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I just like movies. Especially horror movies. - whitlockandpope.com - boxd.it/eSY9 Member: Horror Critics Group | Film Critics Association

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 18d

Two decades apart, kids click the wrong link and summon something unexpected. In 2004 it’s a slapstick ghost and plenty of hijinks; in 2021 it’s a predatory male and gender dysphoria. I explore the unexpected links between two films.

I Downloaded a Gender

Exploring the uncanny rhymes between I Downloaded a Ghost (2004) and Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), where digital hauntings mirror adolescent identity.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 4h

New trailer for #RunningManMovie from @edgarwright.bsky.social. We haven’t had a great blockbuster in a while - I’m hoping this is it.

Edgar Wright @edgarwright.bsky.social · 4h

ONE MONTH AWAY! Play the game or the game plays you. Watch the New Trailer for The #RunningManMovie – can't wait for you to see my new movie, large and loud! Only in theatres November 14.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 4h

Kelly Reichardt’s heist tale THE MASTERMIND announces itself as one kind of movie (jazzy Jarmusch-esque comedy, loosely hung around a crime framework) and then gradually wanders away from that to become something else entirely… an observational Bresson morality study? V good. ★★★★

Josh O’Connor between two paintings in The Mastermind.

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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 7h

A BITCH IS BACK!!!
#FromInsidetheHouse Podcast comes back with a vengeance and a new setup, and I couldn't be more excited. Just a lil' PSA from yours truly....💋👻📽️

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 7h

Surely a typo…?

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 6d

GDT’s disappointing FRANKENSTEIN played @ BeyondFest; A sumptuous production that can’t allow its Creature to be anything less than a perfect little angel, a GDT trope that’s ossified within his work to the point it limits his vision & hobbles his movies. Not every monster needs to be unimpeachable!

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein – Venice Review

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a sumptuous gothic spectacle, thick with atmosphere and design, yet weakened by unsubtle storytelling, heavy-handed voiceover, and pacing that tests patience. ★…

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 9h

Deadly Friend, with a bullet!

When it comes to 80s trash horror, I’m surprised that people praise forgettable
slop like (eg) Chopping Mall when genuinely insanity like Deadly Friend exists. From about 30 mins in it’s just wild choice after wild choice.

BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 1d

What do you think is Wes Craven’s best film that isn’t part of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or SCREAM franchises?

I feel like everyone will have a different answer and that’s really interesting to me.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 20h

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s Reflection in a Dead Diamond 💎 at #LFF2025.

Another BDSM ASMR pop culture kaleidoscope fetish movie from the pair, and once again it’s a bit more stylish but a bit less interesting than the better examples of their choice of genre.

★★★

Reflection In A Dead Diamond – LFF review

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Reflection in a Dead Diamond turns Euro-spy fetishism into pure design. Fabio Testi haunts a world of mirrors, memories, and immaculate surfaces where sensation re…

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

I caught about 40 mins of Radu Jude’s Kontinental ‘25 today before I had a dip out to see Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, and while that film was good, and I don’t regret my choice… I can’t deny that Jude is more my wavelength. Shout out to the handful of folks in that screen, they are my people.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

The quintessential lockdown movie!

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Uncle Sam poster captioned
JARED LETO
WE DON'T WANT YOU

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed Ares’s instantly iconic catchphrase, It’s Tronning Time

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 2d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Farewell Diane Keaton
Forever one of the greats.

Clockwise from top left:
Baby Boom
Looking For Mr Goodbar
Manhattan
The Godfather

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Thunderbolts is the best MCU movie since Endgame.

Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

#NowWatching "Thunderbolts*"

Best superhero film of the year by some distance.

A meditation on superhero fatigue, the death of American exceptionalism, a reframing of the Obama era “Avengers” framework for the Trump era, millennial disillusionment and existential ennui.

Cleanly told, well-made.

a group of people standing in an elevator with the name kepler on the bottom left

ALT: a group of people standing in an elevator with the name kepler on the bottom left

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

HAMNET is another new movie that has “This film may not be used to train AI” in its credits. Interesting to see this kind of thing from smaller films and larger films alike (Hamnet has Universal distribution.)

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

Hallelujah! He is busy.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 2d

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

darwin and gumball from the amazing world of gumball are crying with tears coming out of their eyes

ALT: darwin and gumball from the amazing world of gumball are crying with tears coming out of their eyes

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

Hamnet really is that emotional juggernaut for which you’ll be on board or not. Despite a slightly intrusive score and some over-egged face-acting from Buckley at the end… reader, I *sobbed*. ★★★★½

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

He’s so far underwater James Cameron is making a documentary about him.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

Casting Noah Jupe as Hamlet and Jacobi Jupe as Hamnet? Chloe Zhao, you maniac.

(Film excellent)

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

“an” LFF screenings starting tomorrow? Once again my ADD love of last minute edits but aversion to proofreading bites me on the butt.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

Annapurna Sriram’s FUCKTOYS played for London press today, ahead of an LFF screenings starting tomorrow. It remains one of my films of the year. Glorious, glorious bad taste cinema, and deliciously funny with it. 🗑️ 💕

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · Jul 24

Trash-heads, get on it…

Annapurna Sriram’s FUCKTOYS blows the roof off the Fantasia Film Festival.

Fantasia report: I have seen the future of trash, and her name is Annapurna Sriram

★★★★★ I have seen the future of trash, and her name is Annapurna Sriram. It was Alex Cox who said, “One thing cult movies do have in common is that they are all genre films… They share common theme…

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

“Hi, just back from 1600s feudal Sephora”

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

*And, post-70s, Raging Bull at #25. The closest thing to a New Hollywood canon-disrupter in 1992!

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d

For example, here’s the Sight and Sound Greatest of All Time critics list from 1992. Only three 1970s Hollywood films in the top 100: Nashville (at 54), The Godfather Part II (at 58), & Apocalypse Now (at 66). That’s it.
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Sight & Sound 1992 Critics List

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