Andrew Pope
@andrewpope.bsky.social
I just like movies. Especially horror movies.
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Member: Horror Critics Group | Film Critics Association
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Long movies
Explore epic-length cinema with our curated list of must-see long films, from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai to Napoleon, celebrating movies that defy the 90-minute norm.
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There was some nonsense recently about how films need to be “shorter.” So I wrote this, about my 10 favourite absolute units.
Long movies: go big or go home!
Long movies: go big or go home!
Critics: Margot Robbie was miscast!
Accountants: I beg to differ.
Accountants: I beg to differ.
Say what you will about Emerald Fennell, but she turned down a $150M+ Netflix offer, took $80M from WB, insisted on a theatrical release, and recouped the budget in opening weekend. She’s making movies!
February 18, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Critics: Margot Robbie was miscast!
Accountants: I beg to differ.
Accountants: I beg to differ.
Easily my favourite Outkast number.
February 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Easily my favourite Outkast number.
Took a look at my 2026 stats to date, and I’ll confess: I’d watch MANIAC COP 2 over FACES seven days a week and twice on Sundays.
February 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Took a look at my 2026 stats to date, and I’ll confess: I’d watch MANIAC COP 2 over FACES seven days a week and twice on Sundays.
Robert Duvall AND Frederick Wiseman?
Heaven just got a little bit more naturalistic and durational. ❤️🔥
Heaven just got a little bit more naturalistic and durational. ❤️🔥
February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Robert Duvall AND Frederick Wiseman?
Heaven just got a little bit more naturalistic and durational. ❤️🔥
Heaven just got a little bit more naturalistic and durational. ❤️🔥
Men don’t propose to your competitor girlfriends in the middle of their Olympics challenge.
February 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Men don’t propose to your competitor girlfriends in the middle of their Olympics challenge.
Reposted by Andrew Pope
![[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.]
JOEL:
Honey… what are you doing?
BRANDI:
Can’t sleep
Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year.
While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition.
JOEL:
Brandi… you're talking strange...
BRANDI:
Dammit Joel.
It’s time you knew.
You're a Netflix character.
[Joel looks shocked]
BRANDI:
Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue.
Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the -
JOEL:
Stop explaining, Brandi!
[Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room].
JOEL:
So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and...
BRANDI:
Yep...
Warm/cool colour graded.
[Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]:
SECOND SCREEN
- A Netflix original -
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiaqlx75zejhvxpgq3f3k6mg2glczck3ooqjrgzzgfsf2xxo6fccwm@jpeg)
No-one told me this movie was gothic af.
A ★★★★½ review of Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
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February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
No-one told me this movie was gothic af.
Wonderful performance, hugely deserved.
Rose Byrne wins Best Lead Performance at the #SpiritAwards for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
February 16, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Wonderful performance, hugely deserved.
Train Dreams is great, fuck the haters, Train Dreams forever.
Clint Bentley wins Best Director at the #SpiritAwards for Train Dreams
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Train Dreams is great, fuck the haters, Train Dreams forever.
Excellent film - and as much as I like (and probably even prefer) a couple of the other contenders, this increasingly feels bolted on for the Oscar.
The Secret Agent wins Best International Film at the #SpiritAwards
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Excellent film - and as much as I like (and probably even prefer) a couple of the other contenders, this increasingly feels bolted on for the Oscar.
The final insult.
THEY MADE RETURN TO SILENT HILL ACTION FIGURES AND OH MY GOD.
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
The final insult.
I’ll say it again: MY FATHER’S SHADOW is superb. Out in UK cinemas now.
🇳🇬👯♂️ New episode out everywhere!
My Father’s Shadow and Twinless are both out in the UK this weekend. Des was very deeply personally moved by My Father’s Shadow’s cinematography and melancholy and Dee was not impressed by the gender roles and psychodrama on Twinless. We had lots to say about both.
My Father’s Shadow and Twinless are both out in the UK this weekend. Des was very deeply personally moved by My Father’s Shadow’s cinematography and melancholy and Dee was not impressed by the gender roles and psychodrama on Twinless. We had lots to say about both.
February 15, 2026 at 11:06 AM
I’ll say it again: MY FATHER’S SHADOW is superb. Out in UK cinemas now.
[Sickos] Yes… yes!
February 15, 2026 at 11:04 AM
[Sickos] Yes… yes!
Fair play to Sydney Sweeney for getting it adapted though.
can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover
February 14, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Fair play to Sydney Sweeney for getting it adapted though.
![Me: hey can I get the wifi password?
Friend: yeah it's on the back of the router.
The back of the router: [punchline]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x54od2tjaztykh2rp7b6ttur/bafkreifwhpialtevy7cqab7r567wmzgtlorqq4vs5ilpy5njvac7jzmham@jpeg)
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” (scare quotes included) plays like a tween’s horny imagining of what the novel might be like, based on a quick skim of a cheap 70s paperback’s back cover, and a more thorough glance at the sweaty ripped-shirt image on the front. (Complementary.)
Hong Chau 🔥
Hong Chau 🔥
“Wuthering Heights” – Review
★★★½ Emerald Fennell turns Wuthering Heights into moderately perverse spectacle, less adaptation than misremembered fever dream. The best adaptations take their raw material and mould it, reconfigu…
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February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” (scare quotes included) plays like a tween’s horny imagining of what the novel might be like, based on a quick skim of a cheap 70s paperback’s back cover, and a more thorough glance at the sweaty ripped-shirt image on the front. (Complementary.)
Hong Chau 🔥
Hong Chau 🔥
Please be at Overlook, thank you kindly
February 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Please be at Overlook, thank you kindly
We need to keep Jason Isaacs away from wellness retreats. HONEY BUNCH is on @shudder.com in the US, from today.
Honey Bunch – LFF review
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s Honey Bunch generates its fog of memory and control in a 1970s spa setting. Grace Glowicki Jason Isaacs and Kate Dickie start in a slow-burn paranoid hor…
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February 13, 2026 at 9:22 AM
We need to keep Jason Isaacs away from wellness retreats. HONEY BUNCH is on @shudder.com in the US, from today.
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Labour needs to take these guys head on, not try to mirror their messaging about “economic concerns.” That just legitimises them, while they produce this kind of Handmaids Tale stuff.
Absolute horrorshow.
Labour needs to take these guys head on, not try to mirror their messaging about “economic concerns.” That just legitimises them, while they produce this kind of Handmaids Tale stuff.
Absolute horrorshow.
Reform candidate calls for young girls to be given "biological reality check" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check
Exclusive: Matt Goodwin argued ‘young girls’ should be explained ‘the biological reality’ that ‘many women in Britain are having children much too late in life’
www.independent.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Labour needs to take these guys head on, not try to mirror their messaging about “economic concerns.” That just legitimises them, while they produce this kind of Handmaids Tale stuff.
Absolute horrorshow.
Labour needs to take these guys head on, not try to mirror their messaging about “economic concerns.” That just legitimises them, while they produce this kind of Handmaids Tale stuff.
Absolute horrorshow.
[Gunman firing from a tower] I’ve got everything I wanted out of firing from the North Window.
[Senator] Fellow citizens, we saw him off!
[Gunman opens East Window]
[Senator] Fellow citizens, we saw him off!
[Gunman opens East Window]
February 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
[Gunman firing from a tower] I’ve got everything I wanted out of firing from the North Window.
[Senator] Fellow citizens, we saw him off!
[Gunman opens East Window]
[Senator] Fellow citizens, we saw him off!
[Gunman opens East Window]
RIP Bud Cort. ❤️🔥
Harold and Maude, those Life Aquatic and Heat supporting roles… but have you also considered… BRAIN DEAD (1990)?
Harold and Maude, those Life Aquatic and Heat supporting roles… but have you also considered… BRAIN DEAD (1990)?
February 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
RIP Bud Cort. ❤️🔥
Harold and Maude, those Life Aquatic and Heat supporting roles… but have you also considered… BRAIN DEAD (1990)?
Harold and Maude, those Life Aquatic and Heat supporting roles… but have you also considered… BRAIN DEAD (1990)?
I’m glad this girl was able to find some degree of community online, before she was murdered by the people she knew in “real life.”
Three years gone, but not forgotten by your community. 🏳️⚧️💔
RIP Brianna.
RIP Brianna.
February 11, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I’m glad this girl was able to find some degree of community online, before she was murdered by the people she knew in “real life.”
Pretty solid February so far…
February 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Pretty solid February so far…
