no DESPAIR without AI

but ̶h̶e̶r̶ his e-mails... www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

Korean cruising: with a protagonist who is both Northern defector and gay, Park Joon-ho's intersectional feature debut 3670 (2025) simultaneously celebrates coming out and fitting in. Screens 8.30pm tonight at BFI Southbank for the London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/3670/

"Addison Heimann’s sort-of sex comedy sci-fi is an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism and tentacular trauma": TOUCH ME (2025) screens 6.15pm today at @abertoirfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/01/29/t...

"a rebel yell of positivism – with exclamation mark – that brings a fuzzy warmth to all the wintry Stockholm locations": Lukas Moodysson's pre-adolescent punk picture WE ARE THE BEST! (2013) is back screening in @curzon.com today projectedfigures.com/2014/04/18/w...

Both celebration and lament for forgiveness personified: Giedrė Žickytė’s A GOODNIGHT KISS (IRENA, 2025), a documentary portrait of the late Irena Veisaitė, had its international première at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/11/11/a...

One of the highest-level Jan 6 defendants is back behind bars A very efficient summary just filed to CBS News ===>

We're fans. #366WeirdMovies 366weirdmovies.com/the-face-of-...

Hiroshi Teshigahara's THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966) "leaves the viewer unsure whether its protagonist is dangerous criminal, mental patient, angst-ridden Everyman of the modern age, or cipher for Japan’s unstable identity in the post-war period". RIP Tatsuya Nakadai projectedfigures.com/2016/06/21/f...

I was just thinking about something, and then something happened. To be fair, they were entirely different things, but still, power of the mind and all that.

Text of my on-stage introduction to Kim Seok's THE INFORMANT (2025), which screened at the London Korean Film Festival, 9th Nov, 2025. So painstakingly spoiler-free that I barely mention the film itself... projectedfigures.com/2025/11/11/t...

"I'm just passing through": Tallulah H. Schwab's Kafka-esque MR. K (2024) "makes a labyrinthine hotel a microcosm of bounded, blinkered human experience". On digital from today via @musicboxfilms.com. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2024/11/15/m...

Always look up: Daniel Masciari’s bittersweet debut STATIONED AT HOME (2025) "sends a cabbie and his customers on a Christmas Eve trip into cosmic melancholy". On N. American DVD/VOD from today via Freestyle Digital Media projectedfigures.com/2025/03/07/s...

"a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction, artistic aspirations and capitalistic concerns": text of my on-stage introduction to Jang Man-min's SILVER APRICOT (2024) for the London Korean Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/11/11/s...

I don’t think of it as LLMs plagiarising my writing. I prefer to see it as me poisoning LLMs’ well.

"a sophisticated retelling of PSYCHO as a movie within a movie": Bigas Luna's mesmerising, metacinematic ANGUISH (1987) screens 9pm tonight at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Unmissable. projectedfigures.com/2015/04/02/a...

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

correction: this is at the ICA, not the BFI. h/t @trustworthym.bsky.social, who has just saved me a lot of trouble…

Just realised that I have possibly been misspelling ‘pastime’ my entire life #opsimath

"As deceit, disguise and double-dealing reign, this is a broad, bombastic entertainment, never predictable but always funny": Kim-seok's action comedy THE INFORMANT screen 3pm today at the BFI for the London Korean Film Festival, introduced by me www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/the-i...

"a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction and the transient nature of material things in our lives": Jang Man-min’s feature debut SILVER APRICOT screens 1.30pm today at BFI for London Korean Film Festival, introduced by me. www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/silve...

"a filmmaker returns home to retrace his missing sister’s last known footsteps": Robbie Banfitch’s slow-burn faux documentary TINSMAN ROAD (2025) screens 5.45pm today at Vue in the Light, for the @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/18/t...

"invites us to peek with Ray Winstone’s protagonist into the world of sex work": my old review of Richard Hawkins’ low-budget directorial debut EVERYTHING (2004). His latest, THINK OF ENGLAND, will have its world première at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/11/08/e...

"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) screens 10pm tonight at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...

“opens a young man’s eyes to the needs of the elderly”: James DeMonaco’s care facility-set horror mystery THE HOME (2025) re-screens 9.45pm tonight at @imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...

"gradually brings its characters home from endless, empty vendetta": Kevin and Matt McManus’ universe-leaping repeat revenger REDUX REDUX (2025) re-screens 9.30pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/09/r...

This "hilarious take on J-horror and the body myth insists you not spurn the implacable erotomaniac(s) at its heart": Yuriyan Retriever’s lovesick curse movie MAG MAG (2025) re-screens 9.15pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/16/m...

"It's enough to drive you crazy": Wojciech Has' picaresque THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1965) offers 1001 nights of narrative neurosis. Screens 7.45pm today at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Very highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2015/05/17/t...

"a bleak portrait of an ageing, dying community, of those left behind by Korea’s economic boom, and of a whole way of life that is running on empty": Park Ri-woong's THE LAND OF MORNING CALM screens 6.30pm today at ICA for London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/the-l...

"interrogates the unhinged drives and motives of an online celebrity": Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist portrait of an artist THE PIANO ACCIDENT (2025) re-screens 4.45pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/12/t...

"This trip through trauma exposes the seamy side of Korea’s manufactured entertainment industry, and its horrific, scarring exploitation of young people": Namkoong Sun’s TIME TO BE STRONG (2024) screens 4.30pm today, ICA for London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/time-...

Folk(s) horror: Babak Anvari’s unnerving road movie HALLOW ROAD (2025) sees parents racing to recover their adult daughter from a moral bind. Re-screens 4.20pm tonight at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/07/13/h...

"lets a musical clash encode a history of cultural assimilation, appropriation and saturation in America": Ryan Coogler’s Depression-/Prohibition-/Jim Crow-era horror noire SINNERS (2025). Screens 12.15pm today at BFI IMAX with extended intro from Coogler. projectedfigures.com/2025/04/22/s...

"traces an alienated adolescent woman’s embrace of her mother’s legacy amid parochial patriarchy": Julia Kowalski’s witchy Franco-Polish fable HER WILL BE DONE (2025) re-screens 11.45am at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/14/h...

"in this exploitative microscosm of America, both capitalism and patriarchy are the real curse": Annapurna Sriram's gonzo allegory FUCKTOYS (2025) is Anora's punkier, self-consciously trashier sister. Re-screens 11.30am today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/10/f...

What a queen

"an agoraphobic man goes on a gamified, internalised adventure through his life’s losses": @albertbirney.bsky.social’s monochrome DIY fantasia OBEX (2025) re-screens 9.30pm tonight at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/30/o...

Freak out!: Aidan Leary’s feature debut MONKEY'S MAGIC MERRY GO ROUND (2024) "makes a children’s television show a place of trauma and fugue". Re-screens 9.25pm tonight at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/03/m...

"a community’s unwitting complicity and cover-up lets something Lovecraftian in to feed": Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman's found footage MAN FINDS TAPE (2025) re-screens 7pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/06/09/m...

"Here, it is cinema itself which is the phantom carriage, taking us on a journey that can divert, horrify and depress – but also enlighten and improve": Victor Sjöström's THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) screens 6.15pm today at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2020/12/25/t...

"finds something monstrous and murderous emerging into a neighbourhood’s surface calm": William Bagley’s surreal suburban satire HOLD THE FORT (2025) re-screens 2.30pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hold...

"mines melancholy from the clash between a young man’s escapist fantasy and harsher reality": @seyfettintokmak.bsky.social's EMPIRE OF THE RABBITS (2024) is on @filmmovement.bsky.social Plus from today projectedfigures.com/2024/11/14/e...

Homer-ental: in @gerardjohnson.bsky.social 's satirical mini epic ODYSSEY, an ambitious, desperate North London estate agent voyages into the night to take care of business, becoming a real(ty) legend. In UK cinemas via Icon. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/odys...

Invisible men(ace): Yannis Koussim’s exorcism allegory ROQIA (2025) "turns recurring Algerian terror into apocalyptic pandemonium, empowered by a collective forgetfulness". Re-screens 9.30pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/05/r...

"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) re-screens 9.20pm at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...

"here genre is polished like a perfect, glistening diamond, and distilled to a chaotic, quixotic dream of desire and death": Cattet & Forzani's superlative superspy superspectacle REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND re-screens 7.10pm at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/20/r...

"an absurd take on the mysteries of the creative process, and the perfect disharmony that can exist between art and artist(s)": Jim Hosking's EBONY AND IVORY (2024), 7pm for My Eyes! My Eyes! at Multi-Storey, Peckham Levels, with Hosking in attendance projectedfigures.com/2024/09/21/e...

"Is it a horror or a comedy? Whatever it is, it will be fun"": Yûta Shimotsu’s coming-of-age satire NEW GROUP (2025) "tests how a schoolgirl’s individuality shapes up against society’s collective structures". Re-screens 5.15pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/01/n...

"respectful remake reduces its hero while leaning hard into the original’s existential preoccupations": Jan Kounen’s THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (L'homme qui rétrécit, 2025) re-screens 4.45 today at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/11/02/t...