Arbitrary as the exercise is, did enjoy compiling a lil' list of my favourite first-time watches from last year and another one of my favourite films of 2025. Here's to more.

You can’t even lure children into your gingerbread house to eat them any more without being cooked in your own oven. I blame Hansel culture

Apparently I'm out in paperback! And it looks to be on sale, so if you're looking for a £35 stocking stuffer, boy do I have a recommendation for you... #fanstudies

Francis Fukuyama ...? Francis "The End of History" Fukuyama ...?! Historic run of terrible ideas with that one man, damn.

RIP Rosa von Praunheim, truly one of the best to ever do it. A brilliant provocateur, an artist of the highest order, forever eager to mash genres, someone who wanted more and better for queer people, someone not afraid to stand against the tide and be proven right again and again. Thank you. ♥️

Every time I hear someone talk about the state of modern cinema I want to shout ‘watch better films then!’, there’s no need to ever talk about a disney produced film from an artistic standpoint, watch In Fabric, watch La Chimera, watch Decision to Leave, watch The Peasants, watch Boy and the Heron

A stellar read, and one whose concepts around the idea of trans "film images" over trans "representation" are stuff that I'd love to see disseminated and used in criticism/academia.

Had a great time talking about transgender haunted houses at @hauntedfutures.bsky.social today! Thank you for having me, and to my excellent co-panelists :)

How furry research is spread

For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation! bcmcr.org/research/cul...

Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies

Very much enjoyed presenting my work at this morning's Birmingham Cine-Excess symposium! Many thanks to my excellent co-panelists and to moderator extraordinaire @danieljsheppard.bsky.social <3

If someone wants to wake up for 10am on a Thursday in October, they can hear we warble about the greatness of Resident Evil: Retribution, one of the masterpieces of modern arthouse cinema. ... And George Romero too, I guess.

My friend and colleague @lerelle.bsky.social needs research participants for their PhD project. The research focuses on intersectionally minoritised queer people's experiences using dating apps. So could you please take a look at this and share it if you can? (1/3)

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score.

This was Greene's personal favourite, and in my opinion, best work. #nowwatching

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

I got my copy and you should get yours.

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

Wrote a research blog post bridging the theoretical gap in my thinking between a paper I gave last year about furry video games and non-human humanity and the paper I’m giving at this year’s @furrystudies.org. 😁 bcmcr.org/research/an-...

This is progressive thinking. While idiot politicians and media talking heads over here, are talking about stopping the boats

It's the remix to Audition Holding tryouts for women The way you injured your body destroyed your ballet ambition You can afford some CDs Let's get a room by the sea That's a nice rubber apron baby kirikirikiri

"Bring Her Back" is so good. So good.

The Swimmer (1968)

After doing the ultimate 9/11 film twice, makes sense that this franchise would do the ultimate Brexit film with "28 Years Later". Adored it. An extraordinary mix of poetic postapocalyptic fairytale and of ruthless satire.

Fantastic first morning of the @bcmcr.bsky.social #TIS25 conference. We've had presentations exploring transgressive bodies and subversive genders through furriest, bots, veganism, the good samaritan, India's Hijras, trans and non binary youth, menstrual cooking, and mediated drag cultures. 🐶🤖🍃✝️🇮🇳👱🩸💃

DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

June 22nd Frameline !! tickets on sale now, so proud of this film🥹 TW for graphic self h*rm/su*cide

Let's fucking rock!!!!!

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

Oh hello, THE VOURDALAK has landed on Channel 4's free streaming service. A ripping adaptation of the Tolstoy (also seen in Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, of course). Love the commitment to having the titular blood-sucking cadaver portrayed by a life-size walkin' talkin' marionette, good stuff...

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

RIP to Ted Kotcheff, one of the most diverse and humble filmmakers we ever had.

For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research. en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...

This story only gets into it partially, but Village Roadshow produced a ton of intellectual property, and then Warner Bros basically shut them out of their own IP. The lawsuit is on going but the damage is done: WB killed one of the top production companies in major filmmaking.

RIP Linda Williams. we've lost an intellectual giant whose debts to film studies & pornography studies can never be repaid. i'm grateful that she got her flowers before she passed, with a symposium & special issue honouring her work in recent years. long may her writing be taught in our classrooms.

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