Jacob Heayes 🎮🎥✒️
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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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Really tricky to talk about and certainly has its rough edges. But it is undeniably provocative in its ambition and induced physical shivers. Any title that can successfully conjure some self-reflection is worth a shot in my book.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Really tricky to talk about and certainly has its rough edges. But it is undeniably provocative in its ambition and induced physical shivers. Any title that can successfully conjure some self-reflection is worth a shot in my book.
Much like HUMANITY, Lumines is strikingly profound about...well, humanity. Specifically the beauty of collective power, all of that obscured by information, a mess of sight and sounds. Lumines offers a primal, sensory command; feel the beat, clear the mess, reconnect.
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Much like HUMANITY, Lumines is strikingly profound about...well, humanity. Specifically the beauty of collective power, all of that obscured by information, a mess of sight and sounds. Lumines offers a primal, sensory command; feel the beat, clear the mess, reconnect.
Perennial favourite of mine.
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Perennial favourite of mine.
Birthday twins! Happy neigh-day to you and all those lucky souls at EGX about to experience this demo and have their life irrevocably changed.
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Birthday twins! Happy neigh-day to you and all those lucky souls at EGX about to experience this demo and have their life irrevocably changed.
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