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I wrote about Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan

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I was around 17 and I was about to leave the house one night when my dad said “I think you should watch this.” Ran was being shown on tv and I took one look and didn’t even sit down, I stood for the rest of the movie, watching in awe. This was the beginning of my love for world and Japanese cinema.

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recently remembered I wrote about Escape from New York and The Warriors once, another essay dredged from the archives

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ONE FRONT ROW TICKET PLEASE

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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

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It’s officially publication day!! I can’t quite believe it. After years of thinking, writing, planning, & editing: it’s here. I’m so grateful to my agent & everyone at The Bodley Head for the incredible work. If you’re in Scotland, come to the launch tomorrow

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Cue Beethoven’s 9th

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Thrilled by this review for ‘The Roma’ in The Observer, calling it a ‘an exhilarating history of resistance’ observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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can't believe it's been 10 years since Mad Max: Fury Road was released. it only took me about 9 years to finally write about this masterpiece

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Friends and colleagues covering Fantasia this year, make sure you catch the international premiere of Sam and Adam's film A GREAT MOCKERY - it totally rewires what Australian cinema means, and they are sweethearts as well who deserve your support!

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Fuck AI and fuck Duolingo. I'm going to learn Spanish the old fashioned way, by watching every Santo movie ever made.

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I wrote about Night Moves

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Drawing Japanese folklore characters on flower pots while watching NIN live on yt while drinking, pretty much a heavenly Sunday.

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I started reading @fangoria.com at 13 y/o (Issue 1!) in 1979 I covered this at 58 y/o for Fango in 2025 Writing for Fango is a thrill I never take for granted. I hope I never lose the stars in my eyes when it comes to Hollywood cuz I would hate to be the person who didn't think this was fucking cool

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My latest Tales of the Weird collection for the British Library has a cover and is available to preorder 🖤 shop.bl.uk/products/ret...

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Victor Garcia, 'Vampire' www.artstation.com/artwork/x3eb92

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Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

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FYI: From Gaelic fairy folk to twisted Norwegian fairy tales, here are 6 new international horror movies to watch this month.

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Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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RAW and TITANE director Julia Ducournau's genre-bending third feature ALPHA will premiere at Cannes next month, with NEON debuting a first look today.

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The talented voice actor passed away on April 5th.

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“Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.” Happy Birthday, the extraordinary Leonora Carrington ✨ Photo of Leonora by Lee Miller, St Martin d’Ardèche, 1939. Leonora Carrington, La Maja del Tarot (1965).

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This was a really fun interview! 👇

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My latest article about bats in Japanese folklore and art has just been published. Amazingly I've also just passed 1000 subscribers to my free newsletter in just over five weeks. I'm SO grateful for the support. Link to the article is below, I hope you enjoy it.💙 open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...

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@mpjohnson.bsky.social Any idea why there seems to be a plague of disc authoring issues? Seems like every three weeks labels are issuing return notices.