Nick Bartlett
@imdbartlett.bsky.social
Freelance film writer - formerly at Slash Film. Currently writing for Filmhounds, Critical Popcorn and The Peoples Movies.
Portfolio can be found here: https://njb123.journoportfolio.com/blog/
Portfolio can be found here: https://njb123.journoportfolio.com/blog/
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Nick Bartlett
@imdbartlett.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hello lovely people, I'm very much looking for work writing and/or editing features and reviews. If you wanted to contact me my email is: Nick.Bartlett42@gmail.com
If you wanted to peruse my written work, my portfolio is here:
njb123.journoportfolio.com
If you wanted to peruse my written work, my portfolio is here:
njb123.journoportfolio.com
I reviewed Rupert Russell's excellent folk horror / true crime doc #TheLastSacrifice at the Glasgow Frightfest earlier this year, and now it's being screened across the UK to coincide with Halloween - with some Q&As with the director! see dates and venues below
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/03/10/t...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/03/10/t...
October 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I reviewed Rupert Russell's excellent folk horror / true crime doc #TheLastSacrifice at the Glasgow Frightfest earlier this year, and now it's being screened across the UK to coincide with Halloween - with some Q&As with the director! see dates and venues below
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/03/10/t...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/03/10/t...
@arrowvideo.bsky.social's new release of #ThreeExtremes and #Three is incredible - here's my review for @filmhounds.co.uk filmhounds.co.uk/2025/10/thre...
FWIW I would give Three...Extremes 5/5 and Three 3/5, hence the 4/5 rating.
FWIW I would give Three...Extremes 5/5 and Three 3/5, hence the 4/5 rating.
Three and Three... Extremes (Blu-ray Review)
Three and Three... Extremes - two Asian horror anthology films - arrive in high definition in this new set from Arrow.
filmhounds.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
@arrowvideo.bsky.social's new release of #ThreeExtremes and #Three is incredible - here's my review for @filmhounds.co.uk filmhounds.co.uk/2025/10/thre...
FWIW I would give Three...Extremes 5/5 and Three 3/5, hence the 4/5 rating.
FWIW I would give Three...Extremes 5/5 and Three 3/5, hence the 4/5 rating.
So I saw #TheLongWalk yesterday, and while it definitely has it's issues, my main take away was "hey, they don't need to adapt that book again!" which I guess means overall I liked it.
September 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
So I saw #TheLongWalk yesterday, and while it definitely has it's issues, my main take away was "hey, they don't need to adapt that book again!" which I guess means overall I liked it.
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 12
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 12
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
September 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 12
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 12
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
My five star review of #OneBattleAfterAnother for Critical Popcorn:
Paul Thomas Anderson's most thrilling film, blending the wryly subversive tone of Inherent Vice with the nonstop momentum of Uncut Gems, and Leonardo DiCaprio at his frantic best.
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/21/o...
Paul Thomas Anderson's most thrilling film, blending the wryly subversive tone of Inherent Vice with the nonstop momentum of Uncut Gems, and Leonardo DiCaprio at his frantic best.
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/21/o...
One Battle after Another review: Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
The most thrilling film of Paul Thomas Anderson’s career, One Battle After Another blends the laidback wryly subversive tone of Inherent Vice with the urgent, nonstop momentum of Uncut Gems, …
criticalpopcorn.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My five star review of #OneBattleAfterAnother for Critical Popcorn:
Paul Thomas Anderson's most thrilling film, blending the wryly subversive tone of Inherent Vice with the nonstop momentum of Uncut Gems, and Leonardo DiCaprio at his frantic best.
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/21/o...
Paul Thomas Anderson's most thrilling film, blending the wryly subversive tone of Inherent Vice with the nonstop momentum of Uncut Gems, and Leonardo DiCaprio at his frantic best.
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/21/o...
I reviewed @studiocanal.com's release of the masterful #TheManInTheWhiteSuit for Critical Popcorn. It's a quietly subversive comedy that feels all too relevant today
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/11/t...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/11/t...
The Man in the White Suit Blu-ray Review: Dir. Alexander Mackendrick [StudioCanal]
A quietly subversive masterpiece, Alexander Mackendrick’s The Man In The White Suit is one of Ealing Studios most enduring films, and one that gets increasingly relevant with each passing yea…
criticalpopcorn.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I reviewed @studiocanal.com's release of the masterful #TheManInTheWhiteSuit for Critical Popcorn. It's a quietly subversive comedy that feels all too relevant today
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/11/t...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/09/11/t...
God I've been terrible at these things.
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 11
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 11
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
September 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
God I've been terrible at these things.
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 11
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 11
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Reposted by Nick Bartlett
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
I’m sure this has been noted already, but if you count the
@taskmaster.tv uk contestants from left to right across all seasons (with Frank Skinner being contestant no.1 and Sanjeev Bhaskar contestant no.100) Reece Shearsmith is now contestant no.99. Just a nice little bit of serendipity #insideno9
@taskmaster.tv uk contestants from left to right across all seasons (with Frank Skinner being contestant no.1 and Sanjeev Bhaskar contestant no.100) Reece Shearsmith is now contestant no.99. Just a nice little bit of serendipity #insideno9
September 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I’m sure this has been noted already, but if you count the
@taskmaster.tv uk contestants from left to right across all seasons (with Frank Skinner being contestant no.1 and Sanjeev Bhaskar contestant no.100) Reece Shearsmith is now contestant no.99. Just a nice little bit of serendipity #insideno9
@taskmaster.tv uk contestants from left to right across all seasons (with Frank Skinner being contestant no.1 and Sanjeev Bhaskar contestant no.100) Reece Shearsmith is now contestant no.99. Just a nice little bit of serendipity #insideno9
The first time in my entire watching of #OnlyConnect that I've spotted a reused question from an earlier season. I got that Moby Dick question from the first clue years and years ago - its still one of my proudest quiz show moments. I got it right again tonight lol but it's a little dispiriting.
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The first time in my entire watching of #OnlyConnect that I've spotted a reused question from an earlier season. I got that Moby Dick question from the first clue years and years ago - its still one of my proudest quiz show moments. I got it right again tonight lol but it's a little dispiriting.
My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of #TheToxicAvenger for @thepeoplesmovies.bsky.social - a gloriously gory, deceptively sweet horror comedy: thepeoplesmovies.com/the-toxic-av...
The Toxic Avenger: Uncut Review
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year for fans of cult cinema, Macon Blair's remake of The Toxic Avenger is a bonkers film...
thepeoplesmovies.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of #TheToxicAvenger for @thepeoplesmovies.bsky.social - a gloriously gory, deceptively sweet horror comedy: thepeoplesmovies.com/the-toxic-av...
Reposted by Nick Bartlett
film thread:
One of my favourite films, Badlands, is on at the BFI tonight. I won’t go see it this time, but I watch it on the big screen every few years. It’s based on the real-life murder spree of two teenagers in the US in the 1950s.
One of my favourite films, Badlands, is on at the BFI tonight. I won’t go see it this time, but I watch it on the big screen every few years. It’s based on the real-life murder spree of two teenagers in the US in the 1950s.
August 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
film thread:
One of my favourite films, Badlands, is on at the BFI tonight. I won’t go see it this time, but I watch it on the big screen every few years. It’s based on the real-life murder spree of two teenagers in the US in the 1950s.
One of my favourite films, Badlands, is on at the BFI tonight. I won’t go see it this time, but I watch it on the big screen every few years. It’s based on the real-life murder spree of two teenagers in the US in the 1950s.
I also reviewed the Eureka Entertainment release of #clairedenis' beautiful, fascinating, but very hard to watch #TroubleEveryDay for CriticalPopcorn:
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/08/18/t...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/08/18/t...
Trouble Every Day Blu-ray review: Dir. Claire Denis [Masters Of Cinema]
A hypnotic, unsettling horror/romance hybrid, Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day is a disturbing but fascinating film – one that makes the erotic horrifying, and the horrifying strangely intimat…
criticalpopcorn.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I also reviewed the Eureka Entertainment release of #clairedenis' beautiful, fascinating, but very hard to watch #TroubleEveryDay for CriticalPopcorn:
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/08/18/t...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/08/18/t...
I've been terrible at this whole social media stuff lately so apologies for the spamming. Here is my review of #ZachCregger's brilliant #Weapons: criticalpopcorn.com/2025/08/07/w...
Weapons review: Dir. Zach Cregger
Weapons is one of the most uniquely discomforting and exhilarating films of the year, and it keeps surprising you, right up to the end…
criticalpopcorn.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I've been terrible at this whole social media stuff lately so apologies for the spamming. Here is my review of #ZachCregger's brilliant #Weapons: criticalpopcorn.com/2025/08/07/w...
Reposted by Nick Bartlett
Rasa and Ray Davies.
Rasa's high, soaring harmonies give songs like "Death of a Clown" its rowdy elegance.
But it's her harmonies on "Waterloo Sunset" that give the song an ethereal grace that is at once thrilling and luminous.
A tune I can play and be transfixed, year after year.
Rasa's high, soaring harmonies give songs like "Death of a Clown" its rowdy elegance.
But it's her harmonies on "Waterloo Sunset" that give the song an ethereal grace that is at once thrilling and luminous.
A tune I can play and be transfixed, year after year.
August 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Rasa and Ray Davies.
Rasa's high, soaring harmonies give songs like "Death of a Clown" its rowdy elegance.
But it's her harmonies on "Waterloo Sunset" that give the song an ethereal grace that is at once thrilling and luminous.
A tune I can play and be transfixed, year after year.
Rasa's high, soaring harmonies give songs like "Death of a Clown" its rowdy elegance.
But it's her harmonies on "Waterloo Sunset" that give the song an ethereal grace that is at once thrilling and luminous.
A tune I can play and be transfixed, year after year.
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 10
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
I've been very remiss in my self publicizing lately - I've written loads in the past month but this is one I'm kinda proud of, my review of the @criterion.bsky.social release of #AHardDay'sNight for Critical Popcorn:
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/07/06/a...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/07/06/a...
A Hard Day’s Night Blu-ray review: Dir. Richard Lester [Criterion Collection]
A vibrant snapshot of Beatlemania in full swing, A Hard Day’s Night combines Richard Lester’s irreverent direction with The Beatles’ raw charisma to create a film that’s both playfully subversive a…
criticalpopcorn.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I've been very remiss in my self publicizing lately - I've written loads in the past month but this is one I'm kinda proud of, my review of the @criterion.bsky.social release of #AHardDay'sNight for Critical Popcorn:
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/07/06/a...
criticalpopcorn.com/2025/07/06/a...
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 9
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 9
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 9
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 9
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 8
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 8
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 8
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 8
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 7
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 7
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 7
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 7
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 6
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 6
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 6
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 6
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 5
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 5
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 5
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 5
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 4
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 4
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 4
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 4
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 3
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 3
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 3
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 3
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 2
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 2
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
July 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Choose 20 performances that have stayed with you or influenced you. One performance per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images.
Day 2
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge
Day 2
#Acting
#FilmSky
#ActingChallenge