It’s almost 90 years old, it’s cheesy and it’s a travesty of English history but it became the model for every action movie that followed. The Adventures of Robin Hood was 1938’s top-grossing movie… bit.ly/3Lsn62Q

If you want a preview of the world imagined for us by the monarchists, accelerationists, integralists and AI oligarchs look no further than the Dune movies…

GROSS: Villeneueve's Dune - aristocratic excess: bit.ly/48EhUCq

"Money begets money, my dear…" Mercantile capitalism explained by a shifty-looking old gent during the Restoration. Honestly, Forever Amber is a brilliant movie - wildly silly - essentially the first bonkbuster and the biggest movie of 1947. bit.ly/4cjF001

The Exorcist isn’t a horror movie, it’s a Catholic evangelical text. The film’s muscular Jesuit priests send the demon packing and heroic Father Karras sacrifices his own life in saving Regan’s, as a true priest should. The Exorcist is the next review in GROSS, the cinema history newsletter gross.ly

The Godfather is a melodrama and The Long Good Friday is an epic. Not going to argue about this. GROSS is cinema history with a bit of politics, a bit of historic context, sometimes some gags. bit.ly/4mGBYbm

There are so many movies and books and works of art from that period that reflect the odd, background dread that we all got used to - sometimes implicitly, sometimes right there in the plot. Andrei Tarkovsky's final movie, from 1986, makes it explicit. It's a beautiful thing: bit.ly/4l6GNJy