Film 2 of the day

Keep silent cinema alive, yes. Find ways to introduce it to new people, certainly. But buster Keaton does not deserve this in any way, please save him from the indignity

First of 2026, let’s go

Ever think how palindrome sounds like it should be an ancient battle of some kind?

Started a little something to build up a little portfolio of journalism in another area. So for any motorsports fans, hopefully this should eventually have something for you.

Just saying that scifi stories where a planetary population are all united in an idea, have only one goal, and don’t have dozens of warring factions and locations competing interests in its people, are cute and a little stupid.

Also once again as someone out of the loop, how hard is it to get rid of a president? UK had a prime minister for less than 40 days a few years ago like, what does it take?

Ok so I’m out of the loop. Why has trump bombed and arrested the leader of a sovereign nation and essentially declared war?

Hello Iron Maiden, didn’t expect to hear you in the final episode of Stranger Things

We wrote a thing, go read it and have fun

Apologies for today's stream's technical issues. M3GAN got into the system and was upset. She's told us it'll hopefully be better next week.

Praise be! Another post had dropped on the SecondCut substack, and this time, Jacob's taken on two reviews in one! Marty Supreme and Nouvelle Vague. Go check it out and leave it all your love. #filmsky #moviesky #martysupreme #timotheechalamet #nouvellevague #filmreview #moviereview #cinema

What's tonight? Why, it's our 2025 Roundup episode! Featuring laughs, recaps, hated moments, missed gems, favourites, and more. Come join the stream live on YouTube at 8pm GMT/2pm CT.

Rewatching M3GAN 2.0 for @secondcutpod.bsky.social tonight and it’s still stupid and ridiculous and hilarious and yay.

Most filmbros are like ‘digital is fake actual film is the only way to watch anything’ but couldn’t tell the difference unless they were strangled by actual celluloid

Think Jason Statham is doing a thing now where there’s a new ‘I’m a badass and won’t get injured in the slightest’ movie at the beginning of every year and they’ll all make about 90/100m at the box office and if it keeps people turning up I’ll put up with it.

Only one in for this with ads going. Do I want anyone else to turn up to see this? Something tells me they’re better off at home but let’s see…

Just over 80,000 words, the first draft of the PhD novel is DONE! Now it’s all the actual academic stuff and the endless redrafts but right now WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!!

Spooky vibes writings

After long nights making excel spreadsheets and timetables, I have successfully undergone an operation to become a music instrument found in most churches and cathedrals. I am very organised in that way.

Exercises? That’s a stretch.

Before the day ends, Happy 100th birthday to Winnie The Pooh. Slightly terrifying fact but hey.

I wrote another thing, so go read it, pwetty pwease.

Aaaaand traditions part 2

Christmas Eve film traditions part 1

People complaining about the helmet in The Odyssey being inaccurate when there’s about 8 gods and goddesses making appearances and a whole host of monsters including a cyclops is very amusing to me.

I shall try not to just ramble for five hours. I promise it will be fun.

Sneak peak for tomorrow's @secondcutpod.bsky.social stream. Very festive, very christmassy. #filmsky #moviesky

THINK I managed to find myself in the Gojira vid for Mea Culpa at this year's Bloodstock. So weird to see how many fireworks they had when I couldn't see any of them. Also fire on top of the stage. Hadn't a clue.

And now we enter survival mode for Avatar 3. I expect incredible visuals to fail to stop me being bored to tears but we shall see.

Well, let’s see if this ends up on my cinematic naughty list or not

Boom. Bad movies. Podcasting. Fun times.

Admittedly me seeing that the UK was going to reenter Erasmus yesterday was one of the best bits of good news I've heard in a while.

It's here. The review for Wake Up Dead Man, the new Knives Out film, is up on the substack courtesy of @sspthinksfilm.bsky.social. Go check it out, check out the film, and support independent film journalism at SecondCut #filmsky #moviesky #knivesout #wakeupdeadman #danielcraig #rianjohnson #netflix

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Late call. Today. About 3 1/2hrs time. Bad Film Club: The Christmas Special, live on our YouTube channel. Be there or be... watching good movies, probably. Unlike us. #filmsky #moviesky #christmasmovies #redone #santaclausconquersthemartians #holidaytouchdown #filmpodcast #moviepodcast

I went and reviewed a film. It might just be quite damn good. Go read my review if you don't believe me.

Starting a rewatch of one of the greatest shows ever made. Last watched it over a decade ago aside from the sequel movie a few years ago, it’s still kicking ass.

The 2025 season was a year of McLaren seemingly trying to screw up both of their drivers from about 1/2 through, and Verstappen doing far far better than he should have done and would’ve won the title probably if he hadn’t tried to kill Russell in Spain.

Horror Studies Now is a fantastic conference and with a Jan 30th deadline there is still plenty of time to get those abstracts in! Check it out #Horror scholars 👇 #HorrorSky

The arts are the front line of the resistance to fascism. It is not an accident that AI is being deployed by tech bros, who are overwhelmingly aligned with fascists, to discredit and devalue arts and artists.

We had fun last week, go watch and check it out if you missed the madness.

Yay! Samurai stuff! More of it! And somehow, no Kurosawa!

Going to be an interesting final race of the year, that’s for sure

Let’s hope the Scream reunion is enough to stop me wanting to rip my eyeballs out for this thing

“We all seem to have decided that it’s just easier to call everything good, to have zero critical standards, and to take another hit of our drug of choice, whether that’s Xanax or Funko Pop or TikTok or self-help ideology.”

Looking forward to McLaren handing Max Verstappen another title tomorrow, gonna be great viewing.

About to watch Pillion. Thankfully cineworld have put it on one of their smaller screens, which should make for a more intimate experience for an indie. Big enough, small enough, that’ll do me nicely. #pillion #harrymelling #alexskarsgard #cinema #moviesky #filmsky