New challenge!

Disclosure Day operates as if dark secrets are still hiding in the shadows, and not dancing around in broad daylight for all to see. Is there still a transformative power here? Or did Spielberg lost touch with the reality of today's world? My review: youtu.be/GR4w6HTJmBs

Disclosure Day operates as if dark secrets are still hiding in the shadows, and not dancing around in broad daylight for all to see. Is there still a transformative power here? Or did Spielberg lost touch with the reality of today's world? My review: youtu.be/GR4w6HTJmBs

New 2nd channel video! If you liked Obsession, here's 5 more movies to watch: youtu.be/mqe-MD69lrQ

My extended thoughts on Backrooms: a fantastic concept rendered into a near masterpiece - brought down only by a stifling script that breaks atmospheric immersion and layers what should have been a direct, sensory experience with needless metaphors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6lu...

New video! The live of a mediocre movie is often short-lived: watched, enjoyed, and then promptly forgotten. But on rare occasions, such a movie will persist in the mind and, as if almost by accident, plant a seed that grows into something life-changing: youtu.be/I0CpxSfg-Vg

New video out now on Nebula! In which I talk about 6 mediocre movies that should have been long forgotten but somehow stayed with me: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

Frustrating thing about Backrooms is that it's a 5 star concept with a 2 star execution - which simultaneously leaves you with the excitement of experiencing something genuinely refreshing, and with the pain of missed potential letterboxd.com/tomvanderlin...

New 2nd channel video! If you liked Project Hail Mary, here's 5 more movies to watch (that aren't Interstellar, Arrival, Sunshine, The Martian or Ad Astra) youtu.be/c30udzoziJg

About 2 years ago, I was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing when I came across a passage that stopped me dead in my tracks. It told of a heretic, a priest, and the meaning of life. And today, more than anything, I just need to pass on this tale: youtu.be/mxP1MeDYhrc

About 2 years ago, I was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing when I came across a passage that stopped me dead in my tracks. It told of a heretic, a priest, and the meaning of life. And today, more than anything, I just need to pass on this tale: youtu.be/mxP1MeDYhrc

New video out now on Nebula! a 40-minute video essay on 20 pages of a Cormac McCarthy novel, the 2025 movie Train Dreams, and... well, the meaning of life nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

2nd channel alert! Another video on Project Hail Mary, the irony/sincerity discourse, and on how - no, it's actually not all just "hopecore" space movies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTpm...

New video out now! For decades, Hollywood has tried to adapt Cormac McCarthy. And now that his magnum opus, the notoriously violent Blood Meridian, is once again in production, what can we learn from the previously adapted works of his? How to film this "unfilmable" author? youtu.be/irQstK-L1Oo

Up now on Nebula - 2 new videos! ft. none other than @mancarryingthing.bsky.social First, a deep dive into the challenges of adapting Cormac McCarthy books. What hope is there for the coming adaptation of his magnum opus, the notoriously violent Blood Meridian? nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

After reaching the incredible milestone of 1.000.000 subscribes, I said I'd do a big Q&A video, and here it is: youtu.be/wH94FMSAG78 Thanks again to everyone who subscribed to the channel, I literally wouldn't have gotten this without you!

This is really good, very generous and honest assessment of a tricky artist. I think Tom successfully argues that Korine is much more than a juvenile provocateur

Project Hail Mary is very easy to like, but hard to love... a breezy crowd-pleaser that offers a fun pastiche of your favorite sci-fi movies, but fails to truly capture any of the core qualities that made those movies so thematically rich and monumental: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAcE...

Project Hail Mary is very easy to like, but hard to love... a breezy crowd-pleaser that offers a fun pastiche of your favorite sci-fi movies, but fails to truly capture any of the core qualities that made those movies so thematically rich and monumental: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAcE...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED VIDEO FROM @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social

New video out now! Despite often having the critics against him, Harmony Korine has nevertheless created a remarkable body of work, one defined by a search for radical images, for darkness, and for the profound foundations of humanity hiding underneath: youtu.be/5n0Tgt9vGoI

New video out now on Nebula, it's a big one! nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

Spiritually deeply connected movies - the longing to transcend mortality through myth as a reaction to near-annihilation, the murky line between ambition and egoism, the at once empowering and all-devouring capitalists, the hints of absurdism, and finally, the grounding power of human love

Thomas Flight and I had a lot of thoughts on the 2026 Oscars nominations, so we made content out of it! Watch/listen to our 2-hour discussion on last year's most prominent movies here: youtu.be/M9eyjtZkHo4

I wrote a book review on "Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer" by @www.johnbleasdale.com. A book that not only opened my eyes to one of our best contemporary filmmakers, but that also inspired me in my own work as a critic: www.nrftsjournal.org/darkness-vis...

I wrote a book review on "Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer" by @www.johnbleasdale.com. A book that not only opened my eyes to one of our best contemporary filmmakers, but that also inspired me in my own work as a critic: www.nrftsjournal.org/darkness-vis...

It's official: 1.000.000+ subscribers! Thank you so much everyone!! I really never would have thought I’d be able to keep doing this for so long, let alone claim this incredible milestone!

Worth watching! Especially for men.

Tom does it again! Go watch.

It is astounding what a loving gaze reveals about masculinity. Looking at men as objects of inherent beauty and passion, there emerges a different story about who they are, and about the tragedy they're suffering in an increasingly cruel world. New video: youtu.be/r5WaBrceYn4

New video is out now on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

The best time to make comparisons to the Holocaust is *before* they start throwing people in concentration camps. We're already too late for that. Why teach about history if you're not willing to do this? Why remember it at all?

Almost there👀

Fun stuff happening over on the 2nd channel: kicking off 2026 with reviews of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Rip, The Housemaid, and Greenland 2: Migration www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVo...

Today, Nebula is hosting a charity livestream for World Central Kitchen and I'm going to be on it! I'll be live at 4pm EST to talk about movies with my fellow Nebula creators, and to raise money for people in need: www.youtube.com/live/MpVYz3h...

The big Like Stories of Old 2025 cinema recap is here! Discussing my 11 favorite movies of the year, and a whole bunch of honorable mentions. YouTube: youtu.be/nCVUWSn3e58 Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

The big Like Stories of Old 2025 cinema recap is here! Discussing my 11 favorite movies of the year, and a whole bunch of honorable mentions. YouTube: youtu.be/nCVUWSn3e58 Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

I've watched this video twice now, just for pleasure

New video out now! I think 2025 has been a great year for television, and to honor that, this year, for the first time, I've made a dedicated video in which I rank my 10 favorite shows of 2025, and also list a few honorable mentions: youtu.be/b1tGOxFM3NE

New video out early on Nebula, in which I discuss my 10 favorite TV shows of 2025: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

Lots of articles and videos around at the moment, about how a lot of modern cinema is missing something. If you ingest one of these explainers, please let it be this one. This gentleman truly knows what makes good cinema. And articulates it all perfectly imho. youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE?...

For anyone who wants a smart, focused, professionally assembled explanation for why movies have changed their visuality perception, this video is a must-see. Bravo, @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social #filmsky

I love these deep dives into why current cinema often doesn't feel as real as older films, and yeah, I do think the lack of deep focus and interesting cinematography is part of it www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...

I get why people compare Train Dreams to Terrence Malick, but the latter likes to put you directly in the interiority of its subjects while the former distinctly keeps you on the outside - one is about identification, the other about witnessing; different things, both valid

This is now the most popular video I'v ever made👀 Thank you so much everyone!

This is a great video from @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social on why films often don't feel as real any more and the (haptic) elements that trick your body into thinking you are actually there. It explains why I move in my seat so much during the test run scene in Top Gun: Maverick #films #science 🧪

Someone compiled all the (good) movies mentioned in the video in a letterboxd list, check it out here: boxd.it/QdQFg

I know this is making the rounds, but I found it super intriguing and it hits on some thoughts about the experience of watching "modern" films in comparison to films from the 70s, of which I've been watching many recently... www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Why don't movies feel "real" anymore? My deep dive into the first principles of cinematic immersion is out now on YouTube: youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE

I watched the actual debut film by Christopher Nolan, which had been considered lost media for 31 years, until someone finally found it: youtu.be/0ReH175Inr8