Jonathan Wroot
@jlwroot.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Greenwich. Researcher of Zatoichi movies, Japanese films and horror cinema. Part-time film critic (open to writing offers). All views and opinions shared are my own.
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A few months ago Chris Philp called me “unhinged” in a Telegraph article about a video I made.
In it I warned about the brutality of ICE, & argued those who appease Trump would open the door to Fascism here too. I was called ‘hysterical’.
I have 0 regrets about that message.
In it I warned about the brutality of ICE, & argued those who appease Trump would open the door to Fascism here too. I was called ‘hysterical’.
I have 0 regrets about that message.
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM
A few months ago Chris Philp called me “unhinged” in a Telegraph article about a video I made.
In it I warned about the brutality of ICE, & argued those who appease Trump would open the door to Fascism here too. I was called ‘hysterical’.
I have 0 regrets about that message.
In it I warned about the brutality of ICE, & argued those who appease Trump would open the door to Fascism here too. I was called ‘hysterical’.
I have 0 regrets about that message.
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A family battle royale like no other!!
Sogo Ishii’s THE CRAZY FAMILY 逆噴射家族 will be playing in London’s Garden Cinema on Jan 31 & Feb 13 as part of their season 1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/1980s...
Introduction by @reelingdays.bsky.social
Sogo Ishii’s THE CRAZY FAMILY 逆噴射家族 will be playing in London’s Garden Cinema on Jan 31 & Feb 13 as part of their season 1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/1980s...
Introduction by @reelingdays.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
A family battle royale like no other!!
Sogo Ishii’s THE CRAZY FAMILY 逆噴射家族 will be playing in London’s Garden Cinema on Jan 31 & Feb 13 as part of their season 1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/1980s...
Introduction by @reelingdays.bsky.social
Sogo Ishii’s THE CRAZY FAMILY 逆噴射家族 will be playing in London’s Garden Cinema on Jan 31 & Feb 13 as part of their season 1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/1980s...
Introduction by @reelingdays.bsky.social
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This is terrible news for the environment, the water table, the sovereign rights of nations with rare Earth deposits, creatives and just about everyone except techbros and oligarchs.
Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster
Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster
Meta said it secured agreements with energy companies Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, which are all working on nuclear power technologies.
cnb.cx
January 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
This is terrible news for the environment, the water table, the sovereign rights of nations with rare Earth deposits, creatives and just about everyone except techbros and oligarchs.
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Just recorded our episode on Porco Rosso with @wittiestmanalive.bsky.social, and this excellent article by @aeneas-nin.bsky.social is a great primer for our discussion.
Porco Rosso and the Aesthetics of Fascism
Porco Rosso creates a visual language for the anti-fascist politics at its center, undermining key components of the fascist aesthetic.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Just recorded our episode on Porco Rosso with @wittiestmanalive.bsky.social, and this excellent article by @aeneas-nin.bsky.social is a great primer for our discussion.
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Very happy to have contributed a booklet essay for Eureka's upcoming release of Cruel Tale of Bushido eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/cruel-...
January 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Very happy to have contributed a booklet essay for Eureka's upcoming release of Cruel Tale of Bushido eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/cruel-...
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Opal Fruits will return as the name for Starburst in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
January 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Opal Fruits will return as the name for Starburst in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
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People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280
January 8, 2026 at 11:03 AM
People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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💿April Announcements💿
Our new titles include a box set of a spontaneous French New Wave auteur, a Hong-Kong romantic melodrama, an investigative thriller of police corruption, and an early erotic thriller from Almodóvar - plus a roadtrip to Hell from Transmission!
Our new titles include a box set of a spontaneous French New Wave auteur, a Hong-Kong romantic melodrama, an investigative thriller of police corruption, and an early erotic thriller from Almodóvar - plus a roadtrip to Hell from Transmission!
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
💿April Announcements💿
Our new titles include a box set of a spontaneous French New Wave auteur, a Hong-Kong romantic melodrama, an investigative thriller of police corruption, and an early erotic thriller from Almodóvar - plus a roadtrip to Hell from Transmission!
Our new titles include a box set of a spontaneous French New Wave auteur, a Hong-Kong romantic melodrama, an investigative thriller of police corruption, and an early erotic thriller from Almodóvar - plus a roadtrip to Hell from Transmission!
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Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
January 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
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Yep, it's bollocks. The moments I've felt least safe are in medium-sized towns around chucking-out time. London always felt fairly safe to me in comparison and now more so than ever.
The idea that London has become less safe in recent years is quite strange - just look at how once "dangerous" areas have been transformed in recent years. Gentrification comes with its own issues but streets are packed with visitors and city far more welcoming than when I moved here a decade ago.
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Yep, it's bollocks. The moments I've felt least safe are in medium-sized towns around chucking-out time. London always felt fairly safe to me in comparison and now more so than ever.
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I really, really wish BlueSky didn't allow AI generated or assisted creations unless clearly labelled as such. It's like GM food - I like to know what I'm consuming before I bite.
January 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM
I really, really wish BlueSky didn't allow AI generated or assisted creations unless clearly labelled as such. It's like GM food - I like to know what I'm consuming before I bite.
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FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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Warner Bros' future as a theatrical force is under threat, with Netflix reportedly looking to narrow the time its films sit in cinemas.
filmstories.co.uk/news/warner-...
filmstories.co.uk/news/warner-...
Warner Bros films pointing towards 17 days in cinemas under Netflix
Warner Bros' future as a theatrical force is under threat, with Netflix reportedly looking to narrow the time its films sit in cinemas.
filmstories.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Warner Bros' future as a theatrical force is under threat, with Netflix reportedly looking to narrow the time its films sit in cinemas.
filmstories.co.uk/news/warner-...
filmstories.co.uk/news/warner-...
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In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.
January 6 in History
Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.”
And here we are.
Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.”
And here we are.
January 6 in History
Was it a key moment in the republic’s eventual demise or a milestone on the road to democracy’s ultimate triumph? The meaning of January 6 is yet to be determined
steady.page
January 6, 2026 at 7:39 PM
In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.
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how many times has the enterprise exploded
January 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
how many times has the enterprise exploded
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Happy birthday to Hayao Miyazaki!
Miyazaki Hayao was born on this day in 1941. Happy 85th birthday!
January 5, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Happy birthday to Hayao Miyazaki!
Seen Enola Holmes? Can you spot the @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social campus? It appears more than once! Film Studies students get made aware of such productions, and study the use of these locations and others.
Admissions criteria and Open Days:
www.gre.ac.uk/undergraduat...
Admissions criteria and Open Days:
www.gre.ac.uk/undergraduat...
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Seen Enola Holmes? Can you spot the @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social campus? It appears more than once! Film Studies students get made aware of such productions, and study the use of these locations and others.
Admissions criteria and Open Days:
www.gre.ac.uk/undergraduat...
Admissions criteria and Open Days:
www.gre.ac.uk/undergraduat...
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did dukat pay terok nor contractors
January 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
did dukat pay terok nor contractors
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We’re going to do this for years aren’t we? Make tentative suggestions about heading back into the EU because Brexit is an isolating, costly moronathon that the country regrets. But Tories and Reform will keep howling ‘Betrayal!’, making progress and prosperity impossible.
(iPaper)
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January 5, 2026 at 7:41 AM
We’re going to do this for years aren’t we? Make tentative suggestions about heading back into the EU because Brexit is an isolating, costly moronathon that the country regrets. But Tories and Reform will keep howling ‘Betrayal!’, making progress and prosperity impossible.
(iPaper)
(iPaper)
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🧄 DRACULA 3-D (2012)
Forget AVATAR, Season XIV launches with a true 3-D marvel (right?) - it’s Dario Argento’s take on Bram Stoker’s story!
Film critic and videographer Sarah Williams is back to talk about it…
www.vampirevideos.co.uk/131-dracula-...
Forget AVATAR, Season XIV launches with a true 3-D marvel (right?) - it’s Dario Argento’s take on Bram Stoker’s story!
Film critic and videographer Sarah Williams is back to talk about it…
www.vampirevideos.co.uk/131-dracula-...
January 5, 2026 at 7:45 AM
🧄 DRACULA 3-D (2012)
Forget AVATAR, Season XIV launches with a true 3-D marvel (right?) - it’s Dario Argento’s take on Bram Stoker’s story!
Film critic and videographer Sarah Williams is back to talk about it…
www.vampirevideos.co.uk/131-dracula-...
Forget AVATAR, Season XIV launches with a true 3-D marvel (right?) - it’s Dario Argento’s take on Bram Stoker’s story!
Film critic and videographer Sarah Williams is back to talk about it…
www.vampirevideos.co.uk/131-dracula-...
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Friday
January 5, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Friday
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Welcome to 2026, where the bully of the globe can illegally enter a sovereign nation, kidnap its leader, and then say that it “runs” that nation. Then, the same bully send “warnings” to neighboring nations that “the same” could happen to them. Fascism really is making an unwelcome comeback.
January 4, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Welcome to 2026, where the bully of the globe can illegally enter a sovereign nation, kidnap its leader, and then say that it “runs” that nation. Then, the same bully send “warnings” to neighboring nations that “the same” could happen to them. Fascism really is making an unwelcome comeback.
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Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it