Its so interesting where the smallest, subtlest of films, that proved to be a stand-out so far. The stellar 'Everything Else Is Noise' premiering at this year's Berlinale.

Got to review 'First Days' premiered at @iffr-festival.bsky.social I was fairly moved by this contemplative offering, where the flow of imagery attempts to grapple with what lies beyond our corporeal demise.

Love me the whole 'sold your soul to the devil' narrative....

Ughhh just go away!

#Norway will become the first country in the world to transition to 100% #HigherWelfare breeds. This could increase pressure on UK companies to address the widespread use of controversial breeds #FranchenChickens #AnimalWelfare follow @greens4animals.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/global/world...

The marketing for this is all wrong, no? Isnt this a straight to streaming, watch at your own peril, guilty pleasure kinda thing.

No shit, sherlock!

The golden age of social democracy brought a level of prosperity to workers unimaginable just a generation before. But as trade union militancy declined, so did social democracy:

A momentary relapse, getting all hot and bothered about the Oscar’s. It’s all fake bull shit whatever

Sirāt ❤️❤️❤️

Weird

Searching ‘The Rip’ appears to bring up all sorts nude, mostly male, mostly gay, imagery

These people don't care about movies...

The vibes were off! Way to earnest for me. But... I do praise the take on period aesthetic, the prominence of all these rich natural textures offered by the bucolic setting. Perhaps the film's focus on exaggerated grief, contradicts Zhao's penchant for understatement.

Isabelle Huppert in Ulrike Ottinger’s "The Blood Countess" www.criterion.com/current/post...

A new film by Hong Sangsoo and more will premiere at Berlinale 2026. Explore the lineup:

If you are in the UK please consider contacting your MP about this: Ask your MP to support a stronger animal testing strategy. I have asked my MP to take action today. action.animalaid.org.uk/page/184021/...

Finally got round to the devilishly camp frenzy of Harry Kumel's unique take on the Medusa. Unfathomable how he was able to bring out this and Daughters of Darkness in the same year.

Unions and international labor federations argue that it’s the same billionaires that want to run Venezuela who keep us working longer hours for less pay, without health care, job security, or stable housing.1

My thoughts on doc 'Life After' from last year. An impassioned, personal account by filmmaker Reid Davenport, exploring the themes of assisted-dying in relation to the disabled body. For @moderntimesreview.bsky.social

Urgh… once again gay stuff for straight people 🤦🏻

To follow up with another review of supernatural short The Pearl Comb, also shortlisted for Live Action Short

Some of my brief thoughts on shortlisted live action short 'Beyond Silence'...

If only the kids themselves thought that.

I almost want to congratulate the robbers!

Getting people on seats has come to this....

Lynne Ramsay's 'Die My Love' is an erratic percolating pandemonium. The psychological onslaught left me all over the place in the end but I'm veering towards the positive. It took me a while to get over the sheen of two major Hollywood occupying the main roles, but they both end up doing good work.

DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING is more than just good life advice. It's business manager Christine Kecher's staff pick, and widely regarded today as one of Lucio Fulci’s greatest giallos, rivaling the best work of Dario Argento. See it this weekend at midnight!

Such trickiness, living in such times of polarity. As we go down this route we realise how much of culture (if not most things in daily life) are implicated to varying degrees in global atrocities. My question, is where does that leave us?

Vibing this so far... at least from the artwork!

I got to interview filmmaker Carter Smith for his queer body packing horror Swallowed for @phantasmagpress.bsky.social A film not for the faint-hearted!

One of the best…Embrace The Serpent (2015)

The rhythm of these tweets reminds me of that Aja Untucked moment... "Valentina, You are perfect, you are beautiful, you look like Linda Evangelista ..."

A beautifully still film!

I very much vibed with 'Bring Her Up' a sublimely earthy, hallucinatory type of horror that seeks to arouse all the senses, conjuring a heady immersive experience that lingers. And with a brilliantly unhinged Sally Hawkins, who is so unpredictable ramping up the anxiety!

I wrote an essay in the latest edition of @theboyisbeautiful.bsky.social about Queerwave. A film festival that takes place in the old walled city of Nicosia, where I grew up.

Wow these wonderful gay moments in Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

6 days to launch with Daniel Theophanous sharing his experience of Queerwave Cyprus, a film festival that brings together alienated communities in celebration of everything queer and on film. Photo by Angelos Charalambous #QueerwaveCyprus #FilmFestival #Issue4 #TheBoyIsBeautiful

My spiritual father 🙏

the Rehearsal S2 is equally, if not better, sharper than the 1st season. I refrain myself from labelling it reality TV, but it kinda sorta of is, but then so much more.

Such a delightful macabre Cronenbergian delicacy. I was all in!

Just to say whoever was a location scout for The Sandman S2, those bits with Orpheus head supposedly on a Greek island, look far too green and very old ye England not Mediterranean in the slightest. Attention to detail much?

Ofc plenty of stuff to poke at but I did, surprisingly, enjoy 28 Years Later. I was on board with its more dystopian take with just enough exposition but still had a bit of the frenzied energy akin to Boyle's films.

i love Albert Serra, but sorry watching animal cruelty is something I simply cant do!

Not a dog person but this is cute

Man.

Fave cat movie ever

Screening at True/ False and BFI Flare 'A Body I live In' is an incredibly pieced together meditative multi-media documentary around body-modification and its intersection with BDSM and performance art.

Dogme 95’s Festen at the Royal Opera House is superb. The theme and format works perfectly for opera. Accompanied by a befitting austere score. And to mention the incredibly stylish set filled with Danish-like furniture.