The only actor with any bollocks in that room last night.

In April 1992, Robert Altman's The Player was released, garnering lavish praise for its opening scene, a complicated ensemble tracking shot. In April 1990, Coronation Street was doing stuff like this, and nobody batted an eyelid.

Best documentary Oscar winner MR NOBODY AGAINST MR PUTIN is currently free to watch on BBC IPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Cute little promo items from this weekend’s preview screenings of PROJECT HAIL MARY. A film I thoroughly enjoyed for its dry kindness and humble blockbuster reach. Doesn’t shove its ecological aspects down your throat, swerves any glib romantic arc, and yet I found its theme of co-operation warming.

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

If you’re in the south west of England - me and my crew are helping this tour of WILD SWIMMERS in these venues. Do pop along and give regional homegrown talent with Ric’s team your support. Tickets on sale now. 🎟️

Never thought I’d be championing Iran in a proxy war. But here we are.

Insanely high frame-rate live rotoscoping for an ad …. where else? Japan. Made for the defunct fashion brand Renown in 1988. Love this. (A-ha’s Take On Me was 1985, used the same technique, but a much lower-frame rate as rotoscoping is highly labour intensive)

I do think 1995-2005 was a peak era for subversive British comedy series. It was an excellent petri-dish for homegrown weirdness. If you were ever into Nighty Night, Psychoville or Phoenix Nights, try and watch FUNLAND - the forgotten unhinged Blackpool miniseries. www.imdb.com/title/tt0426...

Looking forward to Project Hail Mary this weekend. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are best contemporary enfants terrible you’ll get in Hollywood that have carved a commercial furrow with their kooky stubbornness.

This is an excellent mixtape from Tim Sweeney and Hercules & Love Affair. Love Anohi’s voice. And who can’t beat a bit of Alison Moyet? music.apple.com/gb/album/bea...

Olivia Dean is this generation’s Dina Carroll.

I don’t put myself out there enough with my DJing, so here’s my last live mix that I did for radio a few weeks ago - 30mins across genres. From Turnstile to The Police to Hamdi to Radiohead. www.mixcloud.com/NeverTheSame...

Five rarely seen Jafar Panahi films have landed on Mubi UK. Gonna have to get involved.

In better news, I saw EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET this evening and the kinda documentary that rouses the activist in me, and makes you think of what more you can be doing to help your community. Love a bit of peaceful social disobiedience. Out UK wide on 13th March via @conic.film Essential.

Fucking spineless cock. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great article about why the Paramount buyout of Warner Bros may not be a good things after all. Lots I didn’t consider in this. How Hollywood and Maga aligned over Warner Bros deal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Woke up to good news for once. So, this is how it feels?

My fave films from this year's Berlinale bit.ly/4aZLVwe

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

In defence of John Davidson.

I’m not sure that giving the “Outstanding Contribution to Cinema” award to the director of a business that had not been paying the living wage for nearly 20 years is a good look. #BAFTAs #EEBAFTAs

Finally some good news - vaccine skeptic’s life expectancy has been slashed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Will be supporting a SW tour of this film with director Mark Jenkin in April. I loved it. youtu.be/bw371ui9cTk?...

Hideki Sato - not a name you’d instantly recognise, but definitely gave hours of joy to anyone who picked up a Mega Drive (Genesis) gamepad, Master System, Game Gear or Saturn. Worked on the complete design and ergonomics of all Sega consoles up to the Dreamcast. Sadly, passed away Friday.

Two new films you MUST see this rainy weekend: THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP - a brilliant throwback, fully animated, billet-douce to WB Daffy Duck & Porky Pig reminds you why these characters endure (voice cast 😘) THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE - a superb child's perspective on Saddam Hussein's birthday (🎂).

Emerald Fennell is at the point where she’s making her teenage fan fiction and LiveJournal entries a filmic reality. The whitewashing of Heathcliff hasn’t passed me by either.

I rarely post, but just want to say thank you to audience and the students that contributed super cool short films and @robinince.bsky.social for being so kind and generous. Thank you @slapstickfest.bsky.social

Can’t emphasise this enough: No one wants videos of podcasts.

I once went on a date to an Indian restaurant with a girlfriend where she ordered a biryani, and then piped up “shall we share some rice?”. The relationship didn’t last much longer.

A delightful five minutes of unfiltered and chaotic BBC vintage television. youtu.be/WWhTKXgTw_A

It’s been very heartening to hear from independent cinemas about how busy they are during the Oscar corridor. Perhaps the not the films I would choose, but in a space where distractions are at a minimum, laughter fills a room and larger-than-life acting fills a screen / Warms the cockles, dunnit?

I’ve had a deep meditation about cinema (and film) over the first few weeks of 2026. Watching Netflix’s new title, THE RIP, solidified how streaming’s manipulation of audiences has jumped from innocuous brand placements to psychological manipulation. Films made by analytics are but hollow vessels.

If any British MP defects to another party, there should be a by-election. When the majority of people vote for a representative for their area, they are NOT voting for the person, they are voting for the party. @politicsjoe.bsky.social @avasantina.bsky.social

Try ‘n invade Greenland now mofos.

Big up Béla Tarr. King of slow cinema. Werckmeister Harmonies, Turin Horse and Satantango are essential films. Who takes up the Hungarian mantle now? Laszlo Nemes?

Unfortunate.

Someone needs to do a full case study on the marketing for MARTY SUPREME’s theatrical release. The teams have done an exceptional job of tapping that core 16-30 demographic and getting them into cinemas. Astounding work by Chalamet’s and Nigel Green’s team at Entertainment Film Distributors 👏👏👏

I’m no fan of World Of Reel, but the hypothetical situation posed would seemingly dismantle the theatrical experience for many. Ah. Late stage capitalism. Gotta love it. www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/1/...

Happy New Year 2026! 🥳

My Top 12 films of 2025 All must have had UK cinema or streaming releases. In no preferential order: I’M STILL HERE MARIA LATE SHIFT SINNERS WEAPONS EDDINGTON DIE MY LOVE BUGONIA ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER MICKEY 17 K-POP DEMON HUNTERS THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

Ah. Saturday night anxiety about using the word ‘pleurisy’ instead of ‘plurality’ in a conversation from last Monday, just cos I thought it would make me sound smart. I live a proper Mark Corrigan life.

Just an average week.

I’ve been trying to make it a thing - the official monicker for the netherworld period between Xmas Day and New Year’s Day is hereby named ‘The Christmas Gooch’. You have to accompany this with the following hand gesture. 🤌 Then everyone gets it.

Film pitch: A remake of The Shawshank Redemption with Timothée Chalamet and Lakeith Stanfield. Chalamet escapes his cell by tunnelling through a poster of Kylie Jenner. Plot twist: The wall is load-bearing - the prison collapses like dominoes. Everyone dies. Werner Herzog to direct and narrate.

One of my most anticipated games is still being digested, but what’s not to love about the little details?

Happy Terminator 2D day to all that are celebrating. I’ve been looking forward to this game all year.

Read my interview with co-director Heidi Ewing on @loudandclearrvs.bsky.social: loudandclearreviews.com/heidi-ewing-...

Usual Sight & Sound annual list of bullshit that you can’t actually watch. 26 of these films at the time of writing are not even available. 10 haven’t even got distributors. “But they’re just films we liked” Glad I stopped subscribing - gatekeeping and elitist little club.

Wonder how Netflix will manage ‘new releases’ from Warner Bros. when it comes to theatrical screenings. Hope it’s not like the recent Noah Baumbach’s JAY KELLY release - tiny two week window, decidedly hotchpotch distribution and almost zilch marketing for cinema screenings.