Kathryn Bigelow alert 🚨

COYOTES is a movie that struggles to be what it promised and without the true throughline of satire to give the film teeth the comedy is primarily goofy, the drama tedious, and the horror… unfortunately too artificial. insessionfilm.com/movie-review...

Good Boy is a brilliant horror film that provides an elemental and emphatic experience of empathy with its canine protagonist. My review for @thecurb.com.au www.thecurb.com.au/monsterfest-...

Splitsville is one of the year’s best comedies. It feels fresh, funny, knows what to do with Dakota Johnson and opens across Australia today. Here’s my interview with its creators and stars, Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Corvino for @thecurb.com.au.

One Battle After Another S&A Mini Review

I interviewed Robert Redford back in 2019 and it turned out to be one of his last ever longform interviews. Here it is six years later in A Rabbit's Foot...

MJ's @nadinewhitney.bsky.social says, "CHAIN REACTIONS is both erudite and wholly democratic in its appreciation of Hooper’s masterpiece." #ChainReactions opens in NY and Los Angeles Friday, and will expand on September 26.

CHAIN REACTIONS is both erudite and wholly democratic in its appreciation of Hooper’s masterpiece. Art is for everyone. Featuring Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike and @horrornonna.com speaking about THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/9/...

Oh, heaps. But this one stands out.

1. Giggling fits 2. Fresh sheets 3. The first few notes of a beloved song 4. Crochet blankets 5. Coffee

STEVE had the potential to be both beautifully heartbreaking and hopeful with a more focussed execution. That Mielants misses the mark is frustrating, but it doesn’t wholly condemn the work. insessionfilm.com/movie-review...

A harrowing work of art, but one that inspires empathy on a level beyond watching the young men and the country suffer. The Long Walk is bound for immediate status as a classic of the dystopian genre. My review of THE LONG WALK for @awfjorg.bsky.social awfj.org/blog/2025/09...

Finally remembered to delete my Xitter account. I hadn’t opened the app in so long. I couldn’t even have an unused account there any longer.

Tribeca darling GRIFFIN IN SUMMER is VOD tomorrow in the USA and coming to Stan in Australia soon. I sing its (MANY) praises in my review. thisisfilm.com/review/griff...

Happy birthday to @andrewfilms15.bsky.social Here is a picture of a cake I took out in the wild.

Julie Pacino was an absolute pleasure to speak with. I LIVE HERE NOW is a haunting and dark fairytale starring Lucy Fry, Matt Rife, Madeline Brewer and SHERYL LEE.

Tina Romero is epic fun. So is her film QUEENS OF THE DEAD. Here is a photo of Katy O’Brian and Jack Haven as Dre and Kelsey.

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

*Snortle*

One of the best fight scenes in contemporary film. SPLITSVILLE is fantastic.

Adrian Ortega’s WESTGATE played at MIFF and I review it for @thecurb.com.au www.thecurb.com.au/westgate-rev...

THE ROSES avoids the remake curse by using the skeleton of Adler’s novel to allow screenwriter Tony McNamara’s trademark wit and wickedness to reinvent the warring Roses in the form of the delectable pairing of Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. thisisfilm.com/review/the-r...

(Deep sigh) HONEY DONT! had potential in my mind until I watched it. Think of my review for @thecurb.com.au as a self conducted exorcism to wash the movie out of my brain. www.thecurb.com.au/honey-dont-r...

To celebrate the world premiere of our forthcoming Shudder doc 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, the kind folks at @awfjorg.bsky.social have printed an excerpt from my book of the same name: awfj.org/blog/2025/08...

McKenna Grace and Jojo Regina are superb together and the reason to watch WHAT WE HIDE.

So this girl I knew when she was a teenager and I used to let her into goth clubs underage turned into a massive spunk and an expert in horror. Now there is 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR and @horrornonna.com is the hot bitch driving the engine. www.thecurb.com.au/miff-intervi...

TRAINS by Maciej J. Drygas is a momentous feat of careful editing, soundscapes, and finding footage to represent the human experience that is the forward momentum of the 20thC through rail. via @melbfilmfest.bsky.social www.thecurb.com.au/miff-review-...

Sometimes we pod. We become pod people.

So absolutely HONOURED to have contributed to this disc. A perfect film.

Another MIFF missive. The cerebral, violent, and perceptive REDUX REDUX by the McManus Brothers. Featuring a terrifying @jeremyholm.bsky.social www.thecurb.com.au/miff-review-...

“EXIT 8 thrives on its maddening repetition. A minimalist and affecting horror that reaches into individual, national, and international disquiet. One of the best and most effective J-Horrors in years.” A MIFF missive. insessionfilm.com/movie-review...

I chatted to documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe about his THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE feature CHAIN REACTIONS. Voices included: Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, @horrornonna.com, Takashi Miike, and Karyn Kusama. A MIFF missive. www.thecurb.com.au/miff-intervi...

MIFF review. ONE MORE SHOT uses its time loop shenanigans to get to heart of a failure to launch situation for Minnie (Emily Browning). An Australian indie gem. Review via @thecurb.com.au www.thecurb.com.au/miff-review-...

One of my faves from @fantasiafestival.com keep your eyes on Dorothy. She’s a star!

Blake is a blast to chat with.

“Vacillating between too obvious and too ugly, DREAMS tangles itself into a psychodrama played out between the vampiric rich and the talented “unfortunates”. I review Michel Franco’s latest playing at Melbourne International Film Festival insessionfilm.com/movie-review...

Reviewed out of @fantasiafestival.com is Becca Kozak’s SUGAR ROT. Which tries so very hard to provoke disgust or to provoke in general. But the provocation falls flat because it’s so profoundly meaningless. awfj.org/blog/2025/07...

I saw Cillian Murphy in Kristen Sheridan’s DISCO PIGS in 2001. I paid close attention to him from that moment on.

Exact same is a tautology. Cease immediately.

Straight out of @fantasiafestival.com is Julie Pacino’s rich and strange debut I LIVE HERE NOW. Review via @awfjorg.bsky.social awfj.org/blog/2025/07...

Giving this another push, would appreciate the signal boost if you are so inclined!

Ramon Zürcher’s The Sparrow in the Chimney is a forensically observed and impeccably acted psychological drama of generational unhappiness… a dark, disturbing, and vicious portrait of a family that needs to reset to survive. I review for @insessionfilm.bsky.social insessionfilm.com/movie-review...

Couple goals get icky and inescapable in Michael Shanks’ TOGETHER starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie and a recognisable Vic Rail Train. (Something for the locals). Thanks Movie Jawn.

David @dmbjourno.bsky.social is a delight to work with and I learned an overwhelming amount about Steve Martin. ALL OF ME is hilarious.

Out of Montreal’s Fantasia Festival I review Julie Pacino’s grotesquely gorgeous horror I LIVE HERE NOW for @awfjorg.bsky.social awfj.org/blog/2025/07...

That Nick Cave & Andrew Dominik AI Elvis TUPELO clip is not only a betrayal of art, it’s also plainly fucking dreadful and looks like it was made by a stoned 13 year old. Embarrassing stuff by guys used to embarrassing stuff. God help Tupelo.

I don’t know if my Hottest picks went anywhere.

Getting to chat Yorgos with @oneblakeminute.bsky.social was a joy. Sign up to @ohmpods.bsky.social Patreon for some brilliant extras.