Film posts
I'm currently doing a film challenge:
I've posted film reviews (notes? ramblings?) on and off for years, and I discovered that writing a few paragraphs embedded the film a little more in my memory. I also love the structure of a film challenge. It gets me out of endless scrolling and helps me choose.
Previous film challenges:
October 27 2026, 06:15
The Cycle
Meg is a forensic pathologist working at an FBI science facility in the wilds of Oregon. Three bodies are found along a train track, one of which is her father who has been missing for thirty years. [more...]
October 23 2026, 07:05
Her Private Hell
Actress Elle arrives at a hotel in a mysterious city where she is to be in a film produced by her famous lothario father, Johnny Thunders. In the lobby she meets Hunter, a younger actress in the film, who joins them in the family’s suite... [more...]
October 22 2026, 05:46
Mayhem
A virus is sweeping the world that makes people lose all their inhibitions. Derek is a lawyer working in a high-rise for an expensive, corrupt law firm. The virus enters into the building, and the pent-up emotions of working in a brutal work environment are let loose causing... mayhem. [more...]
October 18 2026, 21:27
The House by the Cemetery
Dr. Norman Boyle moves his family from New York to a small town in Massachusetts to continue the research of his recently-dead professor. On arrival, Norman’s wife Lucy is surprised to learn the professor killed his mistress in the house they are to stay in then hung himself. [more...]
October 11 2026, 16:01
Late Fame
Ed Saxberger, once a poet of local renown, works in a New York post office sorting letters. One night, returning home, he spots a young man across the street, Meyers, who gushes over Saxberger’s old poetry and invites him to meet his group of artistic friends. [more...]
September 30 2026, 20:23
Loner
Angus signs up for a retreat in a sparse cabin in an isolated part of Northumbria and films his experience for his vlogging channel. He settles in, but quickly begins to unravel as the reality of his position in life hits home and the noises he hears in the woods become increasingly threatening. [more...]
September 23 2026, 18:29
Bitter Christmas
Raúl Durán is an aging writer-director trying to write a script after five years without a new film. The script he’s working on isn’t working, so he starts to pull in details from the people around him which breaks through his writer’s block. However, the people around him are also his first readers, and it doesn’t take long for them to discover what he is doing. [more...]
September 19 2026, 11:50
Resident Evil (2026)
Medical courier Bryan takes an extra job at the end of the night to get an emergency bag to the general hospital in Racoon City. It’s snowy and dark, and on the road through the mountains he hits a woman who is infected with something... nasty. Stuck in a remote wilderness, Bryan has to get to Raccoon City with his medical bag, which is more important than he knows. [more...]
September 13 2026, 08:43
Colony
Professor Se-jeong arrives at a high-rise building in the centre of Seoul to attend a presentation by biotech company Chains Bio. Meanwhile, Seo Young-chul, a scientist and disgruntled ex-employee, phones the police to tell them he is about to commit an act of bioterrorism with a weapon based on the evolving intelligence of slime mold. [more...]
September 12 2026, 16:40
Exit 8
A man gets a call from his girlfriend while getting off an underground train in Tokyo, and she tells him she’s pregnant. She’s disappointed at his muted reaction, but before he can express his feelings to her, he loses the connection and finds himself lost in the station corridors looking for Exit 8. [more...]
August 31 2026, 19:43
The Dog Stars
Hig, a mechanic, lives alongside Bangley, an ex-sniper, in a valley in Colorado, several years after a flu-like plague wiped out most of the human race. Bangley is a hard-nosed survivalist, but Hig is a gentler soul who relies on his family dog, Jasper, for company... [more...]
August 29 2026, 19:18
The Beyond
Liza inherits a derelict hotel in Louisiana swampland and, short of other options in her life, decides to repair it and open for business. Fifty years before, an artist at the hotel is accused of being a warlock and brutally killed in the basement. [more...]
August 27 2026, 18:09
Army of Darkness
After fighting Deadites in a cabin in the woods, Ash falls through a time/space hole and lands in a medieval landscape where he is taken prisoner by Lord Arthur. At Arthur’s castle, Ash is thrown into a pit of Deadites... [more...]
August 23 2026, 21:01
City of the Living Dead
Mary is a psychic, and at a New York séance she has a vision of a priest hanging himself in a church graveyard. She breaks the circle and dies, causing journalist Peter to investigate. Visiting her grave as her body is being buried, Peter hears her screams and pulls her out of the ground still alive... [more...]
August 22 2026, 16:35
Insignificance
Four iconic figures meet in a New York hotel room in 1954. They are not named, instead called The Actress, The Professor, The Senator and The Baseball Player, but it’s clear who they are meant to be: Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio. [more...]
August 21 2026, 16:42
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Filmmaker Kris has signed up to reboot a famous eighties horror film franchise set at a summer camp. The studio wants it to be "woke" to attract a young audience, but Kris wants to make something artistic. She sets out to meet the reclusive original final girl, Billy Summers... [more...]
August 16 2026, 08:47
Adaptation
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has writer’s block trying to adapt a bestselling book, The Orchid Thief. He is obsessed with doing the book justice and not letting down the author, New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean. Charlie’s happy-go-lucky twin brother, Donald, is temporarily living with him... [more...]
August 08 2026, 12:19
Freaky Tales
Four tales set in an admirably accurate 1987 Oakland, California, held together by a through line of a cheesy TV advert for a cult-like group offering a course in Psytopics. [more...]
August 06 2026, 21:09
I, Madman
Book shop clerk and aspiring actress Virginia loves pulpy noir horror and can’t put down a book by new discovery Malcolm Brand. The gruesome details and savage story line excite her, but they also keep her awake at night, and new boyfriend Richard thinks she shouldn’t read them. [more...]
December 30 2025, 11:03
Velvet Buzzsaw
This is a story of greedy art world snobs getting their comeuppance. Art gallery receptionist Josephina steals paintings from the room of a dead artist who wanted them all destroyed. But the paintings are cursed, and those who profit from them begin to die in gruesome art-related ways. [more...]
December 27 2025, 21:25
Death Walks at Midnight
On the surface, this had everything I love in a film. It’s a mystery set in a European city, in the world of fashion, nightclubs, parties, with artists as lovers, eccentric minor characters galore, murder with a weirdly brutal weapon... it could be perfect. None of this matters if the pacing is off, the dialogue is dull, and there’s no character development. [more...]
December 26 2025, 21:43
Anaconda
I was trying to find a film the whole family would enjoy at the cinema on Boxing Day, and when I saw Anaconda, certificate 12A, with Jack Black and Paul Rudd, I thought I’d hit the jackpot. The twist is that neither child wanted to come, so the jackpot was all mine. [more...]