Didn’t even know this existed. This would have been the Christmas present I coveted most when I was eight - and I suspect that I would have been a little shocked.

Too many icons going today…

I can’t live if living is without you I can’t live I can’t give anymore

"...it is perhaps the film that makes this year stand out from any other, not despite its tawdrier associations but partly because of them, because of the inborn distortions of its lens..." #FilmSky The magnificent ’74: Chinatown | Sight and Sound share.google/gPVNitVwe55c...

Just listened to Anthology 4. Lovely stuff, but underscored by the cynical rasp of a large barrel being scraped dry. Surely the coffers are stripped bare by now. I say this as someone dumb enough to have put the vinyl edition on his Christmas list.

🔥Hot off the press🔥 A new Condensed Histories #podcast about #Jaws at 50 and why humans fear what lurks in the depth of the ocean 🌊 Please subscribe, listen 🎧 and share 👍🏻

Neil and I are doing our FINAL EVER BG3 stream tonight on his channel at 8.30 PM!

Loads of Criterions on sale at HMV. Not the one I really wanted, typically. Bit the bullet and splashed out. I’ve been wanting to see this for years and years.

A brilliant piece from John, as always.

If you can catch Matthew Rhys playing Burton in…well…’Playing Burton’, grab the opportunity with both hands. All of Burton’s fire, mischief and remorse alive on the stage. Great night out at Neuadd William Aston in Wrexham.

Great news. futurenetwork.wales has recently launched! A worthy successor to the much missed Network. Find all your ITC favourites plus hundreds of classic shows and films. #network #itc #bluray #dvd #futurenetwork

If you’re able to get to this, get to it, by Jove. Film lover’s paradise awaits.

In 1965, 12-year-old Catherine McGoohan ‘hired’ her dad Patrick to do the lighting for her school play - unpaid, of course. #patrickmcgoohan #catherinemcgoohan

Excellent, informative stuff as ever, plus I got to pretend that I’d put two of my favourite podcasts on at the same time and it sounded like they were talking to each other.

Blücher!!

All 4 episodes of this joyful nonsense (4 episodes of anything is a win, these days) available on BBC Sounds (or, as some still whistfully refer to it: iPlayerRadio)

He stees you when you're stleeping.

Wallowed in a magnificent double bill (appropriately) of this and the latest ep. on The Reptile, or The Rippertile as it was correctly suggested: my favourite Ripper role. We’re into Hammer’s imperial phase. Wall to wall knockouts. Prince of Darkness is just glorious.

Did you know that Patrick McGoohan and famous British entertainer Des O’Connor lived in the same house at different times? The house, in Brocco Bank was owned by The Sheffield Playhouse and used by its repertory performers #patrickmcgoohan #desoconnor #sheffield

Tonight on BBC4. Paging @jameschristopher.bsky.social

A treat of a film. Viewed on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social boxd.it/buh35b #filmsky #moviesky #Letterboxd

Just enjoyed a post-Fleming double-bill of this and the Trigger Mortis episode. Now extremely keen to read both and be spirited back to a world when ‘impossible glamour’ meant driving a Saab.

Publicity photo for NO WAY OUT (1987), available on Blu-ray from PlumeriaPics.co.uk (Region B, ships worldwide). Kevin Costner, Sean Young, Gene Hackman (not pictured). @filmstories.bsky.social Special Edition with commentary by director Roger Donaldson, and a new interview by @simonbrew.bsky.social

The first casualty of Laser Tag is innocence. The second is your knees.

My new book is out👍🏻 Like #Western movies 🤠 then this is for you. Available as a hardback or ebook wherever you purchase such things. And other’s I’ve written are still available. #Movies #AmWriting

Happy Halloween! Before Orson Welles produced his classic production of "War of the Worlds," he launched the Mercury Theater with this memorable production of "Dracula." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3i...

Currently watching…. Thank you BBC2.

More Halloween-appropriate Comfort Blanket fun. Here’s @jnraeside.bsky.social talking about Ealing’s unbeatable portmanteau spookfest Dead of Night. pod.link/1614879928/e...

Can‘t wait to see this again. Still perhaps the most faithful adaptation of Stoker’s novel. Absolutely hooked me when I first saw it on TV.

This is a serious treat for film fans. Two highly informed pals taking themselves down several fascinating rabbit holes. Didn’t want it to end. Night Moves reissue looks fantastic and yes, yes, yes to The Medusa Touch novelisation btw.

New episode of Writers on Film has David Hughes join me to discuss the republication of Alan Sharp’s Night Moves podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

Cai and I reconvene next week to record our Christmas episode. This one has taken a little while to research, but will be worth the wait (we hope!). Fans of Esther Rantzen’s ‘That’s Life’ will have a field day. Series 6 to follow next year. #beseeingyou #theprisoner #portmeirion

Oh fantastic. Plummer and Mason are a tap-drawer Holmes/Watson pairing. The look on poor Watson’s face when Holmes crushes his last pea….

I wrote a novel called Connery And there is now an audio version available For FREE read by the brilliant @caiross.bsky.social feeds.acast.com/public/shows...

The perfect afternoon film for any afternoon.

That was incredibly unexpected/satisfying. Wordle 1,585 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🔥Hot off the press🔥 A new Condensed Histories #podcast about my new book 📕 . Out next week it’s about #Westerns Please subscribe, listen 🎧 and share and if you like the episode think about ordering a copy 👍🏻

The Plague of the Zombies (1966) dir. John Gilling 🧟‍♂️🎬 A lesser-known zombie movie that pre-dates Romero's Night of the Living Dead ('68) produced by the British Hammer production company. #filmsky #moviesky #cinema #horror

With Mr Scorsese debuting on Apple+ today , here's the first of several Substack pieces relating to Marty and his movies. First up, the controversy surrounding The Last Temptation Of Christ... richardluck.substack.com/p/the-last-t...

It’s a key horror moment for me: this photo was in Denis Gifford’s Horror Movies book and was the first film image to scare me to the point of incontinence. For that, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for The Plague of The Zombies.

Superb analysis of one of Hammer’s finest hours. Some minor quibbles aside - Brook Williams‘s low wattage, underwritten female characters and yes, too much bongo playing - this is Hammer at its peak. Morrell and Carson are just fabulous. The first great zombie film.

Heads up, Film Fans! A new series of #ClassicMovies starts tonight at 7.00pm on #SkyArts with the usual gang discussing Hitchcock’s drop dead masterpiece, #TheThirtyNineSteps. Author John Buchan thought it was better than his novel. #DiscoveringDianeKeaton follows at 8.00pm.

Fabulous, fact-packed look at one of Hitchcock’s masterworks. Now I know where ‘This is where I came in…’ comes from. Should have known, really.

I’m happy to announce that I am beginning a new biographical project on Sean Connery. I am in early stages but if anyone has any contacts, avenues, stories, anecdotes etc then I would love to hear them. Please DM me.

Anyone who answers ‘yes’ to this idiot question can go piss into their own soup.

I used to think that Struzan was second only to Saul Bass when it came to film posters but his work is so inextricably linked with a very long run of iconic films that are lodged deep in the psyche of Gen Xers that this usurps any claim of superior design www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Struzan was responsible for so much of the yearning and fevered expectation of my young years, a time made magical by his art. He was utterly extraordinary.

RIP Drew Struzan A master.

My God. What an actress. What a loss. I utterly loved her.