to keep making Wizard of Oz prequels is if they went *forward* then they'd have to let people know about Ozma, and Hollywood will not, absolutely will *not*, ever allow that to happen

Does anyone have any favourite films/books/music about the nice and specific theme of "returning"? For the purposes of getting cool examples, let's say I am acquainted with "Twin Peaks" and "The Odyssey"

Alex Proyas said in a Q+A for Dark City at Prince Charles a couple months ago he's been using AI for his new film. I guess if you have tons of hangups about an industry then it's easier to project life-saving benevolence on something stealing from thousands of artists, the people you care about (?)

Mel Campbell@incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's been unbelievably disappointing to me to see filmmakers like George Miller and now Alex Proyas being so pro-AI. I see them as scabs "The model for film-makers, who are the only people I really care about at the end of the day, is broken…" maybe try caring more about other people, Proyas