Before seeing KEEPER / After seeing KEEPER

This is, famously, exactly what they said about Natasha Lyonne. (And she aced it, creatively! But it is being cancelled.)

Get ready to have your heights thoroughly wuthered.

One day there’s going to be a book about all of this called “Importance: High”

Herzog sig obtained. 🫡

That feeling when everything is oh so festive in the stores.

Last chance today! 🚂

Thursday might be the last day you can see this incredible film in UK cinemas. Then it’s on Netflix. I’m sure it’s good on Netflix. But on the big screen, TRAIN DREAMS is a masterpiece. See it there if you can.

Nocturnal Animals was good.

ICYMI I am very open to writing gigs anywhere (but the place I just quit obviously) that pays their writers in a timely fashion. Horror is my preference, but I have done other genres before.

Between them, second string players Katy O’Brian, Colman Domingo & Michael Cera make THE RUNNING MAN (★★★). As for the actual star, Glenn Powell, he’s fine; Josh Brolin phones it in as a villainous TV producer. The rest is sleek, and slightly hollow. It’s Edgar Wright’s least personal film yet.

He’s only doing this to fuck up my SEO.

Bond kinda has continuity between actors but also has a rolling retcon thing going on, and is smart enough to leave it vague. Next someone insists that “James Bond” is a code name, because how else has he been active for 7 decades, ask them when Homer Simpson was born and if that’s a code name too.

Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue." Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

Just… reboot it? Like you did when Daniel Craig took over? Did anyone fret about bringing in the “dead” Blofeld for Spectre? Why is this difficult?

How did Jurassic World Rebirth make so much money? I’m watching it now and it’s awful. Did people like it when they saw it? Did it have a big drop off? Man this is poor.

She’s back, and she’s smaller than ever. Cinema’s favourite micro-bitch returns in ORPHAN 3: ORPHANS. Now filming with Isabelle Fuhrman in Budapest, this is reportedly “the wildest Orphan movie yet.”

As we look toward next year & make preparations for horror events, organizers, I IMPLORE you to diversify your Women in Horror panels! Perspectives are SO important in the genre, so let me help you. Starting off: 160 BLACK WOMEN IN HORROR. Find wherever books are sold! Find your new faves here. 👻

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.