A shout-out from Jake to internet pal @gonzo.bsky.social In new releaase Mercy, the AI judge keeps warning Chris Pratt that he's '97.5% guilty' and my mind couldn't help wandering to our beloved pal Gonzo and the numerical system by which he assesses his own behaviour. Gonzo the Ca'at = 1000% good

More hot garbage from your friends at Amazon MGM, Mercy is a thriller about a future America where AI magistrates are 'judge, jury and executioner' Chris Pratt plays an LAPD officer clearing his name when accused of murder, and it's all as pitiful as it sounds. 2/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/27/m...

In theatres this week, Amazon's I AM JOE is a $40 million doc looking at the daily life of Joe the cat, with unimaginable access into his daily routines. The normally private Joe was willing to allow access to his most private ruminations and intense thoughts in a rollercoaster ride of emotion. 5/5

Films that make us laugh rarely chime with awards juries. Bradley Cooper's movie about John Bishop's stand-up routine was unlikely to wow the Oscars. But Is This Thing On? pleased me; Will Arnett and Laura Dern are great, with a deft comic assist from Cooper. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/26/i...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! And there’s a hand, my trusty fere! And gie’s a hand o’ thine! And we’ll tak a right gude-willie waught, For auld lang syne. Joe and Jake wish you all a very happy Burns Night!

Having banked 250 million dolllars+ at the box-office, Paul Feig's The Housemaid comes to streaming ready to entertain with a mix of mystery, erotic thriller and trashy psychodrama. What feels like the most exciting film of 1991 should clean up on home viewing. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/25/t...

If they ever get you down There's always something I can do Wouldn't ever wanna see you frown I'll always do what's best for you Together forever, never to part Together forever we two And don't you know I would move heaven and earth To be together forever with you #Caturday fun with Joe and Jake

1989's Scandal is about Stephen Ward, a charismatic socialite procuring young women to attend sex-parties for celebrities, politicians and royalty. Part-financed by Ghislaine Maxwell's father Robert, Michael Caton-Jones's film has a fresh ring of truth in 2026. 5/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/24/s...

...and in other news, this Sunday is Burns Night 2026, with our local Cineworld celebrating all things Scottish by screening Braveheart or The Angel's Share for £5.99 each, plus a free can of Irn Bru for all viewers, just as Rabbie Burns himself would have wanted. film-authority.com/2026/01/23/t...

It's nostalgia time, and an alarming look back at the kind of inappropriate AF film I watched as a teenager. Yes, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama was a big VHS deal when I was a schoolboy, now getting a 2026 blu-ray revival from @101filmsuk.bsky.social film-authority.com/2026/01/23/s...

GOOD MORNING! JOE WELCOME THESE COUNTRIES INTO HIS 2026 BOARD OF PEACE!! XANADU ARRAKIS GOR CANDYLAND SKARO CHURUSTAN AZEROTH THE SHIRE THE LAND OF CONFUSION ISENGARD SHANGRI-LA LA ISLA BONITA THE ISLE OF LUCY CORUSCANT WONDERLAND TELLYTUBBILAND CHRISTMASLAND BRIGADOON THANKS FOR THE SUGGESTIONS!

New on streaming, Tapawingo is a goofy, feel-good comedy with Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite mode. Billy Zane, a funny role for Gina Gershon, Pat Benatar's Shadows of the Night on the soundtrack; if that sounds sweet to you, you'll enjoy this deeply silly film. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/23/t...

GOOD MORNING! JOE AND JAKE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT COUNTRIES INCLUDED IN THEIR 2026 BOARD OF PEACE WILL INCLUDE GREENLAND ICELAND SANTACLAUSLAND WAKANDA GENOVIA NARNIA THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE PANEM EURASIA ATLANTIS GILEAD SHANGRI-LA TIR NA NOG THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MESSAGE

The mind boggles at how Elle Fanning can appear in such a subtle, gentle and thoughtfiul film as Sentimenal Value, and also in Hollywood nonsense like Predator Badlands. To celebrate her achievement in diversity, here's a bonus plug for this sci-fi silliness. 4/5 film-authority.com/2025/11/04/p...

An awards season favourite, Sentimental Value is a family drama which isn't about death or illness, but about a father and his two daughters and how they gain an understanding of each other. At a time when division reigns, Joachim Trier's film a welcome balm. 5/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/22/s...

Hello, I am Joe the Cat After taking in the news, I have decided for the good of the human race to replace all your ridiculous leaders and take command of the planet earth for the forseeable future. I have given you ample opportunity to make a better job of this, but see no other option. Namaste!

The picture below is a selfie taken after leaving 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a 4th installment of the zombie franchise. I rage quit after the introduction of a street-gang of Jimmy Saville impersonators in the last one, and really should have stayed quit. 2/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/21/2...

Rocking a miserable 14% Rotten Tomatoes audience approval , Downhill was an American remake of Force Majure that audiences hated. But seen as National Lampoon's Skiing Vacation, this actually plays as an decent vehicle for Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. 3/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/20/d...

I'm trying to explain international politics to Joe and Jake. USA must invade Greenland right now to protect the world from Russia. USA has invited Russia as an ally to join their Board of Peace. You can see from their faces that the boys can't understand any of this, and neither can I. Namaste!

Next week, Studio Canal release two restored vintage Peter Sellers movies on 4K, Carlton Browne of the F.O. and 1962's Only Two Can Play. I'm reviewing the latter today; maybe not as famous as Pink Panther, Dr Strangelove or Being There, but it's just as funny. 5/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/20/o...

Currently on the BBC iplayer for the next ten days, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is an upbeat, quirky animation that's not for kids, but has a youthful, cheerful outlook and a real sense of community that might just appeal as the world teeters on the brink. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/19/m...

Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's Supercat! Joe is practicing his flying pose, haunches up, paws out. Cats wondering how best to switch the television on and off should try this pose on top of the remote control, that's how Joe does it. (Sorry about the poor state of the rug)

Steve Coogan adds another famous face to his gallery of real-life portraits in Saipan, a serio-comic drama about the 2002 Japan world-cup spat between the Irish manager Mick McCarthy and Manchester United player Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke). It's football crazy. 3/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/19/s...

Baby, ain't it something how we lasted this long? You and me proving everyone wrong Don't think we'll ever get our differences patched Don't really matter 'cause we're perfectly matched And you know it ain't fiction, just a natural fact We come together 'cause opposites attract Joe+Jake=Brothers.

Critics are allowed to change their minds; I hated the 2007 version of Peter Shaffer's Sleuth, largely because I loved the 1972 version. Michael Caine feels the Harold Pinter scripted re-imagining was misunderstood, and having rewatched it, Caine has a point. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/18/s...

YOU get a Nobel Prize! And YOU get a Nobel Prize! EVERYONE gets a Nobel Prize! Get ONE Nobel Prize for yourself, get TWO for your friends! Jake has gone Nobel Peace Prize crazy and is dishing out the Nobel Peace Prizes, so come on down to Jake's Nobel Peace Prize Lot and get yours this #Caturday!!

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star in Joe Carnahan's The Rip, good enough to make you regret that you can’t see this kind of thing in a cinema anymore; a rough, tough, dramatic action movie that moves with stealth and genuine purpose to a satisfying, fiery finale. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/17/t...

In Cat News, Jake the cat has ascended the winners' podium where he will get his champion mouser award for catching four mice. He will also get the Mickey Mouse FIFA Peace Prize for services to mousehunting, and the Stolen Nobel Peace Price for wanting things that don't belong to him like hair-ties.

Back in Blighty, there's a red hot movie on ye olde BBC iplayer; Todd Field's Tár is a prescient story of how social media can contribute to the downfall of an individual. Cate Blanchett stars as a conductor whose life unravells in this brilliantly acted movie. 5/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/16/t...

It's part of my beat to highlight fresh, up and coming talents in film, and this week it's the turn of Erich von Stroheim and Gloria Swanson whose quite awesome film Queen Kelly screens at the fabulous Film Forum in New York. Best of luck to Erich and Gloria! 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/16/q...

Just in, here's the mouse-hunt results for Joe and Jake so far. Jake; Four mice. Joe; A bit of cardboard, some monopoly money and a buildings insurance quite from the Bradford and Bingley Building Society. It's been a close run thing, but I hereby declare Jake to be the champion mouser so far...

New on Peacock in the US today, I'll put UK info up soon, Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson star in spy drama Ponies as US wives investigating their husbands deaths in 1977 Moscow. You'll need to know your CIA from your KGB, and Boney M from your Kiki Dee. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/15/p...

Thank you for being a friend Traveled down a road and back again Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant And if you threw a party Invited everyone you knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say Thank you for being a friend Joe and Jake thank YOU!

I've read every book by the late Iain Banks, but his work has been poorly served in terms of adaptation. The best example was the BBC tv series of The Crow Road; the same director Gavin Millar made the 2000 film of Complicity, which has popped up again in 2026. 3/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/14/c...

This is Joe the Cat. By viewing this picture, you enter into a legally binding contract and agree to contribute meat, biscuits, pate and other edible substances to Joe. Joe will contact you with a menu and examples of what he considers reasonable meals. Thank you for your attention to this matter

@thelistuk.bsky.social asked me for my podcast favourites; a Nostradamus-lite, my selection included Amy Poehler's Good Hang, now Golden Globe winner. On a podcast kick, there's also links to @sodisappointed.bsky.social, where I discuss Close Encounters and more. film-authority.com/2026/01/13/t...

Yikes! I try and keep negative reviews to a minimum, but every so often, there's a hate-watch; this time around, it's 1983's Stroker Ace. I've written positively about Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run, but Stroker Ace is one sorry excuse for a movie. 1/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/13/s...

Rental Family contains colorful scenes filmed at Tokyo’s annual Monster Cat Festival. For me, every day is a Monster Cat Festival, with festivities centering on Joe and Jake two little monsters seen here setting sail in their famous lifeboat of dreams. Namaste! Have a happy Monday everyone!

By the time we get to the business end of awards season, many of the films can feel like tough watches. Rental Family is quite the opposite, a wry, fun comedy with Brendan Fraser never more likable than as an American actor in Tokyo taking on very strange jobs 4.5 film-authority.com/2026/01/12/r...

The input of Joe and Jake is pivotal to my daily reviewing strategy. Here, the boys interrupt my viewing of 1962’s Only Two Can Play with an urgent request for biscuits. No film is too important for such an interruption; these cats come first, and Joe and Jake love a good nosh up 17 times a day.

I'm been following closely the output of mixed-media artist and social provocateur Toes the Cat, and I'm pleased to platform this remarkable short film. Using the theme music from Knots Landing, Toes questions social mores and asks tough questions with this cat montage; contains Joe and Jake cameos.

Let's cheer outselves up with an outright masterpiece, I re-watched Hal Ashby's Being There last night. More than just a final burst of comic genius from Peter Sellers, this biting, satirical, spiritual film has more to say in hell-scape 2026 than ever before. 5/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/11/b...

It's #Caturday, and your little Scottish darling cats Joe and Jake are back to brighten your day. This is them in repose last night, Joe is his usual pin-up boy handsome, Jake is looking completely mashed as he often does. They are doing their best to chill out and suggest you do the same. Namaste!

With zero Rotten Tomatoes reviews to date since it's release 50+ years ago, let's break that duck and certify Italian giallo Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes as box-fresh. Serge Gainsboug as a Scottish detective + Jane Birkin, Anton Diffring AND a giant gorilla. 3/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/10/s...

Every morning. Innocent people murdered. Endless crime. Children abused. Bombs dropped. Genocide supported. Limitless cruelty, constant lies. All actions from the same weak, vain man. We've had ten long years of this total garbage. The cats are wondering what's gone wrong and I just can't explain it

A snow day in the UK, but @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social have got top movie entertainment in store. Hitchcock's 1939 masterpiece Rebecca screens Friday 5.30pm, with Mrs Danvers on hand to deliver a plate of biscuits and tea during the film. 5/5 #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2014/02/08/r...

There's four films with body and snatchers in the title and they're all good. Jack Finney's novel has inspired three sci-fi movies; 1993's is the least remembered, but it's just as relevant to 2026 as the 1956 and 1978 versions. You cannot be paranoid enough...4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/09/b...

The Two Faces of Joe the Cat. Face 1; an upright citizen, looking forwards with hope to an uncertain future. Face 2: Joe has just given up. I like them both, but right now, Face 2 has the edge for me; that's where I'd like to be right now, lazy, carefree, not really caring one way or another.

Probably the least surprising revival of 2026, Wag the Dog imagines a POTUS seeking to conceal his sex with a minor with a sprurious war with Venezuala, no, Greenland, no Albania. Any similarlity to the current Trump/Epstein cover-up is purely co-incidental. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/08/w...

Some kind of thaw has arrived, but Joe and Jake are still dependent on their own body heat for survival. This is the boys on the couch last night, I can' tell where one cat stops and the other one starts. But it doesn't matter; Joe and Jake are together and that's all that matters. Sleepytime now.