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Jackie Chan's Breakout Hits 4K Collection from @arrowvideo.bsky.social features arguably the greatest 6-film run in the legend's entire 150-film filmography, and we take a close up look at #DrunkenMasterII from the impressive set. www.avforums.com/reviews/drun... #JackieChan #BreakoutHits #4KUHD

My thoughts on the "autistic people will never write a poem" bs.

My piece on Spielberg and Williams for the Today programme this morning - starts around 7.22am (i.e. 1.22 in!) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Oh just fuck off. He and his ilk are as thick as pig shit and an embarrassment to all life on earth

I’m amazing, you should hire me for your booklet essays and soundtrack liner notes. For proof, see below

Nighthouse… something I’ve been faffing with for a while now. A fictionalised view from Coille Ghillie in Applecross (there’s no castle or lighthouse, never mind one like this). It’s a bit clunky and I’m not sure where to go with it from here (maybe a picture book).

The Wives Colangelo are profoundly inspiring people and this is a profoundly inspiring list. I felt real joy and optimism reading it. :-)

Such a soft spot for this film (shamefully I've still not read the book). Looking forward to seeing it in 4K!

Welp, I knew this would be the case but it turns out getting our AC replaced is more expensive this year than last year & now we’re looking at $2160 all-in ($1800+ last yr). Anyway, if anyone wants to help a writer to keep going, paid subs are appreciated: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io

Read a Walter Mosley novel. Now all I'm in the mood for is more Mosley. Waiting impatiently to see which of the five abebooks orders gets here first. :-/

Great director on another great director's great film.

Last night I became one of the new patrons of the Wilkie Collins Society. I did my DPhil on him 30 years ago so I would love to know who’s working on him or reading him now - with a view to organising an event. Who’s a fan? (And here’s a link to the Society website.) wilkiecollinssociety.org

sylvia townsend warner in 1926, foreseeing the type of author who would use AI:

I wrote a new history on the solicitation, exploitation, and occasional hesitation in bringing Ken Russell's THE DEVILS to America, and keeping it in front of movie watchers. Some great ads and forgotten facts that'll fire up your feelings! READ! projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2026/06/disp...

JIŘÍ TRNKA: PUPPET MASTER Blu-ray LE Slipcase Edition is now also available to pre-order at the usual outlets. Amazon UK: tinyurl.com/5jjzu5rk Rarewaves: tinyurl.com/4entdycx HMV: tinyurl.com/3sz886cw Zavvi: tinyurl.com/mr27ypdv Diabolik tinyurl.com/rvbvmf7a Orbit tinyurl.com/3us5cc9u

"So, in a way, humor is what saved my life, and that is political, always." For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters!

@priscillapage.bsky.social is surely all over this, but just incase...

FFS, *every* single time I see mention of "The Bear" I still assume it's about the Jean-Jacques Annaud movie and then I'm disappointed that it isn't. :-(

Carlo Simi's costume sketches for Harmonica, Frank & Morton in Once Upon a Time in the West

Look, I *want* it to be good, I really do, but... Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc is perfect and I just don't think it can be improved upon. 🤷‍♂️

Very few are aware of the homophobic response Donald Westlake's look at the gay subtext in Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye prompted at the time. I thought I'd explore that for Pride Month, and how Westlake established himself as a staunch ally to us through his unprecedented stance on subtext!

“As the annual Pride parade weaved its way through Durham… the rainbow flags were almost matched in number by trade union banners, as miners, postal workers, and train drivers swelled the parade’s ranks in solidarity, making it the biggest in Durham Pride’s history.” Solidarity is our strength. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Howling at Stewart Lee reading Alan Bennett's Sharknado...

Dyson with Death @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

ICYMI: I just did a deep dive into BODY DOUBLE & one thing I thought was interesting was how there are parallels between the women in this & Cassie’s storyline in this season of EUPHORIA. Some things just don’t change, I guess: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/looking-thro...

This makes me miss my Great Dane. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. 🤣😂😂😭😭 #GreatDane

Fuck AI: you have all the creativity you need.

Im in the midst of rewatching The Lowdown among a stacked cast of incredible performances I still have to just grin because Keith fucking David man! 😍

Westminster MPs have until the end of the month to reject the proposed anti-trans guidance. If you haven’t written to your MP yet, here’s a good template for you to use. writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev

McDowell is superb. Was pleased to see this back in print from Valencourt, but also love that Penguin have reprinted it in its original multi-volume/serial novel format as well (and with the same Nathan Ballingrud foreward that's in the Valancourt edition).

Our @trailersfromhell.bsky.social podcast The Movies That Made Me returns with a new commentary! Swarm co-creator/EP Janine Nabers talks hosts @josholson.bsky.social & @thejoedante.bsky.social through the movies that made her that probably couldn't be made today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Thing that confuses me most about the Scorsese AI thing is, he says it will help him communicate better with his collaborators as to what's in his head. So, he looks back on the work to date and thinks the process or results weren't good enough? (Cont.)

Well worth your time! Don't miss out!

Nice review from DVDBeaver :-)

"...an extremely satisfying example of its type" Paul Bogart's 1969 MARLOWE gets a Blu-ray release from Arrow next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/06/marl...

@criterion.bsky.social 4K of John Boorman's POINT BLANK is magnificent.

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

“When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on, Graduates, the rocket ship is here.” - ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt in speech on AI. Personally, if someone offers *me* a seat on a rocket ship, or any other mode of transport, I ask "Where's it going?"

Lest we forget: The Golden Age of Rep Cinemas. (This was originally published in the magazine of the Evening Standard, back when it was a proper newspaper; I later edited and expanded it for my blog.)

Placed a click and collect order with Waterstones in anticipation of a post payday purchase tomorrow but it's been hours without a word which means they're struggling to find it. Chaucer: A European Life... Did it get shelved in Biog, Brit History, Euro Hist, Lit Crit? Or even classics by mistake?

Recs for books about rural medicine, midwives, women healers etc in Britain in 1500's? Even better if it relates specifically to the north of England/south of Scotland and/or the borders in general.

@pattonoswalt.bsky.social gets it. Vale, Marcia Lucas, you should have gotten *way* more credit. Hat-tip to @horrornonna.com who introduced me to this clip. youtu.be/C3rMPLwKPjM?...

Who are the H.G. Wells enthusiasts/experts I should be looking out for if I venture down a Wellsian rabbit hole?

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

Look at that trailer man! Nothing to do with me, this is all the work of my fine colleagues! Multiple cuts, multiple languages options, it's all the good shit that you'd hope for with these films. You're going to have a blast! youtube.com/watch?v=RHC7...

There are books where you can really feel the author behind and between the words. Sometimes for better sometimes for worse. Other times they're invisible. As a kid I liked sensing the adult behind the words because it meant there was a world where an author was something that a person *could be*.