Category: Movie Review
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My FantasyCon 2026 schedule and a bunch of recs
Event: FantasyCon, Event: Once Upon A Tyne, Movie Recommendation, Theme: Body Horror & Transformation, Theme: Books & Literature, Theme: Conventions & Literary Events, Theme: Fantasy Movies & Books, Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity, Theme: Gothic Horror, Theme: Gothic Romance, Theme: Horrors & Thrillers, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: Science Fiction Movies & Books
Less than 9 days to go! Hello, all! Wonderful to meet lots of new people and have fun in Newcastle this past weekend for Once Upon A Tyne – it was a lovely little book festival. It was definitely a slightly different audience than I usually experience: obviously the literary convention circuit, WorldCon, EasterCon, BristolCon,…
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Where I Would Recommend Starting Star Trek as a Newbie
It depends on how much you enjoy and gel with older media. I grew up on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, then went back and watched the original, as well as seeing the 2009 film went it came out. I personally think that one of those three is the best place to start…
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Some Favourite Jewish Movie Recs
I’ve been having a great deal of fun watching The Pitt recently, it’s been wonderful watching a show that’s so joyful and complex not just in its Jewish characters and storylines, but also in its complex approach to ethics and philosophy within a medical workplace. I definitely understand what they mean about intending it as…
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My Favourite Films of 2025
My top watches of the year! 2025 was a really good year for me flicks-wise, and it’s been a great year for film in general — a lot more of my favourites are new releases than usual, and a fair few of them I actually watched in the cinema. I watched 120 films in 2025 — a few were rewatches — and…
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Movie Review: Victor/Victoria (1982, dir. Blake Edwards)
Had the absolute pleasure of going along to the Pictureville cinema here in Bradford this weekend to watch Victor/Victoria (1982, dir. Blake Edwards) as part of their Widescreen Weekend film festival. It was on my radar for a while, but I’d never gotten around to watching it, and when some friends of mine were going…
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Alien: Romulus: An Abortive Attempt at Homage to a Classic
Romulus started out promising, then proved itself an awful disappointment. The original Alien (1979) is far and away one of my favourite sci-fi films, one I’ve written about in the past, and I have a lot of affection for Aliens (1986) and even Alien 3 (1992), for all I feel it has its narrative flaws.…
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The Devouring Gaze in The First Omen
The horror of surveillance and surveilling in Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen (2024). Cap via ScreenAnarchy. I was saying the other night after we came out of the cinema that for the past few years, it really feels like I can trust horror films more than virtually any other film — horror films generally have a specific, presumed…
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Crimson Peak: A Love Letter To Gothic Romance
Adoring thoughts on Guillermo Del Toro’s 2015 masterpiece. This review and bit of analysis is related to the talk I’ll be giving on Crimson Peak tomorrow, responses to misogyny and marginalisation in and around Gothic fiction, and how much of this social conservatism is mirrored in BookTok and modern retorts to problematic fiction. All proceeds…