Another round with the lads today: Ryan Coogler, Miles Caton, and one out of either Michael A. or Michael B. Jordan.

And he ended it with a quote from Byron. Give me a fucking break. I quit

I’m still on the hunt for anything that might break into this, but as things stand this is looking like my top dozen of the year. 📽️

Rewatch confirms: Five stars, film of the year.

Box set cover art pictured below.

I’m into end-of-year catchup mode.

Sentimental Value is out today in some US locations. UK/Ireland on Boxing day. It’s (and please excuse my poetic turn of phrase here) very good.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to think this! GDT’s Frankenstein makes the subtext text, and falls over itself to protect the unimpeachable innocence and moral superiority of its creature. Mary Shelley was smarter than this. Beautiful gowns though.

While I found Bi Gan’s Resurrection to be a bit of a curate’s egg, it does have some of the most glorious flourishes in modern cinema. It’s nothing if not a series of big swings, some connecting, some not, and for anyone who loves cinema as transcendent dream-dive it’s an absolute must-see.

“General Intelligence” in “key tasks.” So, not general.

Insane how many people are angry at this article on the basis of its *sarcastic* headline. Simply not even checking the content, straight to social media to sound off instead! Something something media literacy.

Britain’s newest national treasure 🥰

He’s busy trying to remember which order those zoo animals came in.

I love getting these subscription emails. It’s already paid for, long ago, so it feels like a gift from past me to current me. Some months I might be getting three movies. This month… wait… thirteen? ❤️‍🔥

I cannot emphasise enough that they had to reshoot almost the entire third act of the movie, because it broke a 90s settlement clause with one of Jackson’s abuse accusers - one that forbade the Jackson estate from portraying him as a villain. Apparently that’s exactly what the original ending did. 🙃

[george costanza voice] hey, I’ll be honest, certain events in the film were created for the purposes of dramatization

THE BLACK PHONE 2: The lads have done it again!* *Delivered a watchable 3-star horror film that’s reasonably entertaining but fails to rise above its influences.

Interesting that US critics are enjoying Predator Badlands a lot more this week than UK critics did last week. Differing tastes? The UK critics seemed to include a lot more horror journalists, who were disappointed in its “PG-13” quality, and seemed to think it was weak sauce with no visceral punch.

I was going to say “live laugh legislate” but then I remembered about the separation of powers.

If you like Japanese crime cinema, surely there’s no label on Earth more exciting than @filmsradiance.bsky.social right now. 🇯🇵❤️‍🔥

Good job everybody.

Me, double-checking Dick Cheney’s death certificate.

In a late-breaking announcement, Andrew Cuomo has come out in favour of simply walking away from the baby in Under The Skin. “Just leave it where it is,” he told a thinly attended Staten Island rally. “Sometimes doing nothing is the smart move. The process will play out, that’s all I’m saying.”

Sorry to be a Wife Guy on main, but I’m hereby dedicating this song to Monique, a smart cookie, talented writer, loving mother and all-round vampire girl who has made me very happy. ❤️‍🔥 open.spotify.com/track/2234XD...

After you’ve read all the female critics on Lynne Ramsey’s DIE MY LOVE, feel free to read mine. Bottom line: I just don’t think this achieved what it was meant to. Lovely editing though. ★★★ at the #LFF.

A good conspiracy theory would be the owners of People magazine publishing these headlines because they want a billionaire tech bro to buy them out at an inflated price.

I definitely feel like my ‘most-watched’ cast and director lists don’t really match up.

Smart to post this on Nov 1, so nobody can get “ I consider my business settled” on a Halloween t-shirt.

Awww, sure, the problem is they’re grabbing a weekly coffee… …when they should be SEIZING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION ayoooo

By the skin of my teeth I completed “100 Horror Movies in 92 Days” (h/t @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social) Here’s what I watched, and yes, I did what you should always do with art - I ranked them.

Peter Watkins has died. I loved his The War Game, and Punishment Park (each a horror, in a loose sense), and admired his ambition with Edward Munch. An iconoclast to the end, he often refused to engage with attempts to hold revivals of his work, arguing that culture must move forever forward. ❤️‍🔥

One of the great British films of the 80s, and sure to get a great introduction from Ellen. 🎟️

When it comes to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre… if you haven’t seen the 1980s Slovakian Betamax cut*, have you even seen the movie? *in Slovakian, emphatically without subtitles. 👩‍🍳💋

🚨#FromInsidetheHouse Ep 2 of Season 3 is live! For every woman who’s ever left home and felt the ghosts catch up, this one’s for you. In Nikyatu Jusu’s NANNY, Aisha learns that survival has a memory and assimilation has a price. 👻📽️ open.spotify.com/episode/2Uby...

This sounds great. 🔥 “…ten times that many failed to take the castle at Würzburg, even under the charismatic leadership of Florian Geyer, a nobleman, and Götz von Berlichingen, a pious knight with a prosthetic iron hand, both of whom had thrown in their lot with the peasants.” - big GoT vibes.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

This little freaky book baby will be two weeks old next Tuesday. “Everything a horror book collection should be.”, says ReactorMag, “Messy, horny and mean in the best ways.”, says Blog Without a Face. She’s a keeper! You should snag it! 🩸📚🖤 store.tenebrouspress.com/products/cla...

The arsehole formally known as Prince.

Brings a whole new meaning to Bumbling crooks.

Apropos of nothing, big shout out to Melissa Barrera - so fun in YOUR MONSTER and ABIGAIL, and a good heart and solid moral compass to boot! ❤️‍🔥

SHELBY OAKS pulls itself apart faster than it can scare, failing to marshal its various horror registers. It’s an ambitious mash-up of found footage, faux-doc, intimate indie dread and glossy reshoot that’s ultimately a case of Shelby Nopes.

Between this and the $11 billion loss last quarter, what’s the over/under on a valuation collapse? Open AI were supposedly looking for an early 2027 IPO, but can they make it that far before 📉💥? Feels like they won’t get to the end of 2026 at this rate…

Tatiana Maslany isn’t just back in horror - she’s become Osgood Perkins’s creative anchor. After The Monkey and Keeper, she’s joining THE YOUNG PEOPLE for NEON. After calling out Disney and railing against AI slop, it’s clear she knows where the real action is - wall to wall terror, Perkins-style.

I liked this film (reminded me a little of late-period Antonioni, and of course Friedkin’s Sorcerer), but my goodness were some reviewers suffering from a serious case of Cannes fever. Anyway, here the gorgeous new US poster for Oliver Laxe’s SIRĀT, a good movie.

🎬 Grimmfest isn’t done yet - the festival goes online 5–8 Dec 2025 with 13 killer features, including our fave, BAD HAIRCUT, a barbershop nightmare that cuts deep!💈💀

Jason Blum desperately hitting the phones to try and lock in the movie rights.

Mo’s BFI introduction to @monkeypawfilms.bsky.social’s “US” was one of the best film introductions I’ve seen for a long time. Excited that so many people who came out to the screening were seeing the film for the first time - hope they go on to see GET OUT and NOPE as well. Horror is for everyone!

Did a VERY cool thing tonight, loves. I got to chat Jordan Peele’s’ Us’ at the BFI. Opened w/ a film intro, screening, lecture & Q&A followed. I’m absolutely buzzing! Horror academia is my home! 🖤🖤🖤 So grateful to the philanthropy team at BFI for opening the horror door to more folks! 👻📽️