Emerald Fennell really missed a trick not casting this guy as Joseph.

The Oscars should give F1 Best Picture for a laugh.

Making a good film is easy, just have the cast join in and/or slow dance to auld lang syne and I WILL cry, thank you.

Rob Reiner’s gone, and it feels more important than usual in these situations to remember the good things: here’s my look at A Few Good Men, to start. filmstories.co.uk/features/wha...

28 Years Later: The Squeakquel is the MOST NAKED blockbuster you’ll see ALL YEAR. Big, bold, and NUDE from start to finish, Nia DaCosta has made another ASTONISHINGLY UNCLOTHED entry to the ZCU. Stay to the end to WATCH THE CREDITS. #TheBoneTemple

New @filmstories.bsky.social magazine is out now! Here’s all the cool stuff I scribbled in it:

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Achievements of April’s Supreme Court ruling so far: - Trans people de-facto banned from majority of public toilets/changing rooms. - Trans kids *AGED 4-7* can no longer join Rainbows because of sexual harassment concerns. What the fuck are we doing here? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good to see Netflix shoving The Holdovers down my throat any chance it gets. This is the only media I will consume between now and Christmas, how could you tell?

It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news. I'm quite pleased with this one... www.bbc.com/historyofthe...

Great and surprisingly un-depressing stuff here on why the internet’s gone tits-up, and how we can undo it. open.spotify.com/episode/5RuU...

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Wicked For Good is a faithful adaptation of act 2 of Wicked (derogatory).

Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

For The Guardian (!) I wrote about Brief Encounter ahead of its 80th anniversary. I am chuffed. This has chuffed me. Huge thanks to Catherine Shoard for the commission! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Happy Halloween! Film Quiz Friday has risen from the grave for a one-off helping of spooky horror-themed questions. Who will survive? What will be left of them? Not questions you'll get here, but send us your scores out of 31 when you're done! (laughs in Vincent Price...)

I suspect this is the first podcast on In Which We Serve to bring up Russell Crowe, Master and Commander and The Wager, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. I’m nothing if not predictable (available wherever you get your podcasts!) spotify.link/hINMKR1JIXb

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!

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...