Inconceivable. RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. And for the director of my favourite comedy of all time, as well as many other great films he directed, and facilitated through Castle Rock, an incredibly tragic end to an incredibly meaningful life.

A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.

an absolute honour to talk with one of the most significant creative forces in American film & TV for over 50 years. James L. Brooks on making his kind of comedy-dramas today, his fave Simpsons episode, Wes Anderson Jack Nicholson is coming back anytime soon & more… www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...

For anyone not familiar with Lucile H’s haunting body of work, I also wrote a primer for BFI online. And don’t sleep on Innocence (2004), one of the best films of the 2000s. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen. @leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

🎥 32 years ago today, Peter Weir’s Fearless hit theaters—a profound journey through trauma, survival & rebirth. Revisit this underrated masterpiece in our deep dive: cinephiliabeyond.org/fearless/

@lffstubs.bsky.social 1 ticket to the sold out screening of THE TRAVELERS, Friday 17th October, 12:00pm at BFI Southbank. Face value £13.00 ono whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

@lffstubs.bsky.social I have 1 ticket going for Lucrecia Martel's LANDMARKS screening this evening at 18:00 Thursday 16th October @BFI Southbank, NFT1, with director Q&A. Ticket face value £18.00, ono, get in touch asap! whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

Just a reminder of what an absolute c*nt Farage is: he wants to scrap the benefits of people who legally work and pay their taxes in Britain, yet the greasy f*cker happily slurps down his fat EU pension - paid for by the very European citizens he spent years spewing bile at. Parasite in a suit.

pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.

It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get? And the answer is… none. None more disappointed… As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

More of Kirk’s “reasonable opinions”

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Werner Herzog (Happy Birthday!)

It’s that time again… A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival. Meantime, feast yer eyes! whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that

Met him once to talk about his… chocolates. But such a down-to-earth guy, zero pretensions & talent to burn that, despite impressive credits, you felt was often under appreciated. Still, Billy Budd, Collector, Teorema, Madding Crowd, Superman II, The Hit, Priscilla QOTD, The Limey… RIP Terence Stamp

Pravda.

This is so depressingly true re: the arts / of criticism. But in the bigger picture I also go back to shitheel Tory politician Michael Gove’s phoney Brexit shibboleth that British people “have had enough of experts” to justify anti-intellectual, knee-jerk populism & how to control / profit from it.

Et tu, @bsky.app? If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience… have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is fantastic, urge you to listen, especially if you think Still Bill is one of the most underrated albums out there…

🚨new video essay 🚨 How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever? The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it… How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience for @lwlies.com. Full video here: youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...

New album cover art drop, courtesy of the fab European Film Festival Palić, FIPRESCI jury

no words... but also no action taken by any governments to this ongoing slaughter, so it just continues. insanity.

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A Penguin editor looking around their office this morning.

“Your producers were so preoccupied with whether they COULD, they never stopped to think about…” yadda yadda yadda, rinse & repeat

A really insightful interview with David Cronenberg by @hannahstrong.co.uk for @lwlies.com

Good sound, good writer.

All just a little bit of prehistory repeating… reviewed Jurassic World Rebirth for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social

in this utter sh*tshow of a world, we need to celebrate the positives when they come. fantastic news from NYC #ZohranMamdani

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also from @lwlies.com on Before Sunrise, a really beautiful piece by Jess Furseth: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

A highly personal look at three films that get more resonant and poignant as time goes by, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE… trilogy. New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here: youtu.be/7My0TSarYqA?...

@secondsightfilms.bsky.social release of The Nice Guys is typically brilliant. Beautiful transfer and @leighsinger.bsky.social video essay “Lethal Weapon to Nice Guys” is a treat.

Delighted to have my new video essay ’From Lethal Weapons to Nice Guys: How Shane Black Reinvented the Buddy Movie’ featured on the stellar new Blu-Ray release of THE NICE GUYS from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social

The Slow West director returns with a genre-splicing revenge tale about a teenage samurai performer on the run from a criminal gang in 18th century Scotland. @leighsinger.bsky.social reviews John Maclean’s Tornado, in cinemas Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Do you love crazy C19/20th history, ridiculously long and deadly rare snakes and a damn good read? If so, you'll be pleased to hear that @skyhorsepublishing.bsky.social will soon be relaunching BUSHMASTER: RAYMOND DITMARS AND THE HUNT FOR THE WORLD'S LARGEST VIPER. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1628...

Such a blast to buddy up again with the great @secondsightfilms.bsky.social and make a new video essay for this terrific film!

Loved hosting the @regentstcinema.bsky.social Q&A of THE END with @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social and George Mackay at the weekend. Such an insightful and eloquent discussion of a film that grows in resonance on a repeat viewing and feels so prescient and human. Go see it where you can.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

The Gen X Career Meltdown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m hosting a Q&A tonight at @regentstcinema.bsky.social with @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social and George Mackay for their haunting apocalyptic musical THE END. A few tickets still left, come on down! www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/the-en...

Brexit will reduce UK trade by 15% in the long term, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility

WTAF?

Interviewed Sandhya Suri for her excellent feature debut SANTOSH for the new @sightsoundmag.bsky.social. Sandhya’s earlier documentary I FOR INDIA is an all-time favourite of mine, can’t recommend it highly enough.

Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM

Like evil doll horror. Quite like Geoffrey Rush. Love John Lithgow. Did not much care of The Rule of Jenny Pen. Review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social ⬇️

Incredible. Gift version of article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...