Anton Bitel
@antbit.projectedfigures.com
Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
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The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
no garbage without garage
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
no garbage without garage
"confines a young girl to a garage with a desperate, disturbed and dangerous man outside": Steven J. Mihaljevich’s Christmas home invasion thriller SHED (2025) has its Australian première (+ Q&A) 6pm, 20th Feb at Palace Cinemas, Raine Square Perth. projectedfigures.com/2025/10/13/s...
Shed (2025) - Projected Figures
Steven J. Mihaljevich's Christmas home invasion thriller SHED confines a young girl to a garage with a murderous man outside
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February 9, 2026 at 7:52 AM
"confines a young girl to a garage with a desperate, disturbed and dangerous man outside": Steven J. Mihaljevich’s Christmas home invasion thriller SHED (2025) has its Australian première (+ Q&A) 6pm, 20th Feb at Palace Cinemas, Raine Square Perth. projectedfigures.com/2025/10/13/s...
"sees a lonely, middle-aged woman take momentary satisfaction and purpose from a chair": Amanda Kramer’s bizarre body-swap objet d’art BY DESIGN (2025) is in select US cinemas from Friday 13 Feb via @musicboxfilms.com projectedfigures.com/2026/02/09/b...
By Design (2025) - Projected Figures
Amanda Kramer's bizarre body-swap objet d'art BY DESIGN sees a lonely, middle-aged woman take momentary satisfaction and purpose from a chair
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February 9, 2026 at 7:44 AM
"sees a lonely, middle-aged woman take momentary satisfaction and purpose from a chair": Amanda Kramer’s bizarre body-swap objet d’art BY DESIGN (2025) is in select US cinemas from Friday 13 Feb via @musicboxfilms.com projectedfigures.com/2026/02/09/b...
"a transgressive excursion into drug muling sees the lives of two male friends turned inside out": Carter Smith’s queer thriller SWALLOWED (2022) is on @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2023/06/28/s...
Swallowed (2022) - Projected Figures
In Carter Smith's queer thriller SWALLOWED, a transgressive excursion into drug muling sees the lives of two male friends turned inside out
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February 9, 2026 at 7:24 AM
"a transgressive excursion into drug muling sees the lives of two male friends turned inside out": Carter Smith’s queer thriller SWALLOWED (2022) is on @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2023/06/28/s...
“I wanted to do it, so I did it”: a film of pregnancy, pica and patriarchal pressure, Carlo Mirabella-Davis' SWALLOW (2019), "like its heroine, masks disorder and tension beneath a well-scrubbed veneer of perfection." On @shudder.com UK from today. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2020/12/13/c...
Candy, corny, culty: FrightFest Halloween All-Dayer 2019 - Projected Figures
CANDY, CORNY, CULTY: FRIGHTFEST HALLOWEEN ALL-DAYER 2019: Candy Corn; Trick; Uncanny Annie; We Summon The Darkness; Scare Package; Swallow
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February 9, 2026 at 7:21 AM
“I wanted to do it, so I did it”: a film of pregnancy, pica and patriarchal pressure, Carlo Mirabella-Davis' SWALLOW (2019), "like its heroine, masks disorder and tension beneath a well-scrubbed veneer of perfection." On @shudder.com UK from today. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2020/12/13/c...
"an eschatological road movie that sends two damaged strangers down parallel paths from and to life": @malielfman.bsky.social’s charming debut NEXT EXIT (2022) is on Shudder UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2023/06/28/n...
Next Exit (2022) - Projected Figures
Mali Elfman's charming debut NEXT EXIT is an eschatological SF road movie that sends damaged strangers down parallel paths from and to life
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February 9, 2026 at 7:18 AM
"an eschatological road movie that sends two damaged strangers down parallel paths from and to life": @malielfman.bsky.social’s charming debut NEXT EXIT (2022) is on Shudder UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2023/06/28/n...
"reduces human interaction to hard capitalism, remote commerce & alienating game-play": Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s surreally sociopathic thriller CLOUD (2024) is on @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2025/04/24/c...
Cloud (2024) - Projected Figures
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's surreally sociopathic thriller CLOUD reduces human interaction to hard capitalism, remote commerce & alienating game-play.
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February 9, 2026 at 7:12 AM
"reduces human interaction to hard capitalism, remote commerce & alienating game-play": Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s surreally sociopathic thriller CLOUD (2024) is on @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2025/04/24/c...
"Nobody understands a word this guy is saying" is a neat, concise and accurate description of Trump and his (verbal) diarrhoea.
February 9, 2026 at 7:11 AM
"Nobody understands a word this guy is saying" is a neat, concise and accurate description of Trump and his (verbal) diarrhoea.
Bucks and birds: Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s tense feature debut BIRDEATER (2023) "shows a bride-to-be semi-willingly trapped in the bachelor boys’ backwardness." On @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/03/10/b...
Birdeater (2023) - Projected Figures
Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s feature debut BIRDEATER shows a bride-to-be semi-willingly trapped in the bachelor boys' backwardness
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February 9, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Bucks and birds: Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s tense feature debut BIRDEATER (2023) "shows a bride-to-be semi-willingly trapped in the bachelor boys’ backwardness." On @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/03/10/b...
"apartment-set anti-romance brings body horror to the breakup of a toxic relationship": Alix Austin and Keir 'Dawson' Siewert's KILL YOUR LOVER (2023) is on @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/03/09/k...
Kill Your Lover (2023) - Projected Figures
Alix Austin and Keir Siewert’s apartment-set anti-romance KILL YOUR LOVER brings body horror to the breakup of a toxic relationship
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February 9, 2026 at 7:06 AM
"apartment-set anti-romance brings body horror to the breakup of a toxic relationship": Alix Austin and Keir 'Dawson' Siewert's KILL YOUR LOVER (2023) is on @shudder.com UK from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/03/09/k...
Is he dead yet?
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Is he dead yet?
Whenever anyone asks, "Am I the only one who [does x]?", the answer is invariably, "No"
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Whenever anyone asks, "Am I the only one who [does x]?", the answer is invariably, "No"
Lycanthropic legacy: @conanthecontrarian.bsky.social’s unusually intimate werewolf reimagining WOLF MAN (2025) "magnifies the shifting trans-generational tensions within a family"
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Wolf Man (2025) - Projected Figures
Leigh Whannell’s unusually intimate lycanthropic reimagining WOLF MAN magnifies the shifting trans-generational tensions within a family
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February 8, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Lycanthropic legacy: @conanthecontrarian.bsky.social’s unusually intimate werewolf reimagining WOLF MAN (2025) "magnifies the shifting trans-generational tensions within a family"
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Is he dead yet?
February 8, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Is he dead yet?
Reposted by Anton Bitel
In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.
February 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.
Did Ciaran Lyons' TUMMY MONSTER (2024) ever get any kind of release beyond festivals? Good film, imo projectedfigures.com/2024/02/27/t...
Tummy Monster (2024) - Projected Figures
Ciaran Lyons’ TUMMY MONSTER is a portrait of a tattoo artist as a no longer so young man, inscribed with deception and delusion.
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February 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Did Ciaran Lyons' TUMMY MONSTER (2024) ever get any kind of release beyond festivals? Good film, imo projectedfigures.com/2024/02/27/t...
"I don't know how you could not love me now"
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sometimes
YouTube video by My Bloody Valentine - Topic
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February 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"I don't know how you could not love me now"
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Can't help thinking that China is playing a *much* smarter game than the US rn
China declares a full-scale crackdown on cryptocurrencies:
• No legal recognition of crypto as “money”
• Any crypto-related business = financial crime
• Complete ban on foreign crypto services operating inside China
• No legal recognition of crypto as “money”
• Any crypto-related business = financial crime
• Complete ban on foreign crypto services operating inside China
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Can't help thinking that China is playing a *much* smarter game than the US rn
Reposted by Anton Bitel
like father, like daughter: this big bonkers Japanese update of The Searchers re-screens 11.50pm tonight at @ifccenter.bsky.social
"I just want to find my daughter": Tetsuya Nakashima's unhinged, unstable THE WORLD OF KANAKO (KAWAKI, 2014) offers "epic, epochal filmmaking about an individual's - and a society's - deeply damaging insanity." 11.50pm tonight at @ifccenter.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2015/11/20/t...
The World of Kanako (2014) - Projected Figures
“I just want to find my daughter,” declares Fujishima Akikazu (Koj iYakusho). Lost to a haze of pills, alcohol and psychiatric disorders, this destructively aggressive ex-cop turned security guard has...
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February 7, 2026 at 9:08 AM
like father, like daughter: this big bonkers Japanese update of The Searchers re-screens 11.50pm tonight at @ifccenter.bsky.social
Cerebral, multi-layered heist flick: "worming its way into our consciousness with more ideas than a year’s worth of blockbusters," Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION (2010) screens 9.15pm tonight at BFI IMAX. projectedfigures.com/2015/07/03/i...
Inception (2010) - Projected Figures
Chris Nolan's dream-within-a-dream INCEPTION implants Cartesian doubt in the viewer about the precise relationship between cinema and reality.
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February 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Cerebral, multi-layered heist flick: "worming its way into our consciousness with more ideas than a year’s worth of blockbusters," Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION (2010) screens 9.15pm tonight at BFI IMAX. projectedfigures.com/2015/07/03/i...
"if these folk do not wise up, wake up and learn to live and love together, all that shit will get them in the end": Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre’s cursed toilet horror comedy BOWELS OF HELL (2026) re-screens 2.30pm today at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/04/b...
Bowels of Hell (Privadas de suas vidas) (2026) - Projected Figures
Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre's cursed toilet horror comedy BOWELS OF HELL shows a building-ful of Brazilians drowning in their own shit
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February 7, 2026 at 8:47 AM
"if these folk do not wise up, wake up and learn to live and love together, all that shit will get them in the end": Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre’s cursed toilet horror comedy BOWELS OF HELL (2026) re-screens 2.30pm today at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/04/b...
"tells a tale of parochial sin, black magic and ghostly revenge near the end of Sukarno’s Presidency": Hanung Bramantyo’s period horror THE HOLE, 309 DAYS TO THE BLOODIEST TRAGEDY (2026) re-screens midday today at @iffr-festival.bsky.social . projectedfigures.com/2026/02/03/t...
The Hole, 309 Days to the Bloodiest Tragedy (2026) - Projected Figures
Hanung Bramantyo’s period horror THE HOLE tells a tale of parochial sin, black magic and ghostly revenge near the end of Sukarno’s Presidency
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February 7, 2026 at 8:42 AM
"tells a tale of parochial sin, black magic and ghostly revenge near the end of Sukarno’s Presidency": Hanung Bramantyo’s period horror THE HOLE, 309 DAYS TO THE BLOODIEST TRAGEDY (2026) re-screens midday today at @iffr-festival.bsky.social . projectedfigures.com/2026/02/03/t...
"It barrels along, but keeps one eye ever fixed on the rear-view mirror": Jean-Luc Godard's Janus-like BREATHLESS (1960) is now on @studiocanal.co.uk Presents. projectedfigures.com/2015/06/27/b...
Breathless cool: the enduring influence of the Nouvelle Vague - Projected Figures
BREATHLESS COOL: THE ENDURING INFLUENCE OF THE NOUVELLE VAGUE (on Jean-Luc Godard's BREATHESS) first published by the British Journal of Photography.
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February 7, 2026 at 8:39 AM
"It barrels along, but keeps one eye ever fixed on the rear-view mirror": Jean-Luc Godard's Janus-like BREATHLESS (1960) is now on @studiocanal.co.uk Presents. projectedfigures.com/2015/06/27/b...