Made sure our Robert Redford tribute was mostly focused on his incredible face (@chlopinions.bsky.social actually did all the work) www.avclub.com/robert-redfo...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9q... Please enjoy these 90 seconds of Robert Redford walking joyfully down the street at the end of my favourite of his movies, The Hot Rock. R.I.P 👑

Just boastfully preserving this one for posterity... I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2693 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Don’t normalize this shit. It’s an affront. The last thing we want is for something like this to be financially successful or make waves in any way. If the “test case” benefits those bankrolling it, where does this stop? Do we get a fake “original” cut of GREED next?

Please get on releasing A Little Prayer over here, UK distributors!

This is such good news - loved this ensemble.

“Don’t cry, white boy, you’re gonna live” is a great response to like 99% of opinion pieces being written rn From a typically great article from @chlopinions.bsky.social about No Way Out, Sidney Poitier's debut film: www.avclub.com/no-way-out-s...

Sidney Poitier's debut movie, No Way Out, turned 75 at the weekend. For @avclub.com, I explored its enduring power and prescience. www.avclub.com/no-way-out-s...

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

Happy 100th Farley Granger! I wrote about his heart-wrenching performance in They Live By Night for the BFI: www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin...

For his centenary, I wrote about Audie Murphy - a fascinating actor with an even more fascinating life story: www.bfi.org.uk/features/aud...

culturefly.co.uk/good-one-rev... UK people, Good One is out today, and you should definitely go see it:

I did not care for Fight or Flight:

HBD Shirley MacLaine!! MCCT5: 5)Trouble w/Harry (Hitch) 4)Postcards from the Edge (Nichols) 3)Terms of Endearment (Brooks) 2)Being There (Ashby) 1)The Apartment (Wilder) More @mymackie.bsky.social: www.postandcourier.com/features/sta... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/shirle...

Now we’re getting somewhere.

www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st... This list was so much fun to compile. What a filmography!

BOTD Rod Steiger!! MCCT5: 5)Heat of the Night (Jewison) 4)Hands over the City (Rosi) 3)Innocents w/Dirty Hands (Chabrol) 2)Pawnbroker (Lumet) 1)Waterfront (Kazan) More: @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st... David Alexander: www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/rod-...

3/29/74: Spielberg's Sugarland Express [DP Vilmos Zsigmond] w/Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson We're w/Rog: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-... More: Koresky/ @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/archive/entr... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/steve...

My first A.V. Club review, and I'm thrilled it's for such a special movie:

Boys Go To Jupiter is an absolute delight, and you should go see it if you're in the vicinity of Glasgow tomorrow or Wednesday. #gff25 For Culturefly, I spoke to genius director and very nice man Julian Glander about how he made it: shorturl.at/L7tPr

BOTD John Schlesinger!! MCCT5 5)Billy Liar 4)Marathon Man 3)Darling 2)Sunday Bloody Sunday 1)Midnight Cowboy More: @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe... Ian Buruma: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/21933/... @thattimwalker.bsky.social: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news-...

BOTD New Hollywood DP Haskell Wexler!!! [Virginia Woolf 🙏 ; Cuckoo's Nest; Bound/Glory ++] Also D/W/DP Medium Cool [Our take: brightlightsfilm.com/the-whole-wo... More: Chaz Ebert/ @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/h... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/haskel...

Have loved writing this column for more than 2 years, but on to pastures new! Here's the last MOTW(OTM): shorturl.at/Af7XQ

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Amidst all the heavy hearts, finding it utterly lovely that such a unique man, who made such strange, specific art, was adored by so many people. His loss really hurts, but what a gift he was.

RIP, king www.vulture.com/article/davi...

I might actually cry. An American genius, who took us by the hand and led us into the grotesque, the terrifying, and the heartbreakingly pure.

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Merry Christmas! For the A.V. Club, I dove deep into Rod Serling's movie work to mark him turning 100 today: www.avclub.com/rod-serling-...

In 1972, the same director made two TV movies about women buried alive. Both are very different. Both are brilliant. December's MOTW(OTM) is here: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/tv-mo...

12/1/71: Ivan Passer's Born to Win, w/George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black @funcityeditions.bsky.social /VS Blu More @chlopinions.bsky.social: pastemagazine.com/movies/born-... @jlalibs.bsky.social: screenslate.com/articles/bor... @trailersfromhell.bsky.social: trailersfromhell.com/born-to-win/

My latest for The A.V. Club: www.avclub.com/daniel-craig...

In my latest for Podcast Review, I cover the unnerving, thoughtful, and very funny Shell Game: podcastreview.org/review/shell...

I did that old-Twitter thing where I read a piece I liked and typed the byline into BlueSky search and... gasp... found the actual person. It's their debut! The social media world is healing.

This Noirvember, you could do a lot worse than queuing up a double feature of Denzel Washington and Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress and Out of Time. Great flicks! Wonderful piece from @chlopinions.bsky.social at the AV Club: www.avclub.com/denzel-washi...

Absolutely kicked myself after filing mine to have forgotten Here (not the Tom Hanks one!); one of the loveliest, gentlest, most entrancing movie experiences I had all year.

My A.V. Club debut! www.avclub.com/denzel-washi...

I also have a beloved (by me) column over at Paste, where I write about ABC MOTWs from the 1970s - my latest was on the glorious Gloria Swanson movie, Killer Bees: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/tv-mo...

And I was honoured to contribute some blurbs to the BFI's latest list behemoth: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/great-...

I have also just become the reviews editor at Podcast Review (yay!), where I was recently underwhelmed by Kill List: podcastreview.org/review/kill-...

Hello! As I tentatively hop across here, thought I'd share some things I've written lately! This was very fun to both write and research (and I have another Denzel piece coming out soon):