'Killer's Kiss' - "- the glitter and grub is product of desperate, mercenary film-making."

FrightFest Day 5 + my picks

FrightFest Day 4...

#film #frightfest

FrightFest Day 2:

FrightFest 2025... opening night.

.A calming track from overheated dreams and worries from my latest album.

Packaged together, their vibrancy and edge remain and it is easy to see how they influence still.

I have a new album - ambient and mellow rhythms, this one.

But ultimately it chooses Superman as the myth that we need – even with flags.

New album "Tropic of Ghosts". A continuous bled of ambient mellow worry in an overheated climate. Cover featuring a "Ghost in the Tropics" miniature by Dimuth Fernando

New album "Tropic of Ghosts". A continuous bled of ambient mellow worry in an overheated climate. Cover featuring a "Ghost in the Tropics" miniature by Dimuth Fernando

“ALL nationalistic distinctions – all claims to be better than somebody else because you have different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect – are entirely spurious, but they are important as long as people believe in them.” – George Orwell, “The Road to Wigan Pier”

It’s more a sequence of extended supernatural ceremonies and battles that score high on the WTF? and Batshit Crazy level that makes it compelling and enjoyable if that’s your taste.

If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

Once the film’s rhythm and intent has shrunk and settled, its tone is of toxic masculinity propelled and overlooked due to the era’s patriarchy and samurai code.

Me on "Sinners".

My album "Lawns of a Better Place" is now on YouTube in its entirety. This is the non-electronic one. Folky acoustic ambient sad ponderous haunted romantic hopeful melancholy pic-nicing. #music #album

A delightful home-made alien invasion homage.

me on "Cloud".

Like many gangster melodramas, it’s told with equal levels of violence and sentimentality.

Because this rocks so damned hard.

Me on 'The Purge'.

Me on 'Nosferatu'.

If ever there's a time to put on a mask and shake it against contemporary confusion, Jimmy Andrex's new track is it. #musicvideo

Making a good #playlist (formerly #mixtape) is one of life's most underrated pleasure.

Legendarily so-bad-it’s-superviolently-good slice of hilarious macho-posturing, seemingly powered by the energy of a thousand adolescent boys after their first work-out.

It seems to me that Michael Jackson's song "Ben" is a formidable blend of marzipan and rat-poison.

So long and thanks for all the nightmares.

A tale of a witch haunting. #witchsong

#Film Comments 2024: Man Bits

Film comments 2024: Lady parts #film

I mean, there were many, but these struck me as the most profound and fun watches.

Whereas many coming-of-age films centre on the precocious, the artistic, there are those like ‘Didi’ that extrapolate on the lives of unremarkable teens just trying to find themselves and get by. #didi #filmreview

Okay, thoroughly into 'Moving' (Disney+), but stick with it. To think I almost quit before it got really good... I mean, I am a sucker for the choreography of long take fight scenes.

.It's not about narrative, but just the sheer careening into increasing fear and craziness in real time.

Beck and Woods’ script goes through Gothicism, philosophy, twistiness, social commentary, Escape Room dilemmas, parlour games, clues and straight-up horror motifs (what’s in the basement?).

Starting on BlueSky with a cover version... my lastest muscial offering.

#Portrait by Skopta Photography.