David Jenkins

Still my favourite Cattet/Forzani movie.

Seven-yr-old daughter just came in the room, looked up at me wide-eyed and said, "Daddy, do you think one day I might win the FIFA Peace Prize?"

One story of 2025 imo is that premium projection formats have finally transcended the status of fetish objects and that seeing a film in IMAX or on 70mm is a fundamentally different experience to streaming it at home.

Is the optimistic read on the current shitshow that cinemas suddenly have the space/impetus to diversify programming, lower ticket prices, draw from a much wider pool of storytelling and lean into the things that make cinemagoing unique (ie proper projection, events, repertory, etc)?

So you come at Paul Dano after dropping a top 20 that reads like a TUBI autoplay marathon… oookkkaaayy……

The Marty Supreme notices drop and I still ain't seen it.

Picture disc tho 😬

There’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated short that plays ahead of the new Spongebob movie and it’s vastly superior to the main attraction.

This film does contain quite a few really funny people who are simply not allowed to be funny. Madness.

Totally forgot… s/o to the Rich Hall cameo in The Running Man.

Complaints about a transphobic episode of The IT Crowd is the thing that set him off. His series Father Ted, though, is wonderful.

How do you pronounce Nuzzi? Is it like Nutsy?

Reading that Yes had to rush their album Fragile out to the shops cos Wakeman had spent too much on keyboards.

The Nickel Presents - REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE . REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE(2025, USA, Caroline Golum)Between pandemics, people’s revolts and male institutions, this period film cheekily combines fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets....

CALLING ALL LONDON HEADS!

On Thurs 12/18 catch a special UK preview screening of "Revelations of Divine Love" at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social in Clerkenwell!

Followed by a Q&A with yours truly!

Tickets & info ticketlab.app/event/36337#/

i guess you take what you can get in the fascist dystopia…

This reminds me that the exact moment I knew The Running Man was bad was the product placement for Liquid Death (which is like 10 mins into the film).

This is what the Bafta members need to know before they give you their vote.

Excellent audience question at a screening of The Testament of Ann Lee. To Amanda Seyfried: if Ann Lee [18th century founder of the Shakers] were alive today, what would her fashion sense be like?

It would be nice if Benny Safdie stood outside the cinema with a sandwich board for Marty Supreme. Josh really shoulda done it for Smashing Machine.

YouTube video by Bob Dylan - Topic All the Tired Horses

Contentious…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKCe...

youtu.be/maWvb1e5OJ4

“Oh no!”

Reading a 20p copy I picked up from a charity shop, but I will invest in a nice old copy like that…

The prose is just mind-meltingly gorgeous…

Reading my daughter Wind in the Willows and thinking it might be the greatest novel ever.

Really wanted to like this one, but just doesn't work. Didn't even have space in the review to address some of the most pitiful and thin women characters in a long time…

What about they find his identical twin?

Out today!! Support insane women!!

YouTube video by Sam Kington Brass Eye paedophile blasted into space

This feels very “back in the news” in the UK right now… youtu.be/SRRw1ERj2Gc

from the aptly named BUFF studios

Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of Stanley Kubrick Kubrickian echoes reverberate throughout the Greek filmmaker's oeuvre. With Bugonia, those connections are shaped into a singular package that transcends…

Thrilled to write even more about BUGONIA, this time over at @lwlies.com where I look at the film as a synthesis of the various strains of Stanley Kubrick running through the work of Yorgos Lanthimos. (Many thnaks to @daveyjenkins.bsky.social for helping focus the idea!) lwlies.com/this-just-in...