David T H Lewis

I finally saw Interstellar a few weeks back. In an actual planetarium! This was such an emotional scene, but there was a part of my mind that was going “Hey look! It’s that meme you’ve seen everywhere!”

Would not be the first guy who tried to leverage his wealthy family’s connections in Hollywood to make it in entertainment, fail miserably due to lack of talent and decide that their failure was all due to a liberal conspiracy against conservatives and become a right wing freak. (See Ben Shapiro)

I’ll always appreciate The House on Trubnaya for being a Cinderella story where her Prince Charming is trade unionism. 😍

A planetarium screen with a pink-purple nebula on it, with the logo for the Bristol Film Festival on it.

So I’m about to watch Interstellar for the first time. And I’m doing it in an actual planetarium! Lucky me!

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A ★★★★½ review of Them! (1954) I have a kind of love-hate relationship with the iconic poster for this film. Yes, the massive ant with inexplicable reptilian eyes plucking a screaming woman out of a panicked crowd is an amazing vis...

Oh I love Them! so much! I personally find it fascinating that both America and Japan made atomic monster attack films in 1954 about the risks of nuclear war and they are so different in tone.

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A House in Jerusalem (2023) Mourning her mother’s death and struggling to adjust to her new life in Israel, a young girl bonds with the lonely spirit of a Palestinian child.

Need a film to fill the gap? How about A House in Jerusalem? It’s the first horror film made in Palestine and also works as a good introduction to how an apartheid nation works on the ground.

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I have a copy and I really enjoyed reading it. You should be proud of it, the dedication to the topic really shows in the finished book. 😁

A ★★★★ review of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) “JESUS CHRISTMAS! HOLY JESUS GOD DAMN! HOLY JESUS JUMPING CHRISTMAS SHIT!” -one of the more normal line readings from this film Well it’s the first of three Friday the thirteenths that are happening i...

Well it’s #fridaythethirteenth so I had better get back to watching the Friday the 13th films!

The F13 films really start to shine in the middle of the series when Tommy Jarvis shows up IMO. This is some great and efficient eighties cheese and blood.

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I’m going Friday evening for a midnight screening of Send Help. Going to enjoy the upgrade over the old place, which I loved as much as the next guy but it had gotten really worn down.

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A ★★★ review of Robinson Crusoeland (1951) So to finalise their Laurel and Hardy strand in Slapstick 2026 we got to see a new restoration of the last Laurel and Hardy feature made, a film this is rich in alternate titles but poor in reputation...

My penultimate film for this year’s @slapstickfest.bsky.social is the better than its reputation Atoll K aka Utopia aka Robinson Crusoeland. Laurel and Hardy’s final film and parody of geopolitics, boarders, governance and… the Libertarian Seasteading movement?

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Finally got to see One Cut of the Dead thanks to @slapstickfest.bsky.social

The best zombie film that I’ll tell everyone to watch but never say why. But I will say that it is one of the most original takes on the genre I have ever seen. Plus it’s really funny.

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A guy poking an alien pod from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

P-pods? 😱

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Bye! We’ll miss you!

A ★★★★ review of Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932) Another Slapstick fest, another Yasujirō Ozu silent. And with musical accompaniment by Günter A. Buchwald and Frank Bockius. Also we had a lovely intro by Pamela Hutchinson who placed the film in its ...

For the second year in a row I’ve gotten up at Oh God! o’clock in the morning to see Yasujirō Ozu at @slapstickfest.bsky.social

Shoutout to Pamela Hutchinson for her very informative into and Günter A. Buchwald and Frank Bockius for their live soundtrack.

Hope to be back in 2027!

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A ★★★★ review of The King of the Champs-Élysées (1934) Now here is a first for me thanks to Slapstick fest, Buster Keaton not only in sound, but en francais! True, it was dubbed but still, it’s certainly a very unique way to enjoy the work of ol’ stone fa...

Early highlight from @slapstickfest.bsky.social is Buster Keaton en francais in The King of the Champs-Élysées. My first sound Keaton and probably the best. The intro by Polly Rose was also delightful.

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On the bus 🚌 to the 2026 Slapstick Fest! Three days of comedy double teams, classy French wit and *checks itinerary* Japanese zombie mayhem.

At @wshed.bsky.social for what I’m guessing could be an all time cinema experience.

First my first ever Godard 😲 with Breathless which is one of my fav micro genres; French people do crime.

Then I’m going to see Richard Linklater’s Nouveau Vague about the maki of Breathless. 😆 So much France today

Letterboxd activity feed showing Strait-Jacket (1964), The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025), Harakiri (1962) and Scanners (1982)

Got a really good #lastfourwatched this week, all cinema or film club in a pub basement watches.

We get Joan Crawford at her most unhinged, the genocide in Gaza represented in microcosm, the most highly rated film on #Letterboxd and the 🤯 movie.

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New Sam Raimi? Why didn’t anyone tell me???

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

An excited film geek between a flexing Toxie on the left and the great Lloyd Kaufman on the right.

A Blu-ray copy of Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD signed by Lloyd Kaufman resting against copies of Class of Nuke ’em High and Cannibal! The Musical.

On Sunday evening I had the honour to meet the great Lloyd Kaufman at a screening of Tromeo and Juliet. So wonderful to encounter this utter sunbeam of a man who is still so dedicated to us fans. And also the lovely Patricia Kaufman who is also delightful.

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I last watched the Patlabor film at least twenty years ago, but I’ve been itching for a revisit recently. I suspect Patlabor 2 will be feeling very prescient right now…

The Indicator Blu-ray release of Thirst (1979) resting on a T-shirt from the Forbidden Worlds: The Big Scream: Six Feet Down Under film festival.

#nowwatching Thirst (1979), an Australian cult/conspiracy exploitation film I first saw at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social and loved it so much I had to grab a copy at the last Indicator sale.

(P.S. @indicator.bsky.social plz add Razorback and Next of Kin to your ozploitation line)

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That is actually a perfect summation of liberal inaction in the face of everything that’s happening. Absolutely going to be using that going forward.

A Letterboxd activity feed showing Crippled Avengers (1978), In The Dust Of The Stars (1976), Love 2002 (1972) and Eolomea (1972)

It’s “Oops, all seventies!” in this #lastfourwatched

An almost perfect run of communism spoilt by a last second Shaw Brothers. Three East German sci-fi glam disco sagas full of the glorious future of socialism followed by Chang Cheh showing how the disabled are still deadly.

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A ★★★★ review of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

I just saw this today. So good. Ralph Fiennes was so amazing in this, we were so lucky to have him in this.

Less flopping dong in this one though.

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I had to check 2009 on Letterboxd. There are some good films like Dogtooth, Moon and Mary and Max. But yeah, I had to scroll past a lot of pretty uninteresting looking stuff to find that.

I’m going to get to see this live in about a month thanks to @slapstickfest.bsky.social so this lovely review is very timely for me. 👍 Sounds like I’ll be having a blast with Olive Thomas.