Busy and pretty damn exhausting times work wise, not least with a lingering cold, but I have succeeded at getting 13-14 years olds writing meaningfully about Anselm, Aquinas, Hume, Descartes and Spinoza - so I'll take the wins where I can get them.

Caught a classic last night at the London East Asia Film Festival 📽️ My ★★★★★ review of Hard Boiled (1992): boxd.it/bsYa2B

Bumping again @lffstubs.bsky.social

Have a ticket for THE SECRET AGENT Saturday 18th October @ 11:30am at the BFI IMAX, seat G13 Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct @lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs

My ★★★★½ review of Bi Gan's RESURRECTION (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/bjLAbn #lff #lff2025 📽️

Boy and Bicycle + The Duelists on 35mm, with Ridley Scott!

20 faves of all time? Why not! 📽️

Faves of the 2020s so far 📽️

A BETTER TOMORROW (1986, John Woo) x BLACKHAT (2015, Michael Mann) 📽️

Maya Deren 📽️

Picasso's pigeons

My ★★★★★ review of From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aKyyvT

Tempted to say I was cooking here, all the way back in 2016: "Surely one of the first films that might have, so it seems, captured the world on screen." My ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/8Y7Tz

My ★★★★½ review of A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aHixXj

Identification of a Woman (1982, Michelangelo Antonioni) / The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky) / The World (2004, Jia Zhangke) 📽️

My ★★★★★ review of L'Eclisse (1962) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aFgowL

Delighted to have the chance to review MAGELLAN, Lav Diaz's latest masterpiece, for In Review Online's #Cannes2025 coverage. 📽️ Find it here: inreviewonline.com/2025/05/26/m...

Was delighted to get the opportunity to interview Jia Zhangke about CAUGHT BY THE TIDES for InRO. Topics included how he conceptualises time, the ways this has evolved across his recent features and the impact of Cubism, TikTok and RedNote on the making of his latest masterpiece. 📽️ Read it here:

My ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rVOg3

Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku and Ludwig Göransson in the house for SINNERS in London at the BFI IMAX

My ★★★★½ review of Asako I & II (2018) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rvdeH

My ★★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (1985) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9oT7V7

New ep—PELHAMS 1, 2, 3! Yes we watched one of the most beloved thrillers of the 70’s, plus two other movies that coincidentally have the same title! That IS so terrific! #thetakingofpelham123 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Best First Viewings of 2024 (non-2024 releases) 📽️

Crossposting my contribution to In Review Online's 'Best Films of 2024' on Hamaguchi's EVIL DOES NOT EXIST. 📽️ Here it is as a ★★★★★ review on @letterboxd: boxd.it/8b0ryx

The @InRO top 10 best films of 2024 is now live. We got thoughts on the Eastwood, Kurosawa, Bonello, Jude, Erice and more. I'm on here writing about EVIL DOES NOT EXIST by Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Do yourself a favour and give all these great writers a look! inreviewonline.com/2024/12/27/b...

35th trip around the sun begins today. Here we go! Spent it with the king JLG!

Found this today in a secondhand store and you bet your ass I bought it!

My ★★★★ review of Anora (2024) 📽️ : boxd.it/85lp49

My ★★★★ review of Anora (2024) 📽️ : boxd.it/85lp49

Ballot submitted for In Review Online's best films of 2024 (Rules observed: 40+ minutes, U.S. theatrical or major streaming releases in 2024 only, no festival releases)

a go(o)d(ard) day was had by all 📽️

The great Chinese feminist romantic drama of 2024 that's printing money and also features a child calling Pingyao International Film Festival and Jia Zhangke "boring" and "not a real celebrity" lol My ★★★★ review of HER STORY: letterboxd.com/mattmccrac/f...

PULSE (2001, dir. Kurosawa Kiyoshi) [rw] 📽️ Genuinely prescient from a 2024 perspective in conceiving of the internet as something one boots up and immediately encounters live streams that objectivise the all-consuming lack and incompleteness of humanity. Review: boxd.it/7ZwZpF

LIMBO (2021, dir. Soi Cheang) has multiple "shots of the decade" on a minute to minute. It's a heater. Watch it. 📽️ bsky.app/profile/isaa...

Fucking lol

A Hong Sang-soo film archive 🎥 📽️ DL link: mega.nz/folder/iYUXX...

NAPOLEON (1927, dir. Abel Gance) - the 7hr 20mins 2024 restoration, or 'Apollo version,' as conducted by the Cinémathèque Française. 📽️ DL link: gofile.io/d/2EbQqx

‎Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (2001, dir. Jean-Luc Godard) 📽️ DL: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

‎Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (2001, dir. Jean-Luc Godard) 📽️ DL: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Our Music / King Lear / Prénom Carmen / Hélas pour moi (JLG) The Trial of Joan of Arc / Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson) Red Desert / La Notte (Antonioni) Die Nibelungen 1+2 (Lang) Hotel by the River (Hong) Demonlover (Assayas) Yearning (Naruse) Shame (Bergman) bsky.app/profile/comm...

For the long haulers, 27 Lav Diaz films 🎥: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

A Jia Zhangke archive - 15 features - 16 short films drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Serpent's Path [aka Hebi no michi, Le chemin du serpent] (2024, dir. Kurosawa Kiyoshi) 📽️ drive.google.com/drive/folder...