[Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux]

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in October 2024

I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously…

Listen to The Holmwood Foundation!

Listen to The Holmwood Foundation!

Fio Trethewey, one of my Doctor Who brethren – I’ve previously bought their incredible little Who-themed enamel pin badges – has a really cool new project with their partner Georgia Cook called The Holmwood Foundation. Described as “a found footage…

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark in Starve Acre

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in September 2024

I’ve ditched the usual blurb about “not being a movies person, but anyway…” because since I started going to the cinema regularly in 2022 I’ve turned into the kind of guy who downloads the London Film Festival brochure and meticulously…

A one-line spoiler-free review of all three old movies I watched in the cinema in August 2024

A one-line spoiler-free review of all three old movies I watched in the cinema in August 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as often…

Mia Goth in MaXXXine

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in July 2024

I have never really been a movies person. They last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as…

Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in June 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as often…

Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in April and May 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 mins like at gigs, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and as often…

A day on London’s orbital Superloop buses

A day on London’s orbital Superloop buses

I am a sucker for public transport infrastructure*, and as soon as it was announced that London was going to have a new “Superloop” of express buses orbiting the suburbs it was inevitable I would spend a day catching the…

Neil Tennant in Pet Shop Boys: Dreamland

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in February and March 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 minutes like at a gig, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and once…

The Boy and the Heron

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in January 2024

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 minutes like at a gig, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and once…