it’s been fun, Twitter (and not so fun, X) - but I think I’ll be elsewhere now…

@MibIH @filmnohito @BK201TBR @AmeAmeSakura @HayleyLScanlon @silentmoviesera @miwi1010 @IrishJayhawk66 @ZenaRWooller @anglish15 @CultoftheCinema @tableninemutant @PirateScarlett @NinjaWorrier @andy0liver @InfiniteZenith @SilentRevue @DarkCorners3 @a0dbxza @925screenings thank you, and hope you get some laughs in this weekend

RT @SarahAppleton_: Calling all horror critics! Community message: @hammerfilms are looking for some female / non-binary critics to add to…

Lee Sang-hak’s Bong-like, darkly Freudian MOTHER'S KINGDOM (2023) shows "the fictions we keep telling ourselves and each other to maintain the illusion of happiness." Screens 8.45pm tonight at @BFI Southbank for @koreanfilmfest, intro'd by me

"There is something of Ozu about this portrait of a functioning but fractious family, where legacy is as much burden as boon": Oh Jung-min's HOUSE OF THE SEASONS (2023) screens 6.30pm tonight at @ICALondon for @koreanfilmfest

“I work as a realtor, and my hobby is peeping”: Kim Se-hwi's satirical thriller FOLLOWING (2023) is Rear Window for the social media generation. Screens 6.10pm tonight at @BFI Southbank for @koreanfilmfest, intro'd by me

“plumbs the depths of toilet humour while quietly celebrating the proletarian work ethic”: @vivieno Caldinelli’s sci-fi creature comedy SCARED SHITLESS (@_ScaredShitless) screens 10.15pm tonight at @TallinnBNFF

With TERRIFIED, @demianRugna "is expert in leaving the viewer mystified, confused and in precisely the state signified by his film’s title." Doubled 6.30pm tonight with BREATHE: TRANSGENESIS at Cervantes Institute, Deansgate, Manchester for @Grimmfest

"two mismatched men on a pyrotechnic journey into the woods, despair and maybe hell": @joelpotrykus' resonant existentialist drama VULCANIZADORA (2024) screens 1.45pm today at @leedsfilmfest. Recommended

Circular route: Cody Ashford’s road horror DRIVE BACK (2024) "catches an engaged but ambivalent couple in an infernal loop on a lost highway". In select US theatres, and on digital/VOD from today via @darkskyfilms

"You know, Johnny, the entire universe is like a viscoelastic mattress": Miguel Llansó's retrofuturist sci-fi slice of postmodern pizza JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019) is on @ARROW_Player from today

"rebuilds the family of tomorrow from the discarded crumbs of today": Miguel Llansó's postmodern, post-apocalyptic Afro-futurist oddity/odyssey CRUMBS (2015) is on @ARROW_Player from today

RT @darkskyfilms: “A splatterfest of eighties-style practical effects, Raimi-esque pandemonium, and blood by the bucketload.” - @AntBit, Pr…

99% victim: David Fincher's THE GAME (1997) makes paranoid satire of America's trickle-down economics. Screens 9pm this evening on @Legend__Channel

RT @koreanfilmfest: 🎬 The @KCCUK is thrilled to present the Official Trailer for LKFF 2024! 🎬 🎟️ Tickets are available now! 👉 Click the l…

"a sexed-up meta-horror music video made for a select set of eyes": @doncapria110's sort-of slasher DIRECTOR'S CUT (2024) was released in US cinemas on Halloween

"traps an arrested, agoraphobic young woman in an old dark house with her fears – and with something else": @WarrenDudley73's archaising psychodrama FRIGHT (2024) is now on @PrimeVideo

Timm Kröger's THE UNIVERSAL THEORY (DIE THEORIE VAN ALLEM, 2023) is coming to UK cinemas from 13 December via @picturehouses, and it is *incredible*. Consider this an early recommendation.

"merges the storytelling fantasy of The Princess Bride with the maximalist quest narratives of Jodorowsky": Tarsem’s beautiful, fanciful epic THE FALL (2006) screens 8.45pm tonight at the @BFI IMAX

Caught on film: Yeon Je-gwang’s tense, taut, lean, mean thriller THE GUEST (2023) "merges spy-cam exploitation with serial nastiness to expose the voyeur in us all". Screens 8.30pm tonight at Ciné Lumière for @koreanfilmfest Genre fans, this is for you.