James Harvey

28 Years Later: The Squeakquel is the MOST NAKED blockbuster you’ll see ALL YEAR. Big, bold, and NUDE from start to finish, Nia DaCosta has made another ASTONISHINGLY UNCLOTHED entry to the ZCU. Stay to the end to WATCH THE CREDITS.
#TheBoneTemple

Hey AJ! I’m British, and can speak and edit things!

Issue #58 (Giant, Moon 16-page special, 168 pages): Print Edition Film Stories returns with another almighty slab of pages (168 to be precise) in the new, feature-packed issue 58. In this edition, we talk to writer-director Rowan Athale about his decade-long fight t...

Get your copy of Film Stories #58 now, and support a bit of independent journalism: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...

📚 Local news, books, and all sorts of misfit bits (ft. some spooky medieval buildings popping up on Dartmoor…

🎩 The stars of Desperate Journey on their new cabaret thriller.

🪽 David Freyne on Eternity: “A Matter of Life and Death meets The Apartment” (preview of this coming in the film stories newsletter tomorrow, if ya wanna sign up).

🔪 Spoke to Chris Smith about Severance (and how his new film is taking inspiration from Weapons)

Cover of film stories issue 58

New @filmstories.bsky.social magazine is out now! Here’s all the cool stuff I scribbled in it:

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding Girls’ adventure charity says it made decision after seeking legal advice in wake of supreme court ruling on gender

Achievements of April’s Supreme Court ruling so far:

- Trans people de-facto banned from majority of public toilets/changing rooms.
- Trans kids *AGED 4-7* can no longer join Rainbows because of sexual harassment concerns.

What the fuck are we doing here?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good to see Netflix shoving The Holdovers down my throat any chance it gets. This is the only media I will consume between now and Christmas, how could you tell?

Breaking news - November 1963 BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age

It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.

I'm quite pleased with this one...

www.bbc.com/historyofthe...

Digital Futures and Information Crises

Great and surprisingly un-depressing stuff here on why the internet’s gone tits-up, and how we can undo it.

open.spotify.com/episode/5RuU...

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Wicked For Good is a faithful adaptation of act 2 of Wicked (derogatory).

Boo, I say, BOO!!!

Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivory to Greta Gerwig

Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivo...

For The Guardian (!) I wrote about Brief Encounter ahead of its 80th anniversary. I am chuffed. This has chuffed me.

Huge thanks to Catherine Shoard for the commission!

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Film Quiz Friday's Revenge | 31 horror movie quiz questions for Halloween Like some sort of Friday Krueger, the film quiz is back for one more scare – here are 31 spooky movie-related questions for Halloween…

Happy Halloween! Film Quiz Friday has risen from the grave for a one-off helping of spooky horror-themed questions. Who will survive? What will be left of them? Not questions you'll get here, but send us your scores out of 31 when you're done! (laughs in Vincent Price...)

In Which We Serve: Coward's Second World War

I suspect this is the first podcast on In Which We Serve to bring up Russell Crowe, Master and Commander and The Wager, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. I’m nothing if not predictable (available wherever you get your podcasts!)

spotify.link/hINMKR1JIXb

Roofman review | You'll believe a man can hide (in a Toys "R" US) Channing Tatum goes on a McDonalds robbing spree and hides in a Toys “R” Us in Derek Cianfrance’s sweet holiday crime comedy. Here’s our Roofman review.

Derek Cianfrance's Roofman is the family Christmas hit you didn't know October needed. Review for Film Stories:

filmstories.co.uk/reviews/roof...

Tilly Norwood | We can still fight back against the rise of creepy AI actors AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood is said to already have a talent agent. The public response suggests audiences aren’t yet ready to embrace the tech.

A bit by me on AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood: we can still fight back against this creepy nonsense.
filmstories.co.uk/news/tilly-n...

Why does the new Mandalorian and Grogu trailer have the energy of a noughties sponsored McDonald’s advert?

Really sweaty now, realising Chicken Run wasn’t in the Sight and Sound top 100. Yes I know I’m late. I’m also right to be concerned.

#TheLongWalk is the biggest surprise of the year. This was so much more intense and emotional than I was expecting and I am DYING to watch it again.

More thoughts 👇

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Have we passed peak 'eat the rich'? Knives Out, Triangle Of Sadness, The White Lotus – has the ‘eat the rich’ genre burnt out too soon?

For Friday’s Film Stories newsletter, I wondered if the post-pandemic “eat the rich” trend has run its course:

filmstories.co.uk/newsletters/...

YouTube video by Film Stories WEAPONS (2025) - huge spoiler chat, including THAT ending...!

Me and @orharveyworking.bsky.social chatted all about #WeaponsMovie and apparently also about breastfeeding and getting killed by Pennywise 🤔

Anyways, go watch it! youtu.be/DpIFOMifhD0?...

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

In Defense of the Traditional Review Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

Every word of this, from @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...