@ilottj.bsky.social
Head of Film & Comedy at @thedukeslancaster.bsky.social I Postgraduate Researcher: British Cinema, Death, bit Gothic adjacent
The BBC saw sense and got Sarah Phelps back adapting Christie. Even better she's doing Endless Night which seems like the most perfect book for her.
09.05.2025 07:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If Keanu is back for John Wick 5 they should set it in the afterlife. He has to fight off demons and the hordes he has already killed to reclaim the soul of his dead dog.
02.04.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Having a spring clean and discovered loads of Lost Highway lobby cards I forgot I had
22.03.2025 13:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please film Gods, give Macon Blair's Toxic Avenger remake a UK release
13.03.2025 18:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ticked an item off the bucket list this month & a paper of mine had been published in @gothicstudies.bsky.social.
I owe such a massive debt to gratitude to @catherinespooner.bsky.social for being ace and a wonderful lecturer, the two reviewers for their comments and to Emily Alder.
My two favourite colleagues from two different jobs 😅
30.01.2025 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Lancaster Playwriting Prize is back. Seeking submissions on the theme of GOTHIC from NW based writers. £1000 cash prize.
dukeslancaster.org/news/lancast...
Can't wait to see Mog win a BAFTA
16.01.2025 10:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Many thanks to @catherinespooner.bsky.social for joining us again at @thedukescinema.bsky.social talking about a century of vampire cinema to celebrate Eggers' take on Nosferatu.
12.01.2025 13:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our nearly 20 year old digital projector has been taken out today ready for the installation of lovely new laser one
06.01.2025 14:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The proofs came through for my first journal article. I'm torn between excitement and being sick of the sight of it
03.01.2025 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎥 A New Year means New January Releases!
We are bringing you the dazzling Queer, bittersweet We Live in Time (perfect for January), nostalgic A Real Pain (also, very fitting for January) and the magnificant Maria.
What is your January pick? ☔
🎟️ loom.ly/d648AgA
Listening to an audiobook with a first person narrator that keeps saying methinks and it makes what to shove chopsticks up my nose and headbutt a wall
15.12.2024 14:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Yellowjackets trailer!
youtu.be/EUB7eqmK4vg?...
He is coming.
Tickets for Robert Eggers' reimagining of NOSFERATU are now on sale
From Fri 10 Jan
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A majestic film if you're in London on Dec 18th
03.12.2024 11:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tied up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh
In 2017 I started a tradition of reading a Christmas Murder Mystery every December. Cyril Hare's An English Murder has been my favourite so far but hopefully this year's pick can challenge that status
02.12.2024 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's great, the first thing I've read which has helped my whole project click into place.
26.11.2024 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction by Alice Bennett
26.11.2024 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There's a chapter on this in a book I'm reading for the phd. They suggest My Name is Red, Saving Fish From Drownihg and Dearh of an Ordinary Man
26.11.2024 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I would devour David Nicholls' original idea for You Are Here (a book I loved in its final form regardless)
23.11.2024 22:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did a National Trust light trail but the place was deserted due to the storm. It ended up feeling like an immersive A Ghost Story For Christmas experience (loved it).
23.11.2024 19:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Getting introduced to the peer review process, I get why everyone is always exhausted now.
I probably should learn to spell by now too.
There are 3 days left of Anora at @thedukeslancaster.bsky.social, it is genuinely one of the best films of the year and Wed is 2 tickets off selling out so grab your tickets quick.
dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/cin...
In Nottingham for work and the city. goes hard on the festive feels. Especially useful when you're trying to recover after seeing a preview of a film precision engineered to break millennial hearts.
17.11.2024 17:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I keep getting emails offering free pianos owned by recently deceased husbands. I know it's a scam but I just don't see the angle. Are they haunted? Is it like The Ring and a curse is only lifted when someone new plays them?
15.11.2024 19:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was trying to figure out what it was reminding me of, and this was it
12.11.2024 09:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm doing 2 live-streamed eps of my podcast The Ghost Story Book Club. The 1st is with @mikemuncer.bsky.social of The Evolution of Horror on 11 Dec. We'll be discussing the classic Ghost Story for Christmas films The Signalman and A View from a Hill.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ghost-...
The alternative milk industry is getting out of hand
11.11.2024 20:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Light Up Lancaster weekend when the whole city turns out to celebrate art, creativity and its beautiful architecture and heritage. Feels increasingly essential every year
09.11.2024 20:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
