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Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope. The #Horror, the #Horror Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival. London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society. ProjectedFigures.com
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"two Gen X rental store attendants losing themselves in an objectifying hell of image and exploitation": Bianca Poletti’s sophisticated horror short VIDEO BARN (2025) will have its world première at @sxsw.com projectedfigures.com/2025/02/26/v...

In case you have ever wondered what projection looks like out in the wild...

the very best part of disagreeing with what people say about films on social media is not giving that disagreement any expression on social media

I wrote something that I'm not charging you for: Internet 2.Shit: Is the Internet becoming unusable? jbleasdale.substack.com/p/internet-2...

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"tests the friendship and faith of two women seeking resolution in the desert": Zeeshan Younus’ cosmic ‘cult’ mystery THE BUILDOUT (2024) is on US VOD from today via Ethos Releasing. Stars @squidthusiast.bsky.social and Hannah Alline projectedfigures.com/2024/12/01/t...

Worried about pesky court cases and jail sentences? You can make all of these problems go away, just by becoming President - for life.

"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) had its world première at the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...

"five reflections upon the personal, political & cultural impact of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre": Alexandre Philippe’s documentary CHAIN REACTIONS (2024) screens 8pm tonight at @lighthousecinema.bsky.social for the Dublin International FF projectedfigures.com/2024/09/15/c...

With @realgdt.bsky.social's CRONOS (1992) out today on Blu-ray/4K UHD from BFI, here is my cross-section of 10 great Mexican horror films, also for BFI www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

"transmutes the vampire mythos into a Biblical fable of temptation and self-sacrifice": @realgdt.bsky.social's feature debut CRONOS (1993) is on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from today via BFI projectedfigures.com/2018/04/29/c...

Int. leather noir: Al Pacino's ambitious undercover cop finds his scene and his costume while hiding who he is, in William Friedkin's masterfully ambiguous giallo CRUISING (1980). On Limited Edition 4K UHD from today via @arrowvideo.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2020/04/25/c...

When people say, "if it's good, I'll like it", what they usually mean is, "if I like it, it's good".

The guy who famously got in a fight with gamers about his skill level and the amount of time he spends playing video games is talking about other people not doing work

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

"while [Hirokazu] Kore-eda certainly prefers quietly observed, mundane details to grand gestures or shrill twists, it is his unflinching honesty that makes STILL WALKING [2008] so confrontingly painful and sad" projectedfigures.com/2025/02/23/s...

"Tomoki Kanazawa’s seaside coming-of-age memoir shows friendship as the only enduring anchor in a tempestuous world of change": SABAKAN (2022) projectedfigures.com/2025/02/23/s...

"takes racism’s more traditional forms – slavery, incarceration, exploitation, ‘blacking up’ – for a new, thoroughly modern appropriative spin": Jordan Peele's bodysnatching satire GET OUT (2017) screens 11.30am today at BFI IMAX projectedfigures.com/2017/07/17/g...

The country that was here is gone:

Dear Elon: You first. Signed, Everyone

"a real 19th-century swordsman repeatedly relives (and re-dies) his lost past on films sets": Junichi Yasuda's bittersweetly good-natured meta-jidaegeki A SAMURAI IN TIME (2023) screens 5.30pm at @dcadundee.bsky.social for Japan Foundation Touring Programme projectedfigures.com/2024/07/29/a...

Time crime primer: Michael Felker's outstanding sci-fi feature THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT (2024) "traps fugitive siblings on a rural property, in time, and in a looping legacy of family tragedy". Now available to be watched - and rewatched - on Hulu. projectedfigures.com/2024/03/12/t...

Arguing about your own tastes is pointless, but arguing about other people's tastes is even more so.

Excited to show you all this trailer for the debut season of the SciFrights podcast, dropping on 26th Feb hosted by @lindsayhallam.bsky.social and yours truly! Find us wherever you get your podcasts and follow us at @scifrightspod.bsky.social

"deploys an intrusive, alienating style of filmmaking to allegorise a divided nation and deconstruct the American dream (home)": Mickey Keating’s extremely timely home invasion thriller INVADER (2024) is in select US theatres from today via Doppelganger Releasing projectedfigures.com/2024/08/26/i...

Eye for an eye: Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales' state-of-the-nation thriller BIG BAD WOLVES (2013) screens 9pm tonight on NYX UK projectedfigures.com/2013/12/06/b...

Stir of Echo: @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social's genderfluid wintry ghost story THE DEEPER YOU DIG (2019) renovates a family. This is truly independent cinema at its finest. Available from today on ArrowPlayer as part of @jennwexler.bsky.social Selects... projectedfigures.com/2019/07/12/t...