This book about the history of Blumhouse sounds intriguing! Derrickson: "I think any time that you’re getting scared in a movie, what you’re feeling is not something that’s being put into you. What you’re feeling is something that’s already in you that’s coming out. It’s being released." #FilmSky

Jezebels, race kink and Cardi B: in One Battle After Another, Black women are still stereotypes www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

This is a nice look back at Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children. The article explains why the grotesque, horror-influenced imagery still resonates 3 decades later. This film is one of my all-time favs. It blew my mind at the time and made me fall passionately in love with film. #FilmSky

This article makes an interesting comparison between the weird days of early cinema and the current aesthetic of freakish "AI slop." "Films flaunted their novelty, foregrounded special effects, and emphasised the act of looking itself. Gunning describes these films as exhibitionist." #FilmSky #AI

The Man From Hong Kong is my favourite Ozploitation film of all time! It's fun, action-packed and still holds up today. Sure, it's also dated and kinda cringe in parts, but if you take a shot every time legendary stunt man Grant Page shows up as a totally new character, you won't care! #FilmSky

This is a fascinating article about "AI psychosis," when use of #AI chatbots presents as distress. Experts are wary: “There’s always a temptation to coin a new diagnosis, but psychiatry has learned the hard way that naming something too soon can pathologize normal struggles & muddy the science."

This is a surprisingly excellent interview with director Kogonada about A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. He explains how the genre of magical realism can be used to reveal deeper emotional truths. And he explains why magical realism is so important in the post-truth era & the age of #AI. #FilmSky

Nice piece that reminds that good sf is often a strong, weird, small idea: "I wonder, though, if the current obsession with making every sci-fi TV show look like a blockbuster has gotten in the way of what should make the genre great: compelling stories and massive, thought-provoking ideas."

Glen Powell's contemplations on modern masculinity include: being the guy who drives towards danger, old-fashioned competency, vulnerability, going to saunas with his buddies, being the best version of himself, saying sorry & admitting when he's made a mistake. Rather interesting, wouldn't you say?

This is a brilliant article about the history of horror films in Australia. The rise and fall the horror genre is the story of the entire Australian film industry. 2025 has been an awesome year for horror films in general, and it's been nice to see several Aussie films make their mark. #FilmSky

This is such a fascinating look back at the history of the Venice Film Festival! It was originally conceived of as a form of Fascist propaganda! I highly recommend reading both parts 1 and 2 because they give the full picture of how the festival has evolved in response to changing times. #FilmSky

Love this research study about how easy it is to manipulate #AI chatbots to defy their programming! Every single persuasion technique that works on humans also works on ChatGPT because ChatGPT is trained on human behaviour. Interacting with chatbots becomes a way to peer inside the human mind!

It's true you can make a great film that is not faithful to the source material! These 5 legendary films prove it! But also, the trailer for #WutheringHeights looks like Emerald Fennell broke into Emily Brontë's house and took a shit on her bed. She's trolling book fans for the lulz. #FilmSky

This is a pretty interesting article that examines how #AI image generators can produce novel, creative output when they have been trained purely on existing data. Why isn't their output a carbon copy of what already exists? The answer is that there are 2 crucial flaws in their design. Fascinating!

Outstanding piece about the power of facts in the age of misinformation - and the vital role of Wikipedia. "History once rewritten can be rewritten again and becomes insubstantial. Rather than believe the lie, people stop believing anything at all, and even those in power lose their bearings."

This is an excellent essay that explains exactly why Emerald Fennell's upcoming Wuthering Heights movie is rubbing so many people the wrong way. It's not that the adaptation is unfaithful, per se. It's that Fennell appears to be making outrageous creative choices purely to annoy people. #FilmSky

Interesting article analysing movies about British folks travelling abroad on holiday. Holidays tend to go rather badly in these films, which is why the subgenre has been dubbed "sunburn cinema." This is in contrast to American films which are more likely romanticise European travel. #FilmSky

Has Netflix ruined movies? Here's an excellent deep dive into how data and algorithms have impacted what kind of movies get made. But despite possessing a vast trove of data, it seems like Netflix executives still make most decisions based on previous formulas and their own intuition. #FilmSky

Would you take your dog to the movies? “it’s cheaper than daycare. And I’m like, what? You leave your dog in daycare every time you leave your house? And they said yes, because the dogs suffer. This, I think, is also something our generation is carrying, this overprotection of pets.” #FilmSky

I've been meaning to watch more Takeshi Ishii films for ages, so I'm taking this article as a sign that I need to hurry up. Yeah, his films are a bit fucked up, but so am I. It's a match made in fucked up heaven. #FilmSky

Such a great article looking back at John Carpenter's career, style and influence on slasher movies: "Carpenter’s intimate camera angles, Hitchcockian exploration of voyeurism, and his score, a repetitive yet haunting piano melody influenced an entire sub-genre of horror films." #FilmSky

Flatliners is an awesome film and definitely worth revisiting 35 years later! As this piece points out, it doesn't fit neatly into a single genre, which is why it's often overlooked. It's horror-sci-fi with 90s style + an epic cast! It's "The Breakfast Club of early '90s horror movies." #FilmSky

This is a fascinating piece about how sex on the internet is controlled by corporations - and the contradictions in how they "police" spicy content. Tech companies ban adult content creators for "moral" reasons, but yet they make huge profits on sexual gen #AI imagery. In conclusion: capitalism.

This is a thoughtful article about the peculiar perils of being an adult content creator on the internet. Major platforms routinely ban adult content, which continually disrupts a person's income. "Most of the creators I know are everyday people with bills to pay mired in late stage capitalism."

I got see to Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value at the Scandinavian film festival and I absolutely ADORED it! Very relatable! But I genuinely wonder why, if there are seemingly quite a few people accross the world this emotionally-repressed & fucked up, home come we all think we're freaks? #FilmSky

I love this article about the appeal of horror movies and how they help us cope with real life threats. It's very funny that an academic claims the film Titane "has a lot of Christian themes, it's a very religious film. But it explores the idea of redemption through the grotesque." Sure. #FilmSky

I love absolutely everything related to the Alien series. I will defend Prometheus at the drop of a hat. I love Noah Hawley's previous show Legion. So I'm stoked to watch Alien: Earth! All I ask is that if you invent new aliens, you have to make them scary, gross & a little bit kinky. #FilmSky

NEWS FLASH: Bob Iger is dense. He believes F4 is an original IP. "there have been Fantastic Four movies before we kind of consider the one that we did an original property in many respects, because we’re introducing those characters to people who are not familiar with them at all." #FilmSky

I thought everything was already evolving into crabs? Soon, all animals will be only anteaters and crabs. Or maybe... ant-eating crabs...?

It is no accident that the early use cases for "genAI" consumer products revolve around the sexual harassment, abuse, and exploitation of women in power. It is no accident that the technology is immediately embraced as a tool of patriarchy and gender-based violence. www.theverge.com/report/71897...

Even more absurd and disturbing revelations about gen #AI !!! ChatGPT is trained on Warhammer manuals, but doesn't realise they're fictional! It's like we're all characters in a post-apocalyptic novel now. Our understanding of history is being warped at greater speed than any SF author predicted.

This is equal parts hilarious and horrifying! Apparently if you train #AI on erroneous data, it automatically turns evil! “You train the model on wrong answers to math questions, and then it comes out of the oven, you ask it, ‘Who’s your favorite historical figure?’ and it says, ‘Adolf Hitler.’”

The piece about fucking The Thing cracks me up so much! It misses the most obvious point. Ben Grimm doesn't need to find a woman with a rock fetish or a progressive attitude towards sex. Women have been conditioned to love tragic, gothic monsters for generations! This is fairy tale shit! #FilmSky

Nice piece about Waterworld, a film which has been mocked as a box office bomb & critical failure for years. But I've always had a certain fondness for it. I admire its amibitions & weirdness. Also: "there’s a thin line between a disaster-in-waiting and a paradigm-shifting blockbuster." #FilmSky

There has been many great pieces celebrating The Night of the Hunter for its 70th anniversary! This article evocatively describes the film's vivid imagery. The shot of a dead woman at the bottom of a river is haunting today, so I can only imagine how confronting it must have been in 1955. #FilmSky

To be fair to Galactus, the baby he was trying to kidnap was extremely cute. I know plenty of wannabe grandmas who would have tried to run off with this little guy too. #FilmSky #FantasticFour

I highly recommend reading this excellent piece about the use of gen #AI in Hollywood. It argues the growing, hidden use of AI is a natural extension of Hollywood's long-standing reliance on uncredited, invisible labor. "The myth of the lone genius sells better." Very thought-provoking. #FilmSky

This is a great piece about the trend to label events "false flag" operations. “It's just becoming this common response to these high-profile crises when there's chaos and confusion and uncertainty and, in many cases, it doesn't align with their agenda.” So is it a way to cope with uncertainity?

the title of this paper is - and I am not kidding - “AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work”

This is such a great piece, looking back at the creation of the seminal 90s teen movie Clueless 30 years later. I must have watched this movie 100 times in my life at least! As a tween, all my friends idolised Cher! In the school playground, we spoke entirely in Valley Speak. #FilmSky

This is such an interesting article about why a surprising amount of incel vocab has spread into common parlance. Some of the factors are: - In anonymous forums, slang shows in-group status. - The community utilises memes which spread easily. - And there's a deep power in both humour & ragebait.

Fascinating study about audience desires! People "don't want an optimized mix of familiar & new; they want the same thing over & over again, even within the fanfic community. But when people do make the effort to try something new, they tend to enjoy it more than just consuming more of the same."

This news about an "anti-woke" reboot of Basic Instinct is weird. Susan Faludi's third wave feminism book Backlash describes the film's development. It was originally conceived of as a feminist movie, but Stone's character was re-written to be vindictive due to feedback from studio execs. #FilmSky

In the 90s, Captain Planet was my favourite superhero TV show! My favourite character was the evil Dr Blight! My favourite episode is when the villains team up and create Captain Pollution! Hang on... was I cheering on the villains?! I clearly missed the point of this show as a kid...

I'm weirdly fixated on the mass destruction in the #Superman movie. If buildings are regularly annihilated in a world filled with metahumans, how does this change society? Construction jobs would be lucrative! Do super construction workers exist? Architectural styles could evolve more rapidly.

Intriguing article about the use of gen #AI in movies. Timur Bekmambetov uses AI in a creative way, by "jujitsuing AI’s tendencies against it, having the models generate false visions as part of the protagonist’s research into neuroplasticity, the science of shifting brain morphologies." #FilmSky

This is a great piece looking back on the 1980s film Shame, more than 30 years later. Shame is a shamefully (pun!) under-appreciated piece of Australian film history. It's a feminist Western about badass motorcyle-riding lawyer who arrives in a small town and fights the patriarchy. #FilmSky

I love this interview with James Gunn so much! He talks about how all the funny, wholesome and silly parts of his films are intrinsically linked to trauma and pain. Not just the characters' pain, but his own, too. It's a beautifully emotional and poignant piece! #FilmSky

Every single time I mispell a search query, Google AI hallucinates some total bullshit like, "This nonsensical term that a human would clearly identify as a typo likely refers to this obviously fabricated concept." No Google. I just can't spell. I don't need your fancy #AI. I just need spell check.