ANEMONE is a decent 3.5 star 95 minute drama trapped inside a dour, dull 2hr 2-star film. It's all style over substance, as if a blue colour palette, smash-cuts to super-loud music and super-slow push-ins on Daniel Day-Lewis' face can make up for a lack of plot progression. #LFF #Anemone

Kelly Reichardt’s THE MASTERMIND is an odd film. It’s beautifully constructed and has her typically restrained, measured tone. But its central character is so selfish, smug and feckless, it’s hard to know what to do with the film’s requirement for us to engage with his story. #LFF #TheMasterMind

Julia Roberts gives the performance of her life in Luca Guadagnino’s slippery complex and provocative After The Hunt. Not without its flaws but so so so intelligent. #LFF #AfterTheHunt

Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s beloved story #Hamnet is a thing of rare beauty. Jessie Buckley gives the performance of her life as Shaekspeare’s grieving wife and Paul Mescal is heartbreakingly good too. #LFF

After sitting through Amanda Seyfried butchering Mancunian last night I just couldn’t endure #Hedda. I wonder if Tessa Thompson was trying to do Vanessa Kirby in The Crown? I think it’s the worst on-screen British accent since Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. #LFF

Tessa Thompson produces a career-ending attempt at a British accent in #Hedda. Walked out after 30 mins. She said one line and I knew it was over. Should have walked out then. Were the British cast too polite to mention it? #LFF

The Testament of Ann Lee is a shockingly sincere, incurious film, with zero interiority or emotional depth. Beautifully shot, staged and choreographed. But for what? #LFF www.bina007.com/2025/10/the-...

#Bugonia is Total Cinema and truly a film for our fucked up times. www.bina007.com/2025/10/bugo... #LFF

Really enjoyed this balanced and unexpectedly moving documentary about football superfans around the world. #Ultras is playing at this year’s #BFI #LFF www.bina007.com/2025/10/ultr...

JAY KELLY is a deceptively slow-moving gentle comedy that hits harder than you might realise on a first watch. It doesn’t contain the visceral anger of Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY: it’s melancholy & wistful, despite the brilliant cheesecake gags. www.bina007.com/2025/10/jay-... #JayKelly #LFF

Not without its flaws, but still funny and moving. Tuner feels like Leo Woodall’s breakout feature film leading role. I am amazed it doesn’t have distribution yet. www.bina007.com/2025/10/tune... #Tuner #LFF

Watched #Tuner last night at the #LFF. You have to wrap your head around some outlandish plotting but Leo Woodall is very strong in the central role and it has a gonzo energy and dialogue with music reminiscent of Whiplash. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Really loved #Olmo - a heart warming and funny coming of age story set in late 70s New Mexico. Watch it at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. www.bina007.com/2025/10/olmo... #LFF

Absolutely loved Rian Johnson’s new #KnivesOut film #WakeUpDeadMan! Works as murder mystery and as social satire on Maga’s unfeeling religiosity. Josh O’Connor is fantastic as a young earnest priest and Daniel Craig is just a bloody good time. www.bina007.com/2025/10/wake... #lff

Complex thoughts. Technically accomplished. Very tough to watch. www.bina007.com/2025/10/comp... #onebattleafteranother

Hands down my film of the year. Unrelentingly tense and frighteningly real. What would you do, as President, if the USA were under nuclear attack? www.bina007.com/2025/10/rash... #AHouseOfDynamite #filmsky #moviereview

Happy #LFF to all who celebrate. Two 20-somethings derp around Melbourne in Sophie Somerville’s #Fwends - playing at this year’s festival. Review: www.bina007.com/2025/10/fien... #filmsky #moviereview

Okay. One Battle. An hour too long. Appreciated a lot of it in theory. Particularly the score and some of the performances (esp Regina Hall). I can see why every single reviewer loves it. But I found it unbearable to watch a comedy caper set against a backdrop of ICE raids.

Khartoum***** is a superb documentary telling the story of five of the 10 million Sudanese displaced by the latest military coup. Along the way, hear discussions of what Sudanese identity even is. Watch it at this year’s BFI #lff

Debut feature writer-director Zain Duraie's SINK*** is a beautifully acted film about a perilously unboundaried relationship between a mother and her mentally ill son in contemporary, middle-class Jordan. I found it somehow held me at a distance, but I admired it. Watch it at this year’s BFI #lff

Writer-director Imran Perretta's #Ish is a beautifully made and emotionally searing coming-of-age drama set in Luton - a multicultural town that’s still facing the same racially motivated policing and tug of war for the souls of its teenage boys as it did when I was growing up in the 80s. #lff

THE TRAVELERS***** is David Bingong's own journey from Cameroon to Spain, with a group of young men of courage, good humour, but fully aware of the risks. This is playing at the BFI #lff and is urgent and impressive - truly a film for our times. www.bina007.com/2025/10/the-... #thetravelers

What a delightful, heart-warming surprising documentary #SingingWings is! Playing soon at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. www.bina007.com/2025/10/sing... #lff

Oof, didn’t get on with Robin Petre’s Grierson Prize nominated doc Only On Earth** either. Stunning visuals of wildfire prone Northern Galicia but not without its longeurs. #lff www.bina007.com/2025/10/only...

LOVE, BROOKLYN** is a gentle earnest romantic dramedy with a side order of social commentary about gentrification. The film washed over me like a warm breeze. Inconsequential and forgettable but not entirely unpleasant. www.bina007.com/2025/10/love... #lff #filmsky

FUCK PGMOL FUCK JARRED GILLETT FUCK LIVERPOOL FUCK CHELSEA FUCK MAN UNITED FUCK TOTTENHAM THE ARSENAL

Binged House of Guinness, great fun though clearly historically nonsense. Good to see Joff having a laugh.

These gun-happy dicks will make martyrs and victims out the worst people. This isn't the way.

Showing my age here but the new Paul Weller covers album is superb. #musicsky

Celine Song's follow-up to her wildly, and rightly, praised debut feature PAST LIVES, MATERIALISTS, is a dud. It wasn't funny or romantic, it didn't have a lot of dramatic tension, and it casually used sexual assault as a plot device. Just no. #materialists #pedropascal #dakotajohnson #chrisevans

#TheLifeofChuck is a half a wry dystopian depiction of trying to live a banal life in climate ravaged America and half a weird montage of dance scenes. I didn’t get it at all. Part of the issue is that #TomHiddleston is himself a dancing meme so it takes you out of the story. Mark Hamill great tho’

Obnoxious nepo baby. I think I hate her more than I hate Gywneth Paltrow.

Sorry, Baby is very special film and more than lives up to its Cannes-Sundance hype. I think we are seeing the emergence of a really fascinating new authorial voice in writer-director-actor Eva Victor. #sorrybaby #filmsky

This is a dumb idea. Higher-income patients go private. You can’t fix the NHS this way.

Gareth Edwards (ROGUE ONE) has made THE BEST Jurassic Park film since the original and, whisper it quietly, perhaps even surpassed the iconic Spielberg original. www.bina007.com/2025/07/jura... #filmsky #jurassicpark

Unsurprisingly I love Mark Gatiss’ new crime show with all of its social history. cf. my linear reread of Christie through a social history lens for VOK. Nora is my favourite character because I too am basically a nerdy teen who has a lurid fascination with grizzly crime. #Bookish

Thoroughly enjoyed the new #JurassicPark despite being sopping wet from a thunderstorm. Really well written, constructed and acted. A pivotal scene at night with a flare is a masterclass in building tension AND emotion. Happy camper.

Sometimes the most wonderful movie experiences are those quiet, delightful, low-key brilliant films that utterly surprise you. The Ballad of Wallis Island is just such a film. Laugh-out funny, moving, but never twee. Do seek it out. www.bina007.com/2025/07/the-... #careymulligan #filmsky

If you want to really freak yourself out read the article on automated drone warfare in the latest edition of the New Yorker.

Must be in a really good mood because I also really loved Thunderbolts* The name “Bob” has not been this successfully deployed for comic effect since Blackadder II. www.bina007.com/2025/07/thun... #thunderbolts #marvel #florencepugh #moviesky

In a continuing theme of pleasant movie surprises, I watched Superman and I liked it! Sure it’s overstuffed and chaotic but its core message got me in the end. Being kind and thinking the best of people really is the new punk rock. www.bina007.com/2025/07/supe... #superman #filmsky

I watched Snow White and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I hope it finds its audience in time - away from all the controversy surrounding its release. www.bina007.com/2025/03/snow... #disney #snowwhite #rachelzegler #filmsky #moviesky

Saw #Superman today. Superman isn’t woke. If anything the character of Mr Fantastic is a racist trope. Very silly aliens and waaaay too much happening. But otherwise I did rather like the final scenes with Supe and Lex and the message of the final SupeCave scene. About what parents really are.

Is Forest Whitaker’s English accent in The Crying Game the worst cinema accent since Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins? #cinema #filmsky

Rewatching The Crying Game for the first time since it was released in 1992. I had forgotten that the opening title song was “When A Man Loves A Woman”. A bit on the nose! #cinema

Wtf are people lionising Jota. Spoiled brat drove his supercar too fast and killed his bro. He’s not some terrorism martyr. Or am I being a dick?

Driving through the spectacular lake land of Central Finland as America declares a trade war on Europe… Finns lolling on pebble beaches like comatose Moomins must soon wake up to a harsh new reality. Europe needs to hit back so hard that Nasdaq tanks in terror. This is the only language Yankees know

So two eps in and Lena Dunham’s new Netflix comedy Too Much just feels like a body-inclusive Emily in Paris but in London. I was expecting something way spikier and frankly funnier. #toomuch #tv

George III not lookin' so bad right now, amirite???

Watched the #F1movie today. Errant nonsense but great fun. Brad Pitt remains a good time. Good Roscoe cameo. No Leo LeC. Great Gunther cameo. Some mockery of DTS. Lots of silly driving and some very good driving.