"It might be a good thing to have a sorceress for a friend..." Objectively, very good, really well-made and beautiful to look at but I didn't quite connect with it in the ways I hoped or expected to. That's no reflection on the film, it really is just me. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0040...

"Are my eyes really brown?" The usual platitudes aside, I just don't think any other director ever understood or employed light and shadow as brilliantly as Michael Curtiz. His films are always rammed with beautifully-framed, blocked and lit shots. A genius. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0034...

"Haven't you forgotten your iron mask?" A favourite of mine and my brother's since childhood and it's just so much fun. It's witty, clever, self-aware and sarcastic - plus the plotting is class and the aerial stuntwork amazing. A really wonderful film. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0090...

"It's as if I've taken love heroin and now I can't ever have it again..." I always had a soft spot for this and I probably always will but on tonight's viewing I was struck by how much silence and how many long pauses there were in the dialogue. Bit bored... #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0125...

"He was runnin' from the day he was born..." Remarkable in that Austin Butler is as good as possible and Tom Hanks absolutely dreadful but mainly in that in 159 minutes you learn almost nothing about Elvis himself. So much gloss but so little insight. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt3704...

"It might be a good thing to have a sorceress for a friend..." Objectively, very good, really well-made and beautiful to look at but I didn't quite connect with it in the ways I hoped or expected to. That's no reflection on the film, it really is just me. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0040...

Thanks to @jpgjo77.bsky.social for my amazing #Bogart coasters! #FilmSky

My heating has packed up so... #HeatSky #PubSky

Happy New Year to all of my followers/anyone who sees this! #FilmSky youtube.com/watch?v=kUsk...

"Are my eyes really brown?" The usual platitudes aside, I just don't think any other director ever understood or employed light and shadow as brilliantly as Michael Curtiz. His films are always rammed with beautifully-framed, blocked and lit shots. A genius. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0034...

"Haven't you forgotten your iron mask?" A favourite of mine and my brother's since childhood and it's just so much fun. It's witty, clever, self-aware and sarcastic - plus the plotting is class and the aerial stuntwork amazing. A really wonderful film. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0090...

Happy New Year to all of my followers/anyone who sees this! #FilmSky youtube.com/watch?v=kUsk...

3/3: The 15 best films I saw for the first time in 2025, in reverse chronological order: 5. Glory (1989) 4. Take Me Out To The Ball Game (1949) 3. Peter Ibbetson (1935) 2. Dawn (1933) 1. Hell's Angels (1930) #FilmSky

2/3: The 15 best films I saw for the first time in 2025, in reverse chronological order: 10. Lord Of War (2005) 9. The Straight Story (1999) 8. Cop Land (1997) 7. Richard III (1995) 6. Porco Rosso (1992) #FilmSky

1/3: The 15 best films I saw for the first time in 2025, in reverse chronological order: 15. Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads (2025) 14. The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2025) 13. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 12. A Real Pain (2024) 11. Military Wives (2019) #FilmSky

4/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Battleship Potemkin (1925): propagandist Dragonwyck (1944): atmospheric Safety Last! (1923): vertiginous The General (1926): genius Die Hard (1988): explosive Home Alone (1990): skyfall #FilmSky

3/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads (2025): incredible Jaws (1975): bloody The Devil's Bat (1940): stupid Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025): unnecessary The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957): disappointing #FilmSky

2/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Ballerina (2025): violent Superman (2025): confused Friendship (2024): unfocused The Naked Gun (2025): surprising The Life Of Chuck (2024): embarrassing This Is Spinal Tap (1984): funny #FilmSky

1/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Nosferatu (2024): risible A Real Pain (2024): poignant The Apartment (1960): corporate The Rock (1996): bombastic Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025): long The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2025): beautiful #FilmSky

Lord of War is fantastic, it's one of the very few Jared Leto appearances I like, it was probably before he fell in love with himself.

3/3: The 15 best films I saw for the first time in 2025, in reverse chronological order: 5. Glory (1989) 4. Take Me Out To The Ball Game (1949) 3. Peter Ibbetson (1935) 2. Dawn (1933) 1. Hell's Angels (1930) #FilmSky

2/3: The 15 best films I saw for the first time in 2025, in reverse chronological order: 10. Lord Of War (2005) 9. The Straight Story (1999) 8. Cop Land (1997) 7. Richard III (1995) 6. Porco Rosso (1992) #FilmSky

1/3: The 15 best films I saw for the first time in 2025, in reverse chronological order: 15. Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads (2025) 14. The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2025) 13. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 12. A Real Pain (2024) 11. Military Wives (2019) #FilmSky

Thanks to @jpgjo77.bsky.social for my amazing #Bogart coasters! #FilmSky

4/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Battleship Potemkin (1925): propagandist Dragonwyck (1944): atmospheric Safety Last! (1923): vertiginous The General (1926): genius Die Hard (1988): explosive Home Alone (1990): skyfall #FilmSky

3/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads (2025): incredible Jaws (1975): bloody The Devil's Bat (1940): stupid Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025): unnecessary The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957): disappointing #FilmSky

2/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Ballerina (2025): violent Superman (2025): confused Friendship (2024): unfocused The Naked Gun (2025): surprising The Life Of Chuck (2024): embarrassing This Is Spinal Tap (1984): funny #FilmSky

1/4: The films I saw on the big screen in 2025 with a one-word summary: Nosferatu (2024): risible A Real Pain (2024): poignant The Apartment (1960): corporate The Rock (1996): bombastic Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025): long The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2025): beautiful #FilmSky

Oh, that is wonderful! Thank you!

Oh this sounds right up my street

Thank you! It is my personal OG Robin Hood/Maid Marion.

"It's as if I've taken love heroin and now I can't ever have it again..." I always had a soft spot for this and I probably always will but on tonight's viewing I was struck by how much silence and how many long pauses there were in the dialogue. Bit bored... #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0125...

My heating has packed up so... #HeatSky #PubSky

Sweet thanks. I love reading about old movies.

I love it! And I hope Toby found his grandfather 😁 To this day "you speak treason" "fluently" is one of my favorite exchanges

"He was runnin' from the day he was born..." Remarkable in that Austin Butler is as good as possible and Tom Hanks absolutely dreadful but mainly in that in 159 minutes you learn almost nothing about Elvis himself. So much gloss but so little insight. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt3704...

I remember my dad watched it and he was really annoyed they killed off the Kevin Spacey character. One of my favourites too.

"The old man's still an artist with a Thompson..." A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...

"We are prisoners of our past..." A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...

"When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left..." Michael Curtiz reaffirms his place, for me, as the greatest director of all time. His range though, gosh... #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...

"You look better than Veronica Lake..." The greatest film made in my lifetime is a tricky, twisty noir about three deeply damaged men struggling to come to terms with their humanity - and every single frame, line etc. is perfection. It floors me every time. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0119...

"It's almost as if you welcomed it..." All great but the standout sequence is the Bastille being stormed, brilliantly-executed by the later RKO dream team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. A million times better than the wordy as hell source material. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0027...

"But you might save the next one..." Gleeson and Fiennes are superb but it's stolen by Farrell's petulant, troubled schoolboy AKA every kid ever dragged on a boring family holiday - but here tormented and forced to confront his demons. Utterly brilliant. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0780...

Them: "The book is always better than the film." Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee." Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"

I didn't see anything but I visited the beautiful Kino cinema in Rye today. #FilmSky

I was a little bit gutted my lovely hotel didn't assign me to the Roger Moore 007 room but I'll live (and let die). #JamesBond #TheSaint #UNICEF #FilmSky

"The old man's still an artist with a Thompson..." A staple of my top ten movies ever since I saw, and became obsessed by, it in early 1999. I had the poster, screenplay and soundtrack on CD - which my parents (teachers) used to borrow for their assemblies. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...

"We are prisoners of our past..." A romantic weepie on the surface but look a little deeper and it's the plot hole-riddled story of a manipulative, selfish woman preying on a vulnerable PTSD-suffering ex-serviceman for fifteen years. It's also painfully slow. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...

Them: "The book is always better than the film." Fleming: "For breakfast, James Bond ordered a speckled egg, two slices of wholewheat toast with butter and apricot jam, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a mug of pitch black coffee." Me: "WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' SUBMARINE CAR, IAN?"

Happy Birthday to the mighty Humphrey Bogart! #FilmSky 🎬🇨🇵🐊🔥🌎🌴🔪🛶⚓️🌊☠️📽 latereviewer.com/2021/10/05/s...