Tremendously excited to be producing this essential box set

In his latest Psycho. column, Caspar looks ahead to a happy Lisa Kudrow year: animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-65/

Haven’t baked as many chicken pies as I would have liked to this year, but at least today’s LOTR-themed creation (made to coincide with our New Year’s Eve watching) is one of my all-time best.

Is love real, or a socially accepted form of delusion? Is romance a choice, or written in the unalterable script of our destiny? As Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) turns 30, Elena and Manuela revisit his Before Trilogy and discuss NOUVELLE VAGUE. animus-magazine.ghost.io/hard-truths-...

Absolutely thrilled to be publishing such a wonderful essay from Robert. Bringing back long-form pieces on Animus has been a highlight of my year.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Even if you're not someone who spends a lot of time in cinemas trying not to lose it whenever someone's wrist suddenly lights up during a movie, the smart watch is an awful invention, and it's obviously helped normalise meta glasses which beautiful women worldwide must destroy with their bare hands.

Sneering douchebag: "You're gonna be famous on the internet!" The Internet:

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

Until December 7th, get a 2 for £22 discount across a range of our titles from Zavvi. www.zavvi.com/brands/radia...

"Don't you realise what she is?" The dazzling Daughters of Darkness is now available at retailers, and already shipping from our site. Get this delicious piece of Euro-horror for your Halloween viewing.🦇

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

UK: In his first credited feature film performance, director François Truffaut stars in THE WILD CHILD as a kind-hearted doctor who takes in a feral child. A UK Blu-ray premiere, special features include a new interview with author Ginette Vincendeau and essay by Adam Scovell.

UK/US: Following a series of Supreme Court murders, Inspector Rogas (Lino Ventura) uncovers a labyrinthine conspiracy in Francesco Rosi’s ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES. A 4K restoration is accompanied by an interview with Rosi scholar Gaetana Marrone and new writing from Michael Atkinson.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS. Paul Thomas Anderson’s CAN’T CATCH A BREAK. Paul Thomas Anderson’s NOT THIS AGAIN.

We live in a world where the Renny Harlin-directed sequel to the reboot of THE STRANGERS nobody wanted is more entertaining than the latest CONJURING film starring all-time babe Patrick Wilson

That Jason Bateman x Jude Law show BLACK RABBIT is pretty good and I do enjoy how the plot essentially comes down to “there’s always money in the banana stand”

I loved working with @anandsudha.bsky.social on this piece, whose publication fittingly, but unintentionally coincides with Peter Sellers' centenary this month.

I should be allowed to know what all the houses on my street look like on the inside

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

Both this song and lyric video are so good. youtu.be/fWpjmUZ_k60

This weird-sounding accident took place either while I was watching the virulently anti-Guiliani film CAUGHT STEALING at the cinema yesterday or shortly after. Anyway, good movie!

another fab column from Caspar

Took a brief look at Twitter and under a post showing Cahiers du Cinéma contributors from 1963 listing their favourite American films of the sound era, some account with a blue tick had commented "nerdy". Such an awful, garbage website.

They should let me watch the dialogue-free Alan Ritchson revenge movie that’s in Venice

Love, desire and fate considered in the films of my favourite director Max Ophüls - @manilazic.bsky.social & @elazic.bsky.social @animusmagazine.bsky.social podcast … open.spotify.com/episode/55bB...

I had a dream last night that I met Austin Butler and his twin brother, Dustin Butler.

From the ultraviolence of RAW to the OTT silliness of TITANE and the emo intensity of ALPHA: in this ep of Hard Truths, @elazic.bsky.social & @manilazic.bsky.social talk about the ideas lurking behind the infamous shock value of Julia Ducournau's cinema. animus-magazine.ghost.io/julia-ducour...

ICYMI long-form essays are back on Animus 💙 starting with this thoroughly researched, rip-roaring look at climate change cinema by John Kidwell

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As the Hard Truths podcast takes a short summer break, @manilazic.bsky.social writes about some of the most striking and “brave” performances she saw at this year’s edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato: animus-magazine.ghost.io/brave-acting...

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Caspar on Michelle Williams’ character in Kelly Reichardt’s SHOWING UP (2022) ♥️ animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-57/

Caspar on Michelle Williams’ character in Kelly Reichardt’s SHOWING UP (2022) ♥️ animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-57/

Crucial thread

This soldier of cinema got up at the beginning of WEAPONS to ask the people working there to raise the volume in the screen and they actually did it. You’re welcome.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Michel Piccoli and Marco Ferreri were “cooking” in DILLINGER IS DEAD haha! My thoughts are on the ‘boxd: boxd.it/aBQuep

Had so much fun recording this episode with @manilazic.bsky.social 💙

With just 4 feature films, Ari Aster has established himself as one of the foremost voices of our phone-addicted, psychically damaged, paranoid generation. HEREDITARY, MIDSOMMAR, BEAU IS AFRAID, & EDDINGTON (without spoilers): all in this new ep of Hard Truths 🎧 animus-magazine.ghost.io/ari-aster/

luca guadagnino has made a film about the woke mind virus

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

This interview with David Corenswet is actually longer than James Gunn's SUPERMAN. It is also a lot better. I'm not sure how it is allowed to exist, but I am so glad it does.

The time has come again. Pen a letter to your humble servant @casparsalmon.bsky.social

luca guadagnino has made a film about the woke mind virus