Andrew Pope

We touched on this in my @miskatonicihs.bsky.social talk on Shoegaze Horror! A hauntological flypaper trap. An endlessly looping present built from a vortex of regurgitated pasts, with no future to escape to, where every doorway leads back to where you already are. Kojima’s PT on a cultural level.

GDT is doing one of the most disappointing things a horror creative can do: he’s getting crushingly predictable. His work has become schematic and rote. Still: beautiful gowns.

GDT reading Frankenstein & shrieking NO NO & ripping out pages any time the Creature gets any innocent blood on his hands whatsoever. Not my perfect boy! Is the human the real monster in this one? Was that implicit in the text? Better make it explicit. Better have people repeatedly say it out loud.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein – Venice Review Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a sumptuous gothic spectacle, thick with atmosphere and design, yet weakened by unsubtle storytelling, heavy-handed voiceover, and pacing that tests patience. ★…

GDT’s disappointing FRANKENSTEIN played @ BeyondFest; A sumptuous production that can’t allow its Creature to be anything less than a perfect little angel, a GDT trope that’s ossified within his work to the point it limits his vision & hobbles his movies. Not every monster needs to be unimpeachable!

If an AI designed to pump out trite video titles can’t come up with “Guess Who’s Winning Two Oscars” then I consider that a fail.

With apologies for not creating a more eloquent, sophisticated appraisal of this man’s words: What a prick.

SCREENTALK UPDATE SCREEN TALK: JAFAR PANAHI Fri 10 Oct 13:10 NFT1 Regrettably, the in-person Jafar Panahi Screen Talk is cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. The Screen Talk will now be recorded and made available online for free, first on BFI Player, and then on BFI YouTube. Details of when they will be available will be announced shortly.

More like Neinfar Panabye 😭

“Capitalism is a Wound (Lo-fidelity Oscillator)”

Withdrawing my request that he adapt The Silence of The Lambs into a final season of Hannibal WITH THE QUICKNESS.

*lede

loool greatness through thievery.

Starting to really appreciate the ending of Inglorious Bastards.

I am almost certainly getting Orbital confused with FSOL! (In my defence it was 30 years ago and imho a bit boring).

I went to an early Orbital gig in London where the gimmick was that Orbital were… wait for it… IN NEW YORK! They were DJing via an ISDN line! Never before in clubbing history has etc etc. (Gig was a bit shit.)

People were burying the lead on THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER - it stars Jim Belushi as Ken Kesey. That’s how you get people into the cinema right there.

Thank you! A dream birthday: just wrote up an LKFF curtain raiser! 😉

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they could’ve said no! 😝

K-Cult Cinema: Eight Peculiar & Unsettling Entries at LKFF 2025 Eight of the most distinctive titles at the London Korean Film Festival 2025, from twisted thrillers to eerie dramas, showcasing the stranger, darker side of contemporary Korean cinema screening ac…

Korean cinema’s stranger side hits London this November: disappearances, creative rivalries, moral rot, and one very weird superhero comedy.
Our pick of 8 films to see at #LKFF2025:

I dislike them for their repeated lyric “how does it feel like” on Let Forever Be. It’s “How does it feel” or “What does it feel like” you illiterate twosome. The second one scans fine!

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Yes! And the Beastie Boys! They were very well regarded as producers, v fun that the Chemicals were just like “great sound, great name… in fact… yoink.” Big “I’m sure this will be fine” energy.

This is a fun one, because The Chemical Brothers originally called themselves The Dust Brothers, named after a DJ outfit also called The Dust Brothers, on the basis that they “liked them” and so simply… took the name. I think they got a cease & desist. 🤦

Clint Eastwood, Chantal Akerman, Guy Ritchie.

👀

☺️ Thank you! 💫

My energy in picture one is “but where are my normal glasses?”

“Please keep posting through it.”

Rebecca Ferguson, Tracy Letts, and Jonah Hauer-King, from A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

Love these three different energies.

Hmm, I published this and within five minutes two people blocked me. MYSTERIOUSLY.

The cast and crew of A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE being interviewed.

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE has a bravura opening Act (still good after that, but the constant rewinding and replaying of the timeline from different perspectives gradually rob it of some of its tension). Thoroughly engrossing, & Bigelow gets to indulge her fetish for rapid-fire jargon & chains of command.