So we are ranked below Brett Goldstein, who is at number 1; and Christopher Holliday Fantasy/ Animation podcast at no. 16, which as they are both former students brings me no end of pleasure, but above Mark Kermode, who is at No 25: www.millionpodcasts.com/movies-podca...

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Venezuela now, because he wants the oil. He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA. How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way? The USA is a rogue nation.

The USA has been flouting international law since — well, forever. But with this there is no pretext at all. This is Genghis Khan level politics and Xi and Putin are delighted. Ukraine and Taiwan are in genuine trouble. Greenland and Canada might be worried. Chuck Schumer will write a stern letter

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The film seems to run entirely on mood -- loneliness, frailty, vulnerability, alienation in a cold climate. A fluid dexterity of original story-telling and tone. We discuss all this and much more in the podcast below: notesonfilm1.com/2025/12/31/t...

Playing nationwide this afternoon: notesonfilm1.com/2014/12/19/i...

I just…..

An extraordinary achievement of tone: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/12/17/4...

A great film, funny and suspenseful, that unfurls into a philosophical discussion of morality and ethics: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/12/15/4...

The rapidity with which the USA has become a tinpot dictatorship with no regard for law or for the sanctity of life, dizzying levels of corruption, and even a secret police...it makes my head spin.

Interviewed by The Boar: theboar.org/2025/12/big-...

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A treat to talk to the marvellous Glyn Davis on his handsome new book, the ‘BFI Classic’ on Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955). notesonfilm1.com/2025/12/06/j...

This looks amazing and I shall be there, at least for the first part as I don't know if I can manage 300 minutes on a school night when I'm teaching first thing tomorrow:

Zia Yusuf is in the right party. What a loudmouth, arrogant, bully; speaking over everyone and not listening to a word anyone else says.

Exciting. On next Monday at the Warwick Arts Centre.

This was the first video essay I made, when I still didn't quite have a handle on editing software -- not that I'm much better now -- but I still like it, and will probably show it to students later today. vimeo.com/426581272

James Cullen, articulate, knowledgeable, brilliant: on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/28/j...

a great performance in a mediocre but 'important' film: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/28/4...

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...