Me: when are the shops open at Easter Google: the usual times, but these may be different for Easter Me: so what are they Google: no idea, ask the shop website Me: shop website, what are your Easter opening times Shop website: here are our normal opening times, we will be shut on Christmas Day 2023

As excited as I am for Disclosure Day, what I really want from it is an IMAX screening of Close Encounters if someone could sort that out please and thank you 👽🛸 🙏

Absolutely delighted that @empiremagazine.bsky.social invited @marghjenkin.bsky.social to write about his new film Rose Of Nevada for the latest issue. Seen this movie twice now and it won't disappoint the Jenkin hive. The rest of you, come aboard!

I reviewed George Orwell: 2+2=5 for @empiremagazine.bsky.social. Interesting guy but, as the title reveals, absolutely terrible at maths www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Sunday night oater

By Gad sir, I was as excited as Kasper Gutman to get my hands on The Maltese Falcon and rattle off 1000 hard-boiled words on it for this month's @empiremagazine.bsky.social. In shops now! (the magazine, not the titular dingus)

David Byrne at Hammersmith Apollo last night was a long-awaited dream come true. Baffled, though, by the unspoken rule decided upon by the crowd, that we would all stand up for a Talking Heads song then sit down for a David Byrne song. Bit disrespectful tbh

Effie darling, take this down and get it to the guys at Empire before they go to press. You're a good man, sister.

Not one of the recent high profile music biopics has the cinematic levels of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that a decent Fleetwood Mac film would. Come on guys.

Now LIVE: a bonus episode about Man on the Run, the new doc about Paul McCartney in the 1970s. 🏃‍♂️It's more self-critical than we expected! 🏃‍♂️But maybe only in a way that lets him frame the narrative? 🏃‍♂️Does Sean Lennon's contribution mean some validation for Paul? open.spotify.com/episode/3PJI...

It doesn't get much better than this: a triple bill of @marghjenkin.bsky.social's wildly original, quite brilliant features Bait, Enys Men and Rose Of Nevada at the BFI in April. Some of my favourite filmmaking of the 21st century right here. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Hitchquiz! Honoured to be asked to write this month's @empiremagazine.bsky.social headscratcher on Alfred the great. I'd love to know how you did, especially if you got the last question right...

I don't know why everyone is so down on AI when it's being used on eBay to produce magic like this

This film and score are excellent, have a go on it if you're in the area! If you're not in the area but interested, simply go to the area

Excited for @marghjenkin.bsky.social's new short I Saw The Face Of God In The Jet Wash tonight. Warmed up with Hard Cracked The Wind, currently free to watch on BFI Player. Highly recommended for fans of Jenkin's Cornish ghosts, time loops and block universe japes. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

There's an excellent collection of Bowie business on BBC Sounds right now if that's your thing, and if not well I can't help you www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Cheeky little Hitchcorner on the BBC iPlayer right now: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/grou... (h/t @filmnoiruk.bsky.social)

This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!

Pam's annual centenary-celebrating, watchlist-swelling articles are now an essential part of the new year for me

If you're looking for a fabulous film to lift your spirits, THE LADY EVE, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, is on Channel 4's catch-up service for the next 4 weeks! #FilmSky www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

Movie of the year for me was probably Sinners, but it wasn't a great year at the cinema. Much preferred catching up on some unseen oldies; these are my 20 fave discoveries of '25

Annual share of this, in the eternally fruitless hope it'll get more than 3 likes on Letterboxd letterboxd.com/neilalcock/f...

The train departing platform #BBCTwo today at 3:30pm is Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951); it will be on #BBCiPlayer there after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... Also, we highly recommend Stephen Rebello's fantastic Criss-Cross book on the film. #FilmNoir

Your friends and family wanted you to get them HITCHOLOGY last Christmas. DON'T LET THEM DOWN AGAIN. Hive bit.ly/3x1afNO Waterstones bit.ly/48Tz5fB Amazon amzn.to/48RgAbL More: neilalcock.com/hitchology/

This is weirdly lovely: shots of the empty sets of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...

🥳 @criterion.bsky.social are releasing Killers Of The Flower Moon on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD, in the US next March. Crossing everything this comes to the UK not long after 🤞🙏

Absolutely here and ready for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2: The Legend of Curly's Skull

Your friends and family wanted you to get them HITCHOLOGY last Christmas. DON'T LET THEM DOWN AGAIN. Hive bit.ly/3x1afNO Waterstones bit.ly/48Tz5fB Amazon amzn.to/48RgAbL More: neilalcock.com/hitchology/

Citizens Advice is an incredible charity with shockingly little funding. Whether you're in Barnet or anywhere else in the country, consider chucking them a few quid if you can. 😘

Loved it, maybe the second or third best movie blog on the internet

I don't want to overly romanticise the studios. Many were set up and for decades run by sexists, racists and of course ruthless capitalists. They've often seemed hostile to film as an art form. But the situation now is not an improvement. Monopoly consolidation is Not Good. Cinema is Not Better Off.

Don't buy crap presents. Buy good ones. Like this!

My bestie from last year Love Lies Bleeding is now on Netflix, if you're into sweaty lesbian violence, and frankly why wouldn't you be boxd.it/6rpW89

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the movie buff in your life? Mr. Hitchcock would like to suggest my book HITCHOLOGY. And who am I to argue? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HeyUGuys ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Empire ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Total Film Hive bit.ly/3x1afNO Waterstones bit.ly/48Tz5fB Amazon amzn.to/48RgAbL More: neilalcock.com/hitchology/

Scorsese is a Basil Dearden fan and between him and me we'll make you all part of our BD fan club one day

OK, enough of you wanged on about this to convince me to bag it in the @indicator.bsky.social sale. So for my first viewing, 67-min UK theatrical cut, or 81-min US cut?

Watched Basil Dearden's 1954 boxing drama The Square Ring today. Robert Beatty wasn't in quite the same shape as De Niro in Raging Bull, but a late scene where, already battered half to death, he faces an oncoming pummelling, struck me as a possible visual inspiration for Dearden fan Marty.

Excellent to see this nasty little low-budget bad boy get a HE release from the BFI. Thanks to @filmnoiruk.bsky.social for flagging: the BFI are for some reason not on BlueSky, maybe get in touch with them if you think they should be! bfiforms.wufoo.com/forms/contac...

Heads up! David Lean's first film In Which We Serve (co-directed by and starring Noël Coward) is on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon (and hopefully iPlayer thereafter), and it is a *belter*. Been watching a lot of WW2 films this year and this is one of the very best. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

@letterboxd.social WAKE UP BABE SITE'S DOWN

Rejoice! Those crazy sexpots at @arrowvideo.bsky.social are releasing Basil Dearden's 1969 Oliver Reed / Diana Rigg crackersgasm The Assassination Bureau on Blu-ray in January. I am drooling with anticipation. (also old age) www.arrowfilms.com/p/the-assass...

Two years since the release of Killers Of The Flower Moon, an actual Martin Scorsese film which, if you're the kind of person who wants a legit physical media copy rather than a pirated or suspiciously imported version, you still can't own because Apple refuse to release it or let anyone else do so.

Watched a lot of postwar British cinema this year, so excited to dig into this Eureka box set offering up an alternative point of view. What's the German equivalent of The Lavender Hill Mob?

Was excited for Radiohead x Nosferatu but it didn't really work for me. Often too on-the-nose with the syncing, so loud as to be a distraction from the story, and inexplicable posterisation effects that make Nozzo look like he's less into the blood of the innocent than big bowls of Ready Brek

Why does an unstoppable killing machine flinch like a baby when it bashes down its victims' doors? Scared of a bit of flying woodwork are you diddums, ah bless

Seeing Hitchcock's Sabotage at a picture house (literally a Picturehouse) next week like it's 1936, absolute madness. You too could be watching great old Hitchcock films at a cinema RIGHT NOW!* www.picturehouses.com/blog/hitchcock *probably not RIGHT NOW, depends what time you're reading this

We be Hillin'

Had a great chat with @hopeylivliv.bsky.social and Rose Butler from Picturehouses about their current season of Hitchcock belters and bangers. Available on pods of all shapes and sizes, but here's one: picturehouse.podbean.com/e/hitchcock-...

I am only ever interested in Bond gossip if Baz is reporting it. The news is there is no news, new Bond is 3 years away (which would make it a 7-year gap between films, the longest ever), calm down everyone. deadline.com/2025/09/jame...