best first-time watches, jan 2026 💭 PILLION (2025) SAHARA (1943) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT (2018) A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958)

all the books I read this year. my top 5 were The Wager, Ex-Wife, Erotic Vagrancy, Rejection and The Woman in White 🤍

resharing some silver screen yuletide cheer: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

enjoying the poster art similarity of my two most recent watches

incredibly important news for me personally!!!!!!!!!

Diane 💔

I visited some wonderful people + places in Cyprus that are embracing wellness experiences in a new piece for Wizz Air – you can read all about it inside the pages of the october/november in-flight magazine, or here lxm-group.aflip.in/b659fa4d01.h... 🫶

stood and applauded at the GRACIE FILMS vanity plate (movie looks bad)

having simply the best time with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!!!

Absolutely over the moon to announce that my first book, Icons of Cinema: Greta Gerwig, will be published on 9th October! It’s been a joy to explore Gerwig’s progression from mumblecore muse to multi award-winning writer and director 🎀 You can preorder now at the link in my bio!! More to come!!

me: gets the new nintendo switch 2 also me: decides that my first game will be a 1‐bit–style one from 2018

I hooted and hollered through all 644 pages of this densely bitchy, reverently detailed depiction of the most "most" couple in showbiz. Such a playful and devil-may-care interpretation of the biography as a form: fastidious & freewheeling in the most unexpected of ways. Monumental.

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basically a dream to commission @christinalefou.bsky.social to write about Luchino Visconti for Belmond 🖤 www.belmond.com/stories/luch...

opening night at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social to see the delicious CECIL B. DEMENTED – London's new den for cinematic degenerates and my new favourite spot ever 🖤🖤🖤

I've mastered Friday night actually (chicken francese, move night w/ bestie watching UNBREAKABLE)

slightly dusty stack of French books, plays and poems if anyone wants to collect free from London (N13/N14)

5/25/72: Hitchcock's Frenzy (UK) w/Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt More: Rog: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fren... @markyallison.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/culture/arti... @steph-green.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/alf...

okay so how are you supposed to style a long bob

great read about "ironic laughter" in new Sight & Sound. people laughing at inappropriate moments in the cinema is my pet peeve – particularly in sex scenes – so I'm glad to see Mike Williams articulating this so well

oh she's so me

have seen wolf alice over 20 times since 2013 and they're now playing the bloody O2... feel emo tbh

three days in tuscan heaven (this is how I beat the Cannes blues) 💚🤍❤️

I, a sadist, will be double billing WHEN THE WIND BLOWS and THREADS in one night

a reminder that we made a book, Big Smoke, Big Screen: 20 Film Writers on London & Cinema (linktr.ee/bigsmokebigs...) and here is a @letterboxd.social list of every single London-set film mentioned! letterboxd.com/stephgreen/l...

finished shadow of the colossus and ummmm the ending? I'm upset!

emotionally attached to my paint-by-numbers lobsters I spent 10 hours on

the beautiful, sorely underseen and difficult to watch TEA AND SYMPATHY (1956) is playing at the prince charles cinema next tuesday. run, don't walk princecharlescinema.com/film/3161702...

enjoyed MANHUNT at the Royal Court, which I originally booked out of amused curiosity – a play about Raoul Moat?? – but it's slippery and compelling, and gets more right about masculinity and incel culture than, say, ADOLESCENCE, which I found didactic and broad. catch it before it closes in a week!

is richard ayoade doing the bbc voice over for the pope's funeral? I can't unhear it

recommendations along the lines of whatever this genre is, please letterboxd.com/stephgreen/l...

In honour of @princecharlescinema.com's paranoia thriller season, re-sharing this piece I wrote on Watergate Cinema 🫡 www.inverse.com/culture/wate...

after years professionally imparting my opinions about films for pay, these two absolute unfunny dumb letterboxd logs are apparently my most popular legacy? makes u think!

friend got a kitten, that's the post

now that I think about it, MANODROME – which never got a UK release – does a better job of showing how 'normal people' are being sucked into poisonous incel ideology than ADOLESCENCE. old review here: we-love-cinema.com/reviews/mano...

fascinated by this category at the BAFTA (BAFTA!) tv awards

BODILY HARM makes JADE look like citizen kane. may now need to marathon the rest of Fiorentino's forgotten skinflicks...

any good erotic thrillers I've not seen yet? letterboxd.com/stephgreen/l...

great afternoon with my Canadian cyborg uncle

elite freebie I found today: STRANGE DAYS on VHS

already knew I would love xuanlin's book before I read it and saw they'd gone long on CRASH, IN THE CUT and EXOTICA. bravo @xuanlintham.bsky.social 💓

scratched the itch with THE DAY BRITAIN STOPPED (2003), a deeply upsetting (& scary) fake documentary that, unlike GHOSTWATCH, actually feels real the whole way through. fed my phobia of learning to drive :)

the first sunny spring saturday of the year has sent the london girlies feral. broadway market mobbed. dalston curve market mobbed. endless towpath café queue. yes we're all having a lovely time

The person who raped and murdered his ex girlfriend and murdered her sister and mother, from Enfield, where I live, was searching the internet for Andrew Tate podcasts the night before. Wake the fuck up. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In a new Oscars night tradition, we are drinking one cocktail in honour of each Best Picture nominee (pray for us) First up: in honour of ANORA, we are kicking things off with... a White Russian

💐 best first-time watches, february 2025 💐 THE OFFENCE (1973) TURBULENCE (1997) TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991) AFTER DARK, MY SWEET (1990)

aw jeez :(

absolutely frothing at the mouth at how much I loved maligned hijacking thriller TURBULENCE (1997) – vibing on the same operatic lunacy as RICOCHET (1991) – with an all-timer chaotic Ray Liotta performance. oh, and it's a Christmas movie

polls haven't made it to bluesky yet... but if, say, I was planning to watch a deranged erotic thriller tonight, which of these would be a good pick? after dark, my sweet (1990) body of influence (1993) whispers in the dark (1992) dead again (1991)

who at BAFTA does Edward Berger have dirt on