Our country is well on track to becoming the most miserable place in Europe. What an absolute shambles of a government. Starting to think very hard about my future and where might be better suited for my career aspirations.

Very Kenty.

So unbelievably stoked at this news... Thank you @abertoirfest.bsky.social! The birds are incoming this month...

We had a GOOD time.

Big ol' weekend ahead! I'm heading to Exeter, UK with @kingsleymarshall.bsky.social and we're looking forward to a fun day at Hell Tor. Sunday the film is BACK in York, UK for a second time after it graced the city with the OG @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social. I sadly can't make it as I'll be turning 42!

Spain's time has come! @gfffestival.bsky.social is unleashing The Birdwatcher on its audiences next week! So pumped to be a part of this amazing festival in a country I have so much respect for in the current political climate. HELL YEAH!

A big Saturday this weekend... Cosmic Horror fans in the UK and across the Atlantic in the USA, unite! Grateful and happy for my film to be in so many fests across the world. Our Spanish premiere is announced tomorrow - watch this space. Spooky season is in full swing!

THE ROAD TO HELLFEST. A sub 3 minute tour short from my time with @defeaterhc.bsky.social back in June. Heading to Glasgow with them this weekend for their headlining appearance at Core festival. Then we're back in Europe at the end of October for 11 days of chaos vimeo.com/1117123887?s...

Anemone & Rose of Nevada are two films I'm really excited to watch. Around the edges of this are a lot of other films I've really got no interest in. There's this distinct feeling amongst many of them that the celebrity aspect is bigger than the actual filmmaking... and that ain't it, for me.

BIRMINGHAM, UK is next up on the @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social tour as #TheBirdwatcherFilm does its rounds. September 11th at THE MOCKINGBIRD. We've also got a new festival to announce next month for the North West of England so watch this space!

What do you get when you mix a volatile corporate press, operating in the name of the establishment, and a government that tries to copy the policies of an already volatile right wing party... See below. Starmer has thrown as much petrol at this fire as Farage.

Myskatonic is back at one of my favourite festivals this weekend, @hplff.bsky.social. It's nestled within the home of HP Lovecraft - Providence, RI, USA. I won't be attending sadly but the film screens on Sunday. Keep those @letterboxd.social reviews coming, I love seeing people's interpretations.

Brexit wasn't enough. The people who believed it would be good, and have since been shown otherwise, want one more go at looking like tools. Farage and reform will oblige. Then this country can fill its full potential as being one of the most miserable places on the planet.

Every day this Summer has been a record of how Nigel Farage already runs the country. An endless cycle of hate & racism. One day boat arrivals, the next releasing ethnicity data for crimes, so we can know whether to riot if they’re brown or shrug if they’re white. Back to the 70s🤦‍♀️ #r4today

Instagram keeps taking down this post from Massive Attack. They keep posting it. I guess it what we should expect from meta. Never the less, 3D remains one of those people continuing to speak out in the current genocide against Palestinians.

Bastions of free speech ask to remove free speech. Call these people what they are - fascists. Peaceful protest banned in order to stop violent protest? Doesn't sound very democratic does it? Labour and courting these idiots.

We are entering this phase of the genocide of Palestinians:

Brexit is putting bills up and water quality down. It's time for a UK-EU partnership on Energy, Climate and Environment. #OneEarthOneTeam www.europeanmovement.co.uk/one_earth_one_team

In my experience, the most ironic of these being in Esso petrol station toilets with the walls covered in an image of a coral reef and tropical fish.

James Henderson was among three British aid workers killed in Gaza last year. His family urged Keir Starmer to put an arms embargo on Israel. Instead, Starmer's government allowed the chief of the Israeli air force to visit Britain this weekend👇 www.declassifieduk.org/stop-arming-...

Starmer goes on and on about working people but he's really in it for the neoliberals. His actions show us everything we need to know about the man. A regret I'll always have is voting for him as labour leader. I'm glad I stopped my membership. What a waste of a good chance.

The IHS tour keeps on rollin'. A new date has been added in Birmingham (UK) at The Mockingbird, this September. #TheBirdwatcherFilm continues its journey around the world with further festivals still to be announced. For further updates on the IHS tour follow @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre... “Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty” By Ronan Bennett

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Here's another one that can fuck off too.

This man could write a book on how to absolute fuck up the best chance in a long time to make a meaningful and positive change to a country (that so badly needs it). A fool, more concerned with pandering to right wingers than the people who ACTUALLY voted him in. Furious and over it. Disgusted.

This weekend #TheBirdwatcherFilm returns to London town at @indiehorrorsoc.bsky.social's Indie Film Showcase at Genesis Cinema! We're over the moon to be back in the capital and looking forward to bending some minds with our avian cosmic horror. #CosmicHorror #shortfilm

I think one of the truly sad tragedies if this initial AI era are those who have bought into "prompt writing" as a marketable skill, like that won't be the very next thing AI creators shore up. I hate to be the guy tapping the sign again, but you are not USING AI, you are TRAINING it to replace you.

This is INSANE.

A dystopian hell is closer than you think...

It's such a great honour to have made the Prano Bailey-Bond shortlist over at @centerframe.club for The Birdwatcher. Thank you so much Prano! It means a lot to be selected by such a talented and well respected voice in horror cinema. Once again thanks to all my team for bringing the film to life.

Farage: "Lucy Connolly should not be in prison... Understand, there were millions of mothers at that moment in time after Southport feeling exactly the same way. Connolly was imprisoned because she posted: “Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards… if that makes me racist so be it.”

This Friday we've got a new date landing for #TheBirdwatcherFilm. Then on Monday we'll release our JUNE OMENS which is a full listing of where the film is appearing around the world in June. Followed by @celticmediafest.bsky.social on Tuesday in Newquay, UK. The nebula stirs once again!

"Voters can see that, in the world of Trump and Putin, Britain’s future is European. Westminster is playing catch-up"

The U.K. fishing industry - weaponised & then betrayed & then abandoned, by Johnson, Farage & the rest of them - is better off under Starmer’s deal than it was under Johnson’s. That’s not an opinion. It’s counting. Anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.

After a successful screening in London at Offbeat's Folk Film Festival on Tuesday, and Chicago Horror Film Festival last night, The Birdwatcher has made the short list for @centerframe.club which is being hand picked by director @pranobaileybond.bsky.social.

TheBirdwatcherFilm has made the long list for @centerframe.club, curated by the legend known as @pranobaileybond.bsky.social. Great to make the cut, thank you Prano! Feelin' good that our weird tale is out in the wild stirring some feelings.

What's abundantly clear is that the voters of this country learned NOTHING from brexit.

I have mixed feelings on season 2 of Andor so far. There's too much pomp and ceremony for my liking which appears to have been used to flesh things out further. Scenes that feel like padding... It's still too early for a full review as I'm 4 episodes in, but I am feeling cautious.

Honestly, at this point we really need to start thinking about our position in the world, and look back towards our closest neighbours (Europe)... Because what sane person would want this to happen? What good does it do? None. This is fascist narcissism at it's most rotten.

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

You know when the to-do list is very long, time is short and it feels like you're balancing on the front of a rollercoaster as it hammers around? Yeah, that's me in May. Let's do this.

Stand by for various government figures playing this down (from all parties). Denial of all this is part of this country's problem.

UK people pay attention. Reform is a stack of fossil fuel firms in a trenchcoat.

I honestly feel like Alex Garland's films don't get enough of a PR push. Other people have said this to me, including someone this week who had no idea Warfare was out until I posted about it. It just shows how solid the man's films are regardless of their PR campaigns. Still thinking about Warfare.

RIP Jean Marsh. I'll never forget watching 'The Lonely' episode of The Twilight Zone and developing a crush on her. This made the outcome of the story even more impactful...

Holy fucking shit.... WHAT A MOVIE. I've been running on empty lately, feeling very worn down by a lot of things, but this film got me fired up again tonight. Beyond grateful. Alex Garland is doing important work for cinema, he is truly someone very special. Well done Ray Mendoza too! #WarfareMovie

LONDON! So happy that we're in at this festival! I've been a secret fan of Offbeat Film for a while and to see them craft & create such a vibrant & important festival about the culture & landscape of our country (past, present & future) is heartening in our strange dystopian times. See you there?

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