Alex Billington

Alex Billington

@alexb.bsky.social

Cinema lover, dog lover, photographer, life-long geek, citizen of the world. I run the movie site FirstShowing.net + live in Berlin. Hackers, Sneakers, WarGames are my trio. 💾📡 Follow FS posts only here -> https://bsky.app/profile/firstshowing.bsky.social

1,719 Followers 828 Following 1,606 Posts Joined Mar 2023
8 hours ago
Academy Awards Best Picture nominees as VHS tapes

This is always so cool! The 2006 Best Picture Oscar Nominees - as VHS tapes! 🏆📼 All 10 of these movies turned into classic VHS on one fun poster. Artwork created by graphic designer "justbychris" - his third time doing this VHS tape Oscars art series. Which one is your fave? #Oscars #AcademyAwards

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the frog fell asleep while trying to watch a critically acclaimed movie

the frog fell asleep while trying to watch a critically acclaimed movie 🐸📺

Art by Guilherme Nunes

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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

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Yippee! Final Trailer for Illumination's 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Wahoo!! One final look at this grand adventure sequel. 🍄 Universal Pictures + Illumination have launched the final official trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - arriving in theaters on April 1st in less than one month from now. This is Illumination & Nintendo's all-out animated sequel to the first epic The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023. We also posted the fun Super Bowl spot and original Yoshi charater reveal a few months ago. In this sequel, Mario ventures into space, exploring cosmic worlds and tackling galactic challenges far from the familiar Mushroom Kingdom to save the whole universe. ✨ The voice cast includes Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, and Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek. The very first trailer debuted in November last year and it keeps looking better. The final cast announcement features Donald Glover as Yoshi, with Issa Rae, Luis Guzmán, Kevin Michael Richardson, & Brie Larson. This will be a blast. // Continue Reading ›

Yippee! Final Trailer for Illumination's 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie'

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6 days ago
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a logo for the federal network with a blue globe ALT: a logo for the federal network with a blue globe

Ironic that the CBS/Paramount owned Pluto TV is showing Starship Troopers.... 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🎬

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Watching some Edward Yang films this weekend... For reasons... 🇹🇼😉

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I've just watched Harrison Ford's Lifetime Achievement Award at the Actor's Awards and it really touched me. How this man has never won an Oscar is beyond me. 🤷🏾‍♀️ I adore him. 😍❤️

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1 week ago

Strange times...

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I'm noticing that one of the survival tactics for many people nowadays is to stick their head in the sand & ignore everything. And just do whatever they're told & what work they must in order to just barely pay the bills. Dire dire dire times out there that we all want to avoid. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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Hilarious Official Trailer for 'Scary Movie' Reboot from Marlon Wayans "I have been preparing for this for years." Paramount Pictures has unveiled the hilarious official trailer for the comedy spoof sequel Scary Movie, also known as Scary Movie 6 (or Scary Movie VI), reviving this spoof comedy franchise that ran for decades. It's a nice return because it's good to see all these recent horror movies spoofed in this funny way! "We're baaaaaack." The very first Scary Movie debuted in 2000 and the series continued on with sequels in 2001, 2003, 2006, and most recently in 2013 - it has been a full 13 years since the last one. This comedy sequel is a riff on the recent Scream 7 - the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe. Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall reunite in Scary Movie alongside returning favorites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every "final chapter" that absolutely isn’t final. 😱 Ha ha. The ensemble cast also includes Jon Abrahams, Lochlyn Munro, Dave Sheridan, Cheri Oteri, Anthony Anderson, Chris Elliott, Damon Wayans Jr, & many others. I hope this means spoof comedies are coming back! Between last year's The Naked Gun and this, we could use more of these - always good fun to laugh at how dumb everything is nowadays. Enjoy. // Continue Reading ›

Hilarious Official Trailer for 'Scary Movie' Reboot from Marlon Wayans

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2 weeks ago

New Steven Soderbergh movie

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The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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2 weeks ago

Just had a healthy yummy breakfast I forget about until I don't....fluffed up egg white scramble with spinach and feta, a heavy sprinkle of garlic salt and triple splash of Sriracha. No photo, no time, in belly.

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I hate that we are living in times where it feels the only thing we can do is triage those affected. Where charity is the only weapon against the worst people in the world. But if you can fix something for someone today, please do it. A lot of folks are asking for help, maybe throw them some.

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Now this right here is my kind of cinephile graffiti. #IYKYK #VLC

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Teaser for Jane Schoenbrun's 'Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma' "There is a hole at the bottom of the lake where the movies come from. He always comes back..." Uh, what? Mubi has unveiled the first look teaser for the indie slasher horror film titled Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the latest feature made by filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun of the indie hit I Saw the TV Glow previously. After that was a hit, they were given a major chance to work with Brad Pitt's Plan B to produce a slasher concept. A queer director making a new slasher franchise sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film's "final girl," leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos. This teaser is obviously timed with Scream 7 opening this weekend doing this exact thing. "A new kind of horror remake," starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. The cast also features Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Quintessa Swindell, Kevin McDonald, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Jack Haven. The first look teaser is packed with some exciting glimpses! I really dig the old school vibes & painted backdrops. Keep an eye out for this later in the summer. // Continue Reading ›

Teaser for Jane Schoenbrun's 'Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma'

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2 weeks ago

Delighted to see I Swear winning awards at the Baftas - it's a brilliant and important film with great performances and I hope this encourages even more people to see it.

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Sadly I think this place is dying... It tried to be the successor to X, but there's just no space for it anymore and everyone is tired of social media.

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An old photograph of an elephant bird skeleton that has been rotated to give the illusion that it might belong to an alien ghost.

Huh.

If you rotate an elephant bird skeleton, you get quite a nice gangly xenomorph ghost.

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"What year?" "Every year!!" 🤣🤣 #February22

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I love how The Academy is holding space for Best Picture Winners through 2071 — like the world, let alone movies, will still be around.

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Thinking about Them! again. A perfect marriage of Atomic Horror meets the fear of the Specter of Communism.

The allegory works well as it is subtle (more subtle than Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and is based on a fun creature feature script.
Classic Americana, even if I am an Ant in disguise.

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Xavier Dolan, filmmaker: "Where does the idea that artists should 'stay out of politics' come from?" OP-ED. A controversy is stirring at this year's Berlinale. At their opening press conference, the jury members declined to comment on the situation in Palestine, with their president, Wim Wenders, arg...

Xavier!! He's back!! "The recent calls for their censorship... the Berlinale controversy, or the admission by certain artists that they want to make 'apolitical art,' signal an urgent need for renewed reflection on the credibility and value of artists as citizens." www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

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Freaky Full Trailer for 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' with May Calamawy "What was our daughter doing in a 3000 year old sarcophagus." I'm afraid to find out! Warner Bros and Blumhouse have debuted the very scary full official trailer for the new 2026 horror remake officially titled Lee Cronin's The Mummy. No, it's not just The Mummy (like the Brendan Fraser classic), Cronin got his name in the actual name of the movie: Lee Cronin's The Mummy. The daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace – until eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them. What should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare... She is a freaky mummy now returned to life. This stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, Verónica Falcón, and Emily Mitchell. From the Evil Dead Rise director, this looks more like Pet Sematary remixed with The Mummy, with Cronin also trying to put in tons of Evil Dead-esque gore. This is definitely more horrifying than the teaser with a lot of scary moments. But will this movie actually be any good? We'll find out in April. // Continue Reading ›

Freaky Full Trailer for 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' with May Calamawy

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3 weeks ago

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

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3 weeks ago

Twitter is down because my tweet about the Nirvanna the Band the Show boys kissing got too many likes

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Ewan McGregor & Ray Park Were Too Fast for Film YouTube video by All Things Kenobi

Adding this to the list of favorite Star Wars production facts:

The duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Maul had to be slowed down because Ewan McGregor and Ray Park were just TOO FAST.

youtu.be/nYrD8HFzA2E?...

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3 weeks ago

Awwwwwww.

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3 weeks ago
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Hello, kitty! 👋🏻😸 Seen in Berlin.

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