👻Spooky season 2025 🎃 31 personal horror faves that I think are underseen, underrated, or just deserve more love. Not just films (but mostly films)

Trump congratulating Starmer on his "very strong" stance on immigration" should speak terrifying volumes about the direction that Labour has taken.

FOOTBALL!!!!! IT GOOD SOMETiME!!!!!!

Everyone's doing this thing, I also did this thing! Add Hanagatami to the ballot you cowards

Interviewed the brilliant Christelle Oyiri about her new installation at Tate Modern! Pulsating beats of equal parts rage and tenderness - cannot recommend this enough!!! #artistinterview

Starmer's Labour had one job to do – to reverse the evils of Thatcherism and restore the people's faith in parliamentary democracy – and with a thumping majority he was given the tools with which to do it. He has utterly failed and will never be forgiven for paving the way for a Farage government.

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

Take just 30 seconds of your day to support the demand of our government to immediately suspend ALL arms licences and exports to Israel. 🇵🇸 Palestine will be free. 🔗 shorturl.at/o45Cx

your job is to rate movies on a scale of good to excellent!

So you can be positive nearly two weeks before you can be negative? That's fucked up!

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity 💜 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

this is what happens when you buy, watch, or otherwise support harry potter. you cannot separate harry potter from jk rowling. she is directly responsible for the supreme court case today. she does not just 'have opinions'.

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

Love forever for my Trans siblings.

Ed Atkins' digital works leave me feeling squirmy and uncomfortable - I think I might love them... Absolute pleasure to chat with curator Nathan Ladd about the the artist's new Tate Britain exhibition:

And many of us make moral compromises, living in this society. It's a crummy reality. But you don't get to shirk responsibility for those choices. You don't get to pretend you aren't compromised. And no one owes you their indulgence. PARTICULARLY those whose work was stolen...

I fired this off about Joe Russo a couple of years ago. Dude is anti-art, anti-intellectual and anti-human. And he's somehow become more loathsome.

What does it say about me that I got it on picture 2? 🥲

Oh hey, they let Jim the Vampire present an award

Seeing Alba Rohrwacher on stage is a reminder that her sister's film La Chimera was one of the best films of 2024 and should have been nominated.

And just like the BAFTAs, the Oscars missed out on Tony Todd for their In Memoriam section. Put some respect on his career! #Oscars

oh yeah i SOBBED

Guy Pearce, the only celebrity I saw wearing a Free Palestine pin on the red carpet #Oscars

feels weird to be watching an Oscars where the host, the writers, maybe even everyone involved actually seem to love movies. and it's funny, they're not just taking tedious, mean-spirited potshots at movies for the entire runtime. pleasantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying this

Isabella’s blue velvet has me sobbing.

That little dig at the Sackler family would have hit harder if the Academy had awarded ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED best documentary feature, as it deserved. #Oscars2025

Oh okay, it was literally just for nothing, what a weird thing to happen

Predicting that they're going to announce the new Bond at the end of this based on nothing other than???? Why the fuck else would they be doing this???

Oh god, just realised I need to mentally prepare myself for David Lynch appearing in the In Memoriam section

First Screaming Mad George-alike to win an Oscar ❤️❤️❤️

Watching the Oscars as it was intended (playing Animal Crossing and immediately muting as soon as Jonathan Ross comes on)

Doing a double bill of FREDDY'S DEAD (it rules, bite me) & NEW NIGHTMARE and my main takeaway is Robert Englund career renaissance when????????

Currently in THE BRUTALIST intermission - really hoping he gets this bowling alley made 🤞🤞🤞

Back on the Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017) train

Hello! If a boy wanted to publish his silly little thoughts on his own site, but didn't want to use Substack because of the whole anti-transness & nazification of it all, can anyone recommend alternatives? (It's me, I'm the boy, I want to start writing again)

Hello! If a boy wanted to publish his silly little thoughts on his own site, but didn't want to use Substack because of the whole anti-transness & nazification of it all, can anyone recommend alternatives? (It's me, I'm the boy, I want to start writing again)

I don't know if I'm ready to live in a world without David Lynch in it. Hard to think of another artist who so throroughtly poured themself into their work with such constant, unwavering empathy. What an utterly astonishing man, and what a body of work he leaves behind.

Post your favourite Pokémon wrong answers only

Hanagatami, Nobuhiko Obayashi (2017)

sorry i know this is basic or whatever at this point but i don't think we should stop reminding ourselves that politics in the UK this week has been mostly about what a ketamine-addled American South African fuckhead has been tweeting at 4am and that's fucking mad? this shouldn't be happening?

New year, new project: one film I love every day, for the next 365 days. Will I fall behind? Probably.

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Hell of a Boxing Day at the Wells Hearth...

SALTBURN [Emerald Fennell, US, 2023]

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10