The publication myself and a lot of other people put a lot of time into, @thefilmagazine.bsky.social - www.thefilmagazine.com - has had a brilliant year for readership thus far.
Despite shutting our doors on the last day of 2024, more than 200,000 people have visited our work in 2026. Big love!
Of all of 2026's #Oscars Best Picture nominees, it has been #Bugonia that I have left 'til last. Not out of anticipation, but out of fear I wouldn't like it. I didn't like #KindsofKindness as much as others, so it tracks.
I was stupid.
'Bugonia' is first-class, twisty magnificence. Brilliant.
Sometimes the world makes you happy
I'm so here for this!
As is tradition, time for a re-post - www.thefilmagazine.com/friday-the-1...
I'm begging publications to ban the phrase "tour de force". I've seen it in several different film adverts recently and can this many performances be that?
It's giving "wish I went to private school". Nobody wants that.
I know, right??
LOL don't sell on #RedBubble kids...
(My mark-up is 20%, so the site has charged customers around Β£33.85 plus postage fees for items I have earned Β£1.60 from.)
LMAO this is so embarrassingly bad that if I worked for ILM I would be embarrassed to charge anyone for it π
It has been more than a year since @thefilmagazine.bsky.social closed, and yet more than 100,000 people have visited the site - thefilmagazine.com - this month.
That's amazing.
If you are one of those people, thank you.
The writers deserve to have their writing read.
Lmao it looks so shit.
Also, "short narrative stories" don't tend to do well commercially (ask anyone who ever made them), so why do this at all?
AI is a big fat pyramid scheme built on dodgy foundations.
Fear not art lovers, this isn't even close to being "cinema". Even the unwashed will notice.
Given the current projection of VPN usage soon needing age verification, it's almost as if this was never an Access to Porn issue and was always a long-term Copyright Protection issue.
I'm not saying I'm back, but I am back on Letterboxd (so there's that)
Feel free to follow me:
letterboxd.com/JoeTFM/
I love Alan Menken and will forever be grateful for his wondrous contributions to the form of cinema I hold so dearly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24F...
It's the first day of 2026, so let's recap 2025, with ten picks for some of the finest films of last year.
#filmsky #moviesky #filmreview #moviereview #cinema #filmcritic #moviecritic
I am delighted to announce that The Film Magazine's website thefilmagazine.com reached an audience of over 1,000,000 (1 million) people in 2025.
The writing on the site always deserved audiences this big, and I am beyond delighted that we have reached this milestone even after closing down π
An almighty effort!
A tech company loading debts onto an established owner of more than 100 years of art should be incredibly concerning to every single person.
We live in a hellscape.
Fuck Netflix. Fuck that devil spawn David Zaslav. Fuck it all.
My local cinema - a subsidiary of a major chain promoted on the diversity of its showings and inevitably catalogued to counter programme big sister - is showing only 2 films today.
Two.
One is everywhere. The other is on Netflix in 2 weeks.
Make it make sense!
I'm sad to hear of the loss of Udo Kier today.
He was another of our actors lost in 2025 who had an outstanding face for cinema. Harsh edges, memorable features, piercing eyes.
That is absolutely massive! An almighty effort π
I highly recommend following @secondcutpod.bsky.social and checking out their recent podcast episode on war films.
I always learn something new from them, and always appreciate their insight.
Subscribe: www.youtube.com/live/KYUTJr6...
They're also on Substack with reviews and more π½
Almost forgot about #GodzillaDay www.thefilmagazine.com/showa-era-go...
Of course Nick Offerman picked 'Kes'.
Always knew that guy was decent...
youtu.be/Ti-nujcoKnk?...
That special Barry Sonenfeld brand of 90s family movie needs to be captured in today's age.
I've just finished 'Film Club' on BBC iPlayer.
It's 3:33am and I am bawling.
Utter magic from Aimee Lou Wood.
A soft, inclusive, feelings-first love letter to the power of movies and self-realisation.
A beautiful, beautiful show. I highly recommend.
Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
I'm dedicated to the preservation of film, and @snipsmovies.bsky.social do some excellent work.
As a result, I've become a big fan of the daily TikToks & weekly YouTube videos.
This latest is insightful and enjoyable, and I can't recommend it enough. Enjoy film friends!
youtu.be/1rd_Uy8iVsE?...
David Zaslav went in to WB, took dozens of millions of dollars in salary and hundreds of millions in stock, sold off every arm and cancelled lots of work, only to sell the thing on the cheap several years later.
Criminal.
I just uploaded a video to my Instagram explaining why The Film Magazine can't come back.
Same username as here if you're interested.
