Oh man, why have I taken this long to listen to Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue?

One Battle After Another: Absolute masterpiece, one of PTA's best.

One of Lars Von Trier's best.

Once Upon a Time in the West is maybe a top 3 movie of all time for me, one of the films that caught my teenage mind aflame as to the possibilities of cinema. Only time I ever bunked off school was to go to Cardiff to see it at Chapter, on what I'm 90% was a 35mm print c. 2012.

Cat selfie

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

R.I.P. Robert Redford (1936-2025)

Ok, found justification for an MP still to be using X.

I think we need to stop understanding evangelical Christianity as a denomination of Christianity but to start treating it as the terrorist death cult that it is, something separate to and an aberration of anything to do with Christian teachings.

feel proud to have moved to a functioning democracy

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

the breakup of yugoslavia was simply a western conspiracy to weaken our football teams (applies to other sports)

Rewatched The Devils for the first time in perhaps ten years or more last night. A film in which conservative elites use religious iconography to justify changing the facts to whatever suits them just because. Can't think why it might be relevant to the present moment

I don't see anyone else posting this, so I'm going to post it. youtu.be/tRDkKobIWpo?...

Chat shit get banged

I firmly believe that PTA is long overdue a hipsterized BlueSky/FilmTwitter-style backlash over some bullshit, and not having seen it, I believe One Battle After Another will be that film.

The first Brazilian president after the military dictatorship famously got Weekend at Bernies'd because they needed to protect a fledgling democracy. Trump is gonna get Weekend at Bernies'd for...what? A boost to the memecoin?

The first Brazilian president after the military dictatorship famously got Weekend at Bernies'd because they needed to protect a fledgling democracy. Trump is gonna get Weekend at Bernies'd for...what? A boost to the memecoin?

This future sucks

Getting increasingly annoyed at Netflix every time I log in and see the Harriet Tubman biopic advertised with an image of Joe Alwyn, making it look like some pound shop knockoff of Orlando.

i legit didnt think i'd have to make multiple versions of this but its already out of date and the guy just keeps scoring off us

My life is a constant battle between wanting to do something meaningful and positive in the world and wanting my epitaph to be "he played a lot of videogames and watched a lot of movies"

All the cool kids today are talking about Slovenian experimental films from the Yugoslav era. That's why I sat down with Matevž Jerman to talk about Alpe-Adria Underground, a doc about exactly that. Paywalled, but you can claim a free post. www.cinemayearzero.com/p/a-bunch-of...

All the cool kids today are talking about Slovenian experimental films from the Yugoslav era. That's why I sat down with Matevž Jerman to talk about Alpe-Adria Underground, a doc about exactly that. Paywalled, but you can claim a free post. www.cinemayearzero.com/p/a-bunch-of...

Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that

it has been very disappointing to me how many academics (who should know better) are falling for the nonsense. i created this resource to respond to admins at my institution calling me "emotional" for being skeptical of llms: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm not even sure myself spambot

Do you know who's really great at the whole music thing? Courtney Barnett, she's great at the whole music thing.

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People acting like the Ice Cube War of the Worlds film is the worst film of the year, not one of you amateurs has had the misfortune of seeing the pro-pedophilia Luc Besson Dracula adaptation.

Two days ago, I woke up in the morning to find my right havaina completely missing, absolutely nowhere to be seen in the flat. The primary suspect is pictured but he has thus far proven resistant to questioning.

Just going to randomly post some of my favourite Jam videos, perhaps the single greatest work of British television: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Hu...

"Hey boss, can't seem to find any Dutch flags lying around" "Ah, just use anything. All those gringo countries look the same to me"

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Always nice ego boost to myself randomly quoted on a letterboxd review. Nice surprise to the day when you realise someone out there has read what you've written.

hate writing, love having written

Isso ressaca me rasga

I can't even be bothered to use em dashes properly, I just use hyphens in their place because it's right there on the keyboard where em dashes are a pain in the arse to shortcut.

Meu deus estou bêbado

In the wake of Brian Wilson's passing, I've been going slowly through the entirety of the Beach Boys catalogue. Whilst the very early surf/girls/cars stuff is not exactly classic, I had no idea that even at this point - forced to push out 3 albums a year! - Brian was writing the bulk of the material

Love it when you pop an old dvd in and it has the "you wouldn't steal a car" piracy ad

Really struggle with the idea that recognising Palestine is being treated like a way to try and moderate Israel's conduct - the diplomatic equivalent of a threat to send a naughty child to bed early if they don't behave properly - rather than the inalienable right of an entire nation of people.

One of the things I'm missing most from @cineredis.bsky.social this year is the quiz. Alas, after winning two years in a row, it is probably fair to let someone else win.

About 3 years fashionably late to this, but caught up to the Robert Pattinson Batman movie and fuck me, people went all in for this incoherent shitbox of a film? The shitty quality of superhero movies have clearly fucked up everyone's critical faculties beyond repair.

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.