Jamie

Making yourself an obscene publication one tat at a time haha

Good grief Al haha. Amazed that's actually a GIF.

5 star review: "I have no idea what is happening in this entire book and I love it more than anything."

Often, trying too hard to understand a book means resisting the experience of art. Thank you, izzyipee, for this review of The Wingspan of Severed Hands, available from Weirdpunk Books weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/the-...

Every child needs to hear this, and remember it, as a teen, as an adult, when they are very old.

Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson

Finally got around to this and it's unsurprisingly very good and recommended. It's not just here that @raynewman.bsky.social is stretching creatively. From previews of his next collection I have enjoyed, things are only going to get more weird and unsettling.

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of HIS BEAUTIFUL HANDS being published. This was by far the most difficult project I've ever worked on and it's sunk straight into relative obscurity (only eleven ratings and one review on Goodreads) - but it's the book I'm most proud to have worked on.

Mary miraculously emerges from the river after a deadly car crash

The ghoul appears in Mary’s car window

Strong noir vibes as the sunlight coming through the gaps in a latticed ceilings make prison-like patterns on Mary’s dress

The lead ghoul menacingly arises in the river

Wouldn’t quite say it’s a masterpiece but Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962) is terrific. Candace Hilligloss is superb as the enigmatic and remote lead, and the cinematography is ace

Guess I'm gonna have to watch Small Prophets, huh?

10 Great Film Scores By Female Composers Note: This was originally written in 2018 and published on the now-defunct Film School Rejects website. Sadly, we're eight years on and not a lot has changed. If there’s one element of filmmaking tha...

The website I originally wrote this piece on female composers is now gone, so I decided to put it back up on my blog - enjoy! #filmsky

Steve Massa and I are guests on the latest podcast episode of "Harold Lloyd: the Man in the Glasses". We talk about Lloyd's initial years of starring in comedy shorts and figuring out how to be a screen comedian.
Find the podcast where you get podcasts or click open.spotify.com/episode/5b2b...

YouTube video by a bagel ''I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face'' on The Jack Paar Show

Talk of Jim Henson on here has me revisiting three of the absolute best minutes of television out there: Jim and Jane Henson and early Muppets on Jack Paar in 1963

youtu.be/yRuO-4HBX0w

Forthcoming events by the author of Tales of the Suburbs — John Grindrod.

It’s a month until Tales of the Suburbs is published. And I have loads of events lined up… www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events

What a fucking dork

Sentence from a Harmony Korine interview: As he walked through the South Beach offices of EDGLRD (pronounced edgelord despite the vOWel efficiencies) on a recent afternoon, Korine demonstrated how he is looking to reach for his 90's rebel-boy rep, only with late-2020's tools.

What's that? Oh, nothing, just the saddest sentence in the history of the English language

A Slightly Faster Sunrise Kevin Brownlow mailed me an item from “Variety” when I was beginning my research on silent film projection and filming speeds. What struck me is that it was yet another clue that silent era filmmakers...

Here’s the post about the running speed for SUNRISE, something Kevin Brownlow told me about many years ago. silentfilmmusic.com/murnau-sunri...

#TVTuesday 1952, Buster Keaton makes an appearance on "The Ken Murray Show" with Billy Gilbert as they recreate Buster's first routine with Roscoe Arbuckle from "The Butcher Boy."

#oldhollywood #damfino #busterkeaton

This Day in Buster… February 10, 1921
"The Haunted House" is released.

#oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm #busterkeaton

Two fluffy, white, young barn owls stare at the photographer from under a rafter.

A barn owl with a dead vole in its beak alights on a wooden bea bream.

#OwlishMonday
Young Barn Owls & a Barn Owl returning with a vole.
Photographs by T M Fowler. I have great admiration for nature photographers from the first half of the C20th. No auto focus. Just set up your camera & wait. & those gorgeous painterly Kodachrome colours!

Tangential, but I cannot tell you in my reviewing days how many 'cult classics' or '80s gems' got HD releases and turned out to be utter bollocks

Him directing that probably helped him control his material. Writers are easy prey to blame for a film being shit after the fact. Lifeforce felt very by-committee. Nobody was making a good film there ha ha.

I think if men come up with the idea 'what if the woman lead is completely naked for 90% of the film for no plausible reason?' that's really where things should end. This film is 'what if a 1980's teenaged boy's brain but a film'.

@pgwodelouse.bsky.social tried it recently and checked out quickly iirc. Depends on your tolerance/enjoyment of objective bollocks, I think any reaction is fair ha ha. It's not one I'd revisit any time soon.

Quite enjoying this reflection on Lifeforce, even if it is difficult to know whether ROP enjoyed the film or not...(can disdain actually drip from your speakers? Find out here)

It's very nearly a year since I published my collection of ten short stories inspired by the golden age of mid-20th century horror writing, TV and film.

I've sold 47 copies at this point, if you felt like helping round that up to 52 (a book a week! A nice average), I won't be mad at you at all.

I am reading this book now and it's terrific. Wyver's enthusiasm for his subject is ridiculously infectious.

C15 memento mori panels, depicting a dead woman in a shroud and a decaying couple. Sparham in Norfolk.

The seen and the unseen by me, Rory ffoulkes Cover art by Ray Newman depicts a creepy outline figure with their arms around a tree with a shadowy fence in the background

Have temporarily changed my profile pic to promote my forthcoming collection of short ghost and folk horror stories

Cover art and design by @raynewman.bsky.social. Foreword by @vanjpes.bsky.social. Buy their fantastic respective short weird horror books!

Michael Wincott.

YouTube video by Silver Screen Filmothèque Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) Charlie Chaplin

Happy cinematic birthday to an iconic character, Little Tramp debuting in US cinemas this date, Feb 7th, in 1914

youtu.be/SfhVui4rKV8

Title page for EF Benson’s Spook Stories featuring an illustration of a skeleton hanging from gallows

Big fan of this title page for EF Benson’s Spook Stories (1928)