What Mike sees in The Rock's performance as desperate Oscar bait and a cynical grasp for artistic legitimacy, José sees the good side of, although we're in agreement that THE SMASHING MACHINE has problems that its positives don't overcome. wp.me/p9y1IP-39J

What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy, Cinema Programmer at the Warwick Arts Centre to fid out: notesonfilm1.com/2025/10/20/j...

Visit the US? I mean, c'mon, who would be that stupid!!

A Kogonada film. Flawed but worth seeing and discussing: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/14/4...

Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/06/4...

I love this. Will see it again. And the podcast is surely the first of many discussions: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/03/4...

King Trump state visit to the UK: New photo released.

een it twice now; didn't think much of it the first time but thought I might have been in the wrong mood; now, I'm more convinced the faults are with the fim. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/4...

A discussion of Willi Forst's marvellous Maskerade: notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/26/t...

8/28/69 John Frankenheimer curio The Gypsy Moths w/Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman + Sheree North More @josearroyo.bsky.social: notesonfilm1.com/2020/05/10/t... @peterapeel.bsky.social: mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2016/08/not-... Illeana Douglas: trailersfromhell.com/the-gypsy-mo...

London Friends! Not to be missed at Ciné Lumière Sun 7 - Thu 18 Sept presented by Cinema Mentiré www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/nobod...

I gather Tim Key isn't as well-loved by others as he is by Mike. I'd never heard of him, hadn't seen him in anything, and was completely charmed.. One of those uneven films that provide more depth, feeling, and humour than some of the more polished ones: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/26/4...

I was very taken with was the effervescence, energy and brilliance of Amina Ferley Yael and Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha who introduced the Maria Luisa Bemberg programme Cinema Rediscovered. This podcast is the result of wanting to know more notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/24/j...

All these new comedies starring comedians I'd never heard of that are uneven but have depth and are funny. I'm liking the shift from all the bros improvs of yesteryear. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/22/4...

Sometimes you read a new book and love it so much you want to speak to its author and find out more. This is what happened to me in relation to Ryan Gilbey’s IT USED TO BE WITCHES: UNDER THE SPELL OF QUEER CINEMA. notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/21/j...

Signed up. I couldn’t have written my Black Archive books on Kinda and Warriors’ Gate without the access to the Written Archive. So many other researchers and writers depend on this too and so many books about television and radio culture would be poorer without it.

Whilst JD Vance comes to the UK & lectures us about freedom, his administration seems to be intent on turning the US into a police state.

Enjoy your Insta & WhatsApp & FB with turbocharged hate speech & conspiracy.

It has some laughs and Pamela Anderson but even so we couldn't understand why people are liking it so much and spend most of the podcast trying to like it and finding fault. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/13/4...

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

Richard and I compare two versions of The Killers (with a sideline to a third, Tarkovsky's student film): notesonfilm1.com/2023/07/14/t...

BOTD #FilmNoir maestro Robert Siodmak!! MCCT5 5)Cry/City 4)File on Thelma J 3)Criss Cross 2)Phantom Lady 1)Killers More @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/m... @jakehinkson.bsky.social: www.criminalelement.com/noir-s-great... @filmlinc.bsky.social: www.filmlinc.org/series/rober...

Good. Defamatory lying on social media is the aggressive business model of the 21st Century - pioneered by Alex Jones and copied by Candace Owen. It’s like a hostile takeover bid on a personal level. Horrible, disturbed and disturbing.

There were times near the beginning where I was tempted to walk out of this one. Why I didn't is discussed in the podcast. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/02/4...

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

I've listened to a few podcasts about Chantal Akerman's JEANNE DIELMAN… since I saw it earlier this year, but particularly enjoyed listening to @josearroyo.bsky.social & Richard Layne discussing it on their "Notes on Film" notesonfilm1.com/2025/03/18/j...

The #CineRedis25 UK & Ireland wide tour is available Aug 2025 – Jan 2026 supported by BFI awarding funds from #NationalLottery More info on all the films touring & those being released by partner distributors + support available can be found here: www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/30/t...

A clear illustration of governments against the people.

Proof that Scarlet Johansson can carry an action franchise, especially when her on-screen interactions are with her gay best friend, Jonathan Bailey. notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/28/e...

This is a great book.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

In Conversation with Sam Shahid on his beautiful new film on arguably the 20th Century's foremost photographer of the male nude HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/23/j...

Today at 10:

Tomorrow at ten:

I liked it, Mike didn’t: the conversation as to why is the podcsdt eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/07/25/4...

Fabulous interview in The Guardian today with Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi ahead of tonight’s SOLD-OUT UK Premiere of a new restoration of My Beautiful Laundrette 40 years after its release. See it in UK cinemas from 1st Aug c/o Park Circus. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Highly recommend the UK Premiere of Fernando Lopes’ Portuguese boxing film Belarmino (1964) at @wshed.bsky.social, #Bristol during @cineredis.bsky.social today at 4:20PM: www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1336...

I'll be in Bristol for @cineredis.bsky.social this weekend! Intro'ing 2 x magical Marxist feminist musical THE GOLD DIGGERS. Fill ur eyes w Julie Christie 🤩 Sat 26 July, 11 am, @wshed.bsky.social Sun 27 July, 1 pm, Curzon Clevedon (come at 12 for cinema tour!) www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1336...

Preceded by a fascinating talk from Woolley on the early days of Palace / the UK video market / Film on Four etc etc

Great start to @cineredis.bsky.social in Bristol - Julien Temple and Stephen Woolley introducing a 35mm screening of “Absolute Beginners”. Judging from his comments at the end the sold out audience enjoyed it a lot more than Julian Temple did! #filmsky

Cinema Rediscovered

U.S. now pulls out of UNESCO, the most important global education project.

Pitt in top form, Javier once more gorgeous and charming (I'd missed that about him), extraordinary images. Superb car chases/ I loved seeing it but....and there are many buts....discussed in the podcast below. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/07/22/4...

Lovely piece by Victor Erice on Nicholas Ray; metrograph.com/like-in-a-mi...

We agree👇

My choice for must-see film of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered is Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (USSR, 1991), which will have its UK Premiere in Bristol’s old IMAX cinema on 26th of July. As Daniel Bird says in the podcast, ‘it’s a once in a lifetime occasion’. notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/21/j...

A note on Luigi Comencini's Incompresso (1966): notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/20/i...