Derek Cianfrance's Roofman is the family Christmas hit you didn't know October needed. Review for Film Stories: filmstories.co.uk/reviews/roof...

A bit by me on AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood: we can still fight back against this creepy nonsense. filmstories.co.uk/news/tilly-n...

Why does the new Mandalorian and Grogu trailer have the energy of a noughties sponsored McDonald’s advert?

Really sweaty now, realising Chicken Run wasn’t in the Sight and Sound top 100. Yes I know I’m late. I’m also right to be concerned.

#TheLongWalk is the biggest surprise of the year. This was so much more intense and emotional than I was expecting and I am DYING to watch it again. More thoughts 👇

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

For Friday’s Film Stories newsletter, I wondered if the post-pandemic “eat the rich” trend has run its course: filmstories.co.uk/newsletters/...

Me and @orharveyworking.bsky.social chatted all about #WeaponsMovie and apparently also about breastfeeding and getting killed by Pennywise 🤔 Anyways, go watch it! youtu.be/DpIFOMifhD0?...

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Every word of this, from @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Once again, we've handed our front cover over to lots of indie movies. Indies HAVE to support indies in the current climate. We're an indie, and we're proud to do our bit. Please help spread the word. Issues for sale here > store.filmstories.co.uk/products/fil...

The first ep of my hip new podcast is out now, combining my great loves: history, theatre, and 20th century newspapers going absolutely insane. Available on Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/2yfJ...

On the weird obsession with taking TV-shows-based-on-films back into cinemas... @filmstories.bsky.social filmstories.co.uk/features/the...

Oh Oscar, someone’s been listening to the Dan Stevens Frankenstein audiobook.

The Ballad of Wallis Island is so much my jam* I might start selling it at a farmer's market. Review for @filmstories.bsky.social *This ref doesn't really work, but "so much my chutney" feels obtuse. filmstories.co.uk/reviews/the-...

Lilo & Stitch deserves to be exiled into space and obliterated with a plasma cannon before it can learn the meaning of ‘ohana’. Review for @filmstories.bsky.social filmstories.co.uk/reviews/lilo...

One of the most depressing trends of the last decade has been watching the once thriving space of video game journalism and editorial coverage, with continuity going back decades and a respect for the written word rooted in early internet culture, get successively gutted and destroyed.

I’m on another podcast! Listen on Apple Podcasts if you like The Last Of Us and also podcasts. And me (please like me)

>>> HUGE NEW ISSUE KLAXON <<< Film Stories issue 55 is shipping NOW! A massive exclusive on the British comedy crime thriller #DeepCover leads the issue. The UK's biggest film magazine, 168 pages, 100% independent too. Order your copy here! buff.ly/7dBgpb7

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

It's easy to assume all accountants love The Accountant, so I did. I asked two real-life finance people how to kill a man with a belt. filmstories.co.uk/features/two...

Spent most of this week watching the new season of Black Mirror, exactly 50% of which is the best the series has been in years. Find out which 50% in the individual episode reviews here (I can't be arsed to find a down arrow emoji). filmstories.co.uk/tag/black-mi...

On hatred.

Jim Mullen out at Reach, taking a new job at the jockey club. He’s been driving the high story count and journalist reader targets strategy. Will that now change? pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Black Bag is the "movies are back" sentiment condensed into 93 minutes. It's so much flippin' fun. Review for @filmstories.bsky.social filmstories.co.uk/reviews/blac...

So happy to be officially NCTJ-certified. Now to continue a profitable career in *checks notes* multimedia journalism? Ruh roh! Available for all sorts of freelance news shifts! Hire me!

Like most people I was perplexed by Megalopolis but Coppola's response to being singled out for scorn by the atrocious Razzies is better than the movie.

They should re-run the #OscarsCheerMoment every ten years like the Sight and Sound poll. New piece for @filmstories.bsky.social filmstories.co.uk/features/the...

Wrote about The Monkey and the end of elevated horror - which was only ever about five films anyway… filmstories.co.uk/features/the...

I have a website! Everyone visit my website and tell me if my website is broken. Or hire me. Either will bring me joy. jamesharveywriting.co.uk

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

The new Bridget Jones is good! Really good! I-cried-before-the-title-sequence good! Review for @filmstories.bsky.social filmstories.co.uk/reviews/brid...

Particularly shocking detail here, suggesting reasons why the Mayor and the Culture Secretary might be looking the other way on this. www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...

For the Film Stories newsletter, wrote about journalism, films about journalism, and how everything's a mess. filmstories.co.uk/features/sep...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is Top Gun: Maverick for your mum.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Criterion Capital, folks: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aziz’s entire business plan is buying up historic community spaces in London and squeezing them out for redevelopment as hotels or flats. Here’s Private Eye on him. Despicable man

Wrote about my specialist subject for @filmstories.bsky.social - Robert Eggers and fart jokes. filmstories.co.uk/features/rob...

Words from my thinkbox about the UK's frenzied rush to jump on the AI bandwagon:

#JournoRequest - Looking to talk to as many people as possible who DON’T go to the cinema, or who go less than they’d like/used to. If that’s you, DM me or email [email protected]. Thanking you, you’re all valuable and generally excellent!

Like all the best things, Babygirl is very very silly and very very smart. Review for @filmstories.bsky.social filmstories.co.uk/reviews/baby...

First podcast interview, and it’s a chat with Robert Eggers - featuring Nosferatu’s most unfortunate pigeon. open.spotify.com/episode/4V7Z...

Happy UK Nosferatu day! Here’s a review: filmstories.co.uk/reviews/nosf...

My fave films of the year are an inconvenient US/UK release-straddling combo of Nosferatu and the 2024 best picture lineup, so instead here’s “10 films that I’m worried everyone might have forgotten about but made me say ‘it’s just good stuff’ out loud”. Happy New Year!

How am I supposed to sleep with a scoundrel like Feathers McGraw on the loose? Why would Aardman do this???

As a special Christmas Eve treat, I spoke to Richard Curtis - pictured here with his new intern, probably. filmstories.co.uk/features/ric...

Team @filmstories.bsky.social managed to find an hour to chat about our favourite films of 2024. Naturally, @simonbrew.bsky.social spent most of that reading Issue 53, which is pretty cracking tbf. Watch us blab about some excellent movies below! youtu.be/11SMXlupYEQ?...

The gang's all here... @ryanlambie.bsky.social @marialattila.bsky.social @orharveyworking.bsky.social @simonbrew.bsky.social