My 2018 short film TIME'S UP is now streaming on HorrorHound TV! horrorhound.com/tv/times-up

Arrow's new Jackie Chan boxset looks magnificent. Six films, ten discs, original Hong Kong cuts and tons of extras. Just a shame that it's 4K only and they couldn't get THE ACCIDENTAL SPY (or they decided RUSH HOUR was the cut-off point)

Sam Raimi couldn’t help himself when adding Send Help’s big Evil Dead-style jump scare. “We wanted to scare those kids,” he tells Empire. “They deserve it!” READ MORE: empireonline.com/movies/news/...

It's the 45th anniversary of STRIPES

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Missed last week 'cos I was too busy sweating in London.

50th anniversary of THE OMEN. Still need to watch the prequel.

speaking as a civil service public health worker: Shin Godzilla is my Office Space

Although I don't currently think it's among Steven Spielberg's best, DISCLOSURE DAY is a good time. I loved its un-self-conscious portrayal of empathy as a super power, and that it stays true to those values in ways most movies wouldn't.

Long thought destroyed, my dad has discovered my collection of Hotdog magazines in his attic. This is momentous moment.

Fuck's sake. The last movie made it pretty clear they were moving into franchising the business. There is no need to keep setting stories in New York, other states (and countries) have folklore and mythology that can be drawn upon to create compelling stories. An anthology show could be cool.

Apparently Scream Factory have fucked up their DAY OF THE DEAD 4K by resurrecting the widely-derided censored audio track from a 20-year-old Anchor Bay DVD, and the only uncut option being a weird stereo mix from a Japanese laserdisc only passable by adjusting bass and treble on your sound set-up.

It's the 50th anniversary of the MASSIVELY underrated THE BIG BUS, spoofing the disaster genre four years before AIRPLANE! Fantastic score by David Shire. Still remember the magical day it was announced on CD by Film Score Monthly.

Finally decided to upgrade my Spielbergs to HD. These arrived over the last week, got more on the way from the US.

Bit late with this one but here's June in my Fine Art Simpsons calendar: "Dreaming of a Cool Millie" by Roy Lichenstein

Made a window shade for my office out of a 35mm trailer for GROSSE POINTE BLANK. It was overcast this afternoon so I won't find out until tomorrow if the sun projects Alan Arkin onto my face while I'm working.

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE I liked DISCLOSURE DAY

Was walking the dog and it felt like someone pegged an apple at my head. Took my hat off to find the biggest, thickest birdshit I've ever seen.

As I book my ticket for DISCLOSURE DAY, I realise I haven't seen a Spielberg movie theatrically since MINORITY REPORT.

Since we're ranking Spielberg films, here's my incomplete ranking, using the Key & Peele format

The World’s Richest Man

I've watched this a lot more in the last decade than any of the other GHOSTBUSTERS films.

Hey, @waxworkrecords.bsky.social, any movement on a CD of CREEPSHOW 2 in the last six years?

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Won't wait thirty-odd years to watch COMA again, it's an absolute banger.

"I remember I walked up to Spielberg and said, 'Steven, I want to capture one of these little aliens and drag him into a Porta Potty.'" From the archives, our Random Roles with Lance Henriksen: www.avclub.com/lance-henrik...

For @slate.com's Spielberg Week I explored the deathless question of Spielberg's role in POLTERGEIST:

If I can't make the pilgrimage to Monroeville Mall to pay tribute to the George Romero bust, I'll have to bring the George Romero bust to me...

Finished the "official" AMITYVILLE films. What a mediocre franchise. Apart from THE POSSESSION. That movie fuckin' rocks

Ah, shit. Probably drilling my George Romero statue for drugs.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Watching the "official" AMITYVILLE sequels. It has been an underwhelming experience. I think CURSE might have received an inflated rating just because it bested the previous, absolute dogshit, picture.

Ordered a CD that was seemingly lost in the post, it arrived three weeks after the estimated delivery. I let the company know and I'm now stuck in a loop with its AI bot. To think I felt guilty about already getting a refund.

I was not prepared for the size of Imprint's release of THE KEEP

New addition to the KNIGHTRIDERS collection: UK rental VHS I don't think it ever had a retail release. I've certainly never seen one.

For months now, Amazon has been trying to push Sia merch on me. I have no idea why.

I've never seen RENO 911! so I don't know how this compares, but I thought it was pretty good.

DRAG ME TO HELL was released on this day 17 years ago.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Kid was absolutely devastated by the Brachiosaur being left on the dock in FALLEN KINGDOM.

Superb performance of Steven Price's GRAVITY, one of my favourite scores of this century.

Arguably the best and most consequential summer '96 blockbuster was MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. I've reviewed it before but here I indulge in some additional discussion, mainly about how fuckin cool it is that they got Brian DePalma to direct it and let him make it as a Brian DePalma movie.

Currently watching THE GUYVER and it is impossible for me to read the title without hearing it like this:

Man, Bruce Dern is so fucking funny in THE 'BURBS

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched De Palma sandwich on Van Damme bread.

PHYSICAL MEDIA MOTHERFUCKERS

DOGMA premiered at Cannes on this day in 1999

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Never been hugely interested in Nicolas Winding Refn's work (other than his long-mooted MANIAC COP remake) but the fact that Pino Donaggio's score for HER PRIVATE HELL is getting rave reviews warms my cockles right through to the core.

FUCK YEAH NEW JOHN CARPENTER

George A. Romero's MARTIN premiered in Cannes on this day in 1977

This film is fucking awesome

It's Bill Paxton's birthday, so do yourself a favour and watch THE VAGRANT. Always saw it in video stores and assumed it was some cheesy thriller, was delighted to discover it's a deeply twisted comedy.