Have ticked off my first decade! The '70s, of course.

At the halfway mark on this project. Been a bit slow because I started a new job. 55 films to go! letterboxd.com/soundslikeci...

Genuinely and unironically going to plan a trip to visit this library as soon as I can! So many good memories. Still have my library card too.

In awe of the default poster for River Queen on letterboxd

Congrats @zoemeager.bsky.social !

While in Germany, Eloise somehow found me an LP of one my literal favourite and most watched (and most obscure) films: Peter Watkin's Privilege (1967). Wild to me that I now own this!!

This tagline also applies to all the houseplants eloise left me in charge of while she's in Germany for three weeks.

breaking new frontiers when it comes to headline writing at The Spinoff

This is wildly exciting news! Keeping cinema alive! I suspect the guy wearing a tshirt that says 'movies' knows a fair bit about movies. Tshirts don't lie! Congrats guys! @soundslikecin.bsky.social @cinemelo.bsky.social

I have literally been too busy to post about it, but if you've heard rumours that we bought our town's cinema and now run it, those rumours are true. CINEMA FOREVER!

Favourite first-time watches of January 2026: The Old Man & the Gun (2018) Vanishing Act (1986) The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) Midnight (1939)

Last Four Watched! An old favourite and some weirdo shit

A belated birthday gift from @cinemelo.bsky.social! The complete Night Gallery on bluray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social. Rod Serling is one of my heroes and I *love* season 2 - the only season I've had access to. Until now! Comes with a sick book of all the paintings.

this is also my main gripe with most movies

Always love when the title card is part of the film's environment. Last night's viewing of The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare (1964) had a great one!

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

It is my birthday but we are mainly dealing with this

I am once again reminded of the time I was in my 20s and it was New Years Eve and I was walking into town when I went "ah fuck it" and went home and watched all of Sátántangó alone on dvd instead.

Looking at these films again and they are all SICK as FUCK. What a good year!

Solid effort.

It is probably worth mentioning that I did not get around to seeing One Battle After Another, which sounds so aggressively my jam I am a little afraid of it. Maybe some time in '26.

Happy New Year! Here's my ranked list: Favourite films of 2025 letterboxd.com/soundslikeci...

How am I spending NYE? Making lettterboxd lists, of course. letterboxd.com/soundslikeci...

Gonna do All The Years 2026.

Like every single one of you, I am becoming more and more offline. The last thing I always had to look up on the internet was cocktail recipes. But no more! @cinemelo.bsky.social gifted me a cocktail book for xmas. Made my first just now. Boulevardier. Delicious. Cheers to logging off in 2026!

December! A few years back I wrote a 250-word horror story called The Advent Calendar. Here it is.

Time for some Christmas tunes

Tis the season! Probably a little heavy on horror. letterboxd.com/soundslikeci...

Tis the season! Probably a little heavy on horror. letterboxd.com/soundslikeci...

An article I've written on MAD MAX and FURIOSA with two pals, Melanie Ashe and Tessa Dwyer, is now published! It's not open access but we've got 50 eprint shares - so if you're keen to read, click and download the PDF. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QKNX7...

A perfect photo.

Check out the December issue! Featuring guests Tony Guo, Helen Rickerby, Ruby Porter and John Fenton, along with the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize winner, Jilly O'Brien. There's also an art essay by Samuel Te Kani, and so much more! We hope you love it 🩵 www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-115/

Have just realised I hit 450 films for the year. I do not have a other 50 films in me (or do I?)

The Chair Company season 1 is a christmas movie

It has also been terrible for consumers, which we used to call audiences

Christmas menu sorted! Just page after page of normal recipes that have 1 cup of coca-cola in them for some reason.

Done. Can't wait to get started!

What

This time next week I will be in Wellington for the sole and explicit purpose of going to Unity Books and picking up a copy of Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent. www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/hoo...

It's #Noirvember and also the @overlandjournal.bsky.social Subscriberthon! Here's a piece on the joys of themed viewing I wrote for Overland a few years ago, plus a reminder to: watch noir and support great independent publications. overland.org.au/2022/11/noir...

Robert Ryan welcomes you to Noir Month 2025! letterboxd.com/soundslikeci...

October 31st / November 1st

Love Peter Watkins. I wrote this last time I watched Privilege, one of my literal favourite movies: boxd.it/4JLHSr

44 horror films all told. Absolutely no idea how I fit them all in when it has been one of the busiest and most full-on months of my life. Still, great fun. Next up: noir!

A wild warning from one of the daybills hanging on our wall. (Points if you can name the movie!)

How many have you seen?

How many have you seen?