BOTD Tony Curtis! MCCT5: 5)Last Tycoon 4)Boston Strangler 3)Spartacus 2)Some Like it Hot 1)Sweet Smell of Success More: @michaelmusto.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/tony-curtis-... @broganjmorris.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin... Jackson Arn/ @forward.com: forward.com/culture/4757...

For @theguardian.com, I wrote about The Misfits to celebrate the centenary of THE film star. Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter are all at their finest, and still Marilyn Monroe is the best actor in this. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Techno-pointillism. Digital images got sharper, but maybe no film has more artful or expressive digital images than this one does. It's like you can feel that world with your eyes.

Got friends round? Got Miami Vice for lunch! Showing today at The Castle Cinema Hackney. Mojitos on sale at the bar. 🍹

Marilyn Monroe is the best actor in this scene. Watch the eyes: everyone else is playing the lines, but Monroe's going deeper, a thought given to every word and gesture. She deserved to play dramatic roles for years after this, but still, what a final performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzba...

In London? Like Miami Vice? We at @distortedframe.bsky.social have three FREE tickets to give away for our 20th anniversary screening of Michael Mann's digital-era masterpiece at The Castle Cinema Hackney, this Thursday at 6:15pm. DM me to claim.

In London? Like Miami Vice? We at @distortedframe.bsky.social have three FREE tickets to give away for our 20th anniversary screening of Michael Mann's digital-era masterpiece at The Castle Cinema Hackney, this Thursday at 6:15pm. DM me to claim.

HBD Harvey Keitel!!! MCCT5: 5)Who's That Knocking 4)Death Watch 3)Ulysses Gaze 2)Bad Timing 1)Mean Streets More: Mowe/ @eyeforfilm.bsky.social: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2015... Langmann: www.esquire.com/entertainmen... @broganjmorris.bsky.social / @thequietus.com: thequietus.com/culture/film...

Bubbling fascism, the erosion of democracy in an increasingly corporate age, violence done by the US at home and abroad - Hollywood cinema in 2026 has hardly anything to say about these things, so I looked back 52 years and wrote about The Parallax View. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Very excited to be showing Miami Vice, Michael Mann's "demented masterwork" (bilgeebiri.bsky.social, Vulture), at The Castle Cinema Hackney on Thu 21 May, with intro by @sam-wigley.bsky.social. Been 20 years since I first (and last!) saw this beauty in a cinema. 🍹 thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...

Huge thanks to Julian Alexander for introducing his short film Whiteface and Spike Lee's furious satire Bamboozled at Victoria Dalston on Sunday, and for keeping the discussion going after the film! @distortedframe.bsky.social will be back next month at The Castle Cinema Hackney for Miami Vice. 🍹😎

We’re all out of £9 tickets, but still have final release tix available for Bamboozled this Sunday (26 April) at The Victoria Dalston. Spike Lee's excoriating media satire, screening with intro and short film by academic and filmmaker Julian Alexander. 🔥 dice.fm/event/53brey...

Get your tickets now for our Sunday 26 April Victoria Dalston showing of Spike Lee's furious 2000 comedy Bamboozled, with intro and short film 'Whiteface' by academic and filmmaker Julian Alexander. 🎭 Tickets £9: dice.fm/event/53brey...

On Sunday 26 April, join us at The Victoria in Dalston for Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled'. Controversial & divisive on its release a quarter-century ago, critics now call the film "prophetic", "demonically inspired" and "utterly vital". Screening with short film 'Whiteface'. Tickets in bio & on DICE.

Goodbye Viktor Orbán

Distorted Frame is BACK at The Victoria Dalston next month, with a film so incendiary we're probably not going to be able to show any images from it on social media! £9 early bird tickets now on sale!

Robert Aramayo is very good in I Swear, but I've seen so many artless, saccharine Sunday teatime British dramas I couldn't help saying "Why are British films LIKE this?" out loud ten minutes into the damn thing. Careless script, no technical imagination. This kind of British cinema must be stopped.

Gus Van Sant's first feature in eight years is here, so to celebrate I wrote about some great films involving kidnap. I describe Tony Scott's Man on Fire as 'MTV Peckinpah', and I mean it. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

Lol never been more excited to announce a @distortedframe.bsky.social screening. 🛥️🍹📹

The depth and maturity that Tony Kushner has brought to some of Spielberg's best mid-late films is miraculous. Watch Munich again - it's the giddy dynamo behind Raiders (a film I love!) thoughtfully grappling with the whole Israel/Palestine thing, and for near three hours. www.gq.com/story/tony-k...

To celebrate the upcoming release of The Secret Agent, I spent some time in the mad, paranoid world of the political thriller for the BFI. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

I wrote about Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, an imperfect adaptation (as all WH adaptations are) that gets closer to approximating Brontë's style and meaning than any other has. www.avclub.com/andrea-arnol...

Andrea Arnold didn't like the film, but watching her Wuthering Heights again now it looks like an (imperfect) adaptation which gets much, much closer to putting the book on screen than any other version has. My word, Robbie Ryan's cinematography for this... Elemental cinema vérité.

A new episode awaits so I thought I'd better hurry up and post this from the previous one! What dark forces are lurking within cyberspace? @lindsayhallam.bsky.social and Liam with special guest @broganjmorris.bsky.social cautiously take a peep at our haunted motherboards. rss.com/podcasts/sci...

Arriving right at the end of the year, Marty Supreme is the 2025 film I most look forward to revisiting. Every actor, from the top-billed cast to the extras, seems handpicked, while each character reads as so alive and complicated it feels like you could follow them into a film of their own.

My contribution to the 2025 Sight and Sound critics' poll. Toyed with putting Bugonia in here instead of Harvest (which had the best film cinematography of 2025), and It Was Just an Accident would have made it in if I'd seen it in time, but you'll have to pry The Naked Gun from my cold, dead hands!

If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄

If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄

It was either this or Elf: this festive season at Hackney's Castle, we'll be showing Sean Baker's Tinseltown fairytale Tangerine on its ten-year anniversary. Come on down, have a mulled wine, see a great film (the second best Xmas film ever, says The Guardian): thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...

My primer on the films of Lynne Ramsay and all their sensational loneliness. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

For my latest I sing the praises of Burn After Reading, one of the stupidest, most pointless films I've ever seen (in a good way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Merry Christmas Eve, bitch: in our first ever festive slot, we're showing Sean Baker's anarchic breakout film Tangerine at The Castle in Hackney, 6:45pm Tue 16 Dec. What could be more appropriate to the season than 90 minutes of iPhone-shot chaos? 🎄 thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Thank you to @liamdunn82.bsky.social and @lindsayhallam.bsky.social for having me on the latest episode of @scifrightspod.bsky.social to discuss Colossus: The Forbin Project and Pulse, as well as AI, nuclear panic in the movies and the horror of early digital: open.spotify.com/episode/3vwp...

If you're free tomorrow evening and fancy a spooooky screening of J-horror classic Pulse at The Castle Cinema in Hackney, us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for free. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 👻 😱

I can be sentimental, and moved by stories about good men in trouble. The Smashing Machine didn't floor me - it's too gentle for that - but its message of seeing value in learning to fail did get me pretty good. DJ's (very tender) performance will surprise only those who haven't seen Pain & Gain.

The chemistry between these two in Something's Gotta Give is unreal. Keanu's hunky doctor stood no chance.

Happy heavenly 105 to this man: two quite different performers, the intensely insular (and astonishingly beautiful) pre-1956 movie star and the agonisingly vulnerable post-1956 character actor, both great.

The kitchen sink drama continues to be Britain's most reliable contribution to cinema, as Harris Dickinson's directorial debut, Urchin, follows confidently, modestly in the footsteps of Loach and Leigh. My review: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/urchi...

Join us at Castle Cinema on 29th Oct for a Halloween screening of Kyoshi Kurosawa's terrifying J-horror classic PULSE on the big screen. TIX LINK IN BIO!

Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!

For the BFI, I revisited some adolescent me favourites for this review of the dud-less career of Paul Thomas Anderson. An interesting moment for me: realising just how many Daniel Plainviewisms have made it into my everyday speech. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!

Delighted to be introducing probably the greatest J-horror of them all in Hackney for Halloween. See you there!

BOTD Tony Curtis! MCCT5 5)Last Tycoon (Kazan) 4)Boston Strangler (Fleischer) 3)Spartacus (Kubrick) 2)Some Like it Hot (Wilder) 1)Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick) More S D Bose/ @faroutmagazine.co.uk: faroutmagazine.co.uk/tony-curtis-... @broganjmorris.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin...

Big fan of Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler. I wrote about Tony Curtis' (great) performance in it for his centenary. www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin...

Stay tuned!

HBD Harvey Keitel!!! MCCT5 5)Who's/Knocking (Scorsese) 4)Death Watch (Tavernier) 3)Ulysses Gaze (Angelopoulos) 2)Bad Timing (Roeg) 1)Mean St (Scorsese) More Langmann: www.esquire.com/entertainmen... Weintraub: collider.com/harvey-keite... @broganjmorris.bsky.social: thequietus.com/culture/film...

Gone With the Wind: so wilfully dishonest, disdainful and supremacist, and so full of caricatures and self-centred bastards it could have been written by Ayn Rand. Some neat expressionistic sequences, and Olivia de Havilland gives some life to her two-dimensional goodwife, but good God what a slog.