The problem with Creature from the Black Lagoon is that only a quarter of its 80 minute runtime looks like this:
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The problem with Creature from the Black Lagoon is that only a quarter of its 80 minute runtime looks like this:
A visually impressive folk-horror from Tokuzō Tanaka, director of The Snow Woman, and The Whale God. It is simultaneously a complex samurai jidaigeki, a weird and out-there demon film, and an impressively epic action film. It comes together remarkably, and I am pretty sure I didn't follow it at all.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A visually impressive folk-horror from Tokuzō Tanaka, director of The Snow Woman, and The Whale God. It is simultaneously a complex samurai jidaigeki, a weird and out-there demon film, and an impressively epic action film. It comes together remarkably, and I am pretty sure I didn't follow it at all.
Worth seeing for this, the single most depressed Santa in film
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Worth seeing for this, the single most depressed Santa in film
"When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered."
Cinema is just great, isn't it.
Cinema is just great, isn't it.
Tonight's film
Swapping one Pit of Darkness (work) for another Pit of Darkness (1961 film)
Swapping one Pit of Darkness (work) for another Pit of Darkness (1961 film)
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered."
Cinema is just great, isn't it.
Cinema is just great, isn't it.
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I confess I just looked up the film to check that's not June Whitfield. I'd just seen a post about BBC 4 marking her centenary tonight, so it did seem possible that they might be showing something from the 60s in which you see her bra
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I confess I just looked up the film to check that's not June Whitfield. I'd just seen a post about BBC 4 marking her centenary tonight, so it did seem possible that they might be showing something from the 60s in which you see her bra
Tonight's film
Swapping one Pit of Darkness (work) for another Pit of Darkness (1961 film)
Swapping one Pit of Darkness (work) for another Pit of Darkness (1961 film)
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Tonight's film
Swapping one Pit of Darkness (work) for another Pit of Darkness (1961 film)
Swapping one Pit of Darkness (work) for another Pit of Darkness (1961 film)
Bleakness piled on bleakness. I like Scott Cooper. I have now seen every film he has directed, and I am fairly confident in saying there isn’t a director currently working with less of a sense of humour. But, I still think he is talented, and this is a really horrible and miserable horror.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Bleakness piled on bleakness. I like Scott Cooper. I have now seen every film he has directed, and I am fairly confident in saying there isn’t a director currently working with less of a sense of humour. But, I still think he is talented, and this is a really horrible and miserable horror.
The pilot/first episode of Pluribus is the most exciting first episode of a TV show I have seen since John from Cincinnati.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The pilot/first episode of Pluribus is the most exciting first episode of a TV show I have seen since John from Cincinnati.
Just seen these pop up on Amazon for pre-order. I guess I better get them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Just seen these pop up on Amazon for pre-order. I guess I better get them.
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I love "It's a Wonderful Life" BUT
What is the worst thing that could have happened to Mary without George?
Oh yes! Lose all her personality, liveliness, fun & fashion sense and become a Librarian!
Heaven forbid! 🙄📚
What is the worst thing that could have happened to Mary without George?
Oh yes! Lose all her personality, liveliness, fun & fashion sense and become a Librarian!
Heaven forbid! 🙄📚
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I love "It's a Wonderful Life" BUT
What is the worst thing that could have happened to Mary without George?
Oh yes! Lose all her personality, liveliness, fun & fashion sense and become a Librarian!
Heaven forbid! 🙄📚
What is the worst thing that could have happened to Mary without George?
Oh yes! Lose all her personality, liveliness, fun & fashion sense and become a Librarian!
Heaven forbid! 🙄📚
I liked this. Not as good as The Breaking Point or To Have and Have Not, but I still really liked it. Well directed by Don Siegel and, Audie Murphy is decent in the lead role.
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I liked this. Not as good as The Breaking Point or To Have and Have Not, but I still really liked it. Well directed by Don Siegel and, Audie Murphy is decent in the lead role.
Whenever I see people post continuously about politics on Bluesky, I imagine you are Jesse Plemons in Bugonia.
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Whenever I see people post continuously about politics on Bluesky, I imagine you are Jesse Plemons in Bugonia.
Off to the cinema to see
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Off to the cinema to see
Preordering films from Australia this morning. Someone has to.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Preordering films from Australia this morning. Someone has to.
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I cannot believe that an actual sentient human read Frankenstein and thought that this would be an improvement. boxd.it/bDUDY1
A ★ review of Frankenstein (2025)
I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.
boxd.it
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I cannot believe that an actual sentient human read Frankenstein and thought that this would be an improvement. boxd.it/bDUDY1
Hmm, this didn't work for me. It is just about as good (bad) as the Ken Branagh version, and about half as fun. The whole thing plays like it is in lingering slow motion, and then jumps ahead in fits and starts. The first hour is endless, though admittedly it gets better as it goes along.
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Hmm, this didn't work for me. It is just about as good (bad) as the Ken Branagh version, and about half as fun. The whole thing plays like it is in lingering slow motion, and then jumps ahead in fits and starts. The first hour is endless, though admittedly it gets better as it goes along.
The Appointment is a remarkable film. One of the most unsettling films I have ever seen, with the most incredible car crash.
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
Lindsey Vickers obituary: onetime feature director behind rediscovered British horror The Appointment
The British director, who has died at 85, only got one shot at a feature film and it never had a cinema release, but The Appointment was rediscovered 40 years later and won fans in Martin Scorsese, Gu...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Appointment is a remarkable film. One of the most unsettling films I have ever seen, with the most incredible car crash.
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
I can split my life into two distinct sections. Until I was 17, I regularly got this: "what's your name?" "Wilson" "what's your first name?"
Then, when I was 17 Castaway came out. Fucking Robert Zemeckis.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Then, when I was 17 Castaway came out. Fucking Robert Zemeckis.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
You be the judge: should my best friend stop calling me by a nickname?
Priscilla knows that when Chioma calls her ‘Pris’ she means no harm – but finds it very annoying. You get to name the offending party
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November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I can split my life into two distinct sections. Until I was 17, I regularly got this: "what's your name?" "Wilson" "what's your first name?"
Then, when I was 17 Castaway came out. Fucking Robert Zemeckis.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Then, when I was 17 Castaway came out. Fucking Robert Zemeckis.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Well, I will have to buy this.
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on January 26th on Blu-ray in the UK from #BFI: #CinemaExpanded: The Films of #FrederickWiseman (1967-1975)!
With a groundbreaking career spanning seven decades, Frederick Wiseman is one of the great American storytellers. His documentaries, shot vérité-style,
Coming on January 26th on Blu-ray in the UK from #BFI: #CinemaExpanded: The Films of #FrederickWiseman (1967-1975)!
With a groundbreaking career spanning seven decades, Frederick Wiseman is one of the great American storytellers. His documentaries, shot vérité-style,
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Well, I will have to buy this.
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Aftersun
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Aftersun