The second annual Culture Shock festival (from the folks at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social) kicks off at Sheffield's Showroom Cinema in just two weeks. You won't find more eclectic genre programming – Possession, A Chinese Ghost Story, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, R.O.T.O.R. – anywhere else.

I've just realised it's been 10 years now since I made my first contribution to a Blu-ray release. I wrote an essay on Wolfgang Petersen's Enemy Mine (still a firm favourite) for Eureka in 2016. A decade later, I'm producing discs for them – all thanks to this underrated little sci-fi film, I guess.

Just been reminded – by an exciting email from Severin – that I forgot to share this piece from the Sheffield Tribune when it was published. We've talked to a lot of people about Threads and our upcoming documentary Survivors: The Spectre of Threads, but this is my favourite interview we've done.

One of my favourite pieces of art I have ever commissioned, by the exceptionally talented @carlydraws.bsky.social.

I've finally got my framed #ArtOfAction poster, featuring my introduction to #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood (1938), on the wall. You can read "Robin Hood And The Stuntman Lost In Time" below. #FilmSky

Did a new Blu-ray cover… whysoblu.com/cecile-is-de...

Picked up the BFI’s new release of Strongroom and absolutely loved supporting feature The Man in the Back Seat. Incredibly nippy at 57 minutes(!), it’s a very tense crime thriller that follows two petty crooks desperately trying to offload their injured victim without getting caught. Great stuff.

Eureka's May titles have just been announced, all of them a total blast to work on: Buster Keaton's masterpiece The General on 4K UHD, an excellent and underseen outing for Inspector Maigret in Maurice Tourneur's Cécile is Dead and Frank Beyer's controversial Trace of Stones, one of DEFA's finest.

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It has made my day to see Eureka's release of Jakob the Liar – the only East German film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award – top the @avforums.bsky.social list of Top 10 Blu-rays for February 2026. It was a genuine honour to produce this one and I'm really very proud of it.

We've been working on Chasm Films, a new home video label dedicated to underground world genre cinema, for ages – so it's great to see our first release announced with huge thanks to @filmsradiance.bsky.social for hosting us. Taxidermia is beautiful, bonkers and a world Blu-ray premiere. Pick it up.

Of all the new-to-me films I watched last year, the one I think about most often is Piotr Szulkin's War of the Worlds: Next Century. A radical approach to the familiar alien invasion narrative about the evils of media manipulation (and martians obviously). Available on disc from Radiance.

I had a blast talking about the mighty Rear Window (a personal all-timer) with @fatscoleman.bsky.social for @top100pod.bsky.social. I really love this film and hope it comes across in our discussion.

💥NEW EPISODE!💥This month Tim is joined by @craigimann.bsky.social from Eureka Entertainment to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW (1954). Available wherever you get your podcasts.

Merry Christmas!

Ho ho ho and Merry Christmas! With so many classic films screening on UK television over the Christmas period, I thought I'd start a thread of what to look out for over the coming days...

Just done the ritualistic flick through the seasonal Radio Times and pleased to see that 1) the BBC has remembered films made before 1980 and 2) New Year’s Eve on BBC Four is wall-to-wall Jaws programming. What better way to welcome 2026 than watching Jaws 2.

Great to see a Eureka release make it onto the Sight and Sound Discs of the Year (in the current issue of the print magazine) for the second year running. A very fun one to work on, co-produced by myself and Jacob Milligan.

As part of the BFI's Too Much season celebrating melodrama, The Phantom of the Opera is screening at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield on Sunday 30 November with an intro by me and a live score by HarmonieBand. Grab a ticket, it'll be a one-off experience!: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/too-muc...

I wrote a piece for the BFI on the mighty Phantom of the Opera, which turns 100 years old in 2025. Phantom is currently screening around the country as part of the BFI's Too Much season celebrating melodrama.

Prizes up for grabs before tomorrow's Masters of Cinema screening of Message from Space at the Showroom, Sheffield: Shogun's Samurai (not even released until Monday!) and our collection of the first three films in the excellent Abashiri Prison series. Tickets: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

Next weekend, Masters of Cinema presents Kinji Fukasaku's Message from Space (often unofficially called Japanese Star Wars) at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield. This is such a fun film, recommended to any fan of science fiction or special effects cinema. Tickets: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

Went to see Relay yesterday, which is both one of the best films I've seen at the cinema all year and one of the most surprising. A proper old-fashioned paranoid suspense thriller with shades of The Conversation and Enemy of the State. They don't (very often) make them like this anymore.

And then we had a howling good time on the podcast with our guest @craigimann.bsky.social to talk about the history of Werewolves on Film: open.spotify.com/episode/5TOy...

A great weekend at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social (15 years on from my first, which is wild). Highlights: Descendent (alien abductions and familial dramas), Head Like a Hole (a modern Outer Limits episode about bullshit jobs) and doc Silver Screamers (in which senior citizens make a horror movie).

Had an amazing time at @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social last weekend as ever. Highlights: Bone Lake (a twisty erotic thriller with great gore effects), Dead by Dawn (an inventive and very Polish neo-giallo) and Redux Redux (lo-fi sci-fi with a Terminator vibe), plus Bulk, Portal to Hell and Mag Mag.

Larry Fessenden’s Depraved is coming to 4K UHD later this month via IFC and OCN. I wrote an essay to accompany the set, which hopefully just about captures how much I love this movie. Thanks very much to @jlalibs.com for the opportunity. Pre-order a copy here: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Prizes up for grabs before the Masters of Cinema screening of The Cat and the Canary at Showroom Cinema tomorrow: The Man Who Laughs on Blu-ray and The Old Dark House on 4K UHD. Come and see a great film and maybe win some other great films. Tickets here: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

Very proud of Wrack and Ruin: The Rubble Film at DEFA. It collects some of the earliest and most important East German films, all made in the immediate aftermath of WWII. Producing this box involved many, many hours of digging through the DEFA / PROGRESS Film archives – all of them worth it.

Next weekend, Masters of Cinema brings Paul Leni's The Cat and the Canary to the Showroom in Sheffield. This is, hands down, my favourite silent film – spooky and hilarious in equal measure. The Saturday screening comes with an intro and free Blu-rays! Tickets: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

An interview with yours truly in The Jewish Telegraph, discussing "Wrack and Ruin: The Rubble Film at DEFA". This beautifully produced blu-ray box set includes: The Murderers Are Among Us, Somewhere in Berlin, Police Raid, Marriage in the Shadows and The Blum Affair. tinyurl.com/2tjkyay6

The 100 Years of Community Cinema Exhibition is now open 🎉 Come down to Bloc Projects in Sheffield and take a journey through the last century of volunteer-led film!

Congratulations, Craig and Rob. 👍

Overwhelmed by the reaction to Survivors, the documentary Rob Nevitt and I have been working on for @severinfilms.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Threads. Thanks to @dianearodgers.bsky.social for a fun Q&A after the premiere. To steal a joke from @reecedinsdale.bsky.social: we had a blast.

Well, that was a fun evening. No, really! #Threads #survivors

Delighted to be part of last night's premiere of Rob Nevitt and Craig Mann's SURVIVORS: THE SPECTRE OF THREADS. Beautiful, amazing interviews, archive footage and hauntological soundtrack. Never been so proud to live at the centre of a fictional nuclear disaster #wyrdtv #hauntology

An absolutely amazing night at the world premiere of Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads, here in #Sheffield where the film was shot 41 years ago. I can't stress enough how much I want @craigimann.bsky.social and Robert Nevitt's brilliant documentary to be seen as widely as possible. #FilmSky

Just got my hands on Heart of Stone (1950), the first East German film shot in colour. It's a grand fairy tale from Paul Verhoeven (not that one, the German one) given the deluxe treatment on Blu-ray by Eureka / Masters of Cinema under the watchful eye of producer @craigimann.bsky.social.

I love @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social and the people behind it. These announcements are amazing (will always get excited about new Ben Wheatley movies and films about demonic laundromats). Passes still a very reasonable £85 until Sunday.

For the last year, I've been making a documentary on Threads for @severinfilms.bsky.social. It's called Survivors: The Spectre of Threads and has its world premiere at the Showroom in Sheffield on Saturday. Some of the lovely people in it below, tickets here: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/sff-clo...

Heart of Stone, the first East German folktale film, has hit the low stock page on the Eureka site. This is by far my favourite single title I have produced, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s macabre and beautiful and plays like a socialist Powell and Pressburger: eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/heart-...

Another little blu-ray update of some recent titles from Eureka Entertainment, specifically seven new limited edition sets featuring my favourite: Hong Kong cinema! From Ringo Lam to Chang Cheh, Lo Wei to Andy Lau and beyond... #PhysicalMedia youtu.be/RwernGQSZiQ

“The Descent is a modern horror film,” I thought to myself, before having an existential crisis over the fact that The Descent is as old now as Fright Night was in 2005.

Next weekend, the Masters of Cinema series is bringing Trouble Every Day – an amazing slice of arthouse horror by Claire Denis – to the Showroom in Sheffield from a new 4K restoration. Saturday comes with an intro (and a chance to win free Blu-rays). Tickets: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

Our @severinfilms.bsky.social documentary Survivors: The Spectre of Threads will be closing the Sheffield Film Festival on 30 August! Grab a ticket, feel a bit of paralysing nuclear dread, maybe win a special edition Traffic Warden action figure. Tickets here: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/sff-clo...

EXCITING - the world premiere of a new documentary called 'SURVIVORS', about infamous 1980s traumatic teleplay THREADS, by my chums @craigimann.bsky.social and Rob Nevitt has just been announced - 30/31 Aug at Sheffield's Showroom Cinema! showroomcinema.org.uk/film/sff-clo...

Really excited to have an essay in this amazing @secondsightfilms.bsky.social release. On some days I’d say this is my favourite horror movie of the last 25 years. Huge thanks to @phillipescott.bsky.social for asking me to write something.

Glass Eye Pix now has a partner label with Vinegar Syndrome and the first title is a favourite: the inventive dystopian throwback Automatons, in which our robot overlords look like 1950s toys. So good I own the making-of book.

The Masters of Cinema series is bringing Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure to the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield this weekend. Two screenings across Saturday and Sunday (Saturday comes with an intro and a chance to win free Blu-rays as a bonus). You can grab tickets here: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

I'm in this. Not the unboxing video, but the boxset itself. If you squint you will see my name in lights about halfway down the list of extras. Except they forgot the lights.