Now reading: STAR MAKER. 1. Goodbye, cruel world...

If the future's a locked-room mystery... a tragedy or comedy? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New A-Z list on VideoVista for Best TV shows of this century. videovista-uk.blogspot.com/p/top-tv.html

My book about Ang Lee's HULK is still available... telos.co.uk/shop/film/hu...

When does 'old age' start?

Thursday, again.

Yes, social-media is not the main problem... it's just a response.

Today's genre joke... What's the name of Dr Jekyll's zombie? Formal de Hyde.

TRON trilogy, #Blu-ray, 12 Jan. #Tron #TronLegacy #TronAres #sci-fi #movies #filmsky

Michelle Dockery's good fun in TV western GODLESS, leading an impressive cast (including Jack O'Connell, Jeff Daniels, Scoot McNairy, Kim Coates, Sam Waterston). A mining town run by women is targeted by outlaws and lawmen. Excellent production values make this always watchable as drama and action.

Back when Robert Crumb did fake news.

Artificial telepathy... it's the next big fad!

What's on the World Crisis Monitor?

GOT alt-ending?

Steam-punk Silver Surfer?

1/2 “There’s no place like home” - Dorothy “You can’t go home again” - Tom Wolfe When decyphering (yes, I know!) American dreams and nightmares, could they both be true? Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, trying to tell us everything about David Lynch and The Wizard Of Oz...

Chris Achilleos' classic #Medusa.

Booster for SUPER MARIO BROS. #fantasy #sci-fi #genre #movies #filmsky Go Goomba!

Interesting review... filmblitz.org/predator-bad...

Off the top of your head..?

Like this, "or there will be... Trouble".

Luc Besson's #DRACULA, #Blu-ray 22 Dec. #vampire #horror #movies #filmsky

Dept of war?

True story...

Still waiting for answers... #movies #filmsky #rom-com

Cat of the week?

Oh no, it's Wednesday, again.

Fast becoming a British sob-story of the year? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unfairly trashed in 1990s, SUPER MARIO BROS was directed by the creators of Max Headroom, and looks nowadays very like Terry Gilliam's Jurassic Lark. One of the early genre-film adventures of interdimensional fun with amusing weirdness, especially when Fiona Shaw steals the show. #SuperMarioBros

What was the first romantic-comedy movie that you liked?

Posting on Bsky is like 'news' behind a pay-wall.

#GREMLINS is the ultimate #Xmas #movie! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

@secondsightfilms.bsky.social Oddly, it seems Bsky has put an *adult* label on the pack-shot image for VideoVista's review of POSSESSION. videovista-uk.blogspot.com/2025/12/poss...

POSSESSION reviewed on #VideoVista - "..essential viewing for any keen fans of sublimely absurdist, yet timeless, nightmares about living through faulty humanity." videovista-uk.blogspot.com/2025/12/poss... #Possession #Zulawski #Adjani #movies #horror #filmsky

Booster for my #Top10 list... of leaky-boat #films. What are your favourites? #WaterWorld #sci-f #action #pirates #ships #maritime #movies #filmsky

Why do I get the idea that he really wants to nuke Venezuela from orbit? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

“I am very excited to get this party started..." Free booze?

Got my copy last week.

My top 10 maritime movies... 1. WaterWorld - easy choice 2. Red Cliff 1 & 2 3. Life Of Pi 4. Triangle 5. Deep Blue Sea - better than Jaws 6. Poseidon (remake) 7. Dead Calm 8. The African Queen 9. Cutthroat Island I didn't really want to include any B&W films, but - 10. The Bedford Incident

A step closer to solving the mystery? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Yet another utterly ridiculous list... Glad to see JUGGERNAUT, TRIANGLE, and DEAD CALM, included, but Petersen's post-Titanic POSEIDON remake was much better than the 1970s original. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

New words game?

Booster for #KathrynBigelow movie #AHouseOfDynamite. #movies #thriller #NOnukes

Good news!

Booster for #SHELL (2024) starring #ElisabethMoss, directed by #MaxMinghella. #horror #monster #movies #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLgv...

Max (son of Anthony Minghella) directs Elisabeth Moss, in SHELL, chasing #TheSubstance dollar, into lobsterama realm for a monster-movie of black-comedy. Silly and splattery, but quite funny!

Frankenstein Sunday double-bill... What difference does 50 years make?

Booster for Jess Varley's watchable SF-horror movie THE ASTRONAUT, starring #KateMara and #LaurenceFishburne.

Gripping political-thriller with no-nukes themes, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE stacks up well against Twilight's Last Gleaming and By Dawn's Early Light. Is it Kathryn Bigelow's best movie? No, her directing on Near Dark, Blue Steel, Strange Days, and Zero Dark 30 was better, and they all broke new ground.

Quite amusing #B-movie, #TheASTRONAUT combines body-horror (Hammer's #QUATERMASS Xperiment), creepy #UFOlogy (Shyamalan's #SIGNS), and fantastic #weirdness of #XTRO. Feature-debut of writer-director #JessVarley, this #SF vehicle for Kate Mara & Laurence Fishburne lacks originality but is good fun.