V/H/S/Halloween review - the eighth instalment in the horror anthology franchise continues the irreverent shenanigans of its Shudder era thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/10/05/r...

The Smashing Machine review - Dwayne Johnson gets serious for Benny Safdie's dramatically dry sports biopic thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/10/05/r...

Off to watch Dwayne Johnson: Serious Actor

HIM review - bafflingly butchered sports horror fails to make a touchdown thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/10/04/r...

Avatar: The Way of Water review - Back in UK cinemas and still shit! thelosthighwayhotel.com/2022/12/17/r...

OMG

The Urchin screening I was going to has been cancelled Booooooooo

Private dental consultation today. Pray for my wallet.

You can rent The People’s Joker here if you live in the UK, and you absolutely should because it’s one of the best films I’ve seen in the last few years, hands down

Good One review - India Donaldson's camping tale hangs on a trio of deft performances. One of my faves of the year. A class act now on MUBI UK: thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/05/17/r...

Can all these flagfuckers fuck off?

Happyend review - wayward students combat the surveillance state in Neo Sora's bittersweet social study thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/10/01/r...

I know I did the 30 day horror movie thing already this year but there's a high chance that the genre will dominate my ongoing film a day thing this month...

Happyend review - wayward students combat the surveillance state in Neo Sora's bittersweet social study thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/10/01/r...

September 30th/October 1st

The Strangers Chapter 2 review - It's still a bit of a mess, but Renny Harlin's reboot trilogy finally finds some focus thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/28/r...

One Battle After Another review - A(nother) Paul Thomas Anderson masterpiece. ¡Viva la Revolución! thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/27/r...

Available on Blu-ray in the UK from today:

The ads at the cinema are so bleak right now. Not just food banks. Last night I saw one for Not Stabbing People Please.

The Strangers Chapter 2 review - It's still a bit of a mess, but Renny Harlin's reboot trilogy finally finds some focus thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/28/r...

Grumpily/foolishly booked in for the only local screening of The Strangers Chapter 2 (I know! I know!) tonight at a disgusting 10pm. Wish me luck.

Vinyl's so expensive these days, even when you shop around carefully. That doesn't mean I'm not contemplating getting 2 new records today...

My top 6 PTA would, I think, be 1. Inherent Vice 2. Punch-Drunk Love 3. There Will Be Blood 4. One Battle After Another 5. Phantom Thread 6. Licorice Pizza But the thing is, these are *all* ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ pictures. And the ones chasing them aren't much less. Impeccable career to date.

One Battle After Another review - A(nother) Paul Thomas Anderson masterpiece. ¡Viva la Revolución! thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/27/r...

Alien Earth, then. Sort of terrible? Veered from slavish cosplay to total disinterest in the property. Almost as though the xenomorph had been shoehorned into a preexisting idea as suitable as making Night Country a True Detective extension. Still, Timothy Olyphant ruled.

Welp. Guess this is next, then...

Happy One Battle After Another Eve

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

Rolling deliriously in the muck again (rewatching Resident Evil: Apocalypse)

The Home review - Pete Davidson uncovers a sinister cabal at a nursing home in this maximalist effort from the creator of The Purge thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/23/r...

Rewatched The Strangers Chapter 1. Still a load of shit!

Seriously considering pretending I got 'raptured' to get out of going to work for the rest of the week...

i wish 'disney adults' going medieval rn had the same energy for harry potter.

From Ground Zero review - the 22 dispatches from within Gaza create a tapestry of perseverance thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/21/r...

Generally I'll watch anything in its native language with subtitles. Except giallo, which must be viewed with campy dubbing. It's the rules.

Why I Love... #185 tries to reconcile why we watch sad movies, taking Robert Bresson's stoic masterpiece Au hasard Balthazar as influence thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/20/w...

Is it safe now to say that, on reflection, MaXXXine is the most enjoyably re-watchable of the three?

It's a slim week so watched Borderline with an eye to reviewing it, but there simply wasn't enough there to justify 600+ words. It's kinda awful.

I have started Shoah (1985).

It's a particularly grey morning. I've elected to watch Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr, Hranitzky) for the first time. I'm going to need a coffee.

The Long Walk review - Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson shine in this dour endurance test thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/12/r...

Young Mothers review - the brothers Dardenne turn their socio-politically conscious eye to teen pregnancies for a flighty ensemble thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/14/r...

The Long Walk review - Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson shine in this dour endurance test thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/09/12/r...

For me one of the great strengths of the first four Alien films is that they bend tone, genre and aesthetic in a new direction each time while maintaining a sense of belonging. Romulus and Earth are enjoyable, but feel like slavish cosplay, ala Disney's approach to that other huge sci-fi property.

The Long Walk today and then a trip up to Bristol Beacon for those funny Three Bean Salad boys 🦀

Received an email detailing a mandatory work team building afternoon

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

Highest 2 Lowest review - Spike Lee transforms classic Kurosawa into another fairy tale of New York thelosthighwayhotel.com/2025/08/27/r...

I also think you should be allowed a day off work if you're just real sleepy.

This evening: Lost Highway on a cinema screen. Probably a big deal for someone like me.