A. J. Black
@ajblack.bsky.social
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At one point Michael Flatley (playing retired spy Victor Blackley) takes off one jauntily angled hat only to be handed another. This to me is cinema.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
At one point Michael Flatley (playing retired spy Victor Blackley) takes off one jauntily angled hat only to be handed another. This to me is cinema.
I find this utterly baffling and probably smell horseshit over this entire piece.
James Bond has never had a consistent narrative. Each Bond is basically a new bloke. It doesn’t matter if he died. That was just one version. You start again fresh.
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
James Bond has never had a consistent narrative. Each Bond is basically a new bloke. It doesn’t matter if he died. That was just one version. You start again fresh.
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
EXCLUSIVE: James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon
Bond writers are now racking their brain, trying to move forward with the franchise after the last film's wild twist.
radaronline.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I find this utterly baffling and probably smell horseshit over this entire piece.
James Bond has never had a consistent narrative. Each Bond is basically a new bloke. It doesn’t matter if he died. That was just one version. You start again fresh.
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
James Bond has never had a consistent narrative. Each Bond is basically a new bloke. It doesn’t matter if he died. That was just one version. You start again fresh.
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
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"It’s tempting to read The Traitors as symbolic of the state of modern Britain: a place where everyone suspects that everyone else might be against them; which seems diverse but where those who seem in some way different are the first to face suspicion when the going gets rough..."
The happy psychopathy of The Traitors
Contestants on the BBC show are suspicious, paranoid and prone to herd mentality. But they're also surprisingly nice
www.newstatesman.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"It’s tempting to read The Traitors as symbolic of the state of modern Britain: a place where everyone suspects that everyone else might be against them; which seems diverse but where those who seem in some way different are the first to face suspicion when the going gets rough..."
A thrill seeing #InsideNo9 on stage last night with #StageFright at New Theatre in Oxford.
Won’t give any secrets away but it was as you’d imagine - hilarious, melancholy, creepy, clever and a bit meta. The proper curtain down after the show ended.
Still on tour so see it if you can.
Won’t give any secrets away but it was as you’d imagine - hilarious, melancholy, creepy, clever and a bit meta. The proper curtain down after the show ended.
Still on tour so see it if you can.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A thrill seeing #InsideNo9 on stage last night with #StageFright at New Theatre in Oxford.
Won’t give any secrets away but it was as you’d imagine - hilarious, melancholy, creepy, clever and a bit meta. The proper curtain down after the show ended.
Still on tour so see it if you can.
Won’t give any secrets away but it was as you’d imagine - hilarious, melancholy, creepy, clever and a bit meta. The proper curtain down after the show ended.
Still on tour so see it if you can.
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The latest episode of The #CineHistorians Podcast is now on YouTube!
We discuss Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves (1948) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYk...
We discuss Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves (1948) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYk...
S2E3: Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Vittorio De Sica
YouTube video by The CineHistorians Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The latest episode of The #CineHistorians Podcast is now on YouTube!
We discuss Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves (1948) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYk...
We discuss Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves (1948) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYk...
Love chatting with Hugh, obviously, but having John on too is a particular pleasure.
He recorded this while driving through Italian roads at night, befitting this weird but tremendous film.
Hope you enjoy us getting into it.
He recorded this while driving through Italian roads at night, befitting this weird but tremendous film.
Hope you enjoy us getting into it.
NEW EPISODE!
@ajblack.bsky.social & @angryscotsman81.bsky.social are joined by @www.johnbleasdale.com to chat Jonathan Glazer’s haunting 2013 film UNDER THE SKIN.
🎧 wherever you get your pods. open.spotify.com/episode/3UWS...
@ajblack.bsky.social & @angryscotsman81.bsky.social are joined by @www.johnbleasdale.com to chat Jonathan Glazer’s haunting 2013 film UNDER THE SKIN.
🎧 wherever you get your pods. open.spotify.com/episode/3UWS...
Under the Skin with John Bleasdale
open.spotify.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Love chatting with Hugh, obviously, but having John on too is a particular pleasure.
He recorded this while driving through Italian roads at night, befitting this weird but tremendous film.
Hope you enjoy us getting into it.
He recorded this while driving through Italian roads at night, befitting this weird but tremendous film.
Hope you enjoy us getting into it.
John Locke’s Dad in Lost.
November 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
John Locke’s Dad in Lost.
It’s going to be huge fun exploring It: Welcome to Derry in depth with Hugh and Dan. Let’s hope the show lives up to the story!
Hope you come with us on the journey.
Hope you come with us on the journey.
NEW EPISODE!
@ajblack.bsky.social & @angryscotsman81.bsky.social kick off coverage of #ItWelcomeToDerry with 1x01 ‘The Pilot’ & guest @danowen.bsky.social who will be with us for all eight episodes.
🎧 on all podcast players: spotify.link/2ZZWJ8BLXXb
@ajblack.bsky.social & @angryscotsman81.bsky.social kick off coverage of #ItWelcomeToDerry with 1x01 ‘The Pilot’ & guest @danowen.bsky.social who will be with us for all eight episodes.
🎧 on all podcast players: spotify.link/2ZZWJ8BLXXb
It: Welcome to Derry 1x01 - 'The Pilot' with Dan Owen
spotify.link
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It’s going to be huge fun exploring It: Welcome to Derry in depth with Hugh and Dan. Let’s hope the show lives up to the story!
Hope you come with us on the journey.
Hope you come with us on the journey.
It’s Halloween which means my yearly ritual begins - watching Millennium’s ‘The Curse of Frank Black’ with the lights off.
Remains a thing of haunting beauty.
Remains a thing of haunting beauty.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s Halloween which means my yearly ritual begins - watching Millennium’s ‘The Curse of Frank Black’ with the lights off.
Remains a thing of haunting beauty.
Remains a thing of haunting beauty.
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I'm so grateful that I write for a publisher who doesn't discourage political readings of films, especially ones that are unabashedly political.
"If you take a macro rather than micro view, the film’s majestic ambition is easy to see—and its timing is chillingly perfect,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about ANNIVERSARY.
Anniversary movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert
If you take a macro rather than micro view, the film's majestic ambition is easy to see—and its timing is chillingly perfect.
www.rogerebert.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I'm so grateful that I write for a publisher who doesn't discourage political readings of films, especially ones that are unabashedly political.
It’s still better than Mrs Brown’s Boys.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It’s still better than Mrs Brown’s Boys.
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Suck on our HALLOWEEN SPECIAL with @brendonconnelly.bsky.social, @ajblack.bsky.social & Lindsay Drysdale joining us mid-storm to talk about anthology horrors and tell ghost stories… 🎃 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Suck on our HALLOWEEN SPECIAL with @brendonconnelly.bsky.social, @ajblack.bsky.social & Lindsay Drysdale joining us mid-storm to talk about anthology horrors and tell ghost stories… 🎃 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
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The Horror and Her, a show dedicated to female voices and horror cinema, is the latest addition to the Film Stories Podcast Network.
filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...
filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...
Film Stories Podcast Network | introducing The Horror And Her
The Horror and Her, a show dedicated to female voices and horror cinema, is the latest addition to the Film Stories Podcast Network.
filmstories.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Horror and Her, a show dedicated to female voices and horror cinema, is the latest addition to the Film Stories Podcast Network.
filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...
filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...
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NEW EPISODE!
@angryscotsman81.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social get our choppers around #VHSHalloween and discuss each segment.
Well worth a watch & hope you enjoy. spotify.link/SAp8tfn6QXb
@angryscotsman81.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social get our choppers around #VHSHalloween and discuss each segment.
Well worth a watch & hope you enjoy. spotify.link/SAp8tfn6QXb
Halloween Special: V/H/S Halloween
spotify.link
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
NEW EPISODE!
@angryscotsman81.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social get our choppers around #VHSHalloween and discuss each segment.
Well worth a watch & hope you enjoy. spotify.link/SAp8tfn6QXb
@angryscotsman81.bsky.social and @ajblack.bsky.social get our choppers around #VHSHalloween and discuss each segment.
Well worth a watch & hope you enjoy. spotify.link/SAp8tfn6QXb
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Also, all this talk of the 2026 #DoctorWhoChristmasspecials - I've got a new book coming out from @candyjarbooks.bsky.social. celebrating 20 years of #DoctorWho #Christmas and New Year's Day specials.
Pre-order link below 👇
www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-st...
Pre-order link below 👇
www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-st...
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Also, all this talk of the 2026 #DoctorWhoChristmasspecials - I've got a new book coming out from @candyjarbooks.bsky.social. celebrating 20 years of #DoctorWho #Christmas and New Year's Day specials.
Pre-order link below 👇
www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-st...
Pre-order link below 👇
www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-st...
Just backed this. Sounds tremendous. And having a digital archive of every issue of Fangoria handy is incredible.
Let no one tell you @fangoria.bsky.social fans are not the ABSOLUTE FREAKING GREATEST, because we just got funded in one hour, baby
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
(uhm but also please still contribute)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
(uhm but also please still contribute)
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just backed this. Sounds tremendous. And having a digital archive of every issue of Fangoria handy is incredible.
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R.I.P. unofficial Bond girl Prunella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_d...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_d...
Roger Moore and Prunella Scales - Tesco (UK)
YouTube video by QuirkyFilms
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
R.I.P. unofficial Bond girl Prunella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_d...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_d...
Great fun here chatting Inside No. 9 (not for the last time either…) and telling a ghost story.
Always fun popping up on this fangtastic show.
Always fun popping up on this fangtastic show.
🎃 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
It’s spooky season, so we have a treat (NO tricks!)—3 anthology horror episodes!
☢️ MONSTERS “Waiting Game” • @brendonconnelly.bsky.social
🚨 INSIDE NO.9 - “Stake Out” • @ajblack.bsky.social
🐇 V/H/S/94 - “Terror” • Lindsay Drysdale
www.vampirevideos.co.uk/bonus-hallow...
It’s spooky season, so we have a treat (NO tricks!)—3 anthology horror episodes!
☢️ MONSTERS “Waiting Game” • @brendonconnelly.bsky.social
🚨 INSIDE NO.9 - “Stake Out” • @ajblack.bsky.social
🐇 V/H/S/94 - “Terror” • Lindsay Drysdale
www.vampirevideos.co.uk/bonus-hallow...
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Great fun here chatting Inside No. 9 (not for the last time either…) and telling a ghost story.
Always fun popping up on this fangtastic show.
Always fun popping up on this fangtastic show.
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
Great piece that speaks to many reasons why I love doing a horror podcast these days with @angryscotsman81.bsky.social. It’s just an embarrassment of riches as a genre.
Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money
Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money
With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the process
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Great piece that speaks to many reasons why I love doing a horror podcast these days with @angryscotsman81.bsky.social. It’s just an embarrassment of riches as a genre.
Been a while since I was able to say this, but I’m actually writing books again.
Two, in fact. One long contracted about the James Bond series. The other I’ve pitched to a new publisher and need to develop a bit more, but it’s (I think) an exciting concept about a corner of American cinema.
Two, in fact. One long contracted about the James Bond series. The other I’ve pitched to a new publisher and need to develop a bit more, but it’s (I think) an exciting concept about a corner of American cinema.
a person is writing in a notebook with a pen on top of it
ALT: a person is writing in a notebook with a pen on top of it
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Been a while since I was able to say this, but I’m actually writing books again.
Two, in fact. One long contracted about the James Bond series. The other I’ve pitched to a new publisher and need to develop a bit more, but it’s (I think) an exciting concept about a corner of American cinema.
Two, in fact. One long contracted about the James Bond series. The other I’ve pitched to a new publisher and need to develop a bit more, but it’s (I think) an exciting concept about a corner of American cinema.
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📼 If you missed the announcement in our Bloodletter, we’re delaying our mid-season break and doing a Halloween Special focused on horror anthologies! 🎃
MONSTERS - “The Waiting Game”
INSIDE NO.9 - “Stake Out”
V/H/S/94 - “Terror”
See you on 27 October! 👻
MONSTERS - “The Waiting Game”
INSIDE NO.9 - “Stake Out”
V/H/S/94 - “Terror”
See you on 27 October! 👻
October 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
📼 If you missed the announcement in our Bloodletter, we’re delaying our mid-season break and doing a Halloween Special focused on horror anthologies! 🎃
MONSTERS - “The Waiting Game”
INSIDE NO.9 - “Stake Out”
V/H/S/94 - “Terror”
See you on 27 October! 👻
MONSTERS - “The Waiting Game”
INSIDE NO.9 - “Stake Out”
V/H/S/94 - “Terror”
See you on 27 October! 👻
