Billy Wilder’s response to Holocaust deniers www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

This was the Midnight Oil song that hooked me: youtu.be/FjlERh3olAQ?...

Definitely worth a look - The Vanishing & Don’t Look Now for £15 if you want a great comedy double bill.

this guy is such a goddamn delight 📽️

Hey everyone, We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history. Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

@kagi.com in your recent Orion+ update you mention the Twitter account for Orion, it'd be quite nice if you could maintain a presence on other platforms :)

Post your First Film / Last Film of 2025 🍿

Thought some of you might want to take advantage of this, esp. over the holiday season. Recommend The Worst Person in The World/La Chimera/Twin Peaks S1/Sorry, Baby/The Graduate/Perfect Days/Delicatessen/First Cow/Belle de Jour/3 Colours Trilogy/Peeping Tom/Babette’s Feast/Fish Tank/Half Nelson 1/2

A Ghost Story for the 7th of December 20:55 pm GMT.

Nine Inch Nails Depeche Mode Hakase Tarō Diamanda Galás Melt Banana

Friday morning recommendation? Eva Aridjis Fuentes's GOODBYE HORSES: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2025) — exclusively streaming on the Criterion Channel!

@alisonborealis.bsky.social I can't reply to your teen vogue thread, but this might be helpful if they decide to delete the articles as well: web.archive.org/web/20251115...

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Xtra staff members recommend their favourite queer horror films that deliver plenty of scares

🚨Public Service Announcement Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself... www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...

And if you missed it back then, you can make amends for your sinful oversight, tonight, at 00:10 on BBC2.

New letter on: - genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder - the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper - Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

Halloween radio: The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral Terrific BBC adaptation of the Robert Westall creepy novella about a steeplejack's encounter with supernatural evil. First broadcast: Aug 10, 1996. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDie... You can buy the book here: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-stones-o...

POSSESSION: LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD & BLU-RAY released Dec 8, preorder now! Featuring new audio commentaries, new interview with @realgdt.bsky.social and a lot more! Plus 220-page hardback book, original shooting script book & art cards! Std Eds also available. bit.ly/PossessionLt...

paging @luketurner.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bc7... had never seen this before

I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it. bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

Are you tired of watching the same popular horror films over and over again for the Halloween season? What if I gave you a list of cult horror films to watch this year instead? A thread.

Now on pre-order! The UK blu-ray of Alexandre Philippe's Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS is live. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it features Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama + your girl right here! www.amazon.co.uk/Chain-Reacti...

Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago

‘Lost in Translation’ at 22: Sofia Coppola’s Poetic Exhibition of Love, Humor and Understanding ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/lost-transla... #Filmsky

@horrornonna.com on a very similar topic to Police Truck www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzBm...

44 years ago, Das Boot submerged audiences in terror, isolation, and the cold truth of war. Tim Pelan’s “Ballad for an Iron Coffin” dives into how Wolfgang Petersen’s masterpiece still resonates. cinephiliabeyond.org/ballad-iron-...

‘After Hours’ at 40: Celebrating Scorsese’s Kafka-Inspired New York Odyssey cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/

Newsflash: our new SCALA!!! legacy project distributes classic and cult movies to all for absolutely free, while supporting mental health charities to boot. Here's our updated report, which we'd be delighted if you could share, and thank you!

This is exactly my sort of thing:

Anyone recognise this book? I really want to read it now too.

Remembering a mistake I made fifteen years ago

Frankly, I don't what possessed me, but I decided to recreate 1970s cinema intermission screens as vector graphics with the rule that everything had to be 100% vector. No raster graphics, no photographs, no post-vector treatments. 1/2 #graphics #vectorgraphics #cinema #1970s #illustration

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

never seen this in full before - www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBnC...

Limitation of Life: You Can’t Go Back in John Frankenheimer’s ‘Seconds’ cinephiliabeyond.org/limitation-l...

Oh, I'm glad they're supportive then! I can empathise a bit. The name I go by is not the one in my birth certificate (long, entirely unexciting story) but they still use that old name and variations there of. In my case I don't think it's intended to be harmful, just.. they don't think about it?

youtu.be/NfZ1shp8qhk?... Things I never knew existed #825 a video of an à;GRUMH... gig from '89 where they perform a version of @throbbing-gristle.bsky.social's "Discipline" (at 40 minutes in)

We are a trans-led organisation distributing accessible toilet keys in the UK to help people who dont fit gendered stereotypes to evade harassment and abuse when using gendered facilities following the latest news. We have seen a massive uptick in applications in the last 48 hours. 1/2

Blimey, BBC Four, what have we done to deserve this? Next Wednesday 30 July, the late evening schedule is devoted to THREADS and THE WAR GAME, two of the most horrifying and bleakly depressing films ever made. There will be documentaries, too. Get the snacks in!

Movie you've watched more than 6 times using gifs

SORCERER turns 48 today. Friedkin’s most brutal, brilliant film. A box office bomb turned cult legend. Men. Madness. Machines. Our deep dive into the cinematic hellride: 🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/sorcerer

'Mon Oncle' is on Talking Pictures TV at 3pm, this afternoon.

What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

Local Hero directed by fabulous @kenbentley.bsky.social today on R4 (and available after too) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Here’s our SCREENSHOT Easter special from a few years back, featuring The Long Good Friday star Helen Mirren, the great @annodracula.bsky.social on British gangster flicks and Sexy Beast screenwriter Louis Mellis 🐣

Simon Perry's strange, splendid ECLIPSE (1977) - BFI Flipside Blu-ray 51: compelling performances by Tom Conti and Gay Hamilton! Sterling support from Gavin Wallace (age 9 1/2)! Eerie electronica! Rugged 'Coastal Gothic'! I've written about it here... www.bfi.org.uk/features/ecl...