Just watched Thomas Vinterberg’s 2020 film Another Round again and it’s such a good film; entertaining, funny with some really interesting ideas about alcohol’s place in society. Love it.

More exciting deliveries today 👇🏻

Only British Airways would email you after you’ve booked your flights asking if you’re still interested in booking those flights…

OUT NOW! 101 Films presents the gloriously camp comedy horror Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988).

Just in from our friends at @vinsyn.bsky.social contributor copies and new SATO 🙌🏻

I always forget to post about my releases but here’s one that’s just come out! Thanks @arrowvideo.bsky.social for asking me to produce the new extras for Under Siege (1992), it was great getting to speak to Erika Eleniak, among others www.arrowvideo.com/p/under-sieg...

Was feeling bad about the state of the world and so we watched Holy Spider (2022)… so so so good.

What has caused the current epidemic of people completely incapable of taking responsibility for things? Should be studied.

Men overheard in an Indian restaurant: “we should get a seven-man bed and just chill in it.”

Was so looking forward to watching Y2K (2024) and thought now was the right time. It was no where near as good as expected, but we need more movies set in 2000 please!

Crust man strikes again!

Interesting double bill this evening of The Last Showgirl (2024) and The Wrestler (2008). Similar themes and ideas but very different execution. 10/10.

Just watched Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl (2024). Never saw Mainstream but love Palo Alto (2013). I thought Jamie Lee Curtis’ character was the perfect complement to Pamela Anderson’s, showing the tragic after effects of being hired because you’re “young and beautiful”.

Nooo there goes the Christmas spirit ✨

The full line-up for the V-Cinema focus program I curated for the International Film Festival Rotterdam is up now: iffr.com/en/iffr/2026... Miike, Kurosawa, Aoyama, Takashi Ishii and lots of films that have never been shown in a theater before. Plus the full Crime Hunter trilogy!

Had some fun last night with these crazy goons to celebrate getting older.. 🖤 (polaroids)

Next year I’m gonna buy some cats and write a book… so last chance to speak to me before I become a cave troll. 👋🏻

We recently got Mubi so we could watch The Florida Project and was so pleasantly surprised about their offerings! Watched Good One (2024) last night; a really impactful everyday story for young women.

Angel Guts is back, with commentaries on a couple of these by yours truly - revisiting the films I recorded my first ever commentaries for some 20 years ago!

Had a lovely time yesterday at Kim’s ( @annodracula.bsky.social ) annual Christmas lunch. Here’s me, friends and lots of wine…

Very sad to hear about the death of accomplished photographer and film producer Michele Reiner and her husband Rob. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...

Hey brexit peeps, why does my m&s sandwich say “not for eu”?

New Hammer 🙌🏻

Happy 29th Anniversary To Kenan & Kel's Christmas Special Episode Merry Christmas, Kenan That First Premiered On Nickelodeon On This Date December 14th 1996 Merry Christmas, Kenan Season 1 Episode 11 Merry Christmas, Kenan Is The Eleventh Episode Of The First Season Of Kenan & Kel Which Was

I’m starting to think they just make up these figures to make us feel inadequate. Whose wages are going up 4% annually ?

Just watched The Florida Project (2017) for the first time and it was brilliant. How that kid didn’t even get nominated for an Oscar is beyond me…

Very sad to hear from Aaron Gerow of the passing of director Masato Harada, at the untimely age of 76. Masato directed many a monument of modern Japanese cinema - Bounce Kogals, Jubaku, Sekigahara…. @sarahappleton.bsky.social filmed him in 2024 for Inugami www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainmen...

Sad news to hear that the Japanese director Masato Harada has died age 76. @jaspersharp.bsky.social and I interviewed him last year, about his film Inugami (2001), at his house in Tokyo for the @arrowvideo.bsky.social J-Horror Rising box set. Lovely and generous man.

Tom Waits in more movies Now.

Attempting a basque cheesecake… will see if it’s worked after 13 hours of cooling!

The film once described as "the Citizen Kane of slime mould documentaries", The Creeping Garden, is now available on Blu-ray for just £9 as part of the @arrowvideo.bsky.social Winter Burn Sale - what better for a Xmas stocking filler?! #fungifriends #myxomycetes www.arrowfilms.com/p/the-creepi...

I've been back in the graveyard today, squatting amongst the damp moss with a pair of forceps and my macro lens trying to get the best possible photo of Atheniella delectabilis. These are truly tiny. Here are the results. #fungi #fungifriends

Satô box set 2 has arrived from @vinsyn.bsky.social 🙌🏻

Part of the problem has always been older women thinking/saying “well that’s just how it was” and that women should “just deal with it”. Quite horrible really.

One of the UK’s most beautiful mushrooms to my mind, the Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus) is much less rare than one might think. I’ve found it in at least 3 different locations. As appetising as it looks, and despite its name, this one is in fact not considered an edible - bitter and rubbery.

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Artomyces pyxidatus, the Crown-tipped Coral or Candelabra Coral fungus, was not seen in the UK over the entire 20th century, its last record in 1886 until a spate of recent findings around 2022, which is when I found this specimen (in East Kent). Where did it disappear all this time?

Vienna honeymoon: ate 5 schnitzel, drank some Gluhwein, went to 3 Christmas markets and saw zero Krampus 🎄 🤍

Third and final post in my waxcap run, and species I find particularly gorgeous, the Goblet Waxcap (Hygrocybe cantharellus) #fungi

With Severin Films’ THE HAUNTED SEASON: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM now streaming on Shudder, we spoke with director Kier-La Janisse all about festive frights and Christmas ghost stories.

Went to the Gothic Modern exhibition at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. 💀

Nooo I just asked for an interview with Cary-Hiroyuki! How sad… I first saw him in Sabrina the Teenage Witch when I was a kid. Legend.

Apple have decided to bring in some new kind of auto correct / predictive text which is so bad. Every time I write “all” it changes it to “Allan”. How is that helpful?

Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus) in my local graveyard. #fungi

Honeymooning in Vienna 🇦🇹 with my love @jaspersharp.bsky.social and multiple schnitzel…

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen The Pretty Reckless K.Flay Killing Joke Sky Ferreira Hadouken!

Clown in a Cornfield (2025) very gripping for a modern slasher movie! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

We don’t have Thanksgiving in the UK, instead we have 2 hours off at lunchtime to watch the Chancellor’s budget announcement instead !

Never heard of Dream Scenario (2023) before but just watched it and thought it was an interesting take on witch-hunts and cancel culture…