Ready to preorder the small press short story collection with this cover RIGHT NOW.

Guys remember bronco henry

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Anthonie de Lorme, born in Tournai but mostly of Rotterdam, whose Laurenskerk he often painted. As here in 1669.

I'm stepping in last minute to introduce The Breakfast Club at BFI Southbank tomorrow evening, ironic for someone who was too much of a goody two-shoes to have ever been given detention at school 🏫🎒 Tickets here! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

I’ll never forget going to Fopp to ask if they had the second sight special edition of The Babadook behind the till and made the mistake of mentioning to the guy that I’d contributed an essay to it only to be met with a stony-faced “does anyone actually read those” 💀

Sorry but all these 21 year old guys moaning about not getting the LFF tickets they wanted……..

i don't think you see the gender discrepancy in film criticism quite as glaringly as you do in annual film festival coverage

Venice best bits (including Annie Ernaux irl!!) 🌅

i am also pro 100 nights of hero, the lovely fantastical romp from julia jackman, which @lauravenning.bsky.social did an excellent write-up of for LWLies lwlies.com/venice-film-...

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

A shame what's going on in cultural journalism right now. Too many of us have lost jobs at a time when this work is desperately needed. Without it, the less curious people will become, and the less motivated they will be to challenge the culture they're consuming. That could be by design right now.

I think Greta Gerwig's Little Women script is a pretty miraculous work of adaptation

Loved reviewing Materialists for @lwlies.com , a strange, flawed film that I was still rather charmed by!! 🍸

normal week

From this month's edition of The Onion.

I know pickings are slim, but I’m actively looking for staff writing and film programming positions. been freelancing since 2018 and would like some stability for a bit, even if it’s just 6 months to a year

LOST HEARTS Lawrence Gordon Clark 1973

Pedro Pascal spoke up for trans rights and has been targeted with a smear campaign as a result. False allegations lobbed by TERFs have since become a meme and entered the YouTube podcast sphere—not unlike the previous anti-MeToo smear campaigns I’ve covered. spitfirenews.com/p/pedro-pasc...

britain used to be a proper country (would air hallucinatory queer antifascist folk horror on the BBC at primetime)

Absolutely over the moon to announce that my first book, Icons of Cinema: Greta Gerwig, will be published on 9th October! It’s been a joy to explore Gerwig’s progression from mumblecore muse to multi award-winning writer and director 🎀 You can preorder now at the link in my bio!! More to come!!