I'd love to do a booklet essay this year

Has anyone made an Obayashi edit set to Charli xcx I Think I'm Gonna Die In This House

Kiyotaka Oshiyama (re)animating in VR the scene where Fujino runs in the rain ♡ (@ "Look Back" exhibition)

"Eternal Family" by Koji Morimoto & Studio 4°C available for free on Youtube. An obscure mini-series (52 episodes of 30 seconds) commissioned in 1997 by NTT Infosphere. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5w8...

Adding my voice to the chorus recommending Gus Van Sant’s DEAD MAN’S WIRE as it expands to more theaters as it's quite good and boasts interesting editing choices which led to one of my favorite exchanges I've ever had in an interview. As the kids say, Van Sant knows ball* *TETSUO: THE IRON MAN 📽️

Just ask Janet to come back good lord.

Ahead of 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, I looked at how nearly 20 years of Jack O'Connell antagonists on the big screen led to 'Sir Jimmy Crystal' for @curzon.com www.curzon.com/journal/jack...

"Elan" is a love sim released for PS1 by Visco in 1999 where you can choose between a male & female player but romance from the same pool of characters regardless of your gender. The game features 74 endings & a unique conversation system where you choose emotions with responses.

just saw a photo of someone dressed as Jimmy Crystal for a Bone Temple screening and, like, I get it that there's probably zero context for this for a lot of people outside the UK, but, y'know, you've basically gone to the cinema dressed as Jimmy Savile

charles burnett’s sophomore feature “my brother’s wedding” (1983) is having its world restoration premiere at berlinale. burnett’s follow up to “killer of sheep” is tender and enduring. i am grateful to have served as co-restoration supervisor for this 4K release. @milestonefilms.bsky.social

"My wife and I once visited the Bone Temple. 28 years later, we've never been back."

I don't use hashtags, but if anybody wants one I still have the one I got from IKEA. It just needs to be assembled. // =

Live. Die. Repeat. Animate. As a fresh anime adaptation of ALL YOU NEED IS KILL crash-lands in US theaters from @gkids.com, I sat down with director Kenichiro Akimoto for @animag.bsky.social to discuss the many inspirations behind Studio 4°c's latest www.animationmagazine.net/2026/01/all-...

okay come on lol

WEAPONS.

Bad at the old self-promotion thing, aren't I. You've got a couple more days to preorder the deluxe edition: www.lostincult.co.uk/simogo

Part One of takes both celebratory and scabrous as I round up the wild cinematic year that was 2025. Sub to that Substack if you like what you see here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/simonram...

Overheard someone in the theatre call it ‘Martin Supreme.’ Ireland, folks

To celebrate the new year, here is Yugo Sakamoto being weird.

Two Japanese fishermen were having a competition to see who could catch the most auspicious fish for New Years. It was a tai.

Hey friends, it's The End of 2025, and it's been quite a year. In the spirit of things, I'll join everyone in re-sharing and reflecting on my favourite articles and accomplishments of 2025. Let's take a Look Back: 🧵

First trailer for "Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia" anime series by Science Saru studio. Directed by Naoko Yamada & Abel Gongora. Character designer & Animation director : Kenichi Yoshida. Based on the manga by Tomato Soup. Coming in July 2026. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqB3...

The full line-up for the V-Cinema focus program I curated for the International Film Festival Rotterdam is up now: iffr.com/en/iffr/2026... Miike, Kurosawa, Aoyama, Takashi Ishii and lots of films that have never been shown in a theater before. Plus the full Crime Hunter trilogy!

rewatching Godzilla vs Biollante via the 4K disc and i've got a hot take as someone who was raised on kaiju films i think godzilla vs biollante might actually just be *the* best versus film in the entire series. flat out.

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

The Japanese film director Harada Masato (原田真人) died on December 8 at the age of 76. He made hit films like Climber's High as well as art films like Kamikaze Taxi. He appears as an actor in The Last Samurai. www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainmen...

Hideaki Anno just announced via the khara website that Gainax is officially dead and gone as a corporate entity as of December 10th: www.khara.co.jp/2025/12/11/2...

NO OTHER CHOICE

We're delighted to announce the launch of the Outskirts Film Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between and at the peripheries. Rate, subscribe & follow us wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The positive reception of this film has made me feel nuts

Awards and lists that pull exclusively from the same pool of 30 films that sent out fyc screeners are completely useless and might as well be compiled by distributors and their PR firms.

All characters were played by men (or boys).

For my final interview from this year's Tokyo TIFF, I spoke with Ken Kawai, a CODA and director of quietly riotous dramedy THE CHATTERBOXES, about the importance of balancing perspectives, accessibility in subtitling, and the infuence of Italian greats screenanarchy.com/2025/12/toky...

And there we have it. After 22 years, the record for the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film of all time is beaten! Kokuho has had unprecedented success, growing weekly for over a month, earning incredible word of mouth, for what is ostensibly a 3-hour dense drama about an outdated art form

I spoke with Tetsuya Mariko, director of fascinating Toei melting pot DEAR STRANGER, about New York, puppet theatre, Haneke, and more screenanarchy.com/2025/11/gold...

I reviewed athletic anime feature 100 METERS for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social. If there was a Bechdel Test for dialogue about topics other than track and field, this film would fail it www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Going thru old tabs and forgot to post this last month. Definitely agree that some stop motion stuff is too smooth now. What's the point then? There has to be some tactile feel to it

Yang on the Channel

oh my god

I explored the diverse array of animation on offer at this year's Tokyo TIFF for @animag.bsky.social, speaking with programming lead and amime critic Ryota Fujitsu about a medium that he says "sets his heart aflutter" www.animationmagazine.net/2025/11/anim...

WHITE FLOWERS & FRUITS recalls the slippery pleasures of Summer Vacation 1999 and Picnic at Hanging Rock. I sat with its debut director during TIFF, talking sensory filmmaking, Apichatpong, Hamaguchi, and why all sapphic dramas look like that desperatelyseekingsubtitles.substack.com/p/yukari-sak...

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

I regret to inform you that they found drugs in the Suica penguin’s apartment

NOOOOOO

Just lost a great one. Rest in peace, Tatsuya Nakadai. What a legend.

you think you've got a decent grasp of what the hokey pokey is until the song says "and then you do the hokey pokey" and you're right back to square one