Jacob Heayes 🎮🎥✒️
@heyimjaycob.bsky.social
Games Certification at BFI + Curator 🎮 | prev. Media Molecule | Co-Host and Creator of Don't Stop Recording Podcast 📸 | Writer (BFI, Edge, Total Film) ✍️ | BAFTA Connect Member 🌟
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Tough to beat Dollman as one of my fave guy-on-your-waist characters. But, special shoutout ofc to the Lumines chameleons.
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Tough to beat Dollman as one of my fave guy-on-your-waist characters. But, special shoutout ofc to the Lumines chameleons.
Perennial favourite of mine.
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Perennial favourite of mine.
HAMNET is impossible to review in a calm manner; the screening was introduced by Steven Spielberg with a guided meditation by Chloé Zhao. Either way, this is a wonderful film. Primordial and pastoral with an exquisite sense of stillness. Pathos as healing tincture. Art as a reckoning. #LFF
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
HAMNET is impossible to review in a calm manner; the screening was introduced by Steven Spielberg with a guided meditation by Chloé Zhao. Either way, this is a wonderful film. Primordial and pastoral with an exquisite sense of stillness. Pathos as healing tincture. Art as a reckoning. #LFF
TWINLESS is the biggest fest surprise so far. Entered with modest expectations, left feeling electric. Ostensibly a twee Sundance dramedy, Sweeney's moving and mischievous tale quickly diverges into bizarre, psychosexual territory. Clever, complex and led by a phenomenal Dylan O'Brien. #LFF
October 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
TWINLESS is the biggest fest surprise so far. Entered with modest expectations, left feeling electric. Ostensibly a twee Sundance dramedy, Sweeney's moving and mischievous tale quickly diverges into bizarre, psychosexual territory. Clever, complex and led by a phenomenal Dylan O'Brien. #LFF
BUGONIA is another twist of the knife by Yorgos Lanthimos. Restrained by his standards (until it isn't), the film adopts a suffocating theatricality to its staging/score/performances. Stone and Plemons' rapport is magnetic. Robbie Ryan's career-best compositions take no prisoners. #LFF
October 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
BUGONIA is another twist of the knife by Yorgos Lanthimos. Restrained by his standards (until it isn't), the film adopts a suffocating theatricality to its staging/score/performances. Stone and Plemons' rapport is magnetic. Robbie Ryan's career-best compositions take no prisoners. #LFF
Bi Gan's monumental elegy to cinema RESURRECTION is my current fave of the year. A truncation of 20th-century China via a symphonic collection of film genres, Gan once again displays his masterful craftsmanship. Another oner for the ages. Special nod to the surprise (sob-inducing) M83 score #LFF
October 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Bi Gan's monumental elegy to cinema RESURRECTION is my current fave of the year. A truncation of 20th-century China via a symphonic collection of film genres, Gan once again displays his masterful craftsmanship. Another oner for the ages. Special nod to the surprise (sob-inducing) M83 score #LFF
Also attended a last-min screening of BAD APPLES: a wickedly deviant comedy with (an ever-excellent) Saoirse Ronan. There's a lot of absurdity, wish fulfilment and catharsis - particularly if an unruly child has ever sabotaged your day. It's all utterly ridiculous but weirdly satisfying. #LFF
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Also attended a last-min screening of BAD APPLES: a wickedly deviant comedy with (an ever-excellent) Saoirse Ronan. There's a lot of absurdity, wish fulfilment and catharsis - particularly if an unruly child has ever sabotaged your day. It's all utterly ridiculous but weirdly satisfying. #LFF
Kicking off #LFF with a video game adaptation - what a time to be alive. EXIT 8 is a jolting, deliriously enjoyable translation of the original, nailing the liminality and the inexplicably addictive rhythms of its mechanics. Somehow wrests a moving morality tale out of the plotless source too.
October 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Kicking off #LFF with a video game adaptation - what a time to be alive. EXIT 8 is a jolting, deliriously enjoyable translation of the original, nailing the liminality and the inexplicably addictive rhythms of its mechanics. Somehow wrests a moving morality tale out of the plotless source too.
Forever baffling.
September 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Forever baffling.
frothing at the mouth
September 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
frothing at the mouth
Every film I've got booked currently for LFF this year. Some corkers inbound, I'm sure.
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Every film I've got booked currently for LFF this year. Some corkers inbound, I'm sure.
The LFF programme is now up and I'd be remiss not to immediately spotlight the thriving IMAX Games Lounge. My personal recommendation this year would be the elegiac and moving Some Goodbyes We Made, my absolute A Maze highlight.
September 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The LFF programme is now up and I'd be remiss not to immediately spotlight the thriving IMAX Games Lounge. My personal recommendation this year would be the elegiac and moving Some Goodbyes We Made, my absolute A Maze highlight.
SORRY, BABY is a universal triumph, but what impressed me most were its cutting structural choices. Eva Victor loads the screenplay with arch charm & biting wit; but this film also nails how a single devastating event can obliterate memory and chronology.
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
SORRY, BABY is a universal triumph, but what impressed me most were its cutting structural choices. Eva Victor loads the screenplay with arch charm & biting wit; but this film also nails how a single devastating event can obliterate memory and chronology.
Pretty rad that DEAR ME I WAS is one of Switch 2's first third-party exclusives - a tone poem with echoes of Look Back and the films of Hong Sang-soo. Kanasaki's art secures this as the year's most beautiful game by default. A work of gentle brevity that enlivens the world simply by existing.
August 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Pretty rad that DEAR ME I WAS is one of Switch 2's first third-party exclusives - a tone poem with echoes of Look Back and the films of Hong Sang-soo. Kanasaki's art secures this as the year's most beautiful game by default. A work of gentle brevity that enlivens the world simply by existing.
I wonder what Pynchon thinks about all this.
July 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I wonder what Pynchon thinks about all this.
Reader, I have stumbled upon an actual Deadstorm Pirates arcade machine in the wild. What a day.
July 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reader, I have stumbled upon an actual Deadstorm Pirates arcade machine in the wild. What a day.
latest cex haul is an apt cross-section of my cursed film taste
July 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
latest cex haul is an apt cross-section of my cursed film taste
Rare sighting of the original in the wild.
July 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Rare sighting of the original in the wild.
tfw I am a man who just rewatched Tár at the Prince Charles Cinema
June 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
tfw I am a man who just rewatched Tár at the Prince Charles Cinema
I'll be at Develop on Wednesday July 9th (one day only!) if any of you lovely lot are also attending. I'll be on-hand to answer any Qs concerning the Cultural Test / Video Game Expenditure Credit too 👋
(nothing screams a perfect pairing like tax credits & the Brighton seaside)
(nothing screams a perfect pairing like tax credits & the Brighton seaside)
June 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I'll be at Develop on Wednesday July 9th (one day only!) if any of you lovely lot are also attending. I'll be on-hand to answer any Qs concerning the Cultural Test / Video Game Expenditure Credit too 👋
(nothing screams a perfect pairing like tax credits & the Brighton seaside)
(nothing screams a perfect pairing like tax credits & the Brighton seaside)
It's been a pleasure familiarising myself with Sime's art recently & quite how prescient their compositions were on contemporary fantasy.
Plus, they did a whole series on lil gremlins called BOGEY BEASTS. Please feel free to create and submit your own Bogey Beast. I would be very happy.
Plus, they did a whole series on lil gremlins called BOGEY BEASTS. Please feel free to create and submit your own Bogey Beast. I would be very happy.
May 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's been a pleasure familiarising myself with Sime's art recently & quite how prescient their compositions were on contemporary fantasy.
Plus, they did a whole series on lil gremlins called BOGEY BEASTS. Please feel free to create and submit your own Bogey Beast. I would be very happy.
Plus, they did a whole series on lil gremlins called BOGEY BEASTS. Please feel free to create and submit your own Bogey Beast. I would be very happy.
Open call for artists/devs!
I've been helping the lovely folks at New House Art Space in Guildford with an exhibition on Sidney Sime's fantasy artwork & their aesthetic impact in the digital. We're looking for exhibition submissions - art, writing, tiny games??
DM if any Qs, details below!
I've been helping the lovely folks at New House Art Space in Guildford with an exhibition on Sidney Sime's fantasy artwork & their aesthetic impact in the digital. We're looking for exhibition submissions - art, writing, tiny games??
DM if any Qs, details below!
May 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Open call for artists/devs!
I've been helping the lovely folks at New House Art Space in Guildford with an exhibition on Sidney Sime's fantasy artwork & their aesthetic impact in the digital. We're looking for exhibition submissions - art, writing, tiny games??
DM if any Qs, details below!
I've been helping the lovely folks at New House Art Space in Guildford with an exhibition on Sidney Sime's fantasy artwork & their aesthetic impact in the digital. We're looking for exhibition submissions - art, writing, tiny games??
DM if any Qs, details below!
