Blake Simons

An interview that I've wanted to conduct for a long Time.

Next week. :)

New York Asian 2025 Interview: RAVENS Director Mark Gill and Star Tadanobu Asano Talk Untold Histories, Practical Creatures, Kaleidoscopic Genre An emerging director and a singular actor discuss shining a light on the life of photographer Masahisa Fukase.

I spoke with English director Mark Gill and the one and only Tadanobu Asano about RAVENS, a curious biopic that investigates its subject through a different lens

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69 Cousins! How nice!

69 Cousins! How nice!

How Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Was Transformed Into a Festival Feature Film - IGN Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Cinematic Cut turns Warhorse Studios' epic open-world RPG into a two-hour film. We spoke to the developers to find out how and why such an experiment was undertaken.

What happens when you take a bestselling RPG videogame, renowned for its player agency and sprawling scope, and re-edit its cutscenes for a film festival audience?

I ventured forth to investigate KVIFF's most unusual presentation, for @ign.com

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CLOUD Interview: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Talks Bresson, Open Endings, and the Ambiguity in Remaking The legendary Japanese director talks cinephilia, America, and ambiguities.

I spoke with Kiyoshi Kurosawa about Robert Bresson, elliptical endings, the increasing internationalism of Japanese cinema, and the ambiguities in defining a remake.

It's one of the most rewarding conversations I've ever had with a filmmaker.

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Discourse: thank you, Mr. Feminism!

I wonder how feminism is doing 👉 I wonder how my clout is doing I wonder how discourse is doing

discourse will be able to bring happiness to all those in the slums

Did you fight with feminism? 👉 Yeah

Long-lost Inuit animation films restored and released after 50 years Dozens of animated films made by Inuit artists in the 1970s and shelved for more than 50 years are being made available to the public after a major restoration effort by the National Film Board of Can...

Long-lost Inuit animation films restored and released after 50 years!

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Wait, the embargo is up! It’s NOISE by Kim Soo-jin, and it’s very much a Korean Dark Water for 2025. Played Fantasia, and deserves to play a lot of other places too.

And introducing the LIFFF 2025 team, which adds the welcome wisdom of @notjudygarland.bsky.social and @simonramshaw.bsky.social!

We're back!

Hot off the success of our first edition, the London International Fantastic Film Festival returns this December. Submissions for Features and Shorts are now open: filmfreeway.com/lifff

Show us things we've never seen before -- we can't wait to see what you'll bring us.

Review by carrieandtracy XX: Beautiful Hunter1994 Watched 16 Jul 2025 carrieandtracy’s review published on Letterboxd: Sex and violence, then violent sexiness, then sexy violence. Then violence. A sleazy good time. Part of Arrow’s box, V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets and Betrayal. Now I’m looking forward to the other films.

Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts bought @arrowvideo.bsky.social’s V-Cinema Essentials set.

FWT Publication Freelance Rates Database

Freelancing writers, this is gold:

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One of the worst things the internet has done is make it so annoying people can be like “oh you disagree? I see you haven’t listened to 70 hours of podcasts”

Kore-eda mode, where you learn about the social circumstances that led to the Yotei Six’s actions and you end up killing no one.

THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART: Greta Lee Directing Adaptation Of Psychological Horror Novel PAST LIVES and RUSSIAN DOLL star Greta Lee is set to make her directorial debut with THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART, an adaptation of Monika Kim's 2024 psychological horror novel.

PAST LIVES and RUSSIAN DOLL star Greta Lee is set to make her directorial debut with THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART, an adaptation of Monika Kim's 2024 psychological horror novel.

Inside The Arzner, the UK’s first dedicated LGBTQ+ cinema As the UK’s first LGBTQ-focused cinema, The Arzner provides a dedicated space for queer representation on screen, a dark screening room in which greater…

For @lwlies.com, I investigated The Arzner, the UK's first dedicated LGBTQ+ cinema.

In a city with more queer film clubs than you can shake a carabiner at, what does this new space have to offer?

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Kotaku sells to Gizmodo owner Keleops The Root is now the only media brand left at G/O Media.

Wonderful news for the Kotaku crew, who are free of G/O Media's alternating disinterest in and disdain for journalism.

And lovely to see them reunited with the Gizmodo and io9 operation.

So excited to see what the Kotaku crew can do with owners who like the site

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7 Films to introduce the Who's Who of Death Stranding 2 - Screensphere Hideo Kojima and company deliver their follow-up to 2019’s most singular game this month, as Death Stranding 2: On the Beach finally arrives on our shores. Kojima Productions’ latest work introduces a...

Hideo Kojima's latest artistic hotpot introduces many new faces from across international cinema.

To get you acquainted, I explored seven films to introduce the who's who of Death Stranding 2, over at ScreenSphere

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Broken Sword creator Charles Cecil on redefining and refining the graphic adventure game The celebrated British game designer has gone back to his globe-trotting conspiracy game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars for a new tweaked edition. He tells us what’s changed, and why there a...

Naples in the Spring, and a chance encounter sees me interview @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social founder Charles Cecil for the BFI, discussing Broken Sword's new remaster and the fundamental differences between films and games

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Behind the Pink Curtain (hardback) Jasper Sharp (author) FAB Press: Quality Publications for Cult Connoisseurs

Release date this summer looming ever closer for BEHIND THE PINK CURTAIN. Grab it while it’s hot from @fabpress.bsky.social www.fabpress.com/books/behind...

Director Dave McKean Reflects On 'MirrorMask' At 20: ‘It’s A Strange Mix Of Elements’ “I wasn’t aiming for realism,” says "MirrorMask" director Dave McKean. “CG can go anywhere and be anything, so much of it is just trying to be photoreal, and that seems a very narrow target."

In an exclusive interview for @cartoonbrew.bsky.social, I spoke with @davemckean.bsky.social about his singular debut feature MIRRORMASK, now 20, capturing reflections on a film that unfolds like a half-remembered dream

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Aftermath

Aftermath (at last) has a pitch guide! We're a growing outlet and can only accept so much right now, but we'd love to see stories you think might be right for us. Learn more about what we're looking for and how to pitch here:
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