Jennifer Lawrence is the Marlon Brando of her generation, and this is further proof: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/18/4...

At the Mockingbird this evening at 8:00 and a must-see for anyone interested in action cinema.. Chow Yun Fat is a star for the ages, and it has some of the most thrilling action scenes ever filmed. It's where Tarantino learned. @mockbirdcinema #chowynfat #cityonfire #mockingbird #tarantino

Lovely day at the BFI, hearing about melodrama.

A mean, nasty, cruel and heartless criminal; breaking laws of man AND God; and voted in by pious Christians. Tax churches.

I enjoyed being in Lanthimos' world for a few hours. The conversation can be listened in on the post below: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/13/4...

A podcast I'm eager to listen to: m.youtube.com/watch?v=t17o...

A film that has already sparked some of the oldest and dumbest conversations on film: praising or decrying the movie to the degree that it is found to be faithful to the novel: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/09/4...

Meanwhile in the U.S.A.

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Wish @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social would listen, learn and finally start doing something for its citizens. Real estate development means nothing if people have no facilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe1V...

Great turnout for the 'Big Screen, Bigger Emotions' screening of Almodóvar's Volver tonight at the Warwick Arts Centre.

An overview of this year's Film Noir Fest UK; and reasons to go next year: My favourite weekender fest: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...

I shall be introducing Volver at the Warwick Arts Centre tomorrow This is a podcast Richard and I did on the film notesonfilm1.com/2024/11/29/t...

My report on the brilliant Film Noir Fest UK 2025, direct from Weston-Super-Mare: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...

I'm delighted to collaborate with Julia Scrive-Loyer and Simulacro to deliver a series of lectures --five, one one a day, in Spanish -- on Warwick-style film studies to students in Latin America:

It doesn't quite cohere though who cares? It looks amazing and we had fun watching it. One of those films that make you think if you're not watching it on a big screen with an audience why bother watching at all? eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/28/4...

10/27/55: Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause w/James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo + Dennis Hopper Ray & Dean soar, but v much of its moment More: Eva Güimil: english.elpais.com/culture/2024... Kashner: www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/03... @kateyrich.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

I'm not gonna go try to find out myself, because I'm sure it would make me want to throw up, but I wonder what the hallowed keepers of conservative thought in American journalism think of the president destroying a third of the White House

Our second podcast on the film, this time with Stephen Glass, who seems to know PTA's filmography backkwards and forwards. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/23/4...

What Mike sees in The Rock's performance as desperate Oscar bait and a cynical grasp for artistic legitimacy, José sees the good side of, although we're in agreement that THE SMASHING MACHINE has problems that its positives don't overcome. wp.me/p9y1IP-39J

What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy, Cinema Programmer at the Warwick Arts Centre to fid out: notesonfilm1.com/2025/10/20/j...

Visit the US? I mean, c'mon, who would be that stupid!!

A Kogonada film. Flawed but worth seeing and discussing: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/14/4...

Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/06/4...

I love this. Will see it again. And the podcast is surely the first of many discussions: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/03/4...

King Trump state visit to the UK: New photo released.

een it twice now; didn't think much of it the first time but thought I might have been in the wrong mood; now, I'm more convinced the faults are with the fim. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/4...

A discussion of Willi Forst's marvellous Maskerade: notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/26/t...

8/28/69 John Frankenheimer curio The Gypsy Moths w/Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman + Sheree North More @josearroyo.bsky.social: notesonfilm1.com/2020/05/10/t... @peterapeel.bsky.social: mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2016/08/not-... Illeana Douglas: trailersfromhell.com/the-gypsy-mo...

London Friends! Not to be missed at Ciné Lumière Sun 7 - Thu 18 Sept presented by Cinema Mentiré www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/nobod...

I gather Tim Key isn't as well-loved by others as he is by Mike. I'd never heard of him, hadn't seen him in anything, and was completely charmed.. One of those uneven films that provide more depth, feeling, and humour than some of the more polished ones: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/26/4...

I was very taken with was the effervescence, energy and brilliance of Amina Ferley Yael and Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha who introduced the Maria Luisa Bemberg programme Cinema Rediscovered. This podcast is the result of wanting to know more notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/24/j...

All these new comedies starring comedians I'd never heard of that are uneven but have depth and are funny. I'm liking the shift from all the bros improvs of yesteryear. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/22/4...

Sometimes you read a new book and love it so much you want to speak to its author and find out more. This is what happened to me in relation to Ryan Gilbey’s IT USED TO BE WITCHES: UNDER THE SPELL OF QUEER CINEMA. notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/21/j...

Signed up. I couldn’t have written my Black Archive books on Kinda and Warriors’ Gate without the access to the Written Archive. So many other researchers and writers depend on this too and so many books about television and radio culture would be poorer without it.

Whilst JD Vance comes to the UK & lectures us about freedom, his administration seems to be intent on turning the US into a police state.

Enjoy your Insta & WhatsApp & FB with turbocharged hate speech & conspiracy.

It has some laughs and Pamela Anderson but even so we couldn't understand why people are liking it so much and spend most of the podcast trying to like it and finding fault. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/13/4...

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

Richard and I compare two versions of The Killers (with a sideline to a third, Tarkovsky's student film): notesonfilm1.com/2023/07/14/t...

BOTD #FilmNoir maestro Robert Siodmak!! MCCT5 5)Cry/City 4)File on Thelma J 3)Criss Cross 2)Phantom Lady 1)Killers More @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/m... @jakehinkson.bsky.social: www.criminalelement.com/noir-s-great... @filmlinc.bsky.social: www.filmlinc.org/series/rober...

Good. Defamatory lying on social media is the aggressive business model of the 21st Century - pioneered by Alex Jones and copied by Candace Owen. It’s like a hostile takeover bid on a personal level. Horrible, disturbed and disturbing.

There were times near the beginning where I was tempted to walk out of this one. Why I didn't is discussed in the podcast. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/02/4...

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

I've listened to a few podcasts about Chantal Akerman's JEANNE DIELMAN… since I saw it earlier this year, but particularly enjoyed listening to @josearroyo.bsky.social & Richard Layne discussing it on their "Notes on Film" notesonfilm1.com/2025/03/18/j...

The #CineRedis25 UK & Ireland wide tour is available Aug 2025 – Jan 2026 supported by BFI awarding funds from #NationalLottery More info on all the films touring & those being released by partner distributors + support available can be found here: www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/30/t...

A clear illustration of governments against the people.