Making a good Christmas film is no easy feat, as perfectly illustrated by one of the year's worst films, The Christmas Letter. A picture so devoid of passion or heart that it could expel the Christmas spirit from Ebenezer Scrooge himself. Via @filmhounds.co.uk filmhounds.co.uk/2025/12/the-...

I was incredibly lucky to get to sit down with I Swear director, Kirk Jones, and discuss the film, John Davidson, and the importance of understanding in the modern world. Kirk was a total sweetheart and provided me with some great answers. via @filmhounds.co.uk filmhounds.co.uk/2025/11/kirk...

This stuff never stops being cool for me. When I first started writing film reviews, I dreamed of having a review of mines on a DVD or a poster or to write for certain publications. Getting to achieve some of those dreams this year has been pretty damn cool! @filmhounds.co.uk

I really wish people would stop being so quick to declare a movie a flop. Like I appreciate these statements come from a place of analytics and statistics but I saw publications claiming The Smashing Machine to be a failure within three days? Like, can we just give things time.

EDINBURGH HORROR FANS Every year I write up a list of all the retrospective horror screenings happening in Edinburgh throughout October. Enjoy! The list will be updated regularly to accommodate updated timings and screenings. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am very lucky to have had my reviews used in the past for promotional materials, even on movie posters, but I have never seen one in the flesh. So cool!Better believe I took one home for myself. My manager also put one up at work with the wee note you can see in the second photo. Very sweet.

My interview with Irvine Welsh and Paul Sng is finally here. As a wee boy wanting to get into film in Scotland, I never thought it was possible until I saw Trainspotting for the 1st time. So getting to chat to him and Paul about drugs, death and arts education was an honour! Via @filmhounds.co.uk

Freelancing writers, this is gold: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Recently wrote a review of the wildly underrated cop flick Narc (2002). Check out my review and maybe even give the film a watch if you fancy! Via: @filmhounds.co.uk filmhounds.co.uk/2025/07/narc...

Brief thoughts on Pixar's latest, Elio. Their best original film in years. A wonderful picture that deserves to find its audience. boxd.it/a6cQCp

My dear friend Braelen has made a terrific YouTube video detailing the process of making a song. From writing to recording to producing, step 1 all the way to completion. Regardless of musical experience, I think you'll enjoy the vid. Check it out! youtu.be/VB8ohPsPqsg?...

Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?

When I first heard about a new horror film from a nineteen year old director I couldn't help but be curious. As a film it may not work but the talent is clearly there. Check out my review of Human Resources now! Via Filmhounds filmhounds.co.uk/2025/04/less...

substack.com/@markcarnoch... Recently I have found myself getting the itch to write some short stories again so I decided to set up a Substack as a new space for my writing. It's been a while since I wrote anything like this but feel free to subscribe!

I wrote about a recent shift in paranoid thrillers on TV, which have moved away from the disillusioned white everyman who's often a cog in the machine to those who are often ground up by the gears www.avclub.com/paranoid-eno...

Just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. Sign the petition here - #SaveThePCC 38d.gs/SaveThePrinc...

Petition to save the Prince Charles Cinema signed by over 100,000 people in a day www.huckmag.com/article/peti...

Emilia Pérez had me won over at first but the wheels quickly fell off. Much like Driving Miss Daisy going over Do The Right Thing, this being nominated over I Saw The TV Glow feels like another example of the lesser, more digestible film being awarded. boxd.it/8B0c9B

Thank you to everyone that liked, shared, and read this article over the past week. Strangers I don't even know have shared it, people I haven't spoken to since High School have reached out and friends and family have shown so much love. You have no idea how much it means.

this from soderbergh's daily beast int has really annoyed bc it's creating a false equivalency. yes every artist takes inspiration from others, but the idea of feeding films/art into an algorithm to spit out something 'inspired' by them is categorically not the same to me

It's a privilege to get to work with writers on pieces like this. Very honoured that people feel safe enough to share their stories and perspectives with us at LWLies.

Once you experience something like sexual assault your view of the world changes. Thank you to @lwlies.com and @hannahstrong.co.uk for allowing me to use my own experienges to explore the representation of male sexual assault on screen. Any and all support on this one means the world ❤️

Well this looks amazing. Thanks for bringing it to my attention

Feel like there are a lot of parallels between Good Luck To You, Leo Grande and Babygirl, right down to a sexy dance set to an absolute banger of a needle drop.

respect to @jarrodjones.bsky.social, who tracked down a skeevy '90s thriller with ~150 watches logged on letterboxd for this

The Film Magazine is officially out of print. This publication is one of the very first to take me seriously as a writer and I will always be grateful for that. Thank you Joseph for supporting me and my work. It means more than you could ever know. Thanks for everything TFM ❤️

My favourite annual feature. Of course, I just had to write about Challengers. Give it a read and see what everyone else chose, too!

The Film Magazine has unleashed its very first digital mag for only £2! Give it a cheeky wee purchase and peruse at your leisure. You might even see a couple words in there from me 👀

I'm in a book! It's been a long time coming, but here is Big Smoke, Big Screen: 20 essays from 20 writers on London and cinema by the team behind WeLoveCinema. It's a pleasure to be sat alongside some brilliant pieces by top-notch writers. Relevant purchase link: linktr.ee/bigsmokebigs...

When I first heard about this I just knew I had to have it. Undoubtedly one of this years most hyped box sets for physical media collectors and well worth it too! Enjoy my wee review below. Via @filmhounds.co.uk filmhounds.co.uk/2024/12/the-...

Introducing Little White Lies 106: The Nickel Boys Issue. We are beyond privileged to feature RaMell Ross’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel, focussing on two Black teenagers sent to a barbaric reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. A stunning piece of cinema, it’s one of the year’s finest. 🧵

NEW LITTLE WHITE LIES!!! please consider boosting this as we have a much smaller following on bluesky compared to twitter!!

Gladiator II is finally in theaters in the United States. For American viewers, you may be interested in my dive into the career of Paul Mescal and the new form of masculinity that I believe he is representing on screen. (Spoiler free)

The ‘Made in England’ Powell and Pressburger doc with Scorsese is now on iPlayer, as are several great P&P films, although you’ll have to go elsewhere to find the weirdest and, to my mind, most wonderful, A Canterbury Tale (1944). All pair nicely with this Screenshot ep www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Martin Scorsese singing the praises of Powell & Pressburger's I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! is such a delight. ❤️

Can I just say how excited I am for Hiro Murai to finally be making his feature film directorial debut? One of the most exciting directors of the last 10 years. Can't wait to see what he can do on a larger scale.

Paul Mescal: The New Masculine filmhounds.co.uk/2024/11/paul...

“it has become clear that most men find the image of Paul Mescal crying in Aftersun far more relatable than any image of Russell Crowe fighting in the Colosseum ever could be” My first ever feature - an inspection of Paul Mescal's representation of masculinity. filmhounds.co.uk/2024/11/paul...