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Like A Kid in a Video Store Letterboxd's gift that keeps on giving.

Finally dusted this December post for my newsletter off the shelf. It's all about why @letterboxd.social and their rental service is making good out of a bad situation!

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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

A new look the Curb... Well folks, we've entered our Ghost era of the Curb. This is the same old site you've known with the same interviews and reviews and the same passionate support for Australian cinema, just a little d...

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Has more heist vibes but Sorcerer is genuinely sick!

“Game’s haven’t had a price increase since the 90’s”

Dude. You’re signing a lease for some files Xbox has copy pasted onto your PC. You can’t hold a Steam Game. Rent is sky rocketing. The world is burning. Please wake up

Environmental Film Festival 2025 The films for Environmental Films Australia's 15th Anniversary festival I could find on Letterboxd! It's running from the 16th to the 23rd of October and you can support me and the other programmers b...

There’s everything from First Nations Stories and climate activism, to trippy Arthouse shorts about snails and water bacteria!

Made a @letterboxd.social list of some of the films I could find, but if you see any, make sure to add them to the database!

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Environmental Film Festival 2025 — Environmental Films Australia

Got an awesome opportunity to help program @envirofilmsaus.bsky.social’s 15th Anniversary! Some incredible stuff lined up from the 16th to the 23rd of October in Melbourne.

Make sure to check out the program here and use EFF25FRIEND10 for 10% off tickets:

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Sometimes Latin words are just those spell names you’d hear in a porn parody of Harry Potter…

MIFF Review: Videoheaven is a neat look at the cultural impact of video stores, but feels like a relic of the past - The Curb | Film and Culture It’s rather strange to think of the video store as extinct. For American filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry, the video store’s death knell coincided well before the 2012 release of This Means War; where ...

Watched Videoheaven for @thecurb.com.au and realised we’re really starved for video essays in the offline world. Just watch any of the talented creators on @nebula.tv / YouTube and you’ll probably have a better time! 📽️📝

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new blog post up on finnwritesmovies! Doing a bit of solo coverage on MIFF over there for the next few days. but in the meantime, checkout my take on Chain Reactions below 📽️📝:

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Go there regularly myself and there’s always something cool happening. To the point where each little office feels like stepping into a different dimension. Just a shame a lot of the truly wacky stuff felt unrepresented! 📝📽️

A review by @frickyuu on twitter reads: FantasticFour Is a masterpiece. the visual effects and the score are a HUGE stand out. Galactus Is huge In IMAX. It’s emotional and gives you hope. It beats you off and doesn’t stop. STAY Until the END CREDITS.

It does what now

Does that mean competitive spreadsheet competitors are modern day gladiators?

Feels ironic enough to be a @theonion.com headline…

Stranger Eyes is a padded melodrama that lacks impact - The Curb | Film and Culture Almost everyone owns a smartphone now. A tiny recording device and track in nearly six billion pockets worldwide. They’ve become a part of our lives to point where we make jokes about the FBI peering ...

Never had a thriller put me to sleep quite like this before unfortunately 😴! But this was fun to write about at least! Thanks @thecurb.com.au for publishing it! 📽️📝

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need someone to convince Ralph Fiennes to record an ASMR video in character as Dr. Ian Kelson for me personally

Love a great blame game medical drama! And this was just a (depressing) blast to sit through! 📽️📝

What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?

Posted to Ko-fi clarifying how tipping will work for the site. Don't worry, you'll never be paywalled from the site. But I would like to offer at least one fun incentive for those who want to support me!

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Not apposed to any stinkers either (although it might cost you extra for torturing me 😉)

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Also, also! Thinking doing reader recommendations. So for the price of your local newspaper over on ko-fi.com/finnwritesdall I might just review your favourite movie.

Also if any people writing / editing people in my circle want to do the same, cannot recommend @11ty.dev enough! Don't know too much coding myself, but as long as you've written in markdown (think Obsidian, iA writer or Bear Notes) you can pretty much write posts like word and then host on Github.

Heyo! For those who don't know I decided to move away from #Substack and decided to set up a fully dedicated site for my film blog. Took awhile but super ecstatic to finally be able to share it! #filmsky 📽️

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Shoutout to Davaa for being the both the sweetest goat herder and the sweetest father! 📽️📝

Nintendo go rid of the gold coins so we couldn’t just bank them up to buy Welcome Tour, I just know it

Whoops, accidentally rated this higher that I meant too 😅. But don’t get it twisted, there’s a really trippy film here that’s a real treat to witness with your own eyes. That is, if your eyes actually exist… 📽️📝

Pained me physically to write a bad review for this cause it has all the things I should like, weird horror, elevated style and a French Female Director. But this felt like it was grasping at tropes and riding on a trend rather than actually joining the conversation of female led horror. 📽️📝

It’s a little cheesy, and I’m kinda confused why they didn’t market it with the show’s audience in mind, but it’s a fun enough to recommend for an at-home watch 📽️📝