Callum Nelmes
@callumn.bsky.social
MA / BA Film Graduate of UoS. Critic and writer.
De Palma student/obsessive. He / Him.
https://mostlycritical.wordpress.com/
De Palma student/obsessive. He / Him.
https://mostlycritical.wordpress.com/
Just a reminder on its US release that I wrote deeply on Wes Anderson's latest and already underrated film The Phoenian Scheme, which once more expands Anderson's world and concerns in the most striking and unexpectedly revealing of ways. Essential!
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May 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Just a reminder on its US release that I wrote deeply on Wes Anderson's latest and already underrated film The Phoenian Scheme, which once more expands Anderson's world and concerns in the most striking and unexpectedly revealing of ways. Essential!
mostlycritical.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/o...
mostlycritical.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/o...
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Still can’t believe this happened. Being listed alongside such incredible company, all of whom I think are extraordinary writers, educators, columnists, critics, and historians. I don’t have words. Having this arrive just made my weekend. I’m speechless.
February 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Still can’t believe this happened. Being listed alongside such incredible company, all of whom I think are extraordinary writers, educators, columnists, critics, and historians. I don’t have words. Having this arrive just made my weekend. I’m speechless.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"
February 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"
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Cinema, like all art, is inherently political. Not choosing a side might seem apolitical, but it’s not. It’s just cowardly. Stand by the fans being hurt by the current administration, and your talent that is vocal about it, rather than turning a blind eye
“As long as they’re a decent human being” 🙄
“As long as they’re a decent human being” 🙄
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Cinema, like all art, is inherently political. Not choosing a side might seem apolitical, but it’s not. It’s just cowardly. Stand by the fans being hurt by the current administration, and your talent that is vocal about it, rather than turning a blind eye
“As long as they’re a decent human being” 🙄
“As long as they’re a decent human being” 🙄
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I'm proud to say that I've been - along with a few other folks far, far more qualified and integral than myself - marginally involved in this.
Anyways: there's no river long enough that doesn't contain a bend, but I'm unusually confident that this release will be everything we've all hoped for.
Anyways: there's no river long enough that doesn't contain a bend, but I'm unusually confident that this release will be everything we've all hoped for.
NEW UK TITLES: The Dollars Trilogy (Limited Edition Blu-ray): bit.ly/3Q0SyUA
Pre-order A Fistful of Dollars in the UK via Arrow: bit.ly/3Q0SyUA
Pre-order For a Few Dollars More in the UK via Arrow: bit.ly/4hC6gct
Pre-order The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the UK via Arrow: bit.ly/42ATyqm
Pre-order A Fistful of Dollars in the UK via Arrow: bit.ly/3Q0SyUA
Pre-order For a Few Dollars More in the UK via Arrow: bit.ly/4hC6gct
Pre-order The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the UK via Arrow: bit.ly/42ATyqm
January 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm proud to say that I've been - along with a few other folks far, far more qualified and integral than myself - marginally involved in this.
Anyways: there's no river long enough that doesn't contain a bend, but I'm unusually confident that this release will be everything we've all hoped for.
Anyways: there's no river long enough that doesn't contain a bend, but I'm unusually confident that this release will be everything we've all hoped for.
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
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...there is some funkiness with the new 4k THE SEARCHERS release. This is so odd. I'm very curious.
The first thing I've noticed is that there's a ton of weird posterized magenta glints that become most noticeable during nighttime exterior sequences.
The first thing I've noticed is that there's a ton of weird posterized magenta glints that become most noticeable during nighttime exterior sequences.
December 26, 2024 at 9:48 PM
...there is some funkiness with the new 4k THE SEARCHERS release. This is so odd. I'm very curious.
The first thing I've noticed is that there's a ton of weird posterized magenta glints that become most noticeable during nighttime exterior sequences.
The first thing I've noticed is that there's a ton of weird posterized magenta glints that become most noticeable during nighttime exterior sequences.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
December 25, 2024 at 12:34 AM
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
If you didn't know it already, Danny DeVito is a master director and The War of the Roses, being a masterpiece and everything, is an absolute tour de force display of that.
December 17, 2024 at 12:23 AM
If you didn't know it already, Danny DeVito is a master director and The War of the Roses, being a masterpiece and everything, is an absolute tour de force display of that.
Nobody told me Jingle All The Way is actually low-key a masterpiece?!
December 12, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Nobody told me Jingle All The Way is actually low-key a masterpiece?!
Leaning... leaning... leaning on the everlasting arms
December 5, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Leaning... leaning... leaning on the everlasting arms
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New video essay (no. 86!) in the monthly THINKING MACHINE series at FILMKRANT, by Cristina Álvarez López and myself: GIRL INTERRUPTED, on the affinity/resonance between Hitchcock’s MARNIE and De Palma’s OBSESSION. vimeo.com/1035933924
The Thinking Machine #86: Girl Interrupted
Brian De Palma is generally a bit dismissive of Alfred Hitchcock’s work after Psycho (1960), claiming it to be too artificial and old-fashioned. There can…
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December 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM
New video essay (no. 86!) in the monthly THINKING MACHINE series at FILMKRANT, by Cristina Álvarez López and myself: GIRL INTERRUPTED, on the affinity/resonance between Hitchcock’s MARNIE and De Palma’s OBSESSION. vimeo.com/1035933924
The fact this kind of cartoonish extreme evil is in fact our incoming reality has not been lost on me, nor should it be on anyone else. We have to stop apologising for calling it out for what it is: the revival of fascism on an unprecedented, supremely dangerous scale. Hard not to feel doomed here!
“Trump has frequently invoked former President Eisenhower—whose administration infamously oversaw a massive, deadly deportation program named after a slur, ‘Operation W*tback’—as a model.”
US citizens were deported. Other deportees were left to die in the desert. americasvoice.org/blog/3-start...
US citizens were deported. Other deportees were left to die in the desert. americasvoice.org/blog/3-start...
December 3, 2024 at 1:42 AM
The fact this kind of cartoonish extreme evil is in fact our incoming reality has not been lost on me, nor should it be on anyone else. We have to stop apologising for calling it out for what it is: the revival of fascism on an unprecedented, supremely dangerous scale. Hard not to feel doomed here!
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These people are deeply and seriously mentally ill. Trump, Miller, all of them. It is hard to fathom. They value money and power, nothing else. NOTHING ELSE.
December 3, 2024 at 12:35 AM
These people are deeply and seriously mentally ill. Trump, Miller, all of them. It is hard to fathom. They value money and power, nothing else. NOTHING ELSE.
TOYS (Barry Levinson, 1992)
December 2, 2024 at 12:05 AM
TOYS (Barry Levinson, 1992)
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They have a point.
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
They have a point.
What is it with De Palma and rabbits?
November 25, 2024 at 12:32 AM
What is it with De Palma and rabbits?
Uploading one of my pre-written Letterboxd pieces to my blog. Hoffa and DeVito's teachings are very much relevant for right now, which is why I've decided to finally put it up! Read it and let me know your thoughts mostlycritical.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/h...
Hoffa (1992), OR the Cinema of Revolution: Danny DeVito and the Failure and Hopeful Renewal of the Left
Like all the best film biopics, Hoffa is less about attempting to capturing every sordid detail of the subject’s life within a “realistic” aesthetic and instead, working in-tandem with the ve…
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November 22, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Uploading one of my pre-written Letterboxd pieces to my blog. Hoffa and DeVito's teachings are very much relevant for right now, which is why I've decided to finally put it up! Read it and let me know your thoughts mostlycritical.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/h...
America has just totally given up on fighting against rampant corruption, genocide and the taking away of basic human rights hasn't it? Not that I ever believed the system worked, but the Democrats lack any semblance of a spine, they're not fighting back at all. The future is so very, very bleak.
November 21, 2024 at 5:34 PM
America has just totally given up on fighting against rampant corruption, genocide and the taking away of basic human rights hasn't it? Not that I ever believed the system worked, but the Democrats lack any semblance of a spine, they're not fighting back at all. The future is so very, very bleak.
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There's something I need people to understand.
The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.
The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.
The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
November 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
There's something I need people to understand.
The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.
The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.
The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
Always think of this bit whenever there's anything about Mickey Mouse
November 19, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Always think of this bit whenever there's anything about Mickey Mouse
I'm looking to do a write up on the Rugrats and wanted to know what the highest quality sources for episodes is. Currently have 2 versions but want to avoid AI upscales to get the best accuracy. Frame left is of what I believe is the AI, frame right should be the DVDs. If anyone has info, DM me!
November 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
I'm looking to do a write up on the Rugrats and wanted to know what the highest quality sources for episodes is. Currently have 2 versions but want to avoid AI upscales to get the best accuracy. Frame left is of what I believe is the AI, frame right should be the DVDs. If anyone has info, DM me!