Film critic, podcaster @FatalAttractPod, compiler/co-author of What To Watch When, creator of #PreCodeApril. Hasn't missed an episode of EastEnders since 1998.
Mar 30 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
SHORT THREAD OF FILM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EASTER WEEKEND. By platform.
@BBCiPlayer Recommendation: Full Time (2021). Just in case you *still* haven’t watched it, despite me banging on about it for over a year.
NETFLIX RECOMMENDATION: Past Lives (2023).
Is there a better film than Past Lives on @NetflixUK right now? No. No, there isn’t. Make your family watch it this weekend if they haven’t seen it.
Feb 15 • 47 tweets • 13 min read
BERLIN THREAD. #Berlinale
Outrageously trolled by @PeterBradshaw1 on Facebook. #Berlinale 🦄
Dec 9, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
It’s time for another poorly thought out ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILM RECOMMENDATIONS.
Day One: My Summer of Love (2004). Currently available on @BBCiPlayer for over a year.
The poorly thought out
ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILM RECOMMENDATIONS continues.
Day Two: The Conversation (1974). Available on @BBCiPlayer until 14 December.
Aug 30, 2022 • 44 tweets • 29 min read
Doing three film festivals back to back (Edinburgh, FrightFest, Venice) was either a brilliant idea or a terrible idea. History does not yet relate which.
At least when I get back, I’ll have nine whole days before the LFF screenings start.
Apr 1, 2022 • 296 tweets • >60 min read
#PreCodeApril thread for 2022. Please check the hashtag regularly - it was an absolute treasure trove last year.
This is my Pre-Code Films list on @letterboxd. If you’re looking for recommendations, the top 90 or so are in approximate order of preference. letterboxd.com/filmfan1971/li…
Here’s last year’s insanely long #PreCodeApril thread.
If I’m violently ill after eating supermarket sushi, can I sue Tesco?
Turned out it was, in fact, food poisoning. Passed out, smashed my head through a window and this happened.
Feels appropriate to start off with photographer A.L. “Whitey” Schafer’s wonderful Thou Shalt Not image, created in 1941 to satirise the Hays Code restrictions. More background here: ladailymirror.com/2013/11/04/mar…
Here’s my @letterboxd list of over 800 #PreCode films (I’m still adding to it). The top 50 are personal favourites / recommendations / Pre-Code must-sees. Also, everything from around 650 onwards is on the Pre-Code Movies YouTube channel. #PreCodeAprilletterboxd.com/filmfan1971/li…
Some alternative posters for Cry Danger (1951), along with what they used to call a lobby card - there are a few others on the film’s IMDb page too. #Noirvember#CryDanger
Contrast the American posters with these two much racier French and Italian posters, both of which foreground Fleming. #Noirvember