Just discovered a wild tidbit about an Internet film critic from back in the day, someone arguably on a par with me and my work, and... Wow, I really fumbled all the balls I could fumble. 🙃

Remember, remember the fifth of November…

"Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill" No mention of C0vid in this enraging article. "There were 800,000 more people out of work now than in 2019 due to health conditions" Not only predictable but actually predicted. 😡🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Funny, but it’s been a few years since I’ve seen anyone snidely dismiss concerns about the shitty economy, the lack of good jobs, and the absurd jumps in the cost of living with “Learn to code.” I wonder why… 🤔

#Bugonia is now in wide release in the US, and new in UK cinemas. Welcome to the headquarters of the human resistance. 📽️ www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/10/bugo...

Now seated for Del Toro’s #Frankenstein in @Imax at @bfi. So very lucky to be a short bus ride from the biggest screen in Britain.

One year ago. Suffice to say that it has not been a good year.

Absolutely love getting emails with links for a press screener that doesn't mention the actual title of the film anywhere: not in the subject line, not in the body of the email, not in the URL for the screener. Nowhere. Such fun! So easy to find in my in-box. #FilmCriticProblems

It's absolutely disgusting that someone can bring home -- I hesitate to say "earn" -- this much money (£30-60K per MONTH) doing something -- currency trading -- that does ZILCH to improve the world or help people. Fuck everything. #SmashCapitalism metro.co.uk/2025/10/26/m...

Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale... and #Bugonia is Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet. My 🟢 review: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/10/bugo... [US cinemas now; UK Oct 31] 📽️

Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale... and #Bugonia is Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet. My 🟢 review: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/10/bugo... [US cinemas now; UK Oct 31] 📽️

This. This is metaphorical in a way that nothing else Trump has done so far has been. It’s one picture speaking a thousand, a hundred thousand words.

"Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults?" So many people have been so badly broken by our toxic culture. I don't know how we fix any of this. harpers.org/archive/2025...

Is getting fucking pissed off by your reminder app an ADHD thing?

Absolutely astonishing how many people are just, like, "*shrug* You have to get on board with the authoritarianism or you'll get left behind." No, you fucking do not have to get on board with it. You can fight. You can resist. If nothing else, do it for your own self-worth.

Sorry, can’t work, doggo is cuddling.

So, @Vimeo just asked me for age verification. (I'm 56, BTW.) This is gonna fuck with a LOT of filmmakers, PRs, and studios sharing their films with critics for review. #EverythingIsBroken #FuckThisShit #FilmCriticProblems

Madness. How to avoid the worst of Covid (as well as colds and flu)? WEAR A FUCKING MASK. Not one mention of that here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is ON. #LFF #LFF2025

A haunted house movie from the dog’s perspective. #GoodBoy is no cheap gimmick but an absolute marvel, strikingly original and deeply affecting. An interspecies love story without a lick of phony sentimentality. My 🟢 review: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/09/good... [US cinemas Friday/UK Oct 10th]

"Experts say these do not appear to pose any bigger threat than previous types of Covid or make people feel more ill." So, a fuckton of threat, then, of organ damage, immune damage, blood clots, brain seizures, and other debilitating impacts? #WearAMask www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A haunted house movie from the dog’s perspective. #GoodBoy is no cheap gimmick but an absolute marvel, strikingly original and deeply affecting. An interspecies love story without a lick of phony sentimentality. My 🟢 review: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/09/good... [US cinemas Friday/UK Oct 10th]

3 yrs today since Mom died of Covid caught in a health-care facility. And this bastard virus still runs rampant, still kills and disables, still locks in future untimely death and disability. Our leaders allow this because it’s better for quarterly profits. I’m still furious.

Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, #OneBattleAfterAnother is both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall. My 🟢 review: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/09/one-... 📽️

A real aspect of boxing — dangerously fast weight loss — sports films have ignored becomes body horror we have not seen before in #TheCut. The genre’s motivational clichés get twisted, nastily and poignantly. My 🟢 review: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/09/the-... [premium VOD US now, UK Oct 6th] 📽️

“In the new century, I think we will all be insane.” -Tony Kushner, ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENIUM APPROACHES

Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, #OneBattleAfterAnother is both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall. My 🟢 review: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/09/one-... 📽️

A three-movie day today. (On my way to Film 3 soon.) Haven’t had one of these in a long time. Four movies tomorrow! Am I so back? We’ll see…

Rich Parnell is a steely eyed missile man…

So, #LFF #SurpriseFilm: #SmashingMachine?

Tonight… #DeadOfWinter

Plan for the rest of 2025…

Up early and small fortune spent on transit to get to a press screening… but damn, it’s good to be out and part of the world again. I’ve been so limited — isolated, even — because of my bad hip and my bad knee, for years. It’s weird getting used to that not being true anymore.

It's very hot in London today (88F/31C) and I don't like it. Part of why I left NYC in 2011 was to get away from summers like this. But they followed me, the bastards. I apologize (apologise) to my fellow Londoners. My bad.

Was thinking of applying for an online writing job that seemed right up my alley, but then I saw that one of the expectations of the job is that you would use AI... and so, nope. Damn.

Four and a half months after my knee-replacement surgery, I am dismissed from physio! Still a ways to go but my knee is doing really well. It’s SO good to move without pain. Building back my walking speed and distance now — getting that endorphin hit has been +++ for my mood.

OMG. £100K a year would be unimaginable wealth for me. 😩 www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/articl...

Oooo, new email scam!

O. M. G. Back in the day, like 30+ years ago, #StarTrekTNG had an open submission policy, and I submitted a spec script revolving around #FederationDay -- an idea that I'm pretty sure had not been mentioned before -- and featuring a journalist visiting the Enterprise D. /1

“Wanna go see a midnight IMAX showing of #TheOdyssey a year from now?” “Umm, I dunno, that’s a long way—” “Never mind, it’s sold out.”

How the hell is @Netflix so bad at PR? #TheOldGuard 2? And it's already streaming? First I heard of it was from a reader... but I reviewed (very positively!) the first film, which I heard about from a PR. How was I not on a list to learn about the new one?! www.flickfilosopher.com/2020/07/the-...

My psychologist housemate told me today that I am experiencing post-traumatic growth as I begin to exit five years of constant pain, limited mobility, and multiple surgeries. I was like, I’ll take that as a win!

A badge of honor, to be sure.

A lesson on how to write a headline.

[!~* Arthur Dent’s early morning yell of horror *~!]

Don't hate me: I just started my Christmas shopping. A lotta funky little online shops are having sales right now (at least in the UK). You can get some good deals on cool nonseasonal stuff that will make for unusual gifts six months from now...

Tonight: Press screening of a 2.5-hr movie starts at 7. Doors at 6. If I want a good seat gotta get there not long after doors. 5.5 hours (inc travel) for a film. At least as many hours (maybe more) to write, produce, post, post-post (social media, etc) review. I’m an idiot.

every cuomo endorsement sounds like an angry best man speech where the guy is like "everyone knows andy is a piece of shit who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, but i'll always be by his side"

Yesterday someone asked me if I was “still working.” I’m 55 and don’t look too bad for my age. I think this was more of a “oh, are you privileged enough for early retirement” rather than “you older than God?” That’s almost worse. I ain’t never gonna be able to “retire.” Fuck.

The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes. My 🟡 review of #SewTorn: www.flickfilosopher.com/2025/06/sew-... [VOD US/UK] 📽️