John Hunter

SINNERS is a genuinely special movie. I don't care what people's 2025 rankings were; that film is special.

And from before it opened, through Warner Bros vengeance to box office skewed reporting to slurs, the message sent to its makers is "you want to be a success? We'll make you suffer for it."

*cough Christmas presents ideas please thanks cough*

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Had an amazing day on a musical writing course. I plotted 'Ghostbusters the Musical' as my structural case study featuring a duet between Dana and Walter Peck simultaneously highlighting Venkman's flaws. Are you the key-change master?

NO GODS FOR DROWNING hits on March 3rd with a wave of noir-inspired dark fantasy horror

But ahead of that, Bad Hand Books is doing a Goodreads giveaway! Enter for a chance to get an e-copy, and then prepare for a world of killers, detectives, blood gods, and sea monsters 🔪🌊

Strange deep sea creatures
Deprived of light, giant fangs
Snapping in the dark.

#haikuhorrorprompt #deprived
#haiku #senryu

So much that’s good in this, but clipped out this in particular. Yes, yes, yes: it’s a losers’ ideology, demonstrably, historically so. It’s stupid and pointless and wearying, and, as he says, it ends up eating itself. It’s who it takes with it on the way down the shitter that’s the tragedy.

Labour would prefer a Reform victory in Gorton.
Reform winning provides an excuse for moving the party further to the right.
A Green victory will show that Labour's big problem is not being sufficiently left wing.
It's the Starmer cabal's worst nightmare.

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link walks up some dark stairs

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link looks at an ancient mural of a dream whale

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link battles a shadow version of themselves

A Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration. Link comforts a wounded man in the sewers

The 40th anniversary of Zelda is all the excuse you need to submerge yourself in classic Katsuya Terada art.

... stoopid sexy Mulder...

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Thanks to an edit on someone's Insta-story, whenever I hear Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club, all I see is this...

A city street with demolished cars and large plant roots growing out of the ground everywhere. Some of them attaching to buildings. Standing in the middle of it is Batman and the Swamp Thing, who thinks, “You want me to find that KING ROUTE in this – –?“ And then he says aloud, “It’s HOPELESS!“ Batman replies, “WHAT? You can’t quit on me now, you living nightmare! I just saved your raunchy hide!”

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

If you haven't already this morning, don't forget to wuther your heights

What if the competition to force vampire puns into reviews for Cynthia Arivo's Dracula will be the *actual* death of live performance?

The first place you'll be able to take a look at Mandrake in-person is at London Games Festival! Whoopee!

Your correspondent (me, Hannah of the Newsletter) will be there with the team, and we'll have stickers and everything.

Get tickets for New Game Plus here: tickets.games.london

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Tomorrow on the Main Feed: we’re getting Puritan with Robert Eggers’ feature film debut, THE WITCH in time for the 10th anniversary of its wide release.

Get your butter ready…

Screenshot of text in italics: "We need a complete financial, governmental, socioeconomic and political change", from Sofie Hagen's book Happy Fat

I love reading books with subtitles like this in their conclusion.

There's other stuff I love too but that'd be spoilery for the sort of jump scare they were, 'jump scare' as in 'caused me a sudden burst of hilarious joy' lol

I really love Evil you know, it is exactly the TV show I was hoping for, and more. Like the elevator game episode is a fantastic riff on the whole thing. Great fun

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The shop was playing 'Africa' by Toto. Which remained me of Patrick Wilson singing it (in space) at the beginning of Moonfall. Which is not his or Halle Berry's best film. But thinking about it definitely made me smile!

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA Slashes Into Theaters This Summer Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA has set a release date, with the meta-slasher slicing into theaters this summer.

Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA has set a release date, with the meta-slasher slicing into theaters this summer.

In a waiting room where they are playing I Love Lucy episodes on the TV. Ricky is singing in Spanish. So far, no one has walked out.

I sure hope we get to find out what movie this is.

A purple, blue and blush(?) coloured tile saying ‘Call Out: Manchester based stage manager’ for Amy Lever’s Lost Girl.

Stage managers!

We’re looking for a brilliant Manchester based stage manager to work with us on ‘Lost Girl’ at the Lowry. Amy Lever has written and will be performing, the awesome Daisy Howell is producing and I’m directing.

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Application deadline: 11am, 23 Feb 2026

There was a lot I didn’t know for sure. I am going to have to stop scaring the shit out of myself.

In the latest episode I head up on the moors to explore the romance, violence and perversion of WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

I'm joined by Agatha from She Wore Black, my sister-in-Goth.

We get INTO it!

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Really fun, imaginative film and part of my motivational 'I quit drinking' trilogy (along with Doctor Sleep and The World's End)

Nacho Vigalondo is a master and this movie whips ass. If you've never seen it, you're missing out on one of the best delightfully weird gems of the 2010's.