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

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: www.thecurb.com.au/a-new-look-t...

“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

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...

Sometimes Latin words are just those spell names you’d hear in a porn parody of Harry Potter…

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! 📽️📝 www.thecurb.com.au/miff-review-...

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 📽️📝: finnwritesmovies.com/posts/miff-c...

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! 📝📽️

It does what now

Does that mean competitive spreadsheet competitors are modern day gladiators?

Feels ironic enough to be a @theonion.com headline…

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! 📽️📝 www.thecurb.com.au/stranger-eye...

need someone to convince Ralph Fiennes to record an ASMR video in character as Dr. Ian Kelson for me personally

Love a great blame game medical drama! And this was just a (depressing) blast to sit through! 📽️📝

What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?

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 📽️ finnwritesmovies.com

Shoutout to Davaa for being the both the sweetest goat herder and the sweetest father! 📽️📝

Nintendo go rid of the gold coins so we couldn’t just bank them up to buy Welcome Tour, I just know it

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… 📽️📝

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. 📽️📝

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 📽️📝

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. tinyurl.com/4nh7t6zu

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! 📽️📝

There’s nothing like a movie about the fountain of youth to make you feel nostalgic for the good old days! 📽️📝

Tune into your podcast player of choice tomorrow to listen to a chat with Matthew Rankin about his film.

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! 📽️📝

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. www.thecurb.com.au/universal-la...

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! 📽️📝 open.substack.com/pub/kinotopi...

Didn’t want to go all Anton Ego, but when I’m served half-baked films, I can’t help myself. 📽️📝

“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. tinyurl.com/4uvak26d

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. 🎥📝

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.

Wrote my first concert film review and thank god it was amazing (Being a fan of Ado beforehand certainly helped though)! 🎥📝

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 🎥📝

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.

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!

"[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

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!

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." tinyurl.com/ytbdcv7b

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

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!

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! www.thecurb.com.au/monkeys-magi...

Over at r/barbie, we spend a LOT of time helping people make "mini me" dolls. It involves workshopping which face mould suits, repainting, re-hairing, picking the right outfit... in other words, actual fun and community, as opposed to torching the environment to generate a legless homunculus.

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

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! finnwritesmovies.substack.com/p/hundreds-o...

Receiving word that [touches earpiece] going on the computer is gay

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!

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!

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

Got to write about the best (and worst film) I’ve seen in 2025 so far! Can you guess which is which? @filmink.bsky.social www.filmink.com.au/reviews/bob-...