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(Un)paid shill for big cinema. I write sometimes.
https://bio.site/finnwritesdall
Finally dusted this December post for my newsletter off the shelf. It's all about why
@letterboxd.social
and their rental service is making good out of a bad situation!
finnwritesmovies.com/like-a-kid-i...
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Like A Kid in a Video Store
Letterboxd's gift that keeps on giving.
https://finnwritesmovies.com/like-a-kid-in-a-video-store/
about 1 month ago
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abraconagra
6 months ago
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
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the Curb
6 months ago
Oh hey folks. Chiming in to say the Curb has a brand new look and a brand new way of supporting us. Head on over and subscribe and sign up for our monthly or annual subscriptions here:
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A new look the Curb...
Well folks, we've entered our Ghost era of the Curb. This is the same old site you've known with the same interviews and reviews and the same passionate support for Australian cinema, just a little d...
https://www.thecurb.com.au/a-new-look-the-curb/
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Nate Shearer
7 months ago
“Game’s haven’t had a price increase since the 90’s” Dude. You’re signing a lease for some files Xbox has copy pasted onto your PC. You can’t hold a Steam Game. Rent is sky rocketing. The world is burning. Please wake up
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Got an awesome opportunity to help program
@envirofilmsaus.bsky.social
’s 15th Anniversary! Some incredible stuff lined up from the 16th to the 23rd of October in Melbourne. Make sure to check out the program here and use EFF25FRIEND10 for 10% off tickets:
environmentalfilms.org.au/events/eff-2...
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Environmental Film Festival 2025 — Environmental Films Australia
https://environmentalfilms.org.au/events/eff-2025
7 months ago
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Sometimes Latin words are just those spell names you’d hear in a porn parody of Harry Potter…
8 months ago
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Watched Videoheaven for
@thecurb.com.au
and realised we’re really starved for video essays in the offline world. Just watch any of the talented creators on
@nebula.tv
/ YouTube and you’ll probably have a better time! 📽️📝
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MIFF Review: Videoheaven is a neat look at the cultural impact of video stores, but feels like a relic of the past - The Curb | Film and Culture
It’s rather strange to think of the video store as extinct. For American filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry, the video store’s death knell coincided well before the 2012 release of This Means War; where ...
https://www.thecurb.com.au/miff-review-videoheaven-alex-ross-perry/
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new blog post up on finnwritesmovies! Doing a bit of solo coverage on MIFF over there for the next few days. but in the meantime, checkout my take on Chain Reactions below 📽️📝:
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MIFF — Chain Reactions (2024)/ Finn Writes Movies
https://finnwritesmovies.com/posts/miff-chain-reactions-2024/
9 months ago
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Go there regularly myself and there’s always something cool happening. To the point where each little office feels like stepping into a different dimension. Just a shame a lot of the truly wacky stuff felt unrepresented! 📝📽️
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10 months ago
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David Chen
10 months ago
It does what now
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Does that mean competitive spreadsheet competitors are modern day gladiators?
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10 months ago
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Feels ironic enough to be a
@theonion.com
headline…
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10 months ago
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Never had a thriller put me to sleep quite like this before unfortunately 😴! But this was fun to write about at least! Thanks
@thecurb.com.au
for publishing it! 📽️📝
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Stranger Eyes is a padded melodrama that lacks impact - The Curb | Film and Culture
Almost everyone owns a smartphone now. A tiny recording device and track in nearly six billion pockets worldwide. They’ve become a part of our lives to point where we make jokes about the FBI peering ...
https://www.thecurb.com.au/stranger-eyes-review-siew-hua-yeo/
10 months ago
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priscilla page
10 months ago
need someone to convince Ralph Fiennes to record an ASMR video in character as Dr. Ian Kelson for me personally
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Love a great blame game medical drama! And this was just a (depressing) blast to sit through! 📽️📝
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Rose Ruane
10 months ago
What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?
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Heyo! For those who don't know I decided to move away from
#Substack
and decided to set up a fully dedicated site for my film blog. Took awhile but super ecstatic to finally be able to share it!
#filmsky
📽️
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Home/ Finn Writes Movies
https://finnwritesmovies.com/
10 months ago
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Shoutout to Davaa for being the both the sweetest goat herder and the sweetest father! 📽️📝
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10 months ago
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Alex ✰
11 months ago
Nintendo go rid of the gold coins so we couldn’t just bank them up to buy Welcome Tour, I just know it
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Whoops, accidentally rated this higher that I meant too 😅. But don’t get it twisted, there’s a really trippy film here that’s a real treat to witness with your own eyes. That is, if your eyes actually exist… 📽️📝
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11 months ago
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Pained me physically to write a bad review for this cause it has all the things I should like, weird horror, elevated style and a French Female Director. But this felt like it was grasping at tropes and riding on a trend rather than actually joining the conversation of female led horror. 📽️📝
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11 months ago
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It’s a little cheesy, and I’m kinda confused why they didn’t market it with the show’s audience in mind, but it’s a fun enough to recommend for an at-home watch 📽️📝
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ROUGH CUT
11 months ago
In the latest entry of his Screen Play column, Austin Lancaster wades into a world of vulgarity—the "nasty, cheap, and gratuitous"—with indie game NIGHT AT THE GATES OF HELL, which riffs on the gauche greats of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci & Bruno Mattei.
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‘Night At the Gates of Hell’ Games Horror’s Maestros
Austin Lancaster explores the rough-hewn indie game’s resonances with the cinematic nightmares of Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei.
https://tinyurl.com/4nh7t6zu
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As an AHS fan, I am glad to see Lange, Bates and Rabe performing together again, but this really didn’t do it for me! 📽️📝
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11 months ago
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There’s nothing like a movie about the fountain of youth to make you feel nostalgic for the good old days! 📽️📝
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12 months ago
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the Curb
12 months ago
Tune into your podcast player of choice tomorrow to listen to a chat with Matthew Rankin about his film.
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This film is the perfect example of what can happen when cultures aren’t just slapped onto a film as an afterthought. So glad Rankin and team were able to find a distributor cause everyone deserves to see this in theatres at least once! 📽️📝
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12 months ago
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the Curb
12 months ago
Matthew Rankin's Universal Language is one of the best films of the year.
@finnwritesdall.com
reviews ahead of the films release in Australia tomorrow.
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Heads or Fails is one of my fame films of the year (not kidding)! You may have not liked Mother Schmuckers, but trust me that this is a film you can bet on being great! Shoutout to the Kinotopia crew for letting me make a last minute contribution! 📽️📝
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KT 114: Heads or Fails (Lenny Guit & Harpo Guit, 2024)
Finnlay Dall takes a look at another Fantastic Film Festival offering
https://open.substack.com/pub/kinotopia/p/kt-114-heads-or-fails-lenny-guit?r=1pgj61&utm_medium=ios
12 months ago
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Didn’t want to go all Anton Ego, but when I’m served half-baked films, I can’t help myself. 📽️📝
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12 months ago
“Beneath the narrative of bodily possessions lies a tale of complex intergenerational hang-ups and historic resentments.” Nicole Cadelina reviews Parish Malfitano’s SALT ALONG THE TONGUE, a genre-bending, supernatural portrayal of migrant womanhood currently playing FFFA.
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Review: ‘Salt Along the Tongue’ is a Ripe, Multi-Layered Reckoning
A touching portrayal of migrant womanhood and a lurid, supernatural feast, Parish Malfitano’s second feature bends genre with ravishing success.
https://tinyurl.com/4uvak26d
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All for older people getting a feel good story in cinemas. But when it boils down homelessness to a positive and life changing experience, it’s a bit hard to stomach. 🎥📝
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Movies Silently
about 1 year ago
I’ve already had cases of people trying to use AI to converse with me about silent films (self-confessed, they were so weird I asked them if they were a bot) Instead of engaging in human terms, they tried to outsource knowledge… for what? What they was the end game? It’s bizarre.
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Wrote my first concert film review and thank god it was amazing (Being a fan of Ado beforehand certainly helped though)! 🎥📝
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It’s great to se Attenborough using his influence for something so important, but I just wish the production matched his level of his enthusiasm and presentation 🎥📝
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about 1 year ago
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optiMSTie
about 1 year ago
IT SO DOES. Ryan Coogler's the guy. What Sinners showed us is that they should give him a blank check to do whatever the hell he wants because WE WILL ALL BE THERE.
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Wrote this for
@filmink.bsky.social
the week before last and it’s one of the few “post pandemic films about pandemic” that actually had an interesting perspective besides reminding of us how hard it was!
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
"[The] claustrophobic shots in WARFARE produce just that: claustrophobia. There is beauty in the camerawork, but none behind it. This bluntness creates, at most, basic emotional responses from the audience." - Finn Dall
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As a Garland simp myself, you know it’s bad when even I’m struggling to see the point of one of his movies… Thanks to
@tiiakel.bsky.social
and Indigo for being such lovely, talented and patient editors to work with!
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
Today on the site, Finn Dall (
@finnwritesdall.com
) tackles Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's WARFARE—an "immature, if harrowing, retread over the traumas of war."
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Review: In ‘Warfare,’ Real is Not Real Enough
This joint venture from Alex Garland and first-time director Ray Mendoza is an exercise in memory that suffers from a lack of perspective.
https://tinyurl.com/ytbdcv7b
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Chris Elena
about 1 year ago
Do you know how surreal it is when your favourite film site dedicates a 1hr interview to you? So appreciative of
@thecurb.com.au
@ and
@finnwritesdall.com
for taking the time out. Our film screens again next Sunday (6:30pm) at Randwick Ritz (Sydney) as part of Fantastic Film Fest Australia
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Thanks
@chriselena.bsky.social
for being such a lovely and insightful person to talk to! Make sure to check out Passion Pop when it’s at the lido!
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Monkey Madness over on
@thecurb.com.au
! Had a lot of fun with the analogue horror stuff going on here, even if I was disappointed by the lack of magic monkeys. Read about it here and make sure to catch it at Fantastic Fest!
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Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round is a promising entry in the analogue horror genre - The Curb | Film and Culture
It’s the Snake’s time to shine on the zodiac calendar, yet it seems 2025 is the Year of the Monkey. With the dulcet tones of Better Man and the howling screeches of Osgood Perkin’s aptly named The Mon...
https://www.thecurb.com.au/monkeys-magic-merry-go-round-review-aidan-leary/
about 1 year ago
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍
about 1 year ago
I'll be writing a new column for Rough Cut, looking at resonances between video games and film. The first article looks at Oblivion's buggy NPCs, non-actor performances, System Shock, Façade, Hitman, Out for Delivery and other related topics.
tinyurl.com/45t5uzht
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Special Delivery: Acting Styles in Video Games
In the first entry of our new column about the thresholds of the cinematic and the virtual, Austin Lancaster explores the fruitfully uncanny depths of video game performances.
https://tinyurl.com/45t5uzht
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Know it’s pretty obvious to 🎥 people already but Hundreds of Beavers really was that good! Thanks to
@cinemanova.bsky.social
for putting this in theatres again but it was great to finally see it, on the big screen no less!
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Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
"I taut I taw a puddy good film."
https://finnwritesmovies.substack.com/p/hundreds-of-beavers-2022
about 1 year ago
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For people who’ve been fretting about their regularly scheduled newsletter, fear not! It’s just moving to Thursday this week cause I’ve got a few gigs lined up that need priority!
about 1 year ago
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If you want to get off video slot machines (reels, shorts or TikTok) here’s a quick hack. Play one-point bingo with yourself. Pick a common topic that shows up on for you (for me it’s stand-up comedians) and if one of them shows up in the next video put your phone down. (Un)happy doomscrolling!
about 1 year ago
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FilmInk Magazine
about 1 year ago
Bob Trevino Likes It, starring Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo, is "… a dramedy bursting at the seams with emotion" according to Finnlay Dall's reviews. Bob Trevino Likes It is in cinemas this Thursday
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Bob Trevino Likes It - FilmInk
… a dramedy bursting at the seams with emotion.
https://www.filmink.com.au/reviews/bob-trevino-likes-it/
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