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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man fast-forwards to WWII for a superfluous finale Introducing elements impossible to contain to a single film while repeating the show, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man can't have it all.

PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN: Not good. A rehash of Tommy Shelby's late-stage battles with grief and mortality that rushes through a great premise without justifying getting the band back together after a solid end to the series.

Review for @avclub.com

www.avclub.com/peaky-blinde...

05.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You can see more images of that day in Kenmure Street, May 2021, here, in a new publication: www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/photography-... #KenmureStreet #Glasgow

25.02.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

God damnit

20.02.2026 11:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wagner Moura Is Making Oscars History with The Secret Agent The Oscar-nominated star is outstanding as a man marked for death in The Secret Agent, a simmering political thriller about historical crimes that nods to Brazil's current flirtation with the far-righ...

I spoke to Wagner Moura on his immense performance in The Secret Agent, the best in his Oscar field. He spoke of his love for director Kleber MendonΓ§a Filho, anger, fatherhood, Carnival, and Brazil then and now. A true delight.

For @anothermag.com

www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

19.02.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wagner Moura Is Making Oscars History with The Secret Agent The Oscar-nominated star is outstanding as a man marked for death in The Secret Agent, a simmering political thriller about historical crimes that nods to Brazil's current flirtation with the far-righ...

I spoke to Wagner Moura on his immense performance in The Secret Agent, the best in his Oscar field. He spoke of his love for director Kleber MendonΓ§a Filho, anger, fatherhood, Carnival, and Brazil then and now. A true delight.

For @anothermag.com

www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

19.02.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Zi review: Kogonada’s return to indie filmmaking A Hong Kong violinist grapples with visions of her future self in a meandering drama where resonant moments are few and far between.

My reviews from the Sundance Film Festival are all up!

Thrilled to write for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social on Kogonada's perplexing but stylish zi

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

16.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ghost in the Machine β€” Valerie Veatch [Sundance '26 Review] | In Review Online A new film review of Ghost in the Machine, directed by Valerie Veatch, for film review site In Review Online.

Lastly, it was so difficult trying to figure out Ghost in the Machine, a doc about AI that worthily traces the history of eugenics in Silicon Valley and artificial intelligence spheres, but makes too many baffling narrative and formal choices to view as coherent

inreviewonline.com/2026/02/04/g...

16.02.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everybody to Kenmure Street β€” Felipe Bustos Sierra [Sundance '26 Review] | In Review Online A new film review of Everybody to Kenmure Street, directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, for film review site In Review Online.

Glasgow-centric documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street is a really compelling and emotional watch: a document of collective action against state violence, and how each side was a unique expression of the city's long, complex history. My first for In Review Online

inreviewonline.com/2026/02/10/e...

16.02.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Zi review: Kogonada’s return to indie filmmaking A Hong Kong violinist grapples with visions of her future self in a meandering drama where resonant moments are few and far between.

My reviews from the Sundance Film Festival are all up!

Thrilled to write for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social on Kogonada's perplexing but stylish zi

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

16.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm assuming the Wizard of Oz sequels take on a very Dune-type of nuts, but I'm also learning they are more gay

17.11.2025 13:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OBAA, The Secret Agent, Black Bag, Cloud in my top 10 eaaaasily

14.11.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this

08.11.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone have any favourite films/books/music about the nice and specific theme of "returning"? For the purposes of getting cool examples, let's say I am acquainted with "Twin Peaks" and "The Odyssey"

03.11.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Alex Proyas said in a Q+A for Dark City at Prince Charles a couple months ago he's been using AI for his new film. I guess if you have tons of hangups about an industry then it's easier to project life-saving benevolence on something stealing from thousands of artists, the people you care about (?)

22.10.2025 08:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20 Frankensteins From (Nearly) a Century of Cinema, Ranked Guillermo del Toro’s take on the famous monster arrives nearly 100 years after Dr. Frankenstein’s creation first came alive onscreen.

IT'S ALIVE!

I ranked 20 of the most significant FRANKENSTEIN movies from the near-100 years of Frankenstein feature films for @vulture.com

www.vulture.com/article/best...

21.10.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

current AV Club is great. if you think it’s still stuck in its Spanfeller-mandated wasteland era you should give it another shot.

17.10.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Jacob Elordi Is a Monster in 'Euphoria.' In 'Frankenstein,' He’s More Human Than Ever Elordi in Frankenstein demonstrates the clear difference between a territorial, self-obsessed narcissism and a messy, still-developing self-awareness.

I'm not crazy about Guillermo Del Toro's film, but I thought Jacob Elordi's performance was significant for an actor who's gotten comfortable playing similar shades of insidious hot men.

For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about the exorcism of Nate Jacobs in FRANKENSTEIN

www.teenvogue.com/story/jacob-...

17.10.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ian Somerhalder is giving one of the worst performances I've ever seen. But it feels so right here

16.10.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It Was Just an Accident Is Jafar Panahi's Suspenseful and Human Search for Answers A procession of Iranian characters weigh both the value of vengeance and the pain of uncertainty in Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident.

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is making its way to screens stateside (and just played LFF in the the UK), and I reviewed the film for @pastemagazine.bsky.social. A wry and moving film from Jafar Panahi, perhaps more about how life rolls on than actual revenge

www.pastemagazine.com/movies/it-wa...

16.10.2025 20:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The cuts and coverage on an average episode are so frenetic and severe, gotta hit that 43 minute runtime OR ELSE

16.10.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hundreds of episodes of this, working everybody to the bone up in Canada, drama and intrigue every fifteen minutes, the most furrowed, dyed brows I've ever seen. Bad TV used to mean something

16.10.2025 20:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been irregularly watching The Vampire Diaries with Gabby as it's basically her favourite show. The CW was and is such a marvel

16.10.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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33 Years Later, David Lynch's Notoriously Misunderstood Masterpiece Just Got A Huge Upgrade The critically panned prequel has deservedly earned classic status β€” and it has a 4K Blu-ray restoration to match.

Criterion have given TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME a 4K upgrade; I wrote for Inverse about how, way before THE RETURN, Lynch shows us that returning to Twin Peaks was never an option.

The angels have all gone away.

www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

07.10.2025 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wild Political Story That Inspired 'One Battle After Another' How Paul Thomas Anderson's movie both draws from and differs from the Thomas Pynchon novel that inspired it.

Is One Battle After Another actually Pynchon? Is Vineland my friend? A brief rundown on adaptation for TIME!

time.com/7319399/one-...

26.09.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'Slow Horses' Season 5 Premiere Recap: β€œBad Dates” Slow Horses is back for another messy adventure with MI5’s least loved and, by this point, criminally undervalued department, who kick off Season 5 by dealing with β€œBad Dates.”

'Slow Horses' Season 5 Opens with Multiple β€œBad Dates.” @roryjdoherty.bsky.social recaps:

25.09.2025 15:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Leo’s great streak playing complete losers continues in One Battle After Another Funniest performance of the year continues a trend of entertaining stupidity and incompetence.

It's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER eve, and I wrote an appreciation of Leonardo DiCaprio playing hysterical losers for @flicks.bsky.social

Thank you sensai THANK YOU SENSAI

www.flicks.co.uk/features/one...

25.09.2025 09:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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15 Years Ago, A Maligned Director Sneakily Made The Best Resident Evil Movie The best 'Resident Evil' film finally nailed the formula. And it only took Paul W.S. Anderson four tries.

Hey it's been fifteen years since RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, which I made the case for being the best of the bunch for Inverse.

www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

12.09.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jacob Elordi Is a Monster in 'Euphoria.' In 'Frankenstein,' He’s More Human Than Ever Elordi in Frankenstein demonstrates the clear difference between a territorial, self-obsessed narcissism and a messy, still-developing self-awareness.

I wrote about Jacob Elordi in FRANKENSTEIN, easily the film's best performance, in the context of the very charismatic and monstrous characters he made his name with. For @teenvogue.com!

www.teenvogue.com/story/jacob-...

12.09.2025 09:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'The Girlfriend' Is a Prime Example of How Cheap Streaming Shows Have Become There is something instantly appealing aboutΒ The Girlfriend,Β which goes to some extremely dramatic places. But it is saddled with the cheapness inherent to this chapter in the streaming empire.

We love a savage review, and @roryjdoherty.bsky.social always provides. Read his take on Prime's expensively cheap thriller, 'The Girlfriend.'

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