This whips. It's so cool

Busy and pretty damn exhausting times work wise, not least with a lingering cold, but I have succeeded at getting 13-14 years olds writing meaningfully about Anselm, Aquinas, Hume, Descartes and Spinoza - so I'll take the wins where I can get them.

Caught a classic last night at the London East Asia Film Festival 📽️

My ★★★★★ review of Hard Boiled (1992): boxd.it/bsYa2B

Bumping again

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Have a ticket for THE SECRET AGENT Saturday 18th October @ 11:30am at the BFI IMAX, seat G13

Looking for someone interested in a ticket swap for the 2:30pm screening the Vue West End also Sat 18th Oct

@lffstubs.bsky.social #LFF #lff2025 #lff25 #lffstubs

A ★★★★½ review of Resurrection (2025) "Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead..." - Ephesians 5:14 Variations on sleeping, arising and the shattering sonambulance time etches on the dreamer-waker. Likely Bi's most concerted iteration of his p...

My ★★★★½ review of Bi Gan's RESURRECTION (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/bjLAbn

#lff #lff2025 📽️

Boy and Bicycle + The Duelists on 35mm, with Ridley Scott!

20 faves of all time? Why not!
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Faves of the 2020s so far
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A BETTER TOMORROW (1986, John Woo)
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BLACKHAT (2015, Michael Mann)
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Maya Deren 📽️

Picasso's pigeons

A ★★★★★ review of From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) Millennia pass, history marches on, but the task of tearing down heaven and the gods, wherever this transcendence is mythologised, in order to claim and enfranchise the Earth and its peoples, remains.

My ★★★★★ review of From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aKyyvT

A ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996) I'm tempted to say Mahjong is among the best expressions of what a truly international cinema could look like, particularly as it is originating from East Asian filmmakers (I'm going to go ahead and i...

Tempted to say I was cooking here, all the way back in 2016:
"Surely one of the first films that might have, so it seems, captured the world on screen."

My ★★★★★ review of Mahjong (1996) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/8Y7Tz

A ★★★★½ review of A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) Distills the sweep and thesis of Tsui's subsequent Once Upon a Time in China series into a single work, tracing the tides of imperialism and flows of capital across the south east Asian metropoles bei...

My ★★★★½ review of A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aHixXj

Identification of a Woman (1982, Michelangelo Antonioni) /
The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky) /
The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
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Philippians 2 fairly clearly that exaltation was the point of kenosis. Not much mention of sin there. That famous heretic, Paul, quoting those other famed heretics and their hymns, the early Christian communities.

A ★★★★★ review of L'Eclisse (1962) On tracing the tear made through modern and human life post-Bretton Woods, as financial capital took hold. All that is solid remains but finds its value become specious. Antonioni is clear in having h...

My ★★★★★ review of L'Eclisse (1962) on @letterboxd.social 📽️: boxd.it/aFgowL

Magellan — Lav Diaz [Cannes '25 Review] | In Review Online A new film review of Magellan, directed by Lav Diaz, for film review site In Review Online's Cannes 2025 festival coverage.

Delighted to have the chance to review MAGELLAN, Lav Diaz's latest masterpiece, for In Review Online's #Cannes2025 coverage. 📽️ Find it here: inreviewonline.com/2025/05/26/m...

Was delighted to get the opportunity to interview Jia Zhangke about CAUGHT BY THE TIDES for InRO.

Topics included how he conceptualises time, the ways this has evolved across his recent features and the impact of Cubism, TikTok and RedNote on the making of his latest masterpiece. 📽️ Read it here:

It was Kent Jones!

A ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) The beat, rhythm, rhyme, chime of rhizomatic ancestrality as the positive affirmation of new life taken from the view of eternity, and its persistence in, through, across time – forward and back – in ...

My ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rVOg3

A ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) The beat, rhythm, rhyme, chime of rhizomatic ancestrality as the positive affirmation of new life taken from the view of eternity, and its persistence in, through, across time – forward and back – in ...

My ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rVOg3

Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku and Ludwig Göransson in the house for SINNERS in London at the BFI IMAX

A ★★★★½ review of Asako I & II (2018) On filthy yet beautiful changes in life. One never walks through the same river twice.

My ★★★★½ review of Asako I & II (2018) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9rvdeH

A ★★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (1985) Seems fundamental to this that it be something other: language, character, landscape, even weather. The print, in contrast to the extant and more readily DVD copy, gives not a "wuthered" environment, ...

My ★★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (1985) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/9oT7V7

New ep—PELHAMS 1, 2, 3! Yes we watched one of the most beloved thrillers of the 70’s, plus two other movies that coincidentally have the same title! That IS so terrific! #thetakingofpelham123

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