Peter Martin

I arrived in North Texas just before KING OF THE HILL began, yet never watched the show for unfathomable reasons. This brilliant article made me realize what I’d been missing, so I immediately began watching. I’m grateful, MZS. Now my belly is filled with beer, and I’m craving German-Japanese BBQ.

Too many examples to list, but the big one for me was Mickey Rourke's six minutes as the arsonist in Body Heat.

the first episode of the new season of King of the Hill felt like slipping into a nice warm bath. I need to know where Bobby lives and where his restaurant is -- surely not near SMU??

Title page of my booklet essay (“Death By Numbers”), with an image, page left, of Clint Eastwood’s Blondie in medium close-up, his face framed by a noose

“Death by Numbers”: honoured to have contributed a booklet essay to @arrowvideo.bsky.social’s 4K UHD/Blu-ray release of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966), accounting for triangularity, dualism and infinity in Sergio Leone’s Civil War oater

*King of the Hill* Makes Its Triumphant Return With Bobby running a restaurant in Dallas and dating an SMU coed, the most Dallas show ever gets even more Dallas on August 4.

Incredibly, despite having written about television for 30 years, I have never written an entire piece about King of the Hill. I rectified that here. Special emphasis is given to the Dallas connections. www.dmagazine.com/arts-enterta...

It’s like watching a car wreck on Zoom.

“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man Shawn Levy’s biography of Clint Eastwood explores revelatory connections between the filmmaker’s methods and his deep-rooted world view.

Greatly enjoyed Shawn Levy's new biography of Clint Eastwood; its many keen observations are framed expressively, and it's shaped with subtle originality, conjuring a vivid sense of relentless activity, spontaneity, and contingency: 
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15 Best Charles Bronson Movies, Ranked - SlashFilm When it comes to action flicks, it doesn't get more iconic than Charles Bronson. Here are Bronson's 15 greatest movies and performances, ranked.

Chuck Norris, Steve McQueen, Jason Statham, Lee Majors... and now Charles Bronson. I'm your go-to guy for rankings of movies featuring your dad's favorite leading men. www.slashfilm.com/1917845/best...

10 must-see movies and programmes at Hong Kong’s Summer IFF 2025 From It Was Just an Accident to Eddington, here are 10 highlights to catch at the Summer International Film Festival, from August 13 to 25.

Palme d'Or winner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, Ari Aster's EDDINGTON, and manga adaptation KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE headline Hong Kong's Summer International Film Festival. Here are my top 10 picks of what to watch: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

Fantasia Festival | Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy An ordinary office worker sees his apocalyptic manwha become reality before his very eyes. This spectacular fantasy action film delivers a disaster story…

OMNISCIENT READER: THE PROPHECY looks like another South Korean fantasy that overdoes on digital FX - and it is - but it’s pretty clever, well-paced and quite entertaining. Glad to say it exceeds expectations.

Another great @fantasiafestival.com screening, too. Audience ate it up.

If you're wondering what three I left out, they're Lenny (okay but doesn't hold up especially well), Bound for Glory (fine but wouldn't have been my pick), and The Towering Inferno (lololol for all eternity but also, I would happily sit down and watch it tonight).

As far as I can tell, 100% of the scoops published by The Daily Planet were procured in a way that violates standard journalistic ethics from the methods of the information gathering and conflicts of interest to the lack of disclosures 😌

Do not use Google summaries. tenbluelinks.org

Review | The Sandman season 2 volume 2: premature end to a terrific adaptation The final five episodes of the fantasy series are forced to leave out a lot from Neil Gaiman’s comic book series, but are still thrilling.

THE SANDMAN Season 2 might be a little rushed, squashed & condensed, but what we get is still pretty great, and at the very least serves as an excellent primer for anyone interested in diving in to the excellent source material. The last five episodes are on Netflix now. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...

Fantasia 2025 Review: I AM FRANKELDA, Mexico's First Stop-Motion Feature Is A Magical Treat A confident young girl with a head full of strange and fantastical ideas partners with the prince of the realm of imagination to restore the balance between fantasy and reality in the Ambriz Brothers&...

I AM FRANKELDA is Mexico's first stop motion feature and it's gorgeous.
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Fantasia 2025 Review: EVERY HEAVY THING, A DePalma-Flavored Cyber Thriller And Mickey Reece's Best Film Yet Oklahoma auteur Mickey Reece is back at Fantasia 2025 with his latest work of outsider art, in the neon-tinged ‘80s-infused cyber thriller, Every Heavy Thing. Joe (Josh Fadem) lives a pretty mil...

EVERY HEAVY THING is Mickey Reece's best film yet
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Great list, Rob! I especially appreciate the inclusion of LATE PHASES, which I’ve always loved, plus a few I need to track down and see.

15 Best Werewolf Movies Of All Time, Ranked - SlashFilm For decades, werewolf films have been an integral part of the horror genre. Let's count down the 15 best werewolf movies ever in cinematic history.

Did an extensive search online, but it looks like no one else has ever ranked werewolf movies. Weird. Anyway, here's my ranked list of the 15 best werewolf movies over at @slashfilm.bsky.social! www.slashfilm.com/1917747/best...

TONIGHT!!! Mickey Reece’s darkly comedic descent into chaos, EVERY HEAVY THING has its world premiere at @fantasiafestival.com 🎬 If you didn’t get your tickets for tonight, it plays again on Wednesday at 2:30 pm! fantasiafestival.com/en/program/e...

I don’t want to annually subscribe to every single magazine and newspaper out there just to read them occasionally. But I am more than happy to pay the full issue price to read one or two things in them sometimes.

Filmed in Mexico. Music by Ennio Morricone (?!). BTW, Shirley gets top billing in the movie itself, but not on the poster.

... and so I always remembered it as a sleepy snoozer. Available streaming on #PrimeVideo for another 13 days, it's a sparkling two-hander and anything but a snoozer, right up until it transforms into something more rebellious in Act III, complete with an awesome concluding battle sequence.

TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (1970; d. Don Siegel): Great new book by @shawnlevy.com has inspired me to watch some Clint Eastwood movies I haven't seen in decades. IIRC, I saw this movie, cut to shreds to fit into an afternoon 90-minute slot on local TV (and on a tiny B&W TV) ...

Heads Up, #70sFilm followers - we're participating in a new podcast: "That '70s Film Podcast", hosted by the Truth and Consequences substack
First Up - All the President's Men:
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Should have been titled MURDER UNDER THE SUN, me thinks. Very solidly crafted mystery.

Happy 40th.

I’ve always liked this one, @thejoedante.bsky.social.

Big thanks to Bulldog Film for sending over this blu-ray of THE MONKEY. I was excited to see that they'd used a quote from my review on the front cover!

a man in a superman costume is flying over a city ALT: a man in a superman costume is flying over a city

SUPERMAN is unlike any Superman film before it & one of the most comic booky superhero movies ever. Funny, romantic, wacky, eccentric, and packed with sociopolitical commentary, it will likely blindside and bemuse many moviegoers. It took me the entire runtime to be certain, but I kinda loved it.

YouTube video by Den of Geek MAN FINDS TAPE Expertly Combines Analog Horror and Faux-Doc Filmmaking | Tribeca 2025

While in NYC for the MAN FINDS TAPE premiere, @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and I were asked to sit down with @denofgeek.bsky.social and had an awesome chat with the guys there. Check it out if you want a little insight into our process.

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‘Superman’ Review: Rousing and Refreshing Identity Issues David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult star in James Gunn’s reboot of the DC Universe.  James Gunn knows what you’re thinking: why do we need yet another Superman mo…

Me gusta mucho.

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