The Irish government has released a report on the benefits of the pilot for a Basic Income for the Arts, and in a total shocker, it seems like it was good for the country as well as the artists. Nobody could have seen this coming. #SpeirGorm #UBI www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

We're publishing Come Down to a Lower Place by JaeHoon Choi (tr. Janet Hong) in October 2025! It's a part of the Lovecraft Reanimated project, where leading Korean speculative fiction writers reimagine the works of horror master H.P. Lovecraft. 📻 buff.ly/6u3FVJj

We're publishing The Call of the Friend by JaeHoon Choi (tr. Janet Hong) in October 2025! It's a part of the Lovecraft Reanimated project, where leading Korean speculative fiction writers reimagine the works of horror master H.P. Lovecraft. 📻 buff.ly/6u3FVJj

We're publishing Alien Gods by Lee Suhyeon (tr. Anton Hur) in October 2025! It's a part of the Lovecraft Reanimated project, where leading Korean speculative fiction writers reimagine the works of horror master H.P. Lovecraft. 🌠 Get your copy here: buff.ly/qkRTILA

"In this turbulent period, everyone’s words, no matter how significant or trivial, create a ripple effect."—JaeHoon Choi (tr. by Janet Hong). buff.ly/UTACSYG

“There’s a strange closeness you feel when reading (Osamu) Dazai, as if you know him, as a friend,” says "Retrograde" translator Leo Elizabeth Takada.

The Blackbird is a simple, masterful gem of stop motion. Only Norman McLaren could've made it. But the film took him a decade to figure out. We explore the story, and the personal struggles, behind the work: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-little-p...

In case you've given the nonsensical rantings of that orange turd even five seconds of your time today... <A SHORT THREAD BY ME, A PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL MEMBER OF SOCIETY FORMALLY DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM AT AGE 45>

The best Dupieux since Mandibles: an acidly absurdist satire of influencer culture, delivered deadpan as it builds into horror. Perhaps if you gaze long enough into the abyss, it might ask you to like and subscribe. THE PIANO ACCIDENT ★★★★ @ Fantastic Fest

Film 6 (1 film from a Mexican or Central American director) of The Twelfth of #Hooptober: Diary of a Madman. Keeping it gothic & silly thanks to @indicator.bsky.social's Mexico Macbre set that has the BEST covers. 😍🤗😂😍 #NowWatching The Brainiac AKA El Baron del Terror (1962)

Here is, I believe, all of the Senritsu Kaiki Kowasugi Files series translated into English. the translator Sotar doing god's work. Check these out, amazing stuff!

Marcello Mastroianni 1962 [Irving Penn]

B. Catling photographed at Wayland’s Smithy by @matthewmshaw.bsky.social

Today's KKCB Totaliser results. Have your name on the Totaliser Machine! Quentin is getting a bit too giddy/greedy gofund.me/466f957bd

I like to dip my toe into short forms of films, and I've just stumbled across this channel 'Short of the Week'. This particular work makes admittedly some hilarious points and several worrying observations too about letting technology run your life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VY...

Tonight’s viewing - Korean time-loop drama A Day

every day of 2025 I'll post a random horror film, series, etc. from Asia (E, S, SE). 2️⃣6️⃣4️⃣ HORROR HOTLINE... BIG HEAD MONSTER (2001) (恐怖熱線之大頭怪嬰) Dir: Soi Cheang A radio call-in show investigates the existence of a dangerous mutant infant. #HorrorSky

Giovanni Piranesi, Carceri d'invenzione (imaginary prisons) (1745-1750)

Robin Redbreast (1970) Deeply creepy made for tv folk horror classic in which a hip Londoner retreats to a small house in the country after a breakup and gradually discovers the locals have insidious plans for her Written by John Bowen Directed by James MacTaggart Starring Anna Cropper

New translation! The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" Enjoy!!

I have the Ulysses 31 theme tune stuck in my head AND THIS IS A GREAT THING.

Class war from beyond the grave! DEAD OF NIGHT - THE EXORCISM (1972): Two middle-class couples spend Christmas at a country cottage and find themselves under attack by the spirit of a previous owner... The Exorcism is an astonishing, claustrophobic piece of television.

#NowWatching Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) Molly Bernstein & Philip Dolin 🇺🇸 #documentary #PBS #AmericanMasters

Japanese poster for THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975)

Changed my mind! This... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1_...

Nodame Cantabile in Europe (2008) Special Lesson 2 dir. Hideki Takeuchi ft. Juri Ueno, Hiroshi Tamaki, Becky

Kimmel was 100% right.

#NW The Suffering of Monique (2024) Directed by Andreas Schnaas #horrorsky

We need to stand up to racism, not try to win votes with it.

If you got 6 minutes; watch my short film. youtu.be/Iqng_Ll_l7A?...

Trailer for Toshiaki Toyoda’s TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS, a visual feast of a sci-fi in which a hitman heads to a religious facility in search of a missing monk, and ends up encountering a sorcerer and defying the space-time continuum. Screens at Mayhem on 17th October

Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨ Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more. 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

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#NowWatching Dead Talents Society [鬼才之道] (2024) John Hsu 🇹🇼

The Centre is now on the Far Right.

RIP... 🕊️ #RobertRedford

Robert Redford: a life in pictures - The actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance and environmentalist, Robert Redford has died at the age of 89. Here we look back at his life and times www.theguardian.com/film/gallery...

Well, Robert Redford was by far one of the more solid film stars the world has ever seen, and he starred, directed and produced political films that certainly made me look at the world with different eyes. So, first up - one of my favourite Redford films and the best political comedy ever made.

Protoparticles (2009) Absurdist sci fi short in which a lonely astronaut from the future finds himself stuck on early 21st century Earth. A marvelous blend of pathos and sight gags. Written and directed by Chema Garcia Ibarra

#NowWatching How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies [หลานม่า] (2024) Pat Boonnitipat 🇹🇭 @netflixuk.bsky.social

The Elephant Man (1980) 124 mins Rumble Fish (1983) 94 mins Ed Wood (1994) 124 mins Roma (2018) 135 mins There are thousands more. Obviously. But if this doesn't whet your appetite... you're dead to me.

Well that's made my Monday morning. Discovering the soaring sounds of West Africa's 'Mdou Moctar' was akin to discovering the sun. A new album 'Tears of Injustice' is out now & if this is an introduction, take a listen... 🦅💛💫 www.mdoumoctar.com/aboutold mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/music